Christmas Celebration

Kids and teachers worked long hours to prep for our celebration today. It's wonderful to be able to celebrate the Holiday with Jesus as the focus of the celebration. We are extremely blessed to be able to express our faith in all aspects of our school community. 

Windsor Express Visit

Had some fun today with the Windsor Express visiting today. Kids took some shots and watched the players have some fun!!

SCIENCE FUN AND FACTS

The grade 5's were creating SLEEM for science class today. This project will take place over the next few days and will culminate in the grade 5 class testing their MATERIAL CREATION AND HANDLING expertise. The grade 5's AND grade 6's will also be having a quiz Wednesday to wrap up the unit on Matter.

QUIZ FOCUS:GRADE 5

• BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE REVERSIBLE (PHYSICAL) AND NON-REVERSIBLE (CHEMICAL) CHANGES
• DISCUSS THE RESULTS THAT WE CONDUCTED IN THE CLASSROOM (VINGEGAR AND PENNIES, RAISINS IN BAKING SODA AND VINEGAR ETC)
• KNOW THE STATES OF MATTER AND BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE THEM (SOLID, LIQUID GAS)
• KNOW THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STATES OF MATTER (EX. LIQUID TAKES SHAPE OF CONTAINER, VOLUME OF LIQUID DOES NOT CHANGE)
• DISCUSS SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CONDENSATION, EVAPORATION, MELTING, FREEZING ETC.
• UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS TO BE ADDED OR REMOVED TO CREATE OF CHANGE OF STATE IN MATTER
• DEFINE MATTER

QUIZ FOCUS:GRADE 6

• KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INSULATORS AND CONDUCTORS
• BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE ENERGY TRANSFORMATION (EX. PLUG LIGHT IN TO WALL, THIS IS ELECTRICAL ENERGY TO LIGHT AND HEAT ENERGY
• DRAW SYMBOLS FOR A LIGHT, A BATTERY, A SWITCH, AND AN LED LIGHT
• NAME DIFFERENT TYPES OF SWITCHES
• BE ABLE TO DRAW A PARALLEL AND SERIES CIRCUIT
• BE ABLE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS WITH A CIRCUIT THAT IS NOT WIRED PROPERLY
• DESCRIBE SOME DISCOVERIES IN THE HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY
• IDENTIFY RENEWABLE AND NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

MEAN, MODE AND MEDIAN

We started our data management unit earlier in the week. We watched several fun  videos to bring home the concept of how we measure central tendencies.I am including the links to the videos below. I encourage you to watch them with your children and then have them show your their seat work.

WOW Winners!!

Our focus this month was Mutual Respect in the Classroom. Congratulations to Ava, Steven, Lexie and Hollie.

LOVE IT!

We make a concerted effort to use manipulatives whenever possible during instructional time. We introduce them at the beginning of the lesson and then encourage students to use them during their  seat work. IMAGINE my surprise when students started grabbing manipulatives, without prompting, while writing their math test. They actually transferred their learning from one task to another--very exciting!