Students enjoyed a fun week of learning and physical activity. They participated in many classroom activities, and enjoyed swimming and outdoor fun. Next week will be short, but busy. We will start the week with a fun lunch, that is hosted by Apple Canada. Connect is an Apple Distinguished School, and as such we are provided with opportunities to participate in special events. In December, we participated in a coding event, which earned us a grade wide pizza party. Tom’s House of Pizza will be providing our lunch on Monday!
Enjoy the weekend, Gail, Kevin, Terran and Rebecca Important Dates Feb. 10 - Pizza Party for Grade 5 Feb. 12-14 - No School: Staff Retreat Feb. 17 - No School: Family Day Mar. 6 - No School- Staff PD March. 12 - Snowshoeing with PE Mar. 16 - Report Cards Mar. 19&20 - Student Led Conferences Humanities: Our Humanities focus this week was on stories. Students worked on some of their personal stories, and added details into a story they started last week. We also started an inquiry into Indigenous stories. We looked at how they are shared and the reasons they were told. We also compared the stories of different nations across Canada. Math & Science: Our guest speaker, Mary, led a workshop with our students on snowflakes and how they relate to mathematics: fractals, angles, division, multiplication, symmetry, and shapes. Students created their own snowflakes and will be taking them home or have them displayed at school. We spent time at the beginning of the week practicing our division strategies in preparation for the division check-in today. Since we placed much of our focus this week into math, we will dive deeper into electricity for our 2-day week next week! Looking ahead (short week): parallel and series circuits, electricity in our lives Connect Wear Connect has partnered with a local company, Kodiak Sports, to offer custom spirit wear for our school community. Purchase opportunities will be available a few times throughout the year. Our first run is open from now until February 24, 2020. Delivery to the school is scheduled for before spring break. There are a variety of items available, some with customization options. Sizing charts are on the website. Sample sizes are available to try on. Students can visit the Mountainview room, starting Feb. 10. We have the option to access extended sizes, that may not be seen on the website. Please see contact info below, with size requests. If there are any suggestions, or requests for additional items please forward those along and we will see what can be arranged for future runs. The link will take you to the Connect store. You will be able to create an account, select and pay for any of the items you wish. The orders will be delivered to the school around March 18, 2020. Further questions and inquiries can be directed towards: Catherine Newton ([email protected]) or Dawn Elliott ([email protected]) https://store.kodiaksports.ca/stores/connect-school
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