5C at Northern Lights School

Hello! We made it to spring break! I hope everyone has a wonderful week off!   Today we: finished our multiplication unit task (the donut problem - ask me about it)!  read and played literacy games  played volleyball in gym spent time building in Minecraft for our social studies project  organized all of our materials so when we come back from break, things are ready to go and we can have a fresh start! Reminders: No school until April 3rd (for spring break). Photos:

 Hello, t oday we: continued to work on our donut math problem - we recorded our information in our visual journals! did some fun creative work for imagination day! did literacy centres!  continued to work on Minecraft building Reminders: Tomorrow is the last day of school before spring break! When school is done, students need to go home first and check-in with their parents/guardians, before going to play - we need to make sure everyone gets home safely! The playground is unsupervised after school.  We had to have several reminders today about respectful behaviour - I know it is so close to break and everyone is excited - but please do not shout out in class as it is disruptive to other students learning. Thank you! Photos:

Hello! Today we: did a math task in which we had to guess how many donuts were in the box (see photos below) - students used a variety of methods to estimate and solve. did our word work/vocaubulary tasks did reading and literacy centers continued to work on our electricity essays (today our paragraph was what we wonder about electricity) See photos below. started to build our designs in Minecraft (ask me about this)! See photos below. Reminders: Imagination Day - tomorrow! Math Problem!  Electricity Essay Writing. Minecraft building.  

Today we: did a math check in for multiplication did reading and literacy centres did our word work and vocabulary sorts started writing a mini-essay about electricity (this is our new science unit) continued to learn about chinatown and how this information can impact our designs for our social studies Minecraft project. Ask me about this project!  

Hello NLS Families, I first want to give a quick update, I have been quite sick since Thursday afternoon, so I was unable to do blog posts for late last week (sorry about that)! I am starting to feel a bit better though and hope to be back really soon. I did however want to send you a quick fun update about a spirit day later this week The message below is from Mrs. Brinson. I am excited to celebrate imagination day with the class on Thursday! Please see below: On Thursday, March 23, our Spirit Day at Northern Lights School will be Imagination Day! Imagination can also be sparked at home. Imaginative children are generally more creative, better problem-solvers, and more confident than their peers, so child psychologists emphasize the need for imaginative play.  Unfortunately, the modern world’s fixation on television, video games, and highly structured activities tends to stifle, rather than encourage, imagination.  We’d like to suggest seven imagination activities for kids to help the

Hello!  Today we: did our word work activities discussed the most commonly used letters in the English language (it was a very good discussion about why students thought that) -- Students! Don't forget to ask your parents/family about what they think the most common letters are! practiced volleyball skills in gym practiced our basic math facts practiced 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication (ex: 345 x 12) did reading and literacy centres learned about paragraph writing (we looked at books and found different types of paragraphs, and learned about how to combine writing into multiple paragraphs played literacy games continued to learn about the history of Chinese immigrants/Chinese heritage in Canada (this is part of our social studies curriculum. Some photos from today: Learning how to bump in volleyball: Learning about multi paragraph writing: Playing literacy games: The following pictures are ideas for monuments/park redesigns for our social studies project (in the maker space):  

this is an example of a couple of math problems we did today!  Hello! Hope everyone had a great day.  Today we: played literacy games did our word work played tag games in gym did our basic facts practice played a new math game called adsumidi (ask me about it)! practiced our multiplication  did read to self, and literacy centres practiced editing learned more about our social studies /Minecraft project and learned about the involvement of Chinese immigrants in the completion of the railway

Happy Monday! Today we: had our morning meeting played tag games in gym practiced our basic facts in math warm up practiced multiplication (2 digit by 1 digit, 3 digit by 1 digit and 2 digit by 2 digit) did read to self and literacy centres did social studies on Minecraft (we are learning about the City of Calgary and this connects to our curriculum in various ways through playing the Calgary world on Minecraft) had time to play literacy games and prodigy playing "skittles" in gym. doing multiplication practice! Finding Calgary landmarks in Minecraft. Finding more Calgary landmarks in Minecraft.   

Hello! Happy Wednesday. My apologies, yesterday's blog post didn't publish properly (so it never posted). I have include some photos from yesterday in today's blog post. Today we: had an interesting discussion about learning languages, and learned there are over 6900 languages in the world! did our daily word work activities played badminton games in gym class did one final task for factors/multiples played prodigy in math did read to self and literacy centres (and tried some new literacy games the school just recieved)! learned about 4 key words for our next unit in social studies - these words are: vibrant, sustainable, equity and unity (and had a discussion regarding these words, what they mean, and how they relate to our new social studies unit) finished our research about 4 Calgary monuments (for our new social studies unit) finished the day with using razkids, math games or literacy games Reminders: Thursday, March 9th: In-Person Conferences in Evening (4:30pm-8:00pm)

Happy Monday! Today we: did our word work played badminton in gym practiced our basic facts, and worked with factors and divisibility rules did reading and literacy centers were introduced to our new social studies unit, and learned all about monuments (had had a chance to create some monuments of our own in the makerspace)