Woot! We have added over a thousand books to the library this year.
Take a look at some of them here
Students in Grades 3 and 4 created strands of beads to show their learning about Binary Coding.
Students visiting the Learning Commons contributed to our new display: What Do You Love? Check out this wonderfully diverse selection of great ideas.
Some students from Grades 3 and 4 used loose parts to make their own creations. I left the activity open ended and students shared their ideas with their peers. We created everything from ice cream sundaes to airplanes to mini monsters.
This week in the Learning Commons we celebrated Lunar New Year. Students enjoyed books and dragon dances and created lantern art. We used chopsticks and Pom-poms to create patterns. Students who knew how to use chopsticks taught their classmates.
This week we shared ‘The Rabbit Listened’ by Cori Doerrfeld. Students were encouraged to think about the strategies they used, not only to solve their own problems, but also the different ways to help their peers when things don’t go as planned.
Each of the animal characters makes different suggestions, including avoidance, talking it out, getting angry etc. Student’s ideas around these strategies lead to lots of animated discussion. This might be my new favourite Social Emotional Learning book this year. Continue reading
This week some classes experimented with combining Keva and Lego to show their learning. We tackled the problems faced by the little knight in ‘There’s a Wall in the Middle of this Book’ by John Agee. Here are some of the student’s solutions.
This week in the Learning Commons, all students from Kindergarten to Grade 3/4 painted one of our 3D Printed winter trees to take home. We think they turned out very well. A great inclusive activity in which every student could fully participate.
We had a special Elf visitor on Friday. He read quietly all day long.