Pink Shirt Day and Division II Dance

I hope that everyone had a restful Family Day long weekend!

Tomorrow is our anti-bullying Pink Shirt Day. 
Just a reminder: if students would like to purchase a pink shirt to support the Canadian Red Cross in their anti-bullying campaign, they may do so at London Drugs. 

Tomorrow is also our Div II dance at our school from 1:05-1:50PM. This is an opportunity for students from grades 4-6 to have some fun and practice their awesome dance moves!

Admission is free, and any loonie donations to Mrs. De Monte and Mrs. Diederichs Belize mission will be gratefully accepted. There will be snacks at the concession as well.

February 13th Update

Tomorrow is both Valentines Day and Disney Spirit Day. Students are welcome to bring Valentine treats for all of their classmates.

We have a short week this week, with no school during Teacher's Convention on Friday, February 16th and 17th, and no school on Family Day on Monday, February 20th. 

In Health, we were talking about different ways that we can keep our immune systems healthy.

Some key aspects include:

- physical activity

- eating nutritious food

- rest

- vaccinations

Tomorrow students will be demonstrating their understanding of these wellness choices, so they were asked to brainstorm and think about how these aspects affect their daily lives. 

We began to discuss the Canadian Shield region in Social Studies today, as students flipped through the first few pages of this new chapter in our textbook. As a class, we documented our first impressions of this region into the following table: 

February 7th Update

With our upcoming Social Studies test on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands region, we have been learning about the Great Migration from 1815-1850. During this time, 8 million people left Britain, Scotland, and Ireland to come to North America. Can you imagine a migration of that many people today?! 

Unfortunately many of these people became very sick on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean because of overcrowding and lack of food and water on the ships. All of the ships that were transporting these people had to stop at an island in the St. Lawrence River called Grosse-Ile where there were doctors who tried to cure the sick before they landed on the mainland. Sadly, many of these immigrants died on this island. 

In Religion, we watched a video today about the Last Supper. If you'd like to watch it at home, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vScHI_fxJGM 

For our upcoming Demonstration of Learning (DOL), students have started their rough copies by retelling the story of the Last Supper in their own words. Think about the connection between the Last Supper and the Liturgy of the Eucharist which we celebrate in mass today. What is the significance of this part of the mass?

We recently started our patterns unit in Math class, and have been looking at 3-column tables to help visualize the connections in patterns. Here is an example question we worked through as a class:

This week in Science, we have been experimenting with the properties of water. We learned that water has a high surface tension. Ask your child about the experiments we have done to test out water's surface tension!