What a great week of learning. The students discussed, debated, observed, and grew in their understanding across all content areas.

Mathematics: The students continued learning about volume and formulas. This upcoming week will see students push their comprehension of volume and multiplication. We have also begun using the strategy CUBES. The students will be able to define it by the end of next week.

Social Studies: We will be using maps to express our understandings and connections of curriculum content. In order to accomplish this, we must think like geographers and cartographers. The students have begun learning about the basic building blocks of maps, with the central idea that they communicate information in a clear and manageable way to viewers.

Science: The grade 6 students completed an experiment that proved that air takes up space. Next week we will look at the different variables in our experiment and discuss what we might control for.
The grade 5 students built their own flashlight and found solutions to creating a button/switch on their own. There were many surprising solutions.

Literacy: This week we engaged in free-writes and wrote outstanding artist statements for their reflection on Among the Hidden and its connections to isolation and connection.

Next week will be very exciting. Please remind the children that they are not to wear scary costumes or have masks that cover their faces.

All the best,
Mr. MacKenzie