March 20- 24

 This week in health, we wrote about our emotional strengths and challenges and our bodies strengths and challenges. 

In gym we did skipping. We practiced jumping lightly on our feet. Next, we used the long ropes and said some skipping rhymes. Then tried to increase our stamina by seeing how long we could skip.

In science, the whole class went outside and examined footprints in the snow. We were looking for animal tracks. We observed the footprints and made inferences about what type of animal it might have been and how it was moving. The grade 6's learned about the 4 different types of fingerprints. They are arch, whorl, loop and compsite. We used pencil and coloured a dark spot. We rubbed our fingers on it and then made a fingerprint with tape. The grade 5's used batteries and wires to light up a lightbulb. We also learned the parts of a lightbulb. 





In writing we finished our Wonderopolis projects. We added in a recording of our voice and made a Google Forms quiz to go along with our research. On Monday, we researched Indigenous words and their meanings. We picked one, wrote it in a circle and drew a picture about it. We then put them in the hall on a giant Medicine Wheel. We had to decide if our word best fit in Body, Mind, Spirit or Heart.





In math, Mrs. Higgs' group had an algebra quiz. The grade 5's started to learn about symmetry and the grade 6's started learning about reflections and slides. Ms. D's group was making pictures with 2D shapes. 





In grade 6 social studies, we learned about ancient Greece, what the people wore, and what they ate and drank. We used Google Earth to look at Greek ruins and houses. The grade 5's learned about John A. MacDonald. He was Canada's first Prime Minister. 

Dictated by: Maggie, Oliver, Kingston and Jocelyn



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