We were very excited to welcome all the new incoming MACC students to Hillcrest this week for a orientation visit.  Students arrived in the morning and got to know our current grade 6’s.  These will be the students they are in class with next year.  When our current grade 6/7’s left for explorations class, the grade 5’s wrote a math assessment.  This assessment helps us plan the math program for next year by identify areas to focus our instruction on and students who can be clustered together.  Between recess and lunch, we went through a questioning activity in groups with a grade 5, 6, and 7.  Students generated questions and wonders they have personally, about the region and about the world.  The teachers will use the input from the students to help design themes, assignments, projects and the lens that we will look at the curriculum through next year.  Students left just before lunch and received a MACC Survival Kit and letter from a current grade 6 student.  We are very excited for the coming year and were very happy to have had the opportunity to meet you and work with you this week.