Groundhog Day gave us hope that Spring is coming and we have enjoyed the mild weather over the past two weeks – outside for DPA, walks to the pool and ice rink, and lots of foursquare at nut break and lunch.

1. Ms. Trieu and Div 9 joined the grade 6’s for PE/DPA this week and learned a new game, Skittles.  It was a highly competitive game.  We are looking forward to next week and either a new game or a re-match.

2. The grade 6’s joined Green Team for an Activity Afternoon and walked to the Poirier Ice Rink for an afternoon of skating.  Over the last 4 weeks, students not participating in the Ski and Snowboard Club have had the opportunity to swim, to skate and to bowl.  We’ve had an amazing time!  “I liked being able to go
swimming and skating with my friends,” Alex said.  “Swimming was great because I was swimming with my friends and diving board was open.  Plus I got to talk with
my friends as we walked to the pool,” Yoonha said.  “Skating was fun because it is easy for me. I got to see a lot of my friends from Green team and that was
good,” said Ryan.

3. We have finished the Percent, Ratio and Fractions unit in Math 6 and are continuing to learn about decimal fractions and place value.  Supplemental review materials have  been posted on edmodo.com.

4. The grade 6/7’s are working on an earth’s crust unit in science.  They did a rock classification and identification lab and played a game, “A Rock is Born” that had them go through the rock cycle.

5. In French 6, we are learning our verbs – er, -re, -avoir and -etre.  This week we played verb tic-tac-toe.  Also very competitive and may lead to a championship game later in the term.  Students still need to work on memorizing the verb conjugations.

6. The grade 6’s are working with Ms. Abbot and Ms. Trieu in the library on non-fiction reading strategies.  We focused on zooming in on text features and non-ficition text features.  Students examined foreign language newspapers to find effective text features.  They applied these strategies while researching their earth’s crusts projects.  We will be continuing to work on inference and questioning strategies in the coming weeks.

7. Science 8 students are working on human body systems and are creating models of each system.  Check out their works in progress….

 

8. The grade 6/7s ended the week with a trip to Zone Bowling and two energetic games of 10 pin bowling.  Thank you to Zone Bowling in Coquitlam for an excellent field trip!

9. The grade 8’s visited their catchment secondary schools.  Ms. Ruhr came back very excited about the different courses offered to the students.  We had students visiting Charles Best, Port Moody and Centennial.

10.  Happy Family Day long weekend!  Enjoy!