PreK

Preschoolers are happy to be back in class! We are kicking off the week talking about the four seasons! 

Kindergarten

Kindergarten students enjoyed recess on our snowy playground today.  Snowgear makes the slides super fast! Students loved re-writing their jumbled sentences! They are becoming great writers!

First Grade

The first grade is back at school and has hit the ground running.

Second Grade

We are freshly back from an extended break because of all the snow, and the students are rested and ready for the new semester. Second-grade and third-grade lunchtime is always fun with all the spills. This week, we had a student whose pizza sauce exploded in his face. It was good to see him laugh about it with his friends. Good times are happening and great memories!

Third Grade

Third Graders are working on reading and taking notes from two sources and then composing an expository essay. The topic is about astronauts and the students have been enjoying learning about life in space. 

Fourth Grade

Fourth graders were happy to be back after a long break. This week we celebrated a classmate’s birthday, students leveling up in XtraMath, and had a serious talk with our school corporation resource officer.

Fifth Grade

5th graders were explorers today! They went on an exploration for gold just like the European explorers! Some exploring groups got lucky!

STEM

This week in 2nd Grade we began learning about canyons. We began investigating what it is that makes canyons. Students spend time creating model dirt that we can use in experiments and investigations to find out how certain landforms form and to later see how some natural disasters occur. Students made predictions and now are beginning to take part in investigations to see if their predictions are correct or if they need to refine their predictions.

This week 4th Grade computer scientists continued to learn about computer inputs and outputs. Specifically, students worked learning how computers use pixels to store picture data. Students previously made bitmap 16×16 pixel drawings. This week students transferred their pictures in to line coding, which is similar to what computers do. They then gave the codes from their pictures to others students so that those students could decode and recreate the pictures. In other words, the students used code to create a picture. They knew they read the code correctly if they decoded and came up with the same picture that the original drawer made. They students did not see the original pictures, only the code to make the same picture.

STEM Student of the Week:  Maeve Steele