September 20

September 20

We are going to be building the "Most Magnificent Thing's." We are asking that students bring in different size boxes over the next week that they can use to build their "thing." Bring as many as your child thinks they need. They can be varying sizes, but please refrain from sending any gigantic boxes. Please also write students name on their boxes.

The best learning can happen in an environment where students are respectful and responsible. We have been learning about different levels of behaviour. At first a classroom or school with no rules or expectations seemed like a great idea. However, after some discussion we discovered that not having expectations or rules could make the classroom noisy and unsafe. The students even acted out what the classroom might look like if we allowed anarchy to rule, or were always bothering one another. It was definitely not conducive for rich learning.

Ask your child to show you or describe what the classroom might look like if students were showing the A or B levels of behaviour.

Students sketched, labelled and counted sides and vertices for various 2D shapes. We also experimented with tangrams and made some very creative pieces of art using shapes.