New Science Inquiry

This week, we started our new science inquiry: "What makes aviators successful?"

We started with a research task, using these websites to find out what makes birds successful aviators:

All about animal flight adaptations:

BBC Nature - Adapted to flying videos, news and facts

Avian Flight Adaptations - YouTube

A Portrayal of Biomechanics in Avian Flight - YouTube

Aves Characteristics for Flight - YouTube

How birds fly | Sciencelearn Hub

Yesterday's Message

If you didn't receive the email from the school yesterday because you aren't subscribed, here's what you missed:

Dear Parents/Guardians,

We have a busy month ahead so please see the following items for school updates:

Outdoor School Orientation

·      February 9, 6:00 pm

·      The grade 5/6 teachers will be hosting an information session regarding the upcoming outdoor school.  

Teacher’s Convention

·      There is no school on February 16 and 17 due to teacher’s convention

Valentines

·      February 14 - Children are welcome to bring valentine cards to school as long as they bring one for each person in their class.  We ask that no food be sent to school in keeping with CBE Administrative Regulation (3047).  

·      Teachers will either send out a list of first names or instruct students to address their cards as “Dear Friend.”

·      This is optional and students do not need to participate. 

·      Although the numbers for our classrooms change each week, here are the current number of students in each class:

Room 1 am – 15 pm - 15	Room 2 am – 17 pm - 13	Room 3 - 24	Room 4 - 25
Room 5 - 25	Room 6 - 21	Room 7 - 26	Room 8 - 27
Room 9 - 25	Room 10 - 25	Room 11a - 20 Room 11b - 20	Room 12 - 25
Room 13 - 23	Room 14 - 26	Room 15 - 23	Room 16 - 22
Room 17 - 22	Room 18 - 23	Room 19 - 25	Room 20 - 25

Hearts of Kindness

·      February 14 - Our school council has planned and activity “Hearts of Kindness” where students will write kind words/compliments for a classmate.  Each child will come home with a foam heart with words of kindness.  We appreciate our school council for providing this activity as we work to promote appreciation and kindness for others. 

Kindergarten Assembly

·      February 24 - Both classrooms (am and pm) will come to school for the morning.  The assembly is at 10:30 am and all students will be dismissed at 11:20 am. 

Anti-Bullying Day

·      February 22 – This is anti-bullying day and we encourage all staff and students to wear pink in support of this cause.  Teachers will plan supporting conversations and lessons around themes of peace, kindness and anti-bullying. 

Please call the office if you require any further clarification. 

Thank you for your support as we enter into a very busy month!

Ms. Paull

Assembly on Monday

Parents are invited to attend our assembly at 10:30AM, Monday, February 5th.

Immediately following the assembly, students will be showing their work that they have done with our Mars Inquiry projects in Room 16. Parents are invited to join us there to take a tour of all the work that our class, along with Ms. Scott's class, have done to incorporate our Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts learning as we explored the question, "How can humans successfully live on Mars?"