Welcome Back

Hello parents and div 02 students,

Welcome back!  I hope you all enjoyed a well deserved break.  It was so nice to see everyone back at school.  We had a really awesome week and I look forward to the rest of the term.

Important Notice:  Mr. Costain will be away for the next week and I will be filling in for him in the office.  I will be with our class in the mornings to teach Math and Ms. Appleton will be the teacher replacing me when I'm in the office.

This week in room 231 we covered the following:

Science/Socials:  We started to look at inquiry based learning on Monday.  We started a mini assignment that we called the 5 day's of Inquiry.  Students came up with a question that they were interested in and they did some research to find the answer to their question.

Math: we started our Geometry unit.  We explored the following this week: lines, lines segments, angles, classifying angles and using a protractor to measure angles.  We also went on a geometric hunt and we have been using Tan Grams to create images.

LA:  in writing we have been working on writing a children's storybook and in reading we have been learning a new reading strategy called making inferences.  The students are learning how to plan for writing a children's story with their little buddies. Our spelling program will start up on Monday.

Art- we started to learn how to draw Manga characters.

Gym- in PE we learned a new game called Corridor Cricket.  Next week we will start Track and Field.

Thanks for such a wonderful week.  Its a pleasure working with such a wonderful group of students.

~Mr. Tobacca