October 26 - 29

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 Book Club

"We read books together and take turns on i-Pads and computers." - Jacob 

"We went together and we talked about the story" - Dorela

"We switched so some of us read with the teacher and some read in the coatroom" - Quinn


Art

"We made colours using the colour wheel. We made the primary colours, and the secondary colours, and the tertiary colours." - Son

"We used pencil crayon, and we used pastels, markers and crayons and we wrote what type of colours." - Aria

Gym

"We have been doing gym outside and it was our last week with the soccer balls" - Charlie



Math

"We had to answer subtraction questions to find a message. We used stacked strategy" - Sam

"We learned how to subtract with the stacked strategy." - Mason

Quality of Life

"We learned that we need a good government and a good home in a good community, and where you're close to a school and a job. You have everything you need." - Owen

"Some places have where you have to pay for school and you don't have so much money to get good schools or a house." - Evelyn

Remembrance Day

We've begun preparing for Remembrance Day, here are a few pictures of some of our rehearsals.



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