Updates and Ideas

I hope you are all healthy and staying safe :) - I miss you all so very much!

Currently we are all asked to be patient while the CBE makes a plan going forward. Please give yourself permission to take it easy this week. Play, cook, sew, draw, read, and play some more!

Some parents have inquired about ways to support their child's learning at home. More information will be coming out in the days ahead. In the meantime, IF you are interested, here is a list the learning we had planned for this week:

Math:Continue practicing your Number Facts and Subtraction.

• practice skip counting by 2, 5, and 10. Starting at any given number counting forwards and backwards.
• practice basic math facts through playing card games
• make it into a game of WAR - pick your operation (adding or subtracting), each player chooses a card at the same time and you race to say the answer. The quickest response takes the cards

Art and Games for Cognitive Flexibility: Play board games! Here are a few to try: Cribbage, Card games, Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle, Checkers

Inquiry:
-Work on your design thinking challenge for the Arctic. Work through the ideation process and prototype. For fun, if you want to build your prototype and send your teacher a picture, we can post it on the blog!
-Check out this fun movie about life in the Arctic - David Suzuki and the Nature of Things follows two different groups of polar bears: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5eseix 
-Explore some other options for documentaries such as Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and Human Planet. These are all amazing documentaries where students can continue to make connections about what we have done in the class and to the world. 

Writing: Continue writing your arctic stories - type up on google docs and share with your teacher

Reading: Raz kids  https://www.raz-kids.com/

Don’t forget to go outside and play: Try this scavenger hunt: https://www.cbc.ca/parents/content/pdf/CBCParents_WinterScavengerHunt.pdf