Reminders

Skating

Our first skating day is this Friday, January 12th at 10:30am.  Please remember to bring all your skating gear in a bag that you can easily walk to the rink.

Beaty Biodiversity Museum field trip postponed until February 2nd

If you are able to volunteer to drive students to UBC on the morning of February 2nd, please email me!

I need at least 6 parents to volunteer.

** if you previously volunteered, please check in with me to let me know whether you still can!

Report Cards

Just a reminder that reports will be going home at the end of the month.  Division 3 is participating in the VSB Communicating Student Learning Pilot Project, as announced in the fall of 2017.  Please contact me if you have any questions about the change in format and ways in which we are communicating student learning.

Weekly Work

Math

Math Notebooks will be due for all three grades on Thursday this week.

 

4s: problem solving will be due on Friday

5s: area and perimeter work will be due on Friday

6s: squaring binomials work will be due on Friday

 

Language

We will begin studying etymology this term. Etymology is the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.

Etymology work will be due on Friday and students will be having an etymology test every second week.

 

During our Writer’s Workshop, we will begin our Artist Statements for our Artist in Residence project that we have been working on.  These statements will accompany the art pieces at the gala on January 18th.

 

Culture

One of the features of the biodiversity of living organisms is the vast array of body structures, all adapted in one way or another to their environment.  This includes internal body systems which work together to enable an organism to survive.  Despite their diversity, all mammals have similar internal body systems.  The differences reflect adapatations their habitat and food sources.

Bears are particularly interesting. Their similarities to humans are often featured in popular culture, while their  power and strength are viewed with awe. At the same time, people have encroached on bears’ habitats, creating unfortunate encounters in which the bear usually suffers.

We will start our culture studies by exploring both the cultural significance of the bear and the scientific understandings about anatomy and adaptations.

French

This week we will begin reading The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.  We will read 3 chapters a week in English and then study some of the more famous quotations from those chapters in French.  Through this study, students will be learning common, high-frequency vocabulary and sentence structures.