In the loop: January 15-19

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Riddle of the Week: In a one story house everything is pink: the sink, the walls, the floors, the roof. What colour are the stairs?

Reminders

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE GALA

On Thursday January 18th at 3:30pm in the upstairs hallway of Tyee, we will be celebrating our artistic process through the Artist in Residence program.  Please come and join us!

There are sign up sheets on bulletin board across from the staircase on the main floor for students who would like to help set up and manage the gala.   We need students to be artist demonstrators to show parents how to do spiral drawings, bean drawings, blind contour and material studies challenges. We also need students to be docents and show parents where the different activities are. Please have a look on Monday morning and sign up if you are interested

SKATING

WE ARE NOT GOING SKATING THIS FRIDAY.  I made an error and read the schedule wrong.  Apologies. 🙂

 

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 – Fraction resource due on Friday

5s: Problem Solving – Squaring work due on Friday

6s: Problem Solving – squaring binomials work due on Friday

 

Language

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

All three grades will be having a test this Friday.

During our Writer’s Workshop, we will continue and finish our Artist Statements for our Artist in Residence project that we have been working on.  These statements are due on Tuesday at 3:00pm and will accompany the art pieces at the gala on Thursday January 18th.

We will begin listening to the CBC podcast “The World this Hour” (4 minutes) to learn how to pull important information out of a news broadcast.  This skill requires time and we will be spending Tuesday and Thursday afternoons learning how to take notes and listen for important stories.

Culture

 

Every week we will be studying a new body system.   Students will be required to create a representation or model of each body system.  This week we will begin studying the skeletal system. This could be in the form of a detailed drawing, a pasta model, plasticine and cardboard model, construction paper collage, or an online representation using technology etc.

French

We will continue reading The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.  We will read chapters 4-6  in English and 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.

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