Happy Easter to you and your family,  We had a great first week back!  We have begun a lot of new units this week and are looking forward to this final stretch of school.  Here is what we worked on this week:

Writing:  We have begun our comparative writing piece this last week and will continue working on it this week.  We also are working on a morning grammar booklet.

Math:  We have begun our unit on fractions and will be focusing our attention on equivalent fractions and comparing fractions.

Bible:  We finished our mini Easter unit and will be turning our attention next week to an independent study unit.  Bible Memory will be coming home tomorrow.  I have included this week’s BMV for you here as well.  The Bible Memory page has also been updated.

Galatians 5:22-23. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.   Against such things there is no law.

Science:  This week we finished our Mixtures and Solutions unit and students did a ‘show what you know’ unit assessment on Tuesday.  I was thrilled to see how much students learned during this Science unit.  We are now turning our attention to the human body. First up, the digestive system!

Reading: we continued to read Amal Unbound. This week we discussed figurative language (simile, metaphor, and personification) as well as how to compare and contrast using a Venn diagram.

Social Studies: This week we looked at some old pictures of early Chinese immigrants to BC and talked about how images can tell us a lot about history. One of the most interesting discussions was about a political cartoon, the class was incredibly insightful as they talked about the ways that racism and discrimination were evident and displayed in the drawing. We also spent some time learning in the school garden, some students made friends with a local snail when their work was done.

April Calendar:

Apr. 9 – Knights Day

Apr. 14 – Beach Day K-6

Apr. 16 – Knights Day

Apr. 23 – Interim Reports go home & Knights Day

Apr. 30 – Pro-D Day

Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy!

Have a great week!