Our potlatch

Today we finally had a chance to share our totem poles and masks while participating in our potlatch feast. Special thanks to all those parents for sending in food, getting gifts or helping set-up the food (Mrs. M special props go out to you). Students represented their families well with their totem poles. 

 I also will be starting up a spotlight feature for my blog that highlights top notch work done by students. No name will be mentioned just a picture of the work. 

We will be starting spelling next week, or for a handful of students, a reading challenge which I will post information on in the future. 

On the side of the blog I attached a place where you can submit your email and then anytime I post something new it will alert you so you do not have to keep checking on the blog.

Picture retakes are November 14th.

Our feast.

Our masks.

Our totem poles.

Potlatch on October 28th

We have been working hard to get ourselves ready for our potlatch. Yes it is called a POTLATCH, not a potluck. There is more information in the handouts about this. Half of the class is to bring food for the class and half is to bring 2 wrapped gifts (no more than $3 each). Here is what some people have signed up to bring... Drinks, vegetable platter, fruit platter, chill, buns and butter and cupcakes. We went through the class and there are 6 more items to be brought in. Some suggestions include perogies, meatballs, macaroni, salad etc. If there is anything else you can think of by all means let me know. Another piece of business includes the diorama projects. These were originally assigned to be completed for tomorrow (Oct. 23rd) but we have postponed them until Monday so the students can take them home on the weekend if needed.

Plaster casting masks today!

This morning we had a chance to make our masks for our potlatch. It went well and the students each had a chance to get dirty with plaster. We will be painting them next week. 

Our first TUSC meeting...

Here a few pictures from our TUSC meeting. It went very well and almost everyone was prepared.

Our Thankful Poems

Today we made beautiful poems about what we are thankful for. They look awesome. Take a look at some of them.

Our artist...

Today we met with our Integrated Arts artist, Dmiti Komar. He is going to be creating a mosaic with the entire school to celebrate Athlone's 50th anniversary next year. Here are some pics.

The students created sketches of their ideas for the Mosaic. Today we also had our science quiz, most got stumped on the question about the types of carbohydrates, simple and complex. Tomorrow is bus ridership. We also got started on our dioramas for the native groups. Students will have about 5 double classes to complete their diorama. They are encouraged to bring in supplies from home. We are also collecting paper towel rolls to turn into totem poles.

Sorry I have been having problems with the blog and website from the division so I am changing over to a new blog. Please bare with me.
We have a math quiz October 7th on place value. Students will be tested on how the write numbers in standard, written form and expanded form.
We also have a nutrition quiz on October 8th on the food guide and reading labels.
Our first T.U.S.C is scheduled for October 7th as well. I hope to have a link to the jobs added here soon. I have also been working to make tutorial videos you can use to help your child learn at home. Most of the videos will go along with something that may have been brought home for homework.