Ms Courtney's Class

Student Led Conferences (SLCs) are this Wednesday 11th April. Student's only need to come to school for their allocated time. The students have spent a lot of time preparing for these conferences and are looking forward to welcoming you into their classroom. Students have selected between 8-10 pieces of work they would like to show you. This is work that they are proud of and has been carefully selected to ensure a range of subjects, concepts, skills, learner profiles and assessments are shown. Please talk to you child about each piece of work and ask them questions. They maybe shy or try and rush through their work. Example of questions you can ask: What challenges do you have in this subject? How do you think you have improved at this since last year? Why are you proud of this work? Why are these your favourite activities? Why? Which things are difficult for you? Why? What are your favourite activities? Why? What are you goals by the end of this year? How can I...

The students each selected their favourite piece of work in their Art Journals and have explained why they like it. I chose this poem because it has colors that are calm and peaceful. I was inspired by the color of the sea and the land. - Vannissa I think the shape inspired me to make a dog because a dog is always hungry and I felt hungry. - Seb We made a collage each. I made a chetah, it reminds me of the colorful origami colors. I was going to make a bunny then a turtle, then a chetah. We were inspired by Henri Matisse's artwork, his was a snail. Mine is how the chetah is camouflaged so well in the wilderness. - Molly This is my favourite because I liked when I was drawing a lot of cool pictures and I like to draw people. - Peter I was inspired by the sunset because the sunset made me feel cam. This is my favourite artwork because I used the whole page and the whole page is colourful.  Akari I made this in free choice. it is my favourite because I am ...

We began our 5th unit of inquiry this week. Our central idea is: People can find artistic inspiration by discovering and interpreting nature.  We will be inquiring into: Nature in the World around us Ways our observations and inquiries influence our action and art making  This unit we will be focusing on different forms of art, how people are connected to nature and how we interpret nature to create art. Students will be working on this unit in Art and Music. Journals The students have been working on at art journal in the classroom, art and music. Over the unit all the students thinking, pieces of art they create and reflections will be in these. The journal will become their summative assessment. On Wednesday all the Grade 2 students worked together to develop a set of criteria of what they will need to do to be successful in this unit. The success criteria the students decided on are: I can understand clearly what I am creating before I start...

We are coming to the end of our current unit of inquiry and the students have been very busy researching and presenting their findings ready to share with you next Tuesday. We hope to see you on Tuesday morning 7:45 in the Grade 2 piazza. Child Safe Ms Alison, the elementary councilor ran two lessons with the students this week on safety. In the first lesson she spoke to the students about times and situations we may not feel safe, these included swimming without adult supervision, riding in the car without a seatbelt and crossing the road without an adult. Students were taught he to say stop if they don't feel safe and identifying a person to talk to such as a parent or teacher. On Wednesday Ms Alison focused on three types of touch. Unwanted, Uncomfortable touch and private touch. She explained the three types of touch and students gave examples. Unwanted touch - hitting, kicking, hair pulling Uncomfortable touch - hugs when one person doesn't wan...

We concluded our How We Organize Ourselves unit this week. When reflecting on what the students learnt in such a short time it is very impressive. Next week I will share the summative assessment feedback with you on Seesaw. Students will be showing you their infographic at their 3 way conference next Tuesday. We finishing the unit with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) challenge. Students working in small groups to create an Earthquake proof house using 1 piece of cardboard, some toothpicks and clay. All students had the same supplies and the same amount of time to build a 2 story structure. We tested their structures in a dish of jelly. 3 way conference planning We have been preparing the the 3 way conference next week. Students have been selecting work samples, refining reading goals and reflecting on their successes this semester and areas to improve on next semester. Buddies With their Grade 5 buddies the students are in the middle of creat...