October 9, 2026
We embraced the beautiful fall weather and had an amazing week learning both inside and outside the classroom. Please check your child's backpack for the form for Alien In-Line.
Highlights of the Week:
- ELAL – Students practiced planning, drafting, and writing a short story. They either came up with their own creative elements or used picture prompts to inspire them. We also made an event map in our visual journal or record what we did last week at stampede school, Yahoo.
- Math – Students started to finish up our whole number place value learning. There will be a check-in on Tuesday when we return. We will then start learning about decimals.
- Science – We used this week to jump into computer science. Students learned what a sequence, loop, and conditional is for programming. They were then challenged with using each to use programming language to give instructions on how to get to a different space in the school. They then got the opportunity to build it in Scratch.
How you can support at home:
- Homework – we will start homework in the coming weeks.
- Math – work on place value including decimals up to the millions and thousandths.
- ELAL – practice planning and writing short creative stories.
Important Dates:
- No School – Oct 12
- School Council Meeting – Oct 15
- Non-Instruction Day (No School) – Oct 19
- Alien In-line – Oct 22-23, 26-30
- Grade 6 Vaccinations – Oct 26
- Healthy Hunger (Papa Johns) – Oct 29
- Halloween Dance – Oct 29
- Photo Re-take Day – Nov 10
- Fall Break – Nov 11-13
Reminders:
- Forms for Alien In-Line went home this week. Please sign and return them as soon as possible.
- With the snow and colder weather coming, please make sure your child has a coat for outdoor learning as well as two pairs of shoes to help keep our school clean.
Learning Intention of the Week – Drawing-ish
This week, we read Ish by Peter H. Reynolds to explore growth mindset and the idea that art doesn’t have to look perfect to be meaningful. Just like Ramon, students learned to embrace the power of “-ish” by creating drawings that captured the idea of an object rather than trying to make it look exactly right.
Students drew the same object four times, with 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, and finally 3 minutes to complete each drawing. Using markers encouraged students to embrace their choices and mistakes rather than erase or start over.
