Mrs. Elliott's Montessori Classroom

The year sixes had their track meet today.  They all had an option this afternoon to practice high jump.  The jump off will be next week.  The year 4s had a geometry lesson today.  They will be bringing home materials to keep building shapes. Homework tonight:  - home reading  Have a good night!

Yesterday I had a wonderful day of sharing and learning with a couple of other upper elementary Montessori teachers from Prince George and Vernon.  I cannot wait to share new ideas I have taken away with the students! This morning the four and five students participated in track.  The year sixes were wonderful helpers to the teachers during these events.  In the afternoon we had a work block.  The year fours also learned about the independent language lab! Homework:  - home reading (read aloud to practice fluency and expression)  - year six track meet tomorrow (dress for the weather - water bottle, hat, sunscreen, layers), year fives as well as they will be helpers. Have a great night!

Today we started to create a city using a single point perspective drawing.  We also played a business game for financial literacy. There is no school on Monday. On Tuesday we have the grade 4/5 track meet.  The grade 6s will be helpers.  The grade 6/7 track meet will be Wednesday. All students need to make sure that they have running shoes and are dressed for the weather (layers, hats, sunscreen).  Please make sure your child has a labelled water bottle.

The fives and sixes did a review of the French story that we have been learning all year.  Tomorrow they will have a chance to retell the story to me.  Today in health class the students learned about substance use.   Tonight is the school Fun Fair!  There is no homework tonight as I hope the children will all have fun at the Fun Fair!

We spent an amazing day in the gym today celebrating the wonderful learning that has taken place during our heritage study!  In the excitement of celebrating with our families, some of the students did forget to bring their parents back to the classroom for their student led conference.  For those that forgot or for parents that were unable to make it today, these will come home with your children today or tomorrow. The only homework reminders tonight are that tomorrow is the final day to bring in items for the BBQ basket.  Also, we will be outside for much of the day tomorrow, so please make sure your child is dressed for the weather. Have a great evening!

Today we practiced presenting our Heritage Fair boards.  We will continue to do this in the morning.  We also had our final financial literacy lesson on Zoom for our Junior Achievement program.  We will still do a few lessons in the classroom before wrapping up this unit. Homework:  - Heritage Fair.  Viewing is in the gym from 10:30 to 12:00 and 1:15 to 2:15.  We hope to see you there! 

We had another Junior Achievement lesson today.  Today we learned about what questions you need to ask before starting your own business.  We also worked on our presentations for Heritage Fair on Wednesday.  We will be sharing these in the class tomorrow to practice for Wednesday. Homework:  - finish Heritage Fair board/presentation if not already done  - BBQ basket items need to be in by April 17th  - Class photo day tomorrow  - Heritage Fair/Student Led Conference in the Gym Wednesday (10:30 - 12 and 1:15 - 2:15)  - Library tomorrow  - Gym tomorrow  Have a good night!

Today we worked on our Heritage Fair boards all day!  Many children finished, some still have some work to do.  We will only have Monday morning for class time to finish working on these.  Anything not completed in class time by recess on Monday will need to be finished for homework. We will be presenting these in the gym on Wednesday. The only homework that your child will have this weekend is working on their projects. Class photos will be taking place on Tuesday. Have a wonderful weekend!

The blog is back!  We experienced a glitch yesterday and the blog disappeared for the evening.  We were able to get it working again today! We had a bonus gym class today where we got to work with a hula hoop specialist.  We learned how to do some fun tricks!  In the afternoon we had a virtual guest speaker to talk to us more about starting our own business and keeping track of our money. Homework:  - Heritage Fair Work  - Home reading

Wow did today ever go by quickly!  The students were all so focused on the editing of their projects.  Some still have some work today and may have some researching homework to complete tonight.  We had the whole day today as a Heritage work day.  Many of the students are starting to finish up.  We also found time to do a library book exchange and a health lesson.  The only homework this week will be Heritage Fair related, so please check with your child to see if they have writing to work on.  Have a good night!

This morning we had a Zoom lesson with Junior Achievement BC.  Over the next two weeks we will be having lessons learning more about financial literacy in the real world.  In the afternoon we helped our little buddies with a clay project.  Today was also the Day of Sucwentwecw.  We had a gathering on the field as a school to celebrate this day. Homework tonight:  - heritage fair paragraphs should be finished.  Please ask your child to look over their paragraphs in preparation for editing tomorrow.  We worked on our Works Cited page today.  This should also be complete.

This morning we started our Friday with our usual routine that included Big 5, Journal writing and Word Study Dictations.  We spent much of the day today working on our Heritage Fair projects.  Our goal is to have these completed by next Friday so that we can practice our presentations on Monday and Tuesday the following week.  Our Heritage Fair will be taking place in the gym on April 16th.   Homework:  - Heritage Fair writing should be completed so we can work on editing next week. Have a good weekend!

We spent much of the day today working on our Heritage Fair projects.  The goal is to have these completed next week.  We will be having a Heritage Fair viewing day in the gym on April 16th from 10:30 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 2:15.  We also completed our word study sentence dictations today. Homework tonight:  - home reading  - Heritage Fair  - word study dictations tomorrow  - BBQ Fun Fair basket Have a good night.

This afternoon we worked on our Typing Pal programs.  We also had a chance to answer some challenge questions in Prodigy.  In the morning we worked on writing our Heritage Fair paragraphs.  These should be completed by the end of the week.  Next week we will focus on editing and creating our backboards.  I have heard that some stores are sold out, but the children are telling me that they have found them at Dollar Tree and the dollar store by Save on Foods, as well as the one by Shoppers in Valleyview. Homework tonight:   - home reading out loud  - BBQ basket  - Heritage Fair writing and notes Have a good night!

This afternoon we created three dimensional shapes using one point perspective.  We will continue to work with this concept in art for the next couple of weeks.  We were pranked by our little buddies for April Fool's Day today.  They came down to offer us some "brown es."  They had a baking tray of cut out upper and lower case brown es.   Homework tonight:  - home reading  - Heritage Fair notes we will be writing more of our paragraphs tomorrow so please bring your notes  - Lap Book if not complete.  Emails will be coming home tomorrow for children who have not completed this project as it was due before Spring Break  - Gym tomorrow  Have a good night!