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On the first day back to school, some students seemed anxious and a tad hesitant in class, others were so excited to be back that they could hardly contain their excitement. I could sense that the students that were worrying had much in their mind. 
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The JK class explored a variety of 3D paper folding techniques and continued to develop their cutting, gluing, and painting skills while also strengthening their creative thinking and communication skills. They created a final artwork about “a special place” which they presented to their classmates 
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​This week, the Grade 4s, took to their couches and listened as we read from a biographical book about the life and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King.  Although  Martin Luther King Day happens comes only once a year, we are reminded that everyday is a 
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​The Grade 3 students have been deeply engaged in our inquiry about Movement and Migration. We have explored the continents, oceans, reviewed vocabulary words such as immigrants, immigration, refugees, push and pull factors of migration, and discussed why we think people may choose migrate to 
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Our Grade 5 Virtual Learners showed up both authentically and enthusiastically this week amidst our current challenging circumstances. There was a feeling of collective effervescence in the air as being together, sharing together and learning together again seemed to lift everyone’s spirits. In addition to 
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Our Grade 5 classroom community thoroughly enjoyed participating our first ‘Market Math’ experience of the school year. During market math, students buy and sell items to practice their computational skills when it comes to the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals. In our first 
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December arrived and with it the first snow and an emerging excitement as the holiday season is upon us.  It began with Diwali, the festival of lights, moves on to Hannukah and then finally Christmas for some of our families. We have connected all these 
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​The Grade One students changed their roles again over the last couple of weeks! They became ENGINEERS! Once your children joined the “Scientists in School” engineering team, they built a structure capable of transporting an animal over a dangerous body of water to safety. They 
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​Although Remembrance Day was honoured with perhaps less fanfare and without an assembly or speakers, the students continued this year to make poppies with messages of thankfulness for the sacrifices made by the soldiers on our behalf. In class , they watched virtual messages and 
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In SK we follow a Reggio inspired IB curriculum. Part of that means that there are opportunities to include an emergent curriculum as we respect and honour the children’s interests. Emergent curriculum is a way of planning lessons that are based on children’s interests and 
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