Honouring Dr. Martin Luther King
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...
Author: Adrian Cheung
Where We Are in Place and Time Movement and Migration!
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...
Hello 2021!
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...
Social Justice Market Math
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...
It’s that most wonderful time of the year!
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...
Grade One Engineers
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...
Lest we forget
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...
Emergent Curriculum
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...
Developing an Ecological Awareness
NATURE AS A WORK OF ART “Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks,...
Appreciating the Beauty in Nature
Here at Richland Academy we are so fortunate to be surrounded by nature. The trees in our playground are big and mature and provide us with so many uses. We use the...