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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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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, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, 
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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 trees for shade. We watch the animals climb the trees and look for 
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Caring  Looks like: I care about my friends and others. Sounds like: “Oh I’m stuck” – Audrey “Don’t worry, I can help you!” – Olivia “Thank you!” – Audrey “You are welcome. I am very nice and we are best friends together” – Olivia Principled Looks 
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Stories from the Grade 5-8 “My artwork shows the Black Lives Matter conflict. Police in America are being too overpowering and abusive to black people for no reason. Rather, they should be treated like all people should be treated, with respect.” “When we go to 
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