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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...