Happy Lunar New Year!
We celebrated Lunar New Year in our class by making Chinese lanterns today. We learned about the legend of Nian (“Year”) This mythical creature was afraid of loud noises, bright lights, and the colour red. These traditions are still observed, around the world, during Lunar New Year today! We also learned about the Chinese calendar […]
Practicing for Dictée PGL
This week, we are practicing our words for the Dictée PGL that will take place on February 15th. Students in Grade 1 and 2 have a list of words to learn that focus on education and equality. There are a variety of learning activities to practice the words, and practice dictées before the final. Here […]
Using Our Senses: Observational Writing
As we get ready for the iSTEAM fair, students are exploring observational writing. Using our senses is a great way to improve our writing and add detail to our work. Today we used our sense of touch to create a list of adjectives that we can use to describe mystery objects. Can you guess what […]
Welcome Back Everyone!!
We are so happy to have everyone back at school. We have missed everyone so much!! Source:: Kinder Blog
Festive iSTEAM activities
Leading up to the holidays, the students participated in fun, festive iSTEAM activities. The students were tasked with building a structure out of a variety of different shapes of cookies, and made some pretty interesting houses and buildings. They used their problem solving skills and creativity. The students also used their imagination to make snowflakes […]
The Virtual Debates Continue…
The HIVE debating continued this week with a rousing game of “Take a Stand.” Students were presented with a topic statement and had to think about whether they strongly agreed or disagreed or somewhat agreed or disagreed and why. They then had to move their sticky note to the correct column on the virtual whiteboard. […]
Think about it! Question it! Debate it!
Debating is our AcadeCap monthly focus for January. The online tele-learning format did not stop the HIVE students from participating in an engaging first debate. Everyone had some great persuasive arguments and rebuttals. Students are looking forward to the second debate. The high school students did a wonderful job of planning, creating outreach materials, and […]
Give the Gift of Words
During the SMILE holiday party, students participated in reading games, wrote word and sentence ‘gifts’ to give to each other and decorated the windows with holiday messages. Happy Holidays Everyone! Source:: Mme Christine’s SLT Blog
Mitosis and Meiosis
Biology 10 and 11 students learn about mitosis and meiosis with hands-on microscope work and a virtual lab assignment. Source:: PSSP & OSSD
Making Groups
Early numeration skills, such as spontaneously grouping objects to simplify the count, are part of the Defi-Maths curriculum in Grade 1 and 2. In this activity, students were given a random large amount of manipulatives, and were tasked with organizing them to be easily count and identify how many each team had. We can see […]
