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 […]

Pen Pals

As part of our year-long unit on significant events and various celebrations, the Grade 1/2 students have matched with a school located in Vermont, USA. We got our first letters this week and learned who will be our new pen pal! We will exchange letters year-long, but right now we’re sharing what we’re looking forward […]

Happy Hanukkah!

​Happy Hanukkah, Chag Sameach! We Celebrated Hanukkah by playing the dreidel game.Thank you to Mme Melissa and the grade 1/2 class for planning such a great Hanukkah activity. Source:: Kinder Blog

Polar bear in Arts

The JK/SK have been working on making 3D polar bears in Arts class with Madame Cecilia. Source:: Kinder Blog