Hello! The cold seems to be setting in now, and I've put away my summer jacket! Please make sure that your child has indoor shoes, as they will be required to take off wet and muddy shoes when they come…
Hello! The weather's beginning to change, and the leaves are turning my favorite shades of red and gold! Please make sure that your child has indoor shoes, as they will be required to take off wet and…
Hello! Thank you for checking in -- welcome to my class website if you haven't been here before. This week, we have been focusing on getting to know one another and building our classroom culture. Thank…
Hello and Welcome! Thanks for stopping by to check out my class website. This year I'll be posting monthly updates here with information on what we've been working on for the past month, as well as what…
Thank you all so, so much! We had a fantastic year, and I've really enjoyed having such a wonderful class. Please see our final One Second Everyday video below, covering our whole year!
Hello! This is it! We're down to the last month of school. We've already begun our 20-day countdown to the last day of school (what?) -- though our days are still just packed. Check out the video below…
Hello! Well, normally I'd be saying that Spring has Sprung, but... the weather these last couple days seems to disagree! Regardless, we've had quite an eventful April, and it's just going to stay busy…
Hello! Well! The last couple weeks have certainly gotten away from me, but hopefully it's better late than never! Please see below for a quick video overview of the last month! Please see below for our…
Hello! Please see below for a quick video overview of the last month! Please see below for our academic focuses in March: Writing: This month, we will spend the first couple weeks digging deeper into…
Hello! It's been an exciting return to school this month. Miss Anika Huvenaars has been teaching (and will continue to teach until Family Week) Writing, Social Studies, French, and Word Study. Our schedule…
Hello! I hope everyone had a restful and relaxing Winter Break. I'm really looking forward to the new year, and have a big announcement! For the first few months, Miss Anika Huvenaars will be joining…
Hello! Thanks for dropping by again! November is always a rush as we wrap up assessments, prepare for report cards, and move on to new topics! I feel as though we've begun to settle into some of our routines…
Hello! Thanks for dropping by again! October was a busy month of assessments, projects, and quite a variety of learning topics. Thank you to everyone who was able to meet with me at Parent-Teacher Interviews…
Hello! Welcome back! September has been a whirlwind of getting to know everyone and trying to fit back into routines of deep thinking and academic focus. If you haven't already, please fill out my Student…
Hello! Thank you for checking in -- welcome to my class website if you haven't been here before. This week, we have been focusing on getting to know one another and building our classroom culture. Thank…
Hello and Welcome! Thanks for stopping by to check out my class website. This year I'll be posting monthly updates here with information on what we've been working on for the past month, as well as what…
Hello! This week we had our first "normal" week in quite some time. We wrapped up our Fractions topic (for now), as well as our Simple Machines science unit. We dug into some of the foundational skills…
Hello! It's been a really busy few weeks. We've had our ski trip, planning for our Carnival project, Mars Month, and the actual building time for that project last week. We've found the time to do some…
Hello! It's been a while since my last update, and I apologize for that. It's gotten pretty crazy with report cards, Ski Trips, and sick kids. In any case, it's been busy around the classroom! We have…
Hello! This past week we continued to work with multiplying large numbers: the students selected strategies and practiced solving problems (quite successfully!), and we had our mini-boss battle on Thursday.…
Hello! This past week we dove headfirst into multiplying larger numbers: the student explored a variety of strategies which may be used to solve multiplication problems (see photos below), compared them,…
Hello! These past couple weeks were a bit of a blur. We got to experience a Lion dance, and the students got to experience a bit of the traditions associated with the Lunar New Year. We've begun our new…
Hello! This week, we welcomed a few new students into our class! We reflected on the past year and explored the purpose of reflection and goal setting - then the students developed goals for home and…
Hello! First of all, thanks so much for your support with the Winter Wonderland this past week. I was not able to attend because of illness in my family, but I'm told that it was incredible, and we had…
Hello! It's been a few weeks since my last blog. Since then, we've welcomed Mr. Tyler McCallum into our clas as a student teacher from the U of L, as well as Mr. Quinton to fill the role of educational…
Hello! We started this week off with a wild Halloween Monday - tons of fun! After that, the students began working with decimal numbers in math. In science, we continued to explore different methods which…
Hello! It was wonderful to get back to a full "typical" week this week. The students finished up our focus on multiplication and division foundations. In science, we finished up with the main categories…
Hello! Thank you to all for the wonderful conversations with our Parent-Teacher Interviews. This past week, the students continued reading their book club books, and we began looking at and practicing…
Hello! Last week was a short one, with Thanksgiving, but we began our first Book Clubs of the year, and had our first couple focused lessons on Waste In Our World. Some notes on our Learning this coming…
Hello! This week the students finished up our work with their mapping project. We worked at some independent literacy centers, and began brainstorming ideas that they might write about. We did some hard…
Hello! This week the students began working with maps - looking at the parts of a map and creating their own. We continued looking at complete sentences and how they can go wrong. We learned some math…
Hello! This week we really started digging into more of our curricular content. The students learned about the needs of plants, and studied the parts of complete sentences in more detail (Subjects and…
This past week was busy! We started learning our Math routines and structures, had our first few Science lessons, and began reviewing the parts of complete sentences. The students also wrote the MIPI…
Hello! What a wonderful first week we've had! It was really to have everyone back together in our building, and meet our amazing new class. As we're all getting used to here at Plaxton, we don't do things…
Hello and welcome! Thanks for stopping by to check out my class website. I do my best to post weekly updates here with information on what we've been working on as well as what is coming up in school…
Hello! I just wanted to say thank you for everything this year. It was a challenging one in some respects - new school building, new colleagues, new classmates, new routines, new restrictions (and then…
Hello! The days were just packed this week. We had a photo scavenger hunt on Monday, and we got to do art with Mrs. Goruk's grade 3s in the afternoon. Tuesday was our field trip (which was fun, despite…
Hello! This past week we really started wrapping up some parts of our school year. We are heavily into our end of year countdown (see pics below), and we are nearing the end of our final Science unit.…
Hello! This past week was fairly busy; between guest presentations on Peer Relations, the University VR development team, and our Human Sexuality lessons, it felt like we barely had any time for "typical"…
Hello! Since my last blog post, the students have developed and begun presenting social projects looking at their family heritage and culture and the countries their ancestors were from. We've finished…
Hello! This past week, students began editing their Camp NaNoWriMo stories - we'll wrap this up next week. It's been a long process, but it's been so fun! In Social, they created an "Immigration Poster"…
Hello! This past week, students worked on revising their Camp NaNoWriMo stories - it's been so incredible to see the stories that they've written and the passion they have developed around creating their…
Hello! This past week, students have continued to add reflection posts on MyBlueprint (log in with the link in your email or by having your child log in with their district Microsoft login). I have…
Hello! My apologies for not posting the last two weeks - I was out sick (COVID came through my house). This past week, students have continued to add reflection posts on MyBlueprint (log in with the…
Hello! This past week, students have continued to add reflection posts on MyBlueprint (log in with the link in your email or by having your child log in with their district Microsoft login). We continued…
Hello! This past week, students designed and constructed Mars/Space-themed Theme Park rides and attractions. It was a ton of fun, and the students did some deep thinking and problem solving throughout.…
Hello! This past week, students completed their unit on Information Writing. They wrapped up the piece they were using for practicing the new skills and strategies we explored in class and wrote their…
Hello! This past week, students studied mentor texts to write introductions to their information texts, as well as taking all that they have learned these past few weeks and doing large-scale revisions…
Hello! This past week, students began exploring how to elaborate on, expand, and confirm the accuracy of the ideas in their information texts. They even got to take a little field trip down to the Learning…
Hello! This past week, students continued to develop their understanding of how to organize and structure information texts in writers' workshop. They researched number and animal words in Blackfoot and…
Hello! This past week, students engaged in a variety of thinking tasks over Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts. They worked collaboratively to come up with solutions to the task, and reflected on…
Hello! My apologies for the long gap between posts! We did have a long break in there, but I was also out sick the end of the last week (not COVID, thank goodness... just stuffy noses, coughs, and plugged…
Hello! This week, the students continued exploring Lights and Shadows with Miss B in Science (including a particularly fun Shadows lesson - see pictures below). They continued reading their Book Club…
Hello! This week, the students finished their Alberta Regions projects in social and we had our first lesson of our new science unit (Lights & Shadows). They continued reading their Book Club novels and…
Hello! After a short week last week, we were back at it this week. Miss Bundschuh (Miss B) started with us on Monday, and will be here until Dec 16th. The students moved on from the research portion of…
Hello! My apologies for missing the class blog last week - I had to be away on Friday. Over the last couple weeks, we've had some fun activities: we had our student teacher, Miss B, come to visit us (she…
Hello! It was really good to be back this last week. We had some excellent learning as a staff over the Thanksgiving week, and I'm sure the students all enjoyed some time off, but it's always good to…
Hello! Thank you so much to everyone for meeting with me and chatting about your children. I really have missed the opportunity for face-to-face contact so this was refreshing and rejuvenating. Prior…
Hello! This week, the students continued exploring our foundational math concepts, with many engaging with number groups via basic multiplication and division facts. We continued developing characters…
Hello! This week, the students began to take ownership of their learning in Math. Some students quickly moved on from Number Sense foundations and into the foundations of working with Number Groups while…
Hello! This week, our focus shifted from general school and classroom routines and procedures to subject specific ones. We started working on our spiralled math curriculum, and students have been working…
Hello! After week two, we are settling into the new school and new routines. The students are jumping in and giving it their all! (See below for a number of pictures from the first couple weeks) This…
Hello! Our first week back has ended now! It was a fantastic first few days. It was really cool to finally meet everyone and begin exploring the ways that we'll do things here at Dr. Robert Plaxton. As…