Sugar Skulls and Coding

Over the past week, we've been working on drawing sugar skulls.  Students have done a beautiful job of participating in the creation of these beautiful, haunting skulls.  The following video gives a quick tutorial on how to draw a sugar skull:

I Can Haz Draw - Sugar Skulls

We also began coding today - coding is computer programming, and students are using logic and problem solving to design a set of commands to move characters through mazes. Please click on the link to the right to see what it's all about!  Students are welcome to use code.org both at school and at home.

I would also like to take this chance to congratulate our award winners for this month!  Kylah and Vito received the Character Awards for Cooperation and Lauryn received the Falcon Award for academic excellence. Congratulations!

Enjoy the weekend!
Miss Skelton

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Peer Awareness & updates

Hi everyone,

I hope you've all been enjoying this beautiful October weather!  What a wonderful year we've had so far!

We were fortunate enough to have Shelly from Kinark in today to do a Peer Awareness session with our students, to help them understand how students with sensory sensitivities might perceive various tasks.  Please talk to your child about his or her favourite activity from this morning:
- skipping with yarn
- completing a puzzle together without talking
- reading and writing with glasses that have the lenses scratched up
- stringing beads while wearing gardening gloves

Our students were able to recognize how frustrating it might be to struggle with some of these items for a short time.  Our hopes are that they will be more empathetic toward students who may struggle with these sensory issues on a more regular basis. Thank you to our students for participating in such an active way! For pictures, please see the Remind feed at the right of the blog (or join us on remind and get the pics and updates as they happen!).

I've had some inquiries about our schedule, and would like to clarify a few items:
- with the addition of so many students and classes to our school, we will have an alternating Gym schedule with two Gym periods in Week A and one Gym period in Week B (this is to maximize the gym use for all 35+ classes).This week, we will have Gym in the first period on Day 2 and Day 3.  Next 5-day cycle we will have Gym in the first period on Day 2 only.
- a new (and hopefully relatively finalized!) schedule will be coming home in the next week.

Please remember to send in Dance-a-thon permission and pledge forms!
Also, tomorrow's a PD day, so students get to stay home :)

Have a great day,
Miss Skelton

October is here!

Hi everyone,

It's hard to believe, but October is already here!  I'm happy to say that students have settled into our new 5/6 well, and that every other teacher that comes into our class says it's a delight to be there :)  I'm already loving my students, but they've all been mine for a while, so I have a good excuse!

Before I mention our upcoming events and activities, I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who attended our Meet-The-Teacher night. It was wonderful to meet you, and if you weren't able to make it, I look forward to meeting you in the future!

If you haven't signed up for a conference time in November (after the progress reports go home), please contact me either through Remind or via email at sskelton@scdsb.on.ca.

We have a few things coming up this week:
Monday, October 3 -  weekly multiplication quiz;  spirit-wear day (wear Falcon clothes or green & black, our school colours); character ed assembly at 11:45 (which our students are presenting at/performing in, so if you'd like to join us, please do!)
Tuesday, October 4 - Officer Rob will be here to talk about Internet Safety
The rest of the week looks normal for now, but there's always something interesting that comes up at Fieldcrest, so look for updates!
Wednesday, October 5 - for those participating, the Cross Country meet

We've finished celebrating September's character trait of "caring", and we are now moving onto October's trait of "cooperation". Please talk to your child about the importance of this character trait!

Just a little to think about!

Have a great week,
Miss Skelton :)