Welcome October!

Wow! What a great start to our learning year! Thank-you to all the parents and families that came to our "Open House" this past month. It was great having a chance to meet you, and to put a 'face to the name'! I look forward to seeing you again at our upcoming Tri-Conferences on Oct 16th (eve) and Oct. 17th (a.m.). Booking information will be coming out soon. With our larger numbers in grade 5 this year, we will be altering our normal tri-conference periods to accommodate everyone.




Strong Beginnings

Thank-you to all parents for supporting us again this year with Strong Beginnings. As a teacher, this is an extremely important (and valuable) time to spend 1:1 with your child. The assessment from this will greatly help programming and planning decisions as we move forward. As well, I have received good feedback regarding the new on-line booking system process - hopefully you felt this worked well for you as well.

Read Around the World (Home Reading Program)

Our R.A.W is in full swing! Student's first entries were due today (Mon. Oct. 6th). Remember, for this valuable program to be successful, parents need to be reading with their children often, and signing off on their entries!

Student Calendar

Parents/students who would like a copy of the daily schedule can now access it via this blog. Please check under the right-hand side of the blog for the link!

Upcoming Events

Along with our upcoming Tri-Conferences (no school Oct. 17th full day), there will no school on Monday Oct. 13th (Thanksgiving) and then again on Friday Oct. 24th (S.A.G.E). Teachers will be spending this day involved in a variety of workshops and professional development opportunities around Winnipeg and the periphery. I will be learning how to 'code'. Coding is a burgeoning area of student skill development that I know is becoming more important (and valuable) each day. Perhaps as a result of this training, I will be able to discuss instruction possibilities in this area for L.M students as we move forward. Certainly an interesting area of investigation!

Inquiry Work

5A has begun its work learning how to approach new challenges by learning how to ask better questions. I've always interpreted Inquiry-Based learning as "driving the bus from the back". Students are learning to take greater ownership of what they want to learn, how they want to learn it, and importantly, how to assess what they've done. Students will also learn to reflect, implement changes and re-assess! Our first formal inquiry project will be a student's choice - an area of passion or interest! How exciting!

That's it for now! Looking forward to seeing everyone at Tri-Conferences!