Today, we started the day by building our background knowledge in ART.  We learned more about Roy Lichtenstein and his style of pop art.  We discussed elements/principles of art and design that contribute to the look of his work.  This included lines, shapes, colours, and patterns.  We then looked at quality examples to create criteria as a class in order to understand what to shoot for when creating our artwork.  We are looking forward to seeing you go through the learning process with your Lichtenstein-inspired onomatopoeia artwork.  ​

Today we headed straight to the gym got right into our basketball unit. We learned that a  basketball team has three guards in two forward on the floor at a time and worked on the basic game strategy moving into the open space. After recess, we carried on with our class read aloud, Forbidden City, where things are getting heated up in Tiananmen Square with student protesting against government corruption. In math, we use the strategy of building in proportion to figure out percent of numbers. After music in the afternoon we spent some time working on filming our French cooking show presentations. Another great day of learning in beautiful sunny Vancouver.

Today we didn't waste any time getting started. We buckled down and got right into science. We started by going through the ecosystems inquiry write up step by step to make sure students knew exactly what is expected in the write-up. After this, students worked hard up until lunch time, on inputting all their data into a spread sheet which can be used to display the data in many different types of graphs. Students who were finished got started on their write-ups. In the afternoon, we started the French Cooking Show Project. Students were introduced to some basic French phrases, sentence frames and vocabulary used in the kitchen. Students will be writing, planning, performing and filming their cooking shows over the next few weeks. We finished off the day by starting our new class read aloud, Forbidden City by William Bell