June 26, 2019- Summer is here!

Hope you all have a wonderful summer!  Please see the note below about watering the plants.

Hello friends and family of Dr. E. W. Coffin School,

We are still looking for volunteers to help us out over the summer months to water our plants that are in our gardens outside.  If you can help us out, please see our watering schedule to sign-up for a date that works for you.  We need watering of the Sun Circle garden and of our new(er) aspen trees.  Please use this link to register:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A45ADA92BA2FA7-summer

We will send specific watering instructions after you have signed up. If you have any questions about watering, please contact Larysa and Miho at drcoffinenvironment@gmail.com

Thank you!

Larysa and Miho (parent volunteers)

June 24, 2019- Sports Day and Wonderland and Wembley

Agenda:

• Year end assembly Tuesday at 9:00am
• Report cards go home Wednesday
• Half day next Wednesday- dismissal at 12:00pm

June 21, 2019- The First Day of Summer

Agenda:

• Sports Day Monday morning
• Year end assembly Tuesday at 9:00am
• Report cards go home Wednesday
• Half day next Wednesday- dismissal at 12:00pm

What did we learn today?

• During social studies, we learned about the treaties, and how the government of Canada promised the First Nations people land, hunting and fishing rights, schooling and food if they moved to reserved areas.  Ms. Jones read us a story about residential schools and how it affected the children who went there.
• Sa'akokoto came to visit, and he spoke to us about the importance of the summer solstice and then he told us the story of Thunder and why his people still celebrate it today. 

June 20, 2019- Bar graph time

Agenda:

• We will not be going to Nosehill Park tomorrow, but please be dressed to go outside for a small amount of time.
• Sports Day Monday morning
• Year end assembly Tuesday at 9:00am
• Report cards go home Wednesday
• Half day next Wednesday

June 19, 2019- Bye bye music :( and science.......

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• This Friday we are hoping to enjoy our last Fresh Air Friday up on Nose Hill. Saakokoto will be with us and will share stories of the land and Summer Solstice with each class. We require volunteers for the walk to Nose Hill. If you are able to volunteer, please let me know. We are also planning to have some fun activities up on the hill. We will head up to Nose Hill at 9 AM and return by 11:30.
• Sports Day Monday morning
• Year end assembly Tuesday at 9:00am
• Report cards go home Wednesday
• Half day next Wednesday

What we did today:

• Mr. O'Reilly was subbing for Ms. Cowdy today in computer lab.  We had to work on either Raz-Kids or Mathletics.
• In music, we shared about our favourite parts of music this year.  Then we had the most INTENSE game of Freeze Dance ever!  We dance to the music while it was playing, but then when he paused the music we had to turn into stone.....if we didn't we were out..... We  also got gummies! :)
• In gym, we played continuous dodgeball.  If you were hit, you went to the other team's side and played for them.
• We had our last day of science today.  We compared our car with someone else's and looked at their strengths and weaknesses.  After that, we decided which of the two cars had the better design and why.  Ms. Jones wanted us to use strong scientific words such as durability and balance. 

June 18, 2019- Revenge of the dodgeballs!

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Treat Day tomorrow- bring 25¢
• Transition Day tomorrow from 9-10 am.  Students changing rooms next year will be visiting new classrooms and their teachers.
• This Friday we are hoping to enjoy our last Fresh Air Friday up on Nose Hill. Saakokoto will be with us and will share stories of the land and Summer Solstice with each class. We require volunteers for the walk to Nose Hill. If you are able to volunteer, please let me know. We are also planning to have some fun activities up on the hill. We will head up to Nose Hill at 9 AM and return by 11:30.

What we did today:

• In social, we continued to learn about the Francophones in Alberta.  We looked at a French website.  Ms. Jones also read us a legend about the Flying Canoe. We also learned there is a festival based on that story.  We also saw a news story about how there is a French section in Calgary.
• In math, we learned about pictographs and how to read them.  We were given questions to solve based on them.  If we weren't finished, we worked on our geometrocity districts, but if we were done we made our our pictograph question.
• In gym, we played revenge dodgeball.
• The grade 3's and 4's separated this afternoon to learn about different lifecycles.  The 3's are researching animals, while the 4's are learning about puberty.

June 17, 2019- How many names can you see?

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Treat Day Wednesday- bring 25¢
• Transition Day this Wednesday from 9-10 am.  Students changing rooms next year will be visiting new classrooms and their teachers.
• This Friday we are hoping to enjoy our last Fresh Air Friday up on Nose Hill. Saakokoto will be with us and will share stories of the land and Summer Solstice with each class. We require volunteers for the walk to Nose Hill. If you are able to volunteer, please let me know. We are also planning to have some fun activities up on the hill. We will head up to Nose Hill at 9 AM and return by 11:30.

What we did today:

• In music, we submitted our songs on GarageBand to Mr. O'Reilly.  Next year, we will be making a playlist with all the songs.
• In art, we worked on our name kaleidoscope art.  They needed to be symmetrical and coloured with our best colouring techniques.  We could use both markers and pencil crayons.
• During computer lab, we were assigned Mathletics, where we started statistics and probability.
• In math, our geometrocity is coming along!  Some districts are finished and many are close to being finished.  We will be starting a new math unit tomorrow.

June14, 2019- The Trading Post (What will you give me for this musket/ beaver pelt?)

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Grade 4's letter sent home about upcoming health lessons- they start Monday
• Grade 6 students will be writing PAT exams Monday morning
• Treat Day Wednesday

What we did today:

• After having time to work on our cereal boxes, we played a fur trader game in the class, which took most of the day.  After being split into either trade merchants or First Nations, we rolled dice to see which goods/ animal pelts we would be taking to the trading post.  After trading twice with different groups, we added up our points to see which traders earned the most money/ prestige.

June 13, 2019- Cars! Roll Out!

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Bring library books back to school asap
• Grade 4's letter sent home about upcoming health lessons- they start next week
• Grade 6 students will be writing PAT exams this week first thing in the morning, please try to be on time.
• Fresh Air Friday tomorrow

What we did today:

• In science, we tested our cars for the second time after we had made changes to see if they succeeded in moving them farther than the last test.  Then we completed a trial log and evaluate our car prototype.
• Ms. Jones continued to read from the story Holes.  Stanley dug his first hole in the lake and he was given his new nickname: Caveman.  We also found out that the lizards at the lake were deadly.
• For gym, Ms. Jones allowed us to have free play outside out on the compound and playground since the grade 6's were writing and we need to be quiet.
• We had buddies today.  Once they logged in they were able to choose what they wanted to go on.

June 12, 2019- Cars...get ready to roll out!

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Bring library books back to school asap
• Sun Circle Kick-Off Event after school from 3:30-5pm .  The School Council’s Environment Committee will be hosting a variety of activities in the natural spaces surrounding Dr. Coffin School.  Treats and activities such as a scavenger hunt, orienteering, and planting your own seeds from home will occur. 
• Grade 6 students will be writing PAT exams this week first thing in the morning, please try to be on time.
• Fresh Air Friday this Friday

What we did today:

• In science, we had to finish up our cars for tomorrow's second trial.  If we were finished, we put our car into the "garage".  We then had extra time to finish our social postcards and cereal box book projects.
• In computer lab, we did Raz-Kids.
• For social studies, we had another class to work on our postcards about a Francophone town in Alberta.  We needed to add how the town was named and two interesting facts about it.
• In gym, we played kickball with new teams.
• In music, we worked on completing our songs. If we were finished, we did a write up about the song.

June 11, 2019- Build a Car, Part 2.0

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Bring library books back to school asap- first class that does so receives an ice cream party June 20
• tomorrow– 3:30 pm to 5 pm – Sun Circle Kick-Off Event.  The School Council’s Environment Committee will be hosting a variety of activities in the natural spaces surrounding Dr. Coffin School.  Treats and activities such as a scavenger hunt, orienteering, and planting your own seeds from home will occur. 
• Grade 6 students will be writing PAT exams this week first thing in the morning, please try to be on time.

What we did today:

• In science, we did a write up about our first car trial, stating how it worked and what we needed to change to make it travel a farther distance.  Then we had time to make those changes as we will be testing the cars again on Thursday.
• In library, Mrs. Kidd read us a story about a girl who was making the most magnificent thing.  She had many failures, but she did not quit.  When she thought she would never be able to, she went for a walk with her dog, which gave her a new perspective.
• Ms. Jones read us some of the story Holes. We found out more about the story of Stanley's good for nothing, pig-stealing, great, great grandfather.  Stanley is also working with blistered hands and has more digging ahead of him.
• During computer lab, some of us finished our stories while the rest of us did Mathletics.

June 10, 2019- We want an ice cream party...bring your books back!!

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Bring library books back to school tomorrow- first class that does so receives an ice cream party June 20
• Bring any extra supplies you might need to improve your vehicle for science tomorrow
• Wednesday, June 12, 2019 – 3:30 pm to 5 pm – Sun Circle Kick-Off Event.  The School Council’s Environment Committee will be hosting a variety of activities in the natural spaces surrounding Dr. Coffin School.  Treats and activities such as a scavenger hunt, orienteering, and planting your own seeds from home will occur. 
• Grade 6 students will be writing PAT exams this week first thing in the morning, please try to be on time.

What we did today:

• We played kickball today outside.  We went from 3 outs to a one out before the teams switched places on the field.
• In Daily 5, most of us worked on our cereal box book reports, which has a summary, rating and "ingredients".  Other groups had guided reading or they had time to finish their stories.
• In language arts, Ms. Jones read us some of the story Holes. The main character Stanley now has a bed in Tent D and has met his roommates, that all have strange nicknames.
• During computer lab, Ms. Cowdy tested us on our timed basic facts.

June 5, 2019- Visitez Postcards

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Bring empty cereal box to school
• No school Friday

What we did today:

• We didn't have music today because Mr. O'Reilly went to outdoor school.  We will be having it tomorrow instead.
• In social we started by mapping the Francophone towns in Alberta.  We noticed many of them are in the central Alberta.  Then we chose one town to do some research on.  We are making a postcard with three facts about the town and how they were named.
• In gym, we played another game of kickball and we were put into different teams again.
• In math, we worked on our geometrocity districts.  We also had to answer a number of adding and subtracting decimal questions.
• During computer lab, we had to finish our cars which we will be testing tomorrow.  We also had time to work on our stories and then we did Mathletics.

June 4, 2019- The Voyage is Over, the French are here!

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Bring empty cereal box to school
• Whole school picture form due tomorrow

What we did today:

• In computer lab, we had time to work on either Raz-Kids or our stories.  We had Mr. O'Reilly teaching us.
• In math, we were given our city districts to plan. We had to make sure our roads will connect, and we all had different checklists to use.  Each checklist had different shapes and buildings according to the district.
• In gym, we played another game of kickball and we were put into different teams.
• We had our second last library class.  All books are due back next week.
• At the end of the day, we watched the rest of the voyageur video and Ms. Jones talked about the missionaries and why they came to Alberta.  We also discussed all the Alberta towns named after French missionaries and we chose one will learn more about.

June 3, 2019- Lines of Symmetry

Agenda:

• Read 20 minutes
• Bike to School day tomorrow
• Bring empty cereal box to school
• Whole school picture form due Wednesday

What we did today:

• In art, we did a symmetrical art project, where we had to fold a square piece of paper into either two or four lines of symmetry.  We then wrote our name in one triangle and Sharpie it.  When we folded it again, we could trace the letters to make them match.
• In math, Ms. Jones introduced the Geometrocity project to us, where we will be responsible for building a part of a city using nets and different shapes.  We had to complete a Show What We Know about shapes to show Ms. Jones we will be responsible engineers for the job.
• In gym, we started a new unit of kickball.  We were split into two teams and had turns being in field or as batters.
• During language arts, we edited our stories for too much detail, proper endings and with putting our story elements into different paragraphs.