Ocean Mural and Last Week!

Summer Reading Programs at the GVPL

I've kept the students busy with academics and our regular routines (with the exception of June end of the year events) to the bitter end :-) It keeps them calmer, focussed, and gives a sense of normalcy for students who benefit from structure.

In the last 2 weeks the class has worked with shapes, geometry, tangrams, and fractions in Math.



They are enjoying it and really focussed. We've used drawings and colour in each lesson, making fractions easier to understand and hopefully laying a good foundation for grade 5.



Mrs. S's sample



Students also completed AMAZING animal art paintings on black paper that went home today in each student's art folder. Please have a look through your child's art folder with them. There is a year's worth of creative, colourful, and artistic projects in there!

Each student should be incredibly proud of themselves for increasing their artistic ability this year. Some students started the year drawing stick men, and now have the confidence and ability to draw realistic drawings (as seen in their animal art this month!), and make their own artistic pieces.

The animal art also finished our Science unit on Animal Habitats.

For the past week, students have helped work on our class's Ocean Mural in the stairwell.

Everyone who wanted to contribute by painting has and we'll continue to work on the mural this week. Thank you to Mr. Wilson who drew the mural and will finish the work after my last day.

This afternoon was Fun Day, with stations of games outside and icecream in the classrooms at the end of the day. It was a fun afternoon.

Tomorrow is my last day teaching the class. I may stop in later in the week too.

This was my 5th year teaching, 8th if you count my years as a preschool teacher and ESL teacher overseas, yet I have probably learned as much from teaching this class as they have learned from Mr. Wilson and I this year. Thank you for teaching me so much.

We have had a lot of fun this year but there are 2 things that I hope students take with them:

You can do anything if you have a positive attitude and decide to give it your best shot. Also, Mr. Wilson and I believe in you.

Ok, one more: READ as much and as often as you can. It is the key to future success in school :-)

See you tomorrow,
Mrs. Schneider