Hello, 5B families!
What items in nature are safe to use in our crafts?
In Health Education today, students learned to identify a few naturally growing items they may encounter in our school community that pose a safety risk: death cap and amanita muscara mushrooms and poison hemlock.
We talked about the identifying features of these mushrooms and poison hemlock, their lookalikes, the possible life-threatening side effects of their accidental ingestion, the signs of toxicity, and the need to avoid touching these things and protect oneself by hand washing and never eating any foreign items found in nature!
Then in Art class, we contrasted the previous discussion with attention to the many beautiful and safer natural items we can see in our school community, including various fallen leaves, pinecones, sticks, tiny crab apples and more. Students were reminded to always wash their hands after handling things found outside.
We appreciated the beautiful autumn colour scheme, and then students were challenged to use greyscale (white, grey and black) illustration to transform natural items into entirely new concepts.
Enjoy the gallery of artworks below…
In Math class, we have finished our unit on rounding and have been working on comparing and ordering numbers.
In Science, we continue to enjoy students sharing their simple machines projects—a special blog post with all the highlights is coming soon!
Students will also show their learning in this unit through writing a quiz on simple machines tomorrow. (They have had class time and support for studying this content for the last four weeks.)
In Language Arts, students have been finishing up writing projects, adding to their spelling dictionaries and getting prepared for their oral storytelling showcase.
REMINDER…
Students are welcome to wear a costume this Thursday. It needs to be appropriate for school (not scary, no weapons, no masks, safe for playing and sitting at a desk, appropriately sensitive and not insulting to anyone’s culture, race, gender, etc.).
Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
For our school’s Halloween Howl event in the gym this Thursday afternoon, students may bring a flashlight–but it is not necessary to do so.
Tiffany Poirier 