Projects, Addition, Word Building, the Fur Trade and more…

Happy weekend!

Personal Interest Projects

📖 “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” — 1 Peter 4:10

Our students are doing great work on their yearlong Personal Interest Projects—learning, creating, and contributing something new to the world! 🌎

Some are taking up crochet and sewing, another is compiling a culturally inspired cookbook, a few are designing a new fashion lines, one is recording a podcast, some are coding a video game and others are learning business skills and engineering solutions to real-world problems.

I can tell this year will be an especially powerful one! What an indescribable blessing it is to witness the joy and new milestones hit each day.

Natural Textures Art

Students are learning some pencil techniques through a project realistically representing 24 textures found in nature.

Homophones and Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words

We have been investigating homophones (your/you’re and there/their/they’re) how words are put together. Over the next week we will focus especially on spelling with the –ed and –ing endings

Real World Math

We have made excellent progress as a class in our multi-digit addition unit using the traditional method, hands on activities with money, and base ten blocks to help anchor understanding. Here is a tutorial video to help home practice…

Students have brought home their addition quizzes and are welcome to rewrite these as many times as they like. We are now focussing on subtraction for the coming week, but we will continue to circle back to addition skills weekly all year.

The Impacts of the Fur Trade

In Social Studies, we have been investigating the impacts of the Canadian fur trade from different perspectives—encouraging students to think critically, act as historians and form their own perspectives. We are working on making a video about this learning.

Bible: Jacob, Joseph, and Moses

In Bible class, we have been working our way through powerful stories in the Old Testament by reading the original text and children’s Bible story versions, discussions, and video. We have been talking about creative ways we could faithfully adapt and dramatize the story of Moses and the plagues of Egypt in our class.

Happy Times…