Fitset Ninja!

Here are some pictures from our Fitset Ninja activity!

Have an awesome summer, everyone, and I'll see you back at Ramsay School on August 31!

Indigenous Peoples Day & Summer Solistice

Medicine Wheel art

We had a Community Walk today to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day and Summer Solstice that was on Wednesday. The weather was fantastic and we had a great two hours exploring nature with Ms Harris' class.

Our task was to choose something from the Nature Activity list and work on it with a partner from Ms Harris' Grade Three class. We could choose to spend the whole half hour working on one thing or try lots of different nature activities. We used the space along the river at Enmax Park as our classroom. 

Here are some photos of our work: 

Building homes

Making Nature
Art

After working, we stopped at the Rainbow Trout playground for our recess break then we walked back to the school. 

Some of us saw the merganser ducklings, the osprey carrying sticks to its nest, minnows in the shallow water, a pair of mallard ducks, and mushrooms. 

Time Capsule sharing

Today we shared the time capsule from 1996-1997 by hosting a community event where people could come and look at it. Ramsay classes also toured the exhibit. Some of us were wearing black to act like museum staff members with name tags. 

Two kids from Mrs Kruk's Ramsay's 1997 class came to the school this morning and saw the artifacts and heard our presentations! 

The Time Capsule box had paintings from what the kids thought the past, present, and future looked like. It was held in Ms Kruk's basement for 25 years and she brought it to Ramsay School last spring.

It was exciting that we were able to find some of the original students and the principal from the time. 

"I really liked that we get a gallery walk and that everyone got to be a part of it." ~ Aarav

"I liked the way the artist painted the paintings." ~ Avni

"I really liked seeing what was in the time capsule from the past." ~ Alice

"I really liked that we made it like a museum with nametags." ~ Sage

"I liked how it was open to the public because we did something helping the whole community." ~ Arsh

"I really liked how we got our communication out to four other people from Ramsay School at the time. We did not expect that." ~ Kashvi

Time Capsule Exhibit

Parents, we hope that you can visit the school to see our Time Capsule exhibit/gallery walk tomorrow between the hours of 10-11:30 and/or 1-2. Our class will be "hosting" between 10-10:30 so if you'd like to see your own child, that would be the time to come. 

I'll post pictures later this week in case you can't make it.

Erin

Reminder: Math & Science Quizzes

Students, this is a reminder that you will have your final two quizzes of the year this week. 

For information on the Fractions and Decimals quiz, click here. 

For Science, you know that your quiz will be on Plants. Here are some things you should know to be prepared for the quiz. 

• Identify ways that plants are important to humans
• Provide examples of seed dispersal
• Explain what a seed plant needs to survive
• Explain the job of different plant parts (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, seeds)
• Provide examples of pollinators and explain why pollinators are important
• Use Science vocabulary correctly, such as photosynthesis, chlorophyll, dormant, seed coat, embryo (baby plant in the seed), deciduous, coniferous

If you feel that you need to practice/learn any of this information, check on the Google Classroom under "Science" for many videos and websites we used this month.