May 6, 2015

Many of us wore hats today to honor Mental Health Awareness Day.  We took some time today to reflect on thinking about what mental health means.  We also explored how positive and negative thoughts impact our actions and how we feel about ourselves.

We spent some time working on our inquiry reports and tomorrow will be our last day to work on completing the rough copy.  The rough copy will be due on Monday so that we are prepared to go onto the next step. In the afternoon, we began working on our projects.  It is exciting to begin this step of the process and we look forward to having the opportunity to share all our projects during our Celebration of Learning in June.

Next week we are beginning a project with our grade 1/2 buddies to explore mason bees further.  As part of our work with the mason bees we will be creating really cool mason bee houses.  Each student will require a tin can(e.g.soup can) that is clean, label off and no sharp edges as well as recycled newspapers.  We will be collecting the tin cans and newspapers over the next 2 weeks.

A very big thank you to all our parent volunteers.  The school had the volunteer tea this morning as one way to express our gratitude for our parent volunteers.  We greatly value all the parents that help in so many different ways!