Have a Great Summer!

☀️ What a Year!

What a year it has been! We learned so much, tried new things, made memories, and had lots of fun along the way. 📚✨

We are so proud of how much we have grown and all the challenges we faced together. We laughed, learned, helped each other, and made so many special memories.

A special goodbye to our friends moving on to Grade 5! 💛 We will miss having you in our classroom, but we are so excited to see all the amazing things you will accomplish. Remember to keep being kind, curious, and confident, and always believe in yourself. We know you are ready for this next adventure!

As we head into summer, we are excited for sunshine, adventures, and lots of fun! ☀️😎

Have a wonderful summer, everyone! We’ll see you in the fall! 

Seed Survivor Comes to School! 🌻🌱

We had an exciting day when the Seed Survivor trailer came to our school! We learned all about seeds, plants, and fossils through fun, hands-on activities. We discovered how plants grow, what they need to survive, and why plants are so important to our world.

One of our favourite parts was planting our very own sunflower seeds! 🌻 We can’t wait to watch them grow and see how big they get.

We also got to be designers and engineers! We followed the design process to create models of landscapes that could prevent erosion. We tested our ideas, made changes, and worked together to figure out what designs worked best.

It was a fantastic day filled with science, teamwork, creativity, and discovery! 🌱🔎 We had so much fun learning by doing!

Our Field Trip to Mennonite Heritage Village!

Last week, our class went on an exciting field trip to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach! It was like stepping back in time and getting to see what life was like many years ago.

We explored lots of old houses, barns, churches, and schools. One of the coolest buildings we saw was a grass-roofed semlin! We learned that people used buildings like these for storage and other important jobs.

There were so many interesting things to see outside, too. We saw antique tractors, cars, trucks, and even an old firetruck! It was amazing to see how different vehicles looked compared to the ones we use today.

One of the biggest highlights was getting to climb up on a windmill. We could see so much from up high! It was definitely an experience we won't forget.

Of course, we can't forget the General Store! Getting to go inside and buy candy was a favourite part of the day. There were so many treats to choose from, and it was fun to experience what shopping might have been like in the past.

Our trip to Mennonite Heritage Village was a great way to learn about history while having fun with our classmates. We saw, explored, climbed, and learned so much. It was a field trip we will remember for a long time!

🏅 Winter Olympics Bobsled Challenge! 🛷❄️

We celebrated the Winter Olympics with an exciting hands-on engineering challenge! 🥇 We became engineers and were challenged to design, build, and test our very own toy bobsleds.

We started by creating our designs and then worked together to build our bobsleds. Once they were ready, we took them to the track to see how well they would race! 🛷💨

Some of our bobsleds worked really well, while others needed a few changes. We tested, made modifications, and tried again to see if we could improve our designs.

We learned that engineers don’t always get things right the first time. Sometimes, the best way to solve a problem is to try, change, and try again!

It was a fun day filled with creativity, teamwork, problem-solving, perseverance, and STEM learning! 🛷🏆

Festival du Voyageur

Our class had a fantastic time learning about and celebrating Festival du Voyageur, a special Winnipeg tradition that celebrates French-Canadian and Métis history and culture.

We enjoyed learning about the voyageurs, exploring the sights and sounds of the festival, and experiencing some of the traditions that make this event so special. Of course, one of the highlights was enjoying maple taffy (tire sur la neige)—a sweet treat made by pouring warm maple syrup onto snow and rolling it onto a stick! 🍁

It was a fun-filled day of history, music, culture, and hands-on learning, giving us a chance to experience an important part of Manitoba’s heritage while having lots of fun along the way!

Cookies Through Time

 

Although the K-5 Christmas Concert had to be cancelled to due school closures and inclement weather, the students still wanted to show off all of their hard work! The grade 5 actors that are featured (and worked so hard memorizing all of their lines!) in this show are Landon Rivard, Tennessee Koop, Mila Berg, Piper Peters, and Skylar Bleznuk-Zary. Thank you to the staff that helped and supported our students in creating this show and (almost) making it happen. 

Celebrating Charlotte's Web! 🕷️🐷

We have been reading the wonderful book Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, and we loved following the friendship between Wilbur and Charlotte! As we read the story, we talked about what makes someone a good friend. We learned that good friends are kind, caring, supportive, and always willing to help when someone needs them.

We also became spider experts! 🕷️🔎 We researched spiders and discovered some really interesting facts about these amazing creatures. We learned about their characteristics, where they live, how they make their webs, and why spiders are important to our world.

When we finished the book, we celebrated with a movie afternoon and some amazing snacks inspired by Charlotte’s Web! 🐷🍿🕸️ It was so much fun to watch the story come to life and enjoy some special treats together.

Reading Charlotte’s Web taught us an important lesson that we will remember: true friendship means caring about others, helping them, and being there for them no matter what.