Our general approach to teaching is to understand and have children recognize the various talents, strengths, backgrounds and learning styles that each child has.

We then build on those through postive reinforcement to help every child reach his or her potential in both academic and social areas.

The children will do many guided and hands-on activities and projects that are done as a whole class, in small groups, in pairs and individually.

Nutrition and Digestion

Storytelling

Reducing, Reusing, Recycling garbage

Communications using the telephone, the post and the internet

Sound

Exploring space and the solar system

-in small groups according to levels

-as a whole class shared experience using posters, overhead transparencies and big books.

-in pairs for books on unit topics

-individual and shared free reading

-in mixed groups to research unit topics

comprehension strategies

journals on chosen topics or free topics

-poetry

-word and sentence scrambles and games

-note-taking

-factual paragraphs

-grammar (punctuation, capital letters, compound words, contractions etc,.) through whole class editing sessions, individual writing and occasional worksheets.

-spelling - word families, high frequency words

-joined writing based on Nelson series

-personal letters

-writing process (rough draft, editing, final copy)

-review of last year's work

-numbers to 1000 and beyond

-number sequences

-adding and subtracting single and double digit numbers

-concept of multiplication

-0, 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 mulitpication facts

-basic division

-geometry

-measurement/weight

-time to the 5 minute interval

-graphing

-estimation

-fractions

All taught through math games, manipulatives, mental math, whole class problem solving, small group work, Abacus workbooks and additional teacher and publisher made worksheets.

homework, water bottles, book folders/yellow reading logs, blue library bags,green Wednesday folders, P.E track suits, whole school book club sales, swimming until end of January, I.T, behaviour.