Classroom connections

What's happening in Performing and Visual Arts?

In Performing Arts, students across all year levels have started to rehearse for the big Arts Festival and the Senior Production coming up in both Term 3 and Term 4. Final touches have been added to the scripts and now students are getting ready by practicing their lines, designing their costumes and creating some promotional material such as posters and programs. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to cheer for our students and witness their talents on the two following dates:

• CJC ARTS FESTIVAL (Friday, September 8th)
• SENIOR PRODUCTION (Wednesday, October 25th)

What's happening in Digitec?

Grade 3/4s have been working on their design skills to create these fantastic advertisement posters on Canva. This is part of an ongoing project where students have coded a virtual pet via Make Code to use on the Micro:bits. They have created ‘pet costumes’ for the Micro:bits and next they will record a TV advertisement to sell their toys. Well done everyone!

What's happening in the SLC?

Inquiry in the 5/6 classes / Projet de rechercher ches les CM2 et 6ème

Mardi 11 juillet les élèves de 5/6 ont apporté une paire de gants. Nous les avons mis sur notre main dominante pour nous rappeler que nous ne pouvions plus l’utiliser. Nous avons fait cela pour notre sujet d’Inquiry. Nous travaillons sur l’adaptation humaine et animale. Le travail d'équipe était super, mais manger un kiwi avec une seule main, c’est moins cool ! Dans notre classe, tout le monde devait écrire sur les ardoises et Mme Aubrée nous a fait une démonstration au tableau avec sa main gauche…L'écriture de nos mains non-dominantes n’est pas terrible mais ce pourrait être pire !

-By Ella and Eléa 5D

Our Inquiry topic for this term is Adaptation. We are studying ‘How Living Things Adapt to Change’. 

In order to demonstrate how animals, people and plants adapt, we (the year 5/6 students) did an experiment to get the idea of adaptation and how to adapt. 

What we had to do was: we were not allowed to use our dominant hand (the hand that you write with) for the entire middle block during the school day. To remind us that we weren't allowed to use that hand we wore a glove on our dominant hand. It was really challenging because we had to write and eat with one hand and most of us had to use our mouths at one stage or another!  Even our teacher participated!! The real challenge was not having two hands to use when needed. You’d be surprised how hard it was!!! Simple things like picking up a computer suddenly became really difficult. 

Teamwork was needed to complete most of everyday actions. Tying shoelaces suddenly needed two people at least to make it work. Even eating with one hand was really hard. Overall, it was an enjoyable and challenging activity for everybody. We had great fun trying to adapt and getting used to using one hand, and we strongly recommend it for you to try at home. 

-Philippa and Anais 5D