Mrs. Whitney's Gr. 4/5 Class, Archived
276 Lyndhurst Rd K0E 1N0 Lyndhurst, ON, Canada

To all my students .... I wanted you to know I miss seeing your smiling faces each and every day and can’t wait until we are together again. Take care of yourself. Mrs. Whitney

The time and effort put into this art piece for a peer is a true reflection of his importance to us.

We love our superstar and wish him all the best on his new adventure!!!

Super cool... Finished math activity efficiently, then created his own question for his peers, prepared an answer key, arranged copies to be made, marked and assisted his peers in the successful completion of the task. Very impressed!!!

Student-led warm-ups! Thanks Z!

This crew completed their own math activity with such efficiency today that they each created their own ‘Travelling in a Grid’ question and solution. Super impressive!

Congratulations to our poster winners in the Colour Division of the Royal Canadian Legion Remembrance Day Poster Contest!!

Here’s Z’s version created on the computer. Where do the stairs lead????

Today’s mind-bending task .... Create a 3D line design with a staircase. This all encompassing activity used our art, math, media literary skills. Soon, it will also be used as a writing prompt.

Student-led warm-ups! Awesome job!

Research-based Habitat Dioramas What detail! Super impressed!

Snowshoeing fun!!!!

Monday: Pink Shirt Day! Kindness Starts Here!

Principal’s Chair for the day! Great Gritter Award Very well-deserved

Working very hard on our latest masterpieces! Each student is completely engaged in creating a research-based diorama of a different animal in its natural habitat.

Conducting research for authenticity in our habitat dioramas. Total engagement.

Spinner heart fun! These darlings have lots of heart.

Awesome independence today! Students created another one of their own Growing Pattern problems and solution. Everyone did a stellar job!

Even a tetrahedron unicorn!

This morning’s challenge: Construct as many polyhedrons as you can with a variety of materials. We had a lot of outside the cube thinking ... an octadecagonal prism, decagonal pyramid, dodecahedron and cube made with sticky notes. Well done!!!!

Today’s Challenge: Create and solve a growing pattern problem. Use an algebraic expression to solve for Day 50 and Day 100. Everyone rose to the challenge and did an amazing job. These are just two of a class full of wonderful examples!

Everyone just completed their mini-essays on the important of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. Lots of hard work and an abundance of learning!

Awesome work on growing patterns using various materials found around the room!

Challenge: Use patterning knowledge to help sort 16 cards in a 4x4 grid such that each row and column have a different colour and different sticker. Challenge Accepted Challenge Completed

Creative repeating patterns using found classroom materials. Way to go !

This morning we took advantage of the cold temperatures to conduct an experiment inspired by a video clip on The Weather Network on frozen bubbles. We got to watch ice crystal form before our eyes, a little tricky to see in the photo as they are somewhat hidden by our cool reflection. Fun stuff!!

Great collaboration this morning on the creation of mean, median, mode and range problems.

Great job demonstrating the skill of dribbling with head up. Way to go!

Congratulations on winning the Principal’s Chair for the day as part of the GRIT Award! Very well-deserved!

Our latest masterpieces! We were missing a few penguins today so we will repost bulletin board picture when all are complete. Students did an excellent job working through the process today. Special thanks to Mrs. Truyens for all her assistance! Thank you!

Today’s Science task involved working in groups to build and fine-tune a single pulley, gear train and marble run components according to specific criteria so that when they were combined they would produce the following awesome effect ....

Getting ready for an exciting game of Splotch! This game has really improved our throwing and catching skills.

Thank you very much to our classmate and family who made us all special personalized ornaments. It was so thoughtful of you! We will cherish them always.

Happiness is togetherness

Thank you Mr. Irwin for leading us in our annual carol sing this morning! We look forward to this every year!

A little elf-ish today

Ready to rock tonight’s Xmas Concert!!!

Sweet’s Corners ES Junior Students did it! We contributed to a new Guinness World Record for ‘Most People Sport Stacking at Multiple Locations in One Day’. Way to go Cougars!

Our final masterpiece!

Electric Emus !

Awesome application of our work on gear trains!

The beginning of our latest masterpiece.

Thank you for the thoughtful donation!!

Using colour coding today to solidify our understanding of how to organize our ideas when writing a mini-essay.

Teamwork at its best. Partner one-handed stacking!

It wouldn’t be complete without a tetrahedron!

Sport Stacking wrap up!

Lots of Sport Stacking fun today!!!!

We’re geared up for tomorrow as it is STACK UP DAY! We will be doing our part to contribute to a Guinness Book Record attempt of the ‘Most People Sport Staking in Multiple Locations in One Day’. The goal is 635 000 people worldwide. We will be stacking from 1:00-1:45pm. Go Cougars Go!

Lest we forget.

Just a reminder for students to dress very warmly for Monday’s outdoor Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Legion after our school ceremony. Everyone is welcome to join us for our ceremony at Sweet’s Corners ES at 9:30am.

Loving Queen’s Tech ‘n Tinker Trailer! This afternoon’s challenge was building tiny environmentally friendly homes on a budget.

Super cool coding!!!

We were treated to a fabulous workshop this morning presented by Queen’s University Community Outreach Program: CanCode. Our workshop was entitled Ozobot: Search and Rescue and was an introduction to robot engineering, specifically coding robots using colour. What an engaging experience!!!!