During one of the first days of our staggered entry, Gage asked if we could learn about the atmosphere. Dude? Heck yeah – let’s do this!!! Once our class was all together, we began determining importance by reading and viewing about the atmosphere. Students wrote and drew and created and played and imagined about this … Continue reading
Our 2J students have been learning about measuring length, so today Ms.J challenged them OR one of their family members to do a standing long jump and measure it using a deck of cards or a different non-standard unit . They followed a series of instructions that included watching video directions, showing their unit of … Continue reading
Along with our IREC Maker Buddies, Mrs.Taylor’s Grade 1 Class, we made a very cool project called 3D Portraits. These sculptures were planned, constructed, assembled, presented, played with, and broken back down to recycling all over the past couple of weeks. Take a look!
Well. That was a near perfect day. The video says it all. I love these kids!!!
What a great last day of school!!! We spent much of it at the Blackfalds Spray Park having a picnic and lots of fun TOGETHER!!! Thank you all for a truly amazing year. I look forward to seeing each in the hallways and in your Grade 3 classrooms in the fall. Have a fantastically fun summer!!! … Continue reading
Over the next several weeks, Iron Ridge Elementary Campus will have our Mission: Impossible obstacle course set up. Students will work on many different skills including experimenting with movement, pathways, stance, and balance. Today was our second day for Mission: Impossible. Here is a video to show some of our “missions”!
So IREC had our Annual Spring Fling school-wide dance today, and it was a blast! Much of March was spent on our dance unit during gym class. Below is a video of our 2Js and 2Ls doing one last practice before our Big Dance! Gr.2Js, please leave a comment about which was your favourite Spring … Continue reading
In gym class today we had a fun, festive relay race! Teams had to run to the middle of the gym, grab a “decoration”, then keep running to the far end of the gym to put their decoration on the “tree” (one of their teammates). Finally each person had to sprint back to the other … Continue reading
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