Welcome Back!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday season! Looking forward to seeing students on Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

Looking Back to December, 2018:

Math:

• Conversion and number line assessment
• improper fractions and mixed numbers

Science:

• Soil analysis
• Footprint analysis
• Chromatography
• Handwriting analysis (Graphology)
• Evidence and Investigation test

Humanities:

• Completion of Ancient Athens unit
• Introduction to Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy unit
• Independent book review presentations to examine genre, character, conflict and connections to a book
• Components of paragraphs (topic sentences, supporting details and concluding sentences)  
• Basic editing skills and proofreading marks

Looking Forward to January, 2018:

Math:

• Improper fractions and Mixed numbers
• Fraction work with fraction blocks and rods

Science:

• Introducing Flight!

Humanities:

• New vocabulary for Haudenosaunee unit
• Using a Historical Timeline to connect Ancient Athens and the Iroquois confederacy
• Watercolour work on 'Tree of Peace'
• Oral storytelling; Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

Important Notes:

• Monday, Jan 7 - PD Day - No school
• Tuesday, Jan 8 - First day back to school after break
• Tuesday, Jan 22 - Branton late French immersion presentation
• Thursday, Jan 31 - Field trip to COP (flight and aerodynamics) - more information and permission forms coming home soon
• Thursday, Jan 31 - Report cards home

Pre-holiday fun photos!

Checking Student Progress on PowerSchool

There has been a lot of confusion about how to check student progress in PowerSchool. We as teachers continue to learn and try different ways of using this tool to communicate, however there are many ways we assess that do not show through Powerschool.

When you log into PowerSchool to view your child's progress, the screen shows all of the courses your child is enrolled in.  The first column is “Semester 1”.  (S1)

To view assignments from now until the first report card, click the small (i) in this column.  This will give more information about the course you want to see. 

If there is one number to the right of the assignment, this is likely not the "mark". This number may just indicate the number of criteria your child was assessed on for a specific assignment.

To see the marks click this blue graph (some assignments do not have outcome marks, they may just have “collected”/”missing”/”late” markers, or only comments.

The small blue speech bubble means there is a comment on the student’s work

Click the word “view” to see the comments and the assignment description