Loved the way these tin foil sculptures turned out! Ss were so creative and chose a pose from an activity they are passionate about. They demonstrated an understanding of proportion of body parts.

We have been talking a lot about stress, healthy and unhealthy ways to deal with stress and how it can impact our mental health. Today, Ss made some ‘Destress toolkits.’ What is your favourite way to destress?

Representing patterns visual helps us to see the patterns that emerge. Students were given the 3rd term of a pattern and asked to create the first 5 terms. Great 💡 and 💭!!

Join our Parent Involvement Committee and Dr Shimi Kang on March 29th, who will be sharing information and resources under the topics of mental wellness, parenting and community support. ⁦@oodps1⁩ eventbrite.ca/e/parent-educa…

Students have been writing about topics they are passionate about to try and convince their reader of their position on the topic. Its great to see so many students choosing to write about topics we have been discussing throughout our year and making connections to our learning.

On Friday, Ss used stop watches to time their partner is different activities. Ss then practiced how to say decimal numbers properly, which allow us to visual the value. 10.45= ten and forty-five hundredths (10 45/100)

On May 5th and 6th, Oodenawi students will be participating in Jump Rope for Heart! Ss hope to meet a fundraising goal of $3000. Register online and join Oodenawi in this awesome event to support Heart & Stroke! @oodps1 Heart & Stroke #jumpropeforheart

An ‘Egg’cellent way to start off the 4 day weekend!

Making connections to inferencing in our everyday lives and how we interpret explicit and implied messages. These unlearn. posters are so through provoking and powerful.

Way to go @oodps1! We have almost reached the half way point to our goal. We will be jumping to support Heart & Stroke on May 6th! Keep fundraising and working on those healthy habits! Register at JumpRopeForHeart.ca. There are also some awesome prizes to be won!

Ss were given a book summary and asked to design what they thought the front cover looked like and what the title of the book was. Ss then shared their reasons with the class, before revealing the actual books. These are the 6 books we will be using for Book Clubs!

Today we had the opportunity to learn more about our government with the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Such an informative session!

Remember @oodps1, our #JumpRopeForHeart day is coming up on May 6th! So many fun activities to get our hearts pumping! If you can, consider a donation to the Heart & Stroke support.heartandstroke.ca/site/TR?fr_id=…

Today we did our first data talk! Such rich talk occurred because of this- noticing, inferences, discussions about samples and population and how result might be different if the population changed. Great resources by ⁦Jo Boaler⁩ for interpreting data!

Skipping, parachute games, dribbling and basketball; some of the activities that got our ♥️ pumping during day 1 of our #JumpRopeForHeart fundraiser for Heart & Stroke. Way to go @oodps1!! F22_Jump_ON_CentralWest: Oodenawi Public School - Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Today in class we discussed the serious issue of food insecurity in Northern Communities in Canada. Ss were shocked to see the price differences. We discussed why these communities are facing food insecurities, what role the different levels of gov. have, & potential solutions.

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It felt so good to be back at Jr. Relay! The ☀️ was shining, our ❤️ were beating, and 😃 were everywhere. Thanks so much HDSB Elem HPE & Athletics for an awesome event day! Way to go, @oodps1 🦅 Eagles!

If you have Ss who love paper folding, give this art a try! Radial relief sculptures from Art with Mrs. Nguyen was a huge hit! All these creative designs with only 3 folds! docs.google.com/presentation/d…

The Student Vote Ontario results are in! 252,680 students cast ballots from 1,672 schools province-wide. #FutureVoters #onpoli Student Vote