As a mother and teacher I responded with art today #Honouring215Children on my driveway using soil sifted around my own children’s shoes 215 times❤️ The history is still heartbreaking and appalling. #TRC #KamloopsIndianResidentialSchool #HowManyMore

EVERY CHILD MATTERS 🧡 215 hearts for 215 beautiful souls. Norquay School @WinnipegSD #everychildmatters #215children

While Matt was off-duty from his normal role in gas operations, he rescued a man and his dog whose boat flipped 💪 His bravery has been recognized by the Lifesaving Society, Mayor Brian Bowman, and others. Well done Matt! Full story on our blog: hydro.mb.ca/articles/2021/…

Can you guess our COMPOUND WORDS? @WinnipegSD Norquay School #compoundwords

Late post! SAID IS DEAD! 🪦 One of the favourites from our Halloween activities this year! Students are still loving to remind each other to use more interesting vocabulary! @WinnipegSD Norquay School #winnipegsd

LLAMA TELL YA ABOUT MY NEW FRIEND! This writing project was focused on introductory sentences! Students learned how to write an interview, practised reading and answering interview questions aloud, and recorded their friends’ responses! @WinnipegSD Norquay School #winnipegsd

POSTCROSSING! Today we were excited to receive our 4th postcard - from Salt Lake City, Utah! Postcrossing is always a favourite of mine, and it never fails to authentically teach about the world. 🌎 So far we have received from Germany, Japan, Slovakia and USA! @WinnipegSD

WE ARE LEARNING … 💡The kids love updating our learning goals every few days! This is one quick and easy way to make sure we are on track as a class and aware of the intent of our learning! Norquay School @WinnipegSD #winnipegsd

MATH TALK. We’ve continued using Jamboard as a way to show our learning with the class. Love seeing these different math strategies - multiplication, repeated addition, skip counting 💡Norquay School @WinnipegSD #jamboard

Wow! Louis Riel School Division not only saved their FDK program but have actually expanded it! Come on @WinnipegSD we can’t be the only division that cuts this amazing program! Chris Broughton @ArleneHReid Linda Schatkowsky Jamie Dumont @iJenChen Hon. Wayne Ewasko 🇺🇦 #saveFDK winnipegfreepress.com/local/louis-ri…

We started our milkweed exploration today with the first step - seed germination. We started three different types of milkweed (thanks Dad) and are very excited about the growing process! Norquay School @WinnipegSD #milkweed

ROOM 6’S DISASTROUS WISHES 🧞‍♂️Check out our newest writing project! We used our read aloud as inspiration and wrote our own chapters! So proud of my kids for using so much VOICE and humour in their writing!✏️ Norquay School @WinnipegSD

FRACTION JAMBOARD. Students love using Jamboard to share their observations - it’s (somewhat) anonymous and they can instantly see their ideas displayed for the class! Even my most reserved students were excited to share their fraction learning! Norquay School @WinnipegSD

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Room 6 wrote their own land acknowledgment statements, and created watercolour maps showing the different First Nation and Treaty areas of Manitoba. So proud of them for coming up with such insightful work! Norquay School @WinnipegSD

Good luck to all the amazing teachers back at school this week! Mixed emotions not starting the year or setting up my class, but grateful for extra time with my little one!👶🏼This year’s batch of rock name tags! Names will be added Jan when I’m back! 🫶🏼 @WinnipegSD Norquay School

BEFORE 🪩 AFTER Back from my maternity leave today and was lucky enough to sneak in over the break to spruce up the room! I couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out, and I’m hoping the kids are happy with the change! Welcome back to Room 6! Norquay School @WinnipegSD

FRIDGE-WORTHY WORK 🪩 Our first fridge-worthy student has been chosen! She showed dedication to completing her published work with neat and careful printing and colouring! Every student will have work posted on the class fridge throughout the year to celebrate! Norquay School

ONE WORD FOR KIDS 🪩 Coming back from winter break we read the book “One Word for Kids.” After reading the book, each student decided on one word that would have importance for 2024. Students then made special bracelets that would remind them of their special word! @WinnipegSD

TEN THANK-YOU LETTERS 🪩 After reading “Ten Thank-You Letters” we decided to create our own letters for ten people who deserve a huge thank you! Love the way this project turned out, and how proud the students were to present their letters! ♥️

THANK YOU, WORLD 🌎 Norquay School @WinnipegSD