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Character Design Showcase!
Characters are Taking Shape!

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Jan 31, 20241 min read


Estimating and Calculating Decimal Amounts and Integers!
Grade 6 students are working on the skills of multiplying decimal amounts, using front-end estimation. Front-end estimation means using...

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Jan 25, 20242 min read


Applied Design Showcase!
From Lego Building to 3D Pop Up Cards, Chase Excels! This month we are featuring Chase and his amazing 3D design brain! He took our...

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Dec 23, 20231 min read


Learning Goals For January
Math: Shape and Space: Location and Movement Grade 6 and Grade 7 students will be working on using coordinate grids to describe locations...

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Dec 23, 20234 min read


Kid's Help Phone/Safety Links
Due to recent RCMP press release, regarding sextortion and suicide of a local 12 year old boy, students will be making sure that they...

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Nov 30, 20231 min read


Learning Outcomes For December
These are the learning goals we will be working on this month

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Nov 25, 20233 min read


Reader's Theater!
Students had a blast this month, reading leveled hilarious plays with interesting twists on familar fairytales. Students practiced using...

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Nov 25, 20231 min read


PUPPETS!!!
So much fun. These puppets are still a "Work in Progress", so keep an eye out for the next post! We are building skills in Fine Arts and...

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Sep 14, 20231 min read


Road Maintenance Required!
Well, it seems our highway lines just were not cutting it! We had our traffic control unit out the other day, so one of our students...

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Feb 2, 20231 min read


Counting Back Money: A lost skill revived!
I do not know how many times a person in the service industry has just handed me my change as a tumbling pile of bills and coins. Yes,...

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Jan 29, 20231 min read


Build Your Own Civilization
What were the environmental and land features that helped Mesopotamia become the "Cradle of Civilization? What features of a society...

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Jan 29, 20231 min read


Helping our Little Buddies Research Community Helpers!
Our Grade 6/7 students have paired up with our Grade 1/2 Little Buddy Class to help students learn to research a question they have about...

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Jan 29, 20231 min read


Economy Unit Begins!
Starting this week our class is beginning a unit on financial economy, which includes information about resumes, seeking employment,...

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Jan 9, 20233 min read


Gummy Bear Science!
Students explored what would happen when they placed gummy bears in different solutions! Using the scientific method students put the...

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Apr 25, 20221 min read


Grade 6/7's Work Till The Bitter End!!
Even in the last week of school before Christmas, Grade 6/7's work like crazy! Not only did students work on vocabulary and connections...

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Dec 15, 20211 min read


Our PAC is AMAZING!
Only at Nukko Lake Elementary would the PAC make Cookie Tray's for all of us AND give us each a Poinsettia! Thank you so much to all our...

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Dec 13, 20211 min read


Little Buddy Snowmen and Gnomes
Div. 5 did a great job making presents for their Little Buddies. Students made sock snowman and gnomes as part of the Core Competency and...

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Dec 7, 20211 min read


Nukko Decorates a Christmas Tree!
We had so much fun helping our little buddies make decorative wool toques for the Hart McDonald's Christmas tree. Students in our class...

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Dec 7, 20211 min read


Do You See Dragons?
Our school staff is just amazing. We might have all decided to buy Dragon Onsies.

hmcgowan
Mar 19, 20211 min read


M&M Math with McGowan
Does you child complain about Math? Well your child completed 2 HOURS STRAIGHT of mathematical thinking yesterday and would have kept...

hmcgowan
Mar 19, 20211 min read
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