Melissa Burns

We played Battleship today to practice our coordinate grids in math. 🛳️

We had a great Halloween! 🎃 we did a mummy competition, pumpkin bowling 🎳, pumpkin slingshot, and pumpkin trampoline.

We teamed up with @LetsTalkScience to code a cup stacking challenge while we engaged in computational thinking.

We are matching, comparing, converting, and ordering fractions in so many ways!

We listened to a fascinating presentation by NASA astronaut Colonel Terry Virts today. It was so interesting to hear first hand what it takes to be an astronaut and what it’s like to be in space. 🚀👨‍🚀

We used Oreos to represent phases of the moon today. 🌚

Thank you to @EBTSOYP and Ashwin Vasavada for an awesome learning opportunity about the Mars Rover. Ashwin works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory @NASA as a senior scientist. What a cool experience for @StirlingPS students! @HPEschools

We cheered for the Blue Jays today and supported Mrs. Reid’s favourite player. @BlueJays ⚾️ Maybe next year. 😞

We added to the school-wide chain of hearts to represent our learning about Orange Shirt Day.

We are working on showing each other empathy in health class. These brave students presented their empathetic conversation to the class.

We had a great grammar lesson today based on a tweet made by Patrick Mahomes about Aaron Rodgers’ injury. 🏈

We played integer war today. The students really had to focus on which card was actually higher based on the rules. 🃏

Congratulations to Brody and Maddison who won the grade 6 hardworking student awards this year!

Yes days continued…ice cream party at Stirling General Mercantile!🍦

Up next in our week of fun - Ganaraska Tree Trekking! The students had a great time climbing, zipping, and swinging through the trees. 🌲

We made tye dye and went to Henry Street Park today.

Adella spoiled us today with Dooher’s Donuts! 🍩

We had the Great Grade 6 Egg Drop challenge today! Students designed and built a parachute applying the forces of flight to carry their egg safely to the ground. There were some great designs and also some broken eggs. 🥚 🪂

Stirling students did a great job at the school group track and field meet yesterday. Everyone tried their best and many will be moving on to the district championship.

We held the Airplane Extravaganza today! ✈️ Students used their knowledge of the principles of flight to create 5 different airplanes. There were awards for furthest flight and best decorated.