This collection of pictures showcases just a sample of the activities that the students of Sprucewood are involved with. These activities are completed as resource-based learning opportunities, prepared by the teacher and teacher-librarian.

These pictures will be updated on a regular basis. Great job everyone!

Resource Areas Throughout our School...

Computer Room

This room is operated by a thin-client server and houses 34 units. All teaching is conducted through MultiPoint Dashboard. Work completed in this room reflects specific curriculum objectives and theme-related ideas for project-based learning.

Makerspace-Learning Commons

This room houses a wide range of resources and supports everything that we can tinker and make. As well, a large collection of fiction and non-fiction titles can be found here.

Green Room

This room is our audio-visual suite. Here we use tele-a-prompters and green screens to create videos. In the second portion of the room, we use an editing suite to make our video cuts into a production.

On-Going Projects...

In this assignment, the students in Ms. Rowsell's grade 5 group completed a study on native birds in our area. The class was provided with a collection of unfinished birdfeeders. From there, their art classes evolved into a think tank in which groups were allowed to explore and eventually paint their design. In the computer room, our groups collaborated to research various species of birds native to our area. From here, we designed infographics and mounted them on wooden displays next to our birdhouses. These birdfeeders are being fastened to trees in our school's nature trail. This is where this component was born. The children have created a detailed website for each infographic. On the trail, access to this website will be provided through QR codes. Enjoy!

Peacemaker Presentation.mp4

Peacemakers

The grade 6 class

Student Work Spotlight

Our grade four classes are currently reading the novel City of Ember. One of our activities associated with this novel will involve creating & designing movie posters to support their job-description videos. This video will follow a job interview style and will involve each student creating supporting text to describe their talents for each job.

In preparation for the movie poster creation, we have been teaching poster design to the students. We began with an exemplar and provided graphics. Then we moved into a winter activity theme poster, where each child was challenged to apply the skills learned in the first activity to independently create their own.

Each student was asked to choose two specific winter activities and include the following:

what to bring,
when it will take place,
where we will be going,
how we will get there and
why we are doing this....to have fun!

Book of the Week

I Survive Series (Collection #1-4)

The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times bestselling series!

When disaster strikes, heroes are made.

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in the thrilling I Survived series

In this collection, witness unforgettable kids who, against all odds, survived sinking ships, shark attacks, the most destructive hurricane to hit North America, and the bombing that launched the United States into World War II.

Referenced from Scholastic

Author of the Week

Lauren Tarshis

Lauren Tarshis is the author of several children's books, including fiction, non-fiction, and historical fiction works.

She is the author of the New York Times Bestselling series I Survived. These books are very fast-paced historical fiction writings for children in grades 3–5. The purpose of these books is based on historical disasters. However, what makes them very informative is the perspective she provides from that of a boy or girl who lived to tell the tale.

App/Extension of the week

OrbitNote

Teachers can easily convert printed text into a PDF with our one-click OCR scanning technology. OrbitNote then takes care of everything else, ensuring that students have access to the tools they need, such as text to speech, highlighting, vocabulary support and everything they need to succeed - across all class content.