How much fun did you have today 5KP? Was that cool or what?

On the weekend, Simon and I were out at Hotel Indigo’s CHAR restaurant when we were offered not one, not three, but SIX different types of salt to spice up our steak. We chose between Himalayan Pink, Murray River Pink, Cyprus Flake, New Zealand Natural, Bolivian Rose and Fleur de Sel. After taking photos and oohing and aahing we dug in to one of the best steaks we’ve had in a long time, with one of the saltiest array of condiments which was so much fun, considering that the students and I have been learning about salt for the last couple of weeks in science.

I set the students the challenge of writing me a report on what they could discover about a salty situation. One of the favorite sites the kids found was saltworks.us where they were amazed with how many salts there were on offer. The class searched and copied and cut and pasted their way around the net and their blogs for the remainder of the afternoon; calling each over to share in their learning. It was a really great lesson and exciting to see so much engagement over something many of us just take for granted as being there, white and well… salty!

Our learning today will be a terrific complement to our lesson tomorrow where we attempt to saturate a salt solution… stay tuned 5KP Scientists!

In other news…

Many of you are coming out to SAS this Friday night. Here are the bus details that were e mailed to you earlier.

Here are the student led conference times I have for parents so far; please respond to the e mail I sent you confirming your time by Friday.

Thurs April 12th

12:30 – 1:30 – Erika

1:30 – 2:30 – Mia

2:30 – 3:30 – Taeyun, Josh,

3:30 – 4:30 – (My own children’s conferences)

Friday April 13th

12:30 – 1:30 –Annette, Aavia

1:30 – 2:30 – Claire, Sheung Yee, Bevan, Alex L

2:30 – 3:30 – (My own children’s conferences)

Here is a fun Friday photo of our students enjoying their author visit with Kathryn Lasky and her photographer husband Christopher Knight.

Dates for your calendar:

• MAP Testing (Reading) – Wednesday, March 21^st at 8:15
• MAP Testing (Language Usage) – Thursday, March 22^nd at 8:15
• Last day before spring break – Wednesday, March 28^th
• Spring Break – Thursday, March 29^th to Sunday, April 8^th
• Back to School – Monday, April 9^th
• Day Without Shoes – Tuesday, April 10^th
• Transition to Middle School Meeting for students – Wednesday, April 11^th
• Student Led Conferences – Thursday, April 12^th and Friday, April 13^th
• Author Visit –  Kazu Kibuishi – Friday, April 20^th
• Author Visit – Phil Bildner – Tuesday, April 24^th
• Fifth Grade Track and Field Day – Wednesday, April 25^th
• No School for May Day – Monday, April 30 and Tuesday, May 1
• Band and Orchestra concert – Friday, May 11^th
• All Day Field trip to Jinshan Peasant Painting Village – Friday, May 18^th
• Grade 5 Soccer Day – Tuesday, May 22^nd
• Step Up Day – Friday, June 1^st
• Summer Sizzler – Thursday, June 7^th
• Moving Up Day – Friday, June 8^th
• Last Day of School – Tuesday, June 12^th – School closes at 11:30 a.m.