Dear Parents,
We hope you enjoy a restful break. We appreciate your support over the past months and look forward to an amazing new year when your child returns to the classroom in January. We have a field trip to the Glenbow that first Friday back. There is a form on Powerschool that needs to be signed and we could use some volunteers. Please email [email protected] or sign up on Better Impact. When we return from the break we will also be welcoming 2 student teachers, from Mount Royal University, into our classrooms. They will be with us until April 9th. Mr. Fong will be joining Mr. Sonico and Mrs. Sterling will be in with Mrs. Stevenson. The students have met both teachers and we look forward to the partnership. Important Dates Dec. 21- Jan. 5 - Winter Break Jan. 6 - Classes Resume Jan. 10 - Glenbow Museum - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - Please email your child’s homeroom teacher if you’re interested. Peace Festival and #12daysofcreativity: Students enjoyed several Peace Festival events. We watched “Wild Constructs” on Monday, skated on Tuesday, and enjoyed the Parnival on Wednesday. Students have also used their creativity to complete several holiday challenges. They have used their ipads to create snowglobes, animated cards and mini movies. Some even tried out garageband and wrote songs. Many of these mini projects can be viewed on Seesaw. Humanities: Students spent some time wrapping up some tasks for the Amazing Race this week. We did some review work with longitude and latitude. We started our Mock Caldecott Unit and read several books that have won the medal. We searched for evidence in each book that meet the Caldecott criteria. Once we are familiar with what award winning books look like, we will examine books that are eligible for this year’s award and see if we can predict the winner. Math & Science: Students worked on an assignment where they had to predict what areas in a given space - a classroom, for example - would be warm or cool and provide a reason behind their hypothesis. Then, we used our observations this week about the weather to inquire and discuss what chinooks are and what causes them. In math, multiplication quiz results were given; re-tests will be granted once students feel prepared, i.e. they’ve done some studying at home too. Due to the busy week we had with Peace Festival activities, we didn’t quite get to the multiplication mental math interviews (2-digit by 1-digit, e.g. 37 x 8). The mental math interviews will be conducted after winter break in January.
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