Important Dates
Sept. 23 - Fort Calgary Field Trip Sept.27 No- School - PD Day Sept. 30 -Orange Shirt Day Oct. 3- Terry Fox Run PM Oct. 10&11- Parent Teacher Interviews Thank you to the parents who helped out at camp! The students send along their thanks as well. Please enjoy these video thank yous! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O13aNYEfcYc&feature=youtu.be https://youtu.be/rAsm9ZPQczQ Headphones- We would love each student bring a set of inexpensive headphones to school. We have set aside a place to store them in each homeroom, so they can be kept at school for the year. Please label them with a name and homeroom. The students often access videos for their learning and need to hear the audio. They also create videos and benefit from being able to listen to the soundtracks and voiceovers as they create. In addition, many students are beginning to enjoy listening to audiobooks during reading time, and headphones make this a possibility. Orange Shirt Day- Orange Shirt Day is on September 30. This is a day set aside to honour and remember Residential School survivours and their families. To help commemorate this day, we are encouraging students to wear an orange shirt. All students will receive a sticker to wear on their shirts or hats for the day as well. Connect is also welcoming a guest speaker to speak to all students (in smaller groups to ensure age-appropriate content) on the morning of September 30. For more information about this initiative, you can visit http://www.orangeshirtday.org. Humanities- The students completed a video reflection of their time at camp. This can be viewed on Seesaw. We made some progress with our novel study and are set to finish up early next week. Students will complete a summative assignment towards the end of next week, and their booksnaps will be available for viewing on Seesaw. As a connection to the novel study, students are exploring how names contribute to identity. They have been tasked to find out more about their names, and will likely ask parents why their name was chosen for them. Thank you for helping them with this task. Both classes have completed their first opinion journal activity. Additional information about opinion journals is available on Seesaw. Next week we will enjoy a field trip to Fort Calgary, and students will begin out inquiry into the stories that collections can tell. Math/Science- Students began working on a research assignment about different adaptations of wetland organisms, and how these adaptations help organisms survive and thrive in their environment. Next week they will be finishing the assignment and posting it to seesaw. In Math we completed a check-in on place value, and have been revisiting some of the topics. Specifically, how to read and write large numbers properly, and how to represent numbers in different ways, such as pictorially, expanded form, and in place value charts.
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