Sept. 30 -Orange Shirt Day
Oct. 3- Terry Fox Run AM Oct. 10&11- Parent Teacher Interviews Oct. 11- 20- Fall Break Humanities- We started the week with a trip to Fort Calgary. Students engaged in a sketching and archeology activity, as we looked into the question, “What can collections tell us?” A special thanks goes out to the parents and grandparents that joined us to help out. When we returned to the school students completed a self reflection. We finished reading, ”Wishtree.” Students should have completed the “What’s in a Name?” activity and you can view it on Seesaw. Students started working on a summative project for the book. We are considering the plot, theme and mood of the book as we communicate our understanding through a Colour, Symbol, Image activity. We finished off the week with a discussion about why we would wear an orange shirt on Monday. Next week we will look at a collection of artifacts and primary sources for our collection inquiry and dig deeper into the idea that collections can tell us many things. Math/Science- In Science, this week we have worked to finish up our assignment, answering the question : How do the different adaptations of your chosen organism help it to survive and thrive in a wetland ecosystem? We walked to Wetland #14 for a morning to give us a closer look at some of the different organisms that live in ponds and provided an alternative place for us to reflect on some of the concepts we have been learning in class. We would like to thank our parent volunteers who joined us on our walk, making it possible on such short notice. In Math, we have begun to discuss and reflect on different estimation strategies, and where these strategies may prove to be useful in our day to day lives. 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.
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