Weekly News

Hello Families

Hope your children managed to get outside on this lovely sunny day while home from school for our professional learning day. This coming week is a full school week ahead of Teacher's Convention and the Family Day long weekend.
This week we were able to participate in some hands-on learning using the Glenbow Museum's 'Museum on Loan' kits. It is a wonderful opportunity to develop indigenous ways of knowing through hands-on experiences. We will be building on this work when Elder Shirley Hill visits with  us over the next two weeks, to engage the students in aboriginal cultural learning through stories and artifacts. This will link directly with the focus of Grade 4 students in their social studies investigations. Grade 3 continued focusing on Tunisia in social studies, designing holiday posters extolling the virtues of holidaying in this beautiful country. Next week they will begin their research on a country of their choice, completing a digital presentation over the next few weeks to present to their peers.
In gym, Mr Bennett joined us to teach us the fundamentals of ringette. The children enjoyed this immensely. We will be continuing developing our skills this week.
Art found us continuing our focus on Ted Harrison, which will continue next week with us using water colours to imitate his style of painting.
In science, grade 3 students identified different animals in the 5 vertebrate groups. Next week we begin our inquiry into invertebrate animals. Grade 4 focused on electricity.
In literacy the students completed their writing on the Amazon Rainforest, and started writing about themselves and healthy eating habits. In math we have been extending our learning about fractions.
Grade 4 & 5 students will be completing the Alberta Education Accountability Pillar Survey next week.
Enjoy your weekend, and if you have any questions or concerns, please connect with me.

Libby Coldbeck
Learning Leader