Wednesday February 26th, 2020

• Students have been busy finishing their design of the moon colony and using their "architect" skills. Plotting the coordinate plots, determining perimeter, area, volume and building 3D shapes from their nets has been the focus as well.
• The work as journalists is done and the students have been evaluating their news articles based on the rubric. 
• Creating the buildings for the moonscape has been a time where creativity has come alive in our room. Students are taking in consideration the needs of the astronauts as they design the buildings.
• Random Acts of Kindness continued to be a discussion on “pink shirt” day. Students will share our question about: “How we use our voices to spread kindness and love?” tomorrow at the celebration. 

Reminders:

• Thursday February 27th - Kindness Assembly 10:30am  Wear purple & Mayor Nenshi will be our guest of honour. 
• Thursday February 27th - Celebration of Learning 5:30-7:00 in our classroom.  It will be drop in basis and prepare for at least for half an hour.

• Outdoor School - Monday March 9th - Thursday March 12th. Please pay online if needed.  Thank you!  

• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.
  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order

Year Book

“How to pay for a Yearbook online”

Because the yearbook is an optional fee, the fee does not automatically appear in your MYCBE/PowerSchool account. 

You will find the fee under the Goods/Services tab, click on the tab and you will see two optional fees

Noon Supervision Drop In

Yearbook

Click on the fee you want, hit ok, the fee will then appear in your school fees, for online payment.

If you have any issues with this, please call the office we can attach the optional fees.

February 22nd, 2020

• Students have been busy designing their moon colony and using their "architect" skills creating a blueprint.  Plotting the coordinate plots, determining the perimeter, area & volume have been the focus as well.
• The work as journalists is almost done as the students wrote news articles about the planet that they researched.
• The learning about the Iroquois became exciting as we completed our research and have started creating our "Iroquois Museum."
• We have continued reading the book titled, "I Am Malala" and have had rich conversations during this read aloud.

Reminders:

• Tuesday February 25th - ORFF
• Wednesday February 26th - Pink Shirt Day
• Thursday February 27th - Kindness Assembly 10am
• Thursday February 27th - Celebration of Learning 5:30-7:00 in our classroom.  It will be drop in basis and prepare for at least for half an hour.

• Outdoor School - Monday March 9th - Thursday March 12th. Please pay online if needed.  Thank you!  

• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.
  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order

Year Book

“How to pay for a Yearbook online”

Because the yearbook is an optional fee, the fee does not automatically appear in your MYCBE/PowerSchool account. 

You will find the fee under the Goods/Services tab, click on the tab and you will see two optional fees

Noon Supervision Drop In

Yearbook

Click on the fee you want, hit ok, the fee will then appear in your school fees, for online payment.

If you have any issues with this, please call the office we can attach the optional fees.

Thursday February 6th, 2020

• In Math, through the lens of an "architect" students are continuing their blueprints creating their "space colony" for the astronauts to live in on our moonscape.
• Working as journalists and writing their news articles about the planets continues to be a focus for literacy. 
• We read Malala today.  We finished the fourth part in the book.  Part 1 - Before the Taliban, Part 2 - A Shadow over our Valley, Part 3 - Finding my Voice, Part 4 - Targeted.

• Students started researching information about the Iroquois Confederacy. 
• We were the audience for our Grade 1 buddies as they practiced for their Celebration of Learning for us. 

Reminders:

• Please return ECO School forms & payment needs to be made by Wednesday February 12th. 
• Teacher Convention February 13th & 14th - No school 
• Family Day - Monday February 17th - no school 
• Thursday February 27th - Grade 6 Learning Celebration

Wednesday February 5th, 2020

• In Math, through the lens of an "architect" students have started blueprints creating their "space colony" for the astronauts to live in on our moonscape.
• We continued our Planet presentations today. 
• Working as journalists and writing their news articles about the planets continues to be a focus.  Today we discussed "tone" and how we can use a positive tone or a negative tone in writing and in our spoken words.  We specifically discussed how our tone for news article writing would appear differently than most of our pieces of writing - Direct, factual and to the point.
• We read Malala today.  We are at the forth part in the book.  Part 1 - Before the Taliban, Part 2 - A Shadow over our Valley, Part 3 - Finding my Voice, Part 4 - Targeted.

• Students started researching information about the Iroquois Confederacy. 

Reminders:

• Please return ECO School forms - A.S.A.P 
• Payment for ECO School can be made online through Powerschool
• Thursday February 27th - Grade 6 Learning Celebration