What a beautiful week in and out of the classroom this was! On Wednesday we went on a wonderful field study which began on the grounds of Fort Calgary and took us on a plant adventure full of stories, discovery, observations and journalling. We went to the Labyrinth, the confluence of the Elbow River and the Bow River (Moh'koh'sis), many river walks and to the natural playgrounds in the East Village. Leslie and Stephanie from the NLC (Niitsitipi Learning Center) led the day and we are so grateful to them for gifting us with their time. Thank-you to all parents of our walking students on this day who were very patient in our bussing confusion. We apologize on behalf of Southland Bussing Company for the mix up in our busses and thank the office staff and parents for their cooperation on our late return! On Thursday we had an in-school presentation from Don George who is from "Agriculture in the Classroom". He spent an hour with us discussing farming, food, seeds, plants and farming equipment and it's importance to our Alberta economy. Thank you to Mr. George for such an engaging and inquiry-based exploration presentation! This week we braved some rain showers and took all of our greenhouse plants outside in order to observe what needed to be fixed with them. We had a brilliant afternoon of discussions and getting messy all while discussing why our greenhouse veggies have suffered since the temperature outside has started to rise. We ended our afternoon by spending time journalling and reflecting on our hypothesis of our observations. Later this week, we introduced our new project for the end of the year! We are creating board games in groups of 2-3 with the purpose of incorporating probability, mathematic reasoning, social studies and science topics from the year. Stay tuned for progress pictures once we dive into the prototyping stage late next week and/or early the first week of June! I have attached the explanation and rubric below if you would like to see the details! :) Grade 5's will be getting a letter sent home next week in regards to our human sexuality unit that is part of the Alberta Health Curriculum. As this is part of the Grade 5 curriculum, it is expected that all students will take part. However, if you are not comfortable with your child participating in school, you will need to sign the form and indicated that you would not like your child to take part in school and that you will teach it yourself at home. All students who do not take part will be sent to another classroom for this 1 hour lesson each day. If you are curious or wondering what we will be covering during our 4 lessons spanning over the first week of June, you are more than welcome to contact me by phone or e-mail (see links page for contact info) or visit the Learn Alberta website to view our lesson plans that we follow very closely each day. Click here for Learn Alberta Lesson Plans Thank you! Have a fantastic weekend enjoying the sunshine! <3 Miss Paddon Important Dates for June (Please keep watching as there are bound to be additions to this list): Friday, June 1st: Volunteer Tea at Valley View Friday, June 8th: Seed Survivor Bus at Valley View Saturday, June 9th-Sunday, June 10th: Diversity Cup Soccer Tournament Wednesday, June 13th: Jumping Pound Field Study Wednesday, June 20th: Fish Creek Park (Final field study of the year!) Thursday, June 21st: Rotary Breakfast + National Indigenous People's Day + Sports Day Thursday, June 28th: Last day of classes for Students (All final IPP's to be signed by today) Friday, June 29th: Teacher PD day
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This week we welcomed back our grade 5's (and me!) into our classroom and spent a lot of time discussing and sharing what we had learned while we were away at camp. Grade 5's have been developing a free write about their experience at camp and the grade 4's have been writing persuasive letters to Mrs. Wallace to let them go to Outdoor School next year when they are grade 5's!
Camp Sunship Earth was an incredible experience for all involved and I am so proud of each and every one of the grade 5's who joined me on this adventure! We spent our week exploring the outdoors, discovering adaptations of different species, learning about food chains in the forest and developing ever-lasting memories with new and old friends. I enjoyed getting to know each student in new ways and learning new and interesting things about each one of them. Thank you to all parents who made this possible and a special thank-you to parents who were so patient with our traffic troubles on the way home! This week we went on a wonderful adventure to the Calgary Zoo! There, we were involved in an educational program all about the penguins at the zoo and then we were able to go see the wonderful new Pandas that now call Calgary home! :) In math, we have been discussing equivalent fractions and how we can convert simple fractions to different equivalent fractions as well as discussing like and unlike denominators. Next, we will be discussing probability and starting a cross-curricular project involving games (math), science and social studies! Forms and fees are due on Tuesday for our upcoming field study to Moh'Koh'Sis. A quick reminder to parents to check the weather to ensure your child is ready for whatever weather we get as this is an entirely outdoor study. If it is warm, please ensure your child has a water bottle, lunch, hat, sunscreen and removable layers. If it is calling for some rain, please ensure your child has a hat, rain proof jacket, rain boots, rain pants etc. on to prevent them from getting too wet and cold. If you still need to attend any of your 3 required field studies for the year, your time is dwindling down! We have 3 more field studies for the year including this Wednesday's field study. Please feel free to e-mail me in order to pre-book a date you would like to attending. Thank you so much to all of the parents who have already completed their 3 required field studies with us -- you have been such a wonderful help in achieving wondering, educational experiences on each trip! I wish everyone a fun, warm and adventurous long weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday! <3 Miss Paddon Important dates for May: Monday, May 21st: No School (Victoria Day) Tuesday, May 22nd: Fire Safety Trailer in school (Grade 5's only) : Field Study forms + fees due today (Volunteers will be notified today as well -- sorry for the short notice!) : Diversity Cup Soccer Practice 2:45-3:45pm Wednesday, May 23rd: Field Study to Moh'Koh'Sis with NLC partnership (Please have all forms and fees into Miss Paddon by Tuesday.) Thursday, May 24th: Agriculture in the Classroom presentation in room 18 : Diversity Cup Soccer Practice 2:45-3:45pm We had a jam packed week full of some amazing learning opportunities and exciting moments!
This week we had began our discussions into light and shadow (Grade 4), the Greenhouse effect (Grade 5), Sundials (Gr. 4/5) and discussions around the History of the North West Mounted Police. Mr. Elrafih and Ms. Malhi did a wonderful job of engaging the students in these activities and finding different connections between each topic. Ask your child to tell you the connection and relation between light behavior (reflection, refraction and absorption) and the greenhouse effect as well as the connection between our classroom greenhouses and the Greenhouse Effect. This week we also held our Math Fair evening and it was SUCH a fantastic night filled with some amazing feedback and math reasoning. I found it so impactful for parents to be able to come into our classroom and participate in grade 4 and 5 level math questions and see how we are shaping our student's minds to think "outside the box". This challenge has been engaging and so rewarding and I am looking forward to continuing to work towards our goals together. This week we also went to Ralph Klein Park for our 10th field study of the year! We spent the day learning about wetlands and plants in a spring climate outdoors and indoors. Ask you child about the different types of wetlands that we learned about and their particular features as well as what we saw during our explorations outdoors. Thank you so much to our volunteers that came with us on this day. :) Field trip forms are now due for the National Geographic Live field study which is this Monday. There is no fee needed for this half day field study and we already have our 3 wonderful volunteers confirmed! Thank you so much for everyone who sent in their volunteer forms and we look forward to having you join us another time! :) Our Learning Commons re-design is well under way and we are so excited about the possibilities of what may be coming to our LC space in the near future. The students came together and created a class pictograph which displayed out collected data and it was on display during our Math Fair. I hope everyone had a chance to explore these possibilities during last night's Math Fair. If you and your child have any recommendations for what we should buy with our grant money in order to create an engaging learning space, please send me an e-mail this week as we want any and all parent/student involvement in this process. Upcoming dates: 1) National Geographic Live Monday April 23 (AM only) 2) Diversity Cup practice starts on Tuesday April 24 after school (outdoor-weather pending for this practice only as the gym is being used by Volleyball Club for their last session together.) 3) Grade 5 visit to Ian Baz on Thursday April 26 (PM) 4) Outdoor school packages for our Grade 5's will be coming home soon (sometime next week) Please e-mail Miss Paddon ([email protected]) about any medication and/or food restrictions that you grade 5 child may have while we are away at camp before the end of next week. Thank you :) Welcome back after a long and beautifully chilly 2 week Spring break! I hope everyone had a fantastic time away and are coming back refreshed and ready to tackle the last couple of months of school!
Highlights of this past week: Thank -you so much to everyone who took part in "Jerseys for Humboldt" on Thursday. It warmed my heart to see so many students in the class and school-wide wearing their jerseys or green shirts to support a community going through an unimaginable loss. The Students in room 18 cease to amazing me with their compassion and love for others. <3 On Thursday, the students all took part in a fun day of exploration which allowed them to create burglar alarms from simple household items! They completed research and blueprints on the topic and then used their burglar alarms as their game-show buzzers later that day! Our student teachers from University of Calgary, Mr. Elrafih and Ms. Malhi, took the time to recap our geography of Canada and Alberta with a fun game of Jeopardy! The kids all took part in 4 groups and were in competition with each other to see who knew the most about our Social Studies lessons from this week! Congratulations to the winners! In math we continued with our work on finding area and perimeter of irregular shapes and are going to use this knowledge when working with the learning commons blueprints this week! We have begun our discussion on the Learning Commons re-design! We have been lucky enough to receive an Education Matters grant and are working hard to turn our learning commons space into a place of exploration and curiosity! In order to have a space that best suits the needs of our students, we've been asking each class in the school to compile a plan of what they would buy with the money. Our class has combined our knowledge of area and perimeter, blueprinting, graphing and measurement in order to come up with some fantastic ideas to share! Ask your child about their opinion on the matter! On Friday, we welcomed the Earth Rangers into our school! We learned so much about animal and habitat conservations and how we can become Earth Rangers ourselves. We also met 4 animal ambassadors for Earth Rangers including an owl and a hawk that flew around out gym! As your child which of the animal ambassadors was the most interesting to them! When we arrived back from Spring Break we have noticed significant changes in our classroom garden! We haven't seen any fruit or vegetables growing yet, however the flowering parts of the plants have exceeded our expectations so far! We have 2 more wonderful weeks left with Ms. Malhi and Mr. Elrafih and I am so excited to see what innovative lessons they have in store for us! Have a fantastic week :) Important Dates: 1) Field study to Ralph Klein Park on Tuesday, April 17th: Remember to pack your lunch/snacks and dress appropriately (be prepared for any kind of weather!) *Volunteers will be notified tomorrow, Monday* 2) Math Fair on Thursday April 19 from 6-7pm: look for invitations to this event this week! 3) Fun Lunch on Thursday April 19: Students who ordered a lunch will still need to pack a snack for this day 4) PD on Friday April 20 - No school 5) Field study to National Geographic Live on Monday April 23 (AM only). Field study forms will be coming home early this 6) Diversity Cup tryouts will begin Tuesday, May 24th - weather pending The last 2 weeks have been a wonderful whirl-wind of adventure!
In Math, we have started focusing on a lesson-style called "3-Act Math" where the students are put in a position to find out missing information and to really start using their problem solving and mathematical reasoning skills. As your child how we solved the "Indie 500" and "Tomato, Tomato" problems! Also, if you are wanting your child to gain more practice with problem solving, feel free to go to our links page and find the "3-Act Math" link under "Math" and click on any of the questions! Good Luck! :) Our Social Studies and Science projects were due this week! As a reminder of what the projects were: Science: Students were in mixed grade groups where they had to study a type of storm/natural disaster (tornado, hurricane, flooding, mud slides etc.). Grade 5's focused on the science behind how their type of storm is formed and the grade 4's focused on the environmental impacts of their type of weather. Together, they then came up with a science experiment that helped back up their research. Social Studies: The Grade 5's independently researched a Province in Canada of their choosing and the Grade 4's researched in small groups a region of Alberta. They were looking for information such as: Plants, animals, climate, languages spoken, landmarks, landforms and physical geography of each place. They then had to become teachers and confidently teach their class about their place. Ask your child how their presentation went and how they think they could improve next time! Stay tuned for a grading sheet that will come home after Spring Break letting you know how your child did! This week, we also welcomed our 2 wonderful student teachers for their first week! Ms. Malhi and Mr. Elrafi are going to be with us full-time learning about the Science-School methods and beliefs as well as immersing themselves in the teaching styles associated with our program. We are so luck to have them until the end of April and I know you will all join me in welcoming them to our team! :) Unfortunately, we have to announce that our Aggie Days Field Study which was scheduled for Thursday, April 12th is no longer going ahead. Fortunately, no paperwork or money was collected so there will be no refunds or rescheduling of volunteers needed. Luckily we have an abundance of exciting things happening over our last few months of school and I'm confident we will be just fine with one less study! :) One of out last days together this week, the grade 5's were off at their TREC education in-school study which had them discovering solar power and creating solar powered cars! The grade 4's who were back in class took full advantage of their time without the 5's and learned more about potential and kinetic energies all before creating functioning rubber-band powered lego cars and testing them out down our race track (hallway)! Ask your child about what Potential and Kinetic Energy is and how it helped power our rubber band power cars. Field study forms and money for our Field Study to Ralph Klein Park are due when we return back to school after the break. We have enough volunteers already confirmed for this trip so if you still need to get your volunteer days in, please feel free to contact me and book yourself in ahead of time if you wish! :) I wish you all a safe, happy and beautiful Spring Break and I look forward to hearing of your adventures when we return on Tuesday, April 10th! All the best, Miss Paddon Upcoming Important Dates: April: 13th- Earth Rangers in School 16th - Ralph Klein Park: Miss Miao & Mrs Kear 17th- Ralph Klein Park: Miss Paddon 19th- Math Fair at Valley View School 6:00-7:30pm 19th- Subway Fun Lunch 20th- PD Day - No School for Students 23rd - National Geographic Live: Miss Paddon & Mrs. Kear 24th + 26th- Diversity Cup Practice 2:45-3:45pm I can't even begin to tell you how thankful I am as a teacher for having such a fantastic week together with our class.
On Tuesday, we spent our morning exploring Nosehill Park with Elder Randy Bottle (Saa’kokoto) where we hiked through thick snow, played outdoor games and listened with our hearts to Saa'kokoto as he showed us many connections between our land, animals weather and life. This morning left us feeling so fresh and happy to continue our day of journaling when we got back to school. We began discovering what Natural Disasters are and how some of them occur. We specifically started talking about Oil Spills and the history of oil spills in Alberta. We then began completing research and inquiring about the Dawn initiative and how they help wildlife during oil spill disasters. After lots of discussions and research, we spent Thursday and Friday completing experiments on the effects of 3 different types of soaps and how they clean oil from the feathers of birds. We then expanded our experiment scenario of our "Valley View Oil Spill" and started thinking from the perspective of an Environmental Engineer. As Engineers, each group had a budget of $120 to buy materials and build an effective solution for removing oil from the water. Ask your child about their methods, observations, and conclusions about their prototype and what they would change if they were to tackle this challenge again. Our class has been doing a wonderful job of continuing to water our plants and rotate the planters to ensure optimal sunlight. Because of this, we have seen sprouts in our lettuce, kale, carrots, cucumbers, peas and bean plants! We are very excited about this and can not wait to see what growth happens over the weekend! On Thursday evening we had a great outdoor school meeting for our grade 5 parents. Thank-you so much to everyone for coming to the meeting, filling in your forms, handing in the $20.00 fee and having wonderful conversations about our upcoming outdoor school field study! I am very excited to be joining in on the fun for our 4 day adventure in May! Our Artist in Residence, Leah Donald, wrapped up her 2-week residency with the students and staff of Valley View. Thank-you so much to all of our wonderful volunteers who came in and helped with this massive art project for the school. The art piece looks incredible but still will not be completely finished until late April -- stay tuned to see the incredible artwork that was created during this time! I am blown away! :) Have a great weekend and get ready for the warmer weather next week! :) <3 Miss Paddon Upcoming Dates: - Monday, March 12th & Thursday, March 15th - Diversity Cup Soccer Tournament Tryouts after school from 2:45pm-3:45pm. Permission forms have been sent home :) - Monday, March 18th - We will be welcoming 2 student teachers into our classroom until the end of April. This is an amazing opportunity and we are so excited to see what their time with us will bring! - Thursday, March 22nd - Last day of classes before break -Thursday, March 22nd-Friday, March 23rd - Parent Conferences - You are now able to sign up for conferences! I already see a large amount of parents have signed up so thank-you for thinking ahead and I look forward to see you all again soon! This week we were so lucky to begin our adventure into felting with our Artist In Residence Leah Donald. Our end goal is to take ordinary wool and turn it into a beautiful piece of felt artwork that we will hang in our school lobby. It has already been a fantastic, community-building experience for all! Ask your child what they learned about how we turn wool into felt already! Keyword: Agitation
We spent the vast majority of this week creating blue prints, building prototypes and discussing our observations about a challenging task -- raising the height of our greenhouse heat lamps about 4 inches! We voted on what we all thought was the most successful and realistic choice and it is serving us well so far! Congratulations to Sanjeev for his wonderful design! On Wednesday we re-discovered area and perimeter as each student had to work together to calculate both A and P of the base of both of our greenhouses. We had to find out these measurements in order to buy the proper size pots that would fit perfectly in our homemade and store bought greenhouses! Once we calculated the accurate measurements, we began the planting process! This included potting, labelling, measuring, watering, reading plant-specific needs and instructions as well as discovering where the best place to put our heat lamps within the greenhouse was. We will continue to observe our indoor garden and compare/contrast how the vegetables grow in the store-bought greenhouse versus our homemade greenhouses. We are now the proud owners of some wonderful vegetables which we hope to flourish and share with our Grade 1 buddies before the end of the year! Ask your child which vegetable they helped to plant of the 7 that we have so far! We had Stephanie Bartlett from the Niitsitipi Learning Center join us on Thursday for a lovely discussion about Elders, how to listen with our hearts and an introduction to our field study at Nosehill Park for next week! A big thank-you to her for clearing her schedule to see us! Thank-you so much to every parent who is or has volunteered for our artist in residence -- your extra set of hands has helped and will help so much! :) Upcoming Important Dates: - Tuesday, March 6th - Nosehill Park Field Study - Please dress for the weather as we will be outside from 8:30am-12:00pm. Any students who are not properly dressed for a crisp winter day will not be able to join us for safety reasons. (please note that this has been changed to a half day field study) - Thursday, March 8th - Outdoor School Parent Meeting (Mandatory for all Grade 5 parents and students.) There will be information regarding the details of this exciting adventure as well as a question time for parents to get any answers they are looking for! - Monday, March 12th & Thursday, March 15th - Diversity Cup Soccer Tournament Tryouts after school from 2:45pm-3:45pm. Permission forms have been sent home :) - Thursday, March 22nd - Last day of classes before break -Thursday, March 22nd-Friday, March 23rd - Parent Conferences (Details to follow) Have a lovely, snowy weekend and try to stay warm! <3 Miss Paddon This week and our short few days together last week we found ourselves challenging each other and learning how to persevere through tricky math questions!
We are continuing learning about our land in Alberta (Gr.4) and Canada (Gr. 5) and how the Science aspects and Social Studies aspects of this topic are much more intertwined than we had once expected! We have been continuing working on our research projects on the provinces and regions of Canada/Alberta respectively and have continued on our journey into discovering the CN rail, how it was built and the pros and cons of treaties. In math we are continuing to learn what the meaning of "mathematical reasoning" is and how we express our math work in words (explaining the HOW we got an answer and WHY we chose to use a certain strategy). We have begin working on multi-step word problems and figuring out what our first step, second step (sometimes a third step!)and final answers are in sequence. The class as a whole has found this topic very challenging, however I have seen such a vast improvement in their mathematical vocabulary and problem solving skills already that I cannot wait to see what more incredible discoveries our students make next! Remind your students of the DMSCB method for long division -- ask them about our mnemonic and what DMSCB stands for! This week we also completed research on medicinal and poisonous plants that can be found in Alberta (Gr.4) and Canada (Gr.5) and what the harms or medicinal factors of each are. We are going to use this information next week when we begin to build stands for our heat lamps and then start our planting process of a multitude of different vegetables and fruits. Our hope is that we will be able to grow enough fruits and vegetables to share a snack with our grade 1 buddy class! We will also be analyzing how a set of plants that will be growing in our homemade greenhouse grows in comparison to the donated commercially made greenhouse! We also were lucky enough to have a representative from the Calgary Humane Society come into our class and do a lovely 1 hour presentation on conservation and animal safety throughout our province. Ask your child about the wildlife bridges that go over and underground in Banff! :) Field trip forms for Nosehill Park went home yesterday and are expected back by next Friday. This is an entirely OUTDOORS trip which will have us in nature from 8:45am-1:00pm. We will be going on this trip unless the temperature is the designated -20 with the windchill as these are the rules the school follows as well for safety. This means each student MUST be dressed for the weather on this day (March 6th). If students do not come to school with snow pants, jackets, hats, mittens and boots then they will not be allowed to join us for safety reasons. Upcoming important dates for Feb/March: - Monday, February 26th - Artist in Residence Begins - Tuesday, February 27th - NLC reps coming in to talk with all 4/5's - Wednesday, February 28th - TREC Education in Room 18 - Tuesday, March 6th - Nosehill Park Field Study - Thursday, March 8th - Outdoor School Parent Meeting (Mandatory for all Grade 5 parents only. Letter to go home soon) - Monday, March 12th & Thursday, March 15th - Diversity Cup Soccer Tournament Tryouts after school (letter to go home soon) - Thursday, March 22nd - Last day of classes before break -Thursday, March 22nd-Friday, March 23rd - Parent Conferences (Details to follow) Have a wonderful weekend :) <3 Miss Paddon What we've been working on in Room 18:
Math: This week we dove into the world of division! We started our week discussing strategies for solving 1 digit divisors and 2 digit Dividends (ex: 25 divided by 5). Once we felt comfortable enough with that, we moved on to long division. We learned the mnemonic Do Monkeys Sell Crispy Bananas (Divide, multiply, subtract, check and bring down) to remind us of the steps we need to take in order to properly solve a long division question. We then learned how to check these answers using the inverse equation and we learned how to properly label our dividend, divisor and quotient. Once we mostly became comfortable with this, we discovered what a remainder is and how we represent them in a quotient. Ask your child to teach your our method and try and practice some questions at home! :) Science: Grade 5's completed some experiments independently in which they had to differentiate between homogeneous mixtures and heterogenous mixtures. Ask your child if they can tell you the difference between Heterogeneous mixtures and homogeneous mixtures and which experiments represented each one. Grade 4's were looking into flowering plant life cycles and the female and male parts of a flower and their purpose. Ask your child about the purpose of: Stamen, Anther, Pistol and Stigma. If your child is unsure about any of these bolded words, take this time to complete some research together and answer any questions you may have before we return next week! :) Social Studies/Language Arts: We are continuing to use our hamburger paragraphs to write about different aspects "flow" in their writing by using transition words such as Suddenly, Although, First, Second, Last, Despite the fact, In fact. We are also focusing on using apostrophes in the appropriate place and expanding our use of punctuation to involve more than just periods or exclamation points. (Continuing from last week!). We also completed research on Natural Resources in Alberta and Canada and discussed how they are used and how they benefit us! On Thursday, we used our Glenbow Museo-kit to learn about Canadian rights and freedoms for woman and how they have evolved over the years. The students learned about The Famous Five women who helped to shape future of women's rights in Canada. We completed 3 activities which had us observing artifacts, dressing up as one of the 5 women and learning about them individually and competing in a heated debate during our mock trial of the famous 5 and The Persons Case which saw the famous 5 challenge the Supreme Court of Canada. The students did a wonderful job and we had such a fun, hands-on day! Important Upcoming Dates: ASAP - All money ($2.50) for the museokit that we brought in from Glenbow Museum is due as soon as possible. Thank-you to everyone who has brought it in already! February: 20th - Calgary Humane Society (In School): All 3 classes 27th - Niitsitipi Learning Center Guests (In School): All 3 classes 28th - TREC Education in Room 18 all day (In School) Have a wonderful weekend! <3 Miss Paddon Highlights from last week in Room 18:
Math: This week we have continued to develop our multiplication skills and have become much more comfortable in multiplying 2-digit by 1-digit numbers. Next week, we will be discovering 3-digit by 1-digit multiplication as well as working through 1 step and 2 step word problems involving these multiplication equations. We will be making sure that we check our working using the inverse operations each time and then using our reasoning skills to orally explain how we solved this! Science: Grade 5's started learning about homogenous and heterogeneous mixtures and how they differ from solutions. They started completing research on examples of each mixture (along with lots of practice on how to pronounce each word :) ). Ask your child if they can tell you the difference between Heterogeneous mixtures, homogeneous mixtures and solutions. Grade 4's were looking into flowering plant life cycles and the female and male parts of a flower and their purpose. Ask your child about the purpose of: Stamen, Anther, Pistol and Stigma. If your child is unsure about any of these bolded words, take this time to complete some research together and answer any questions you may have before we return next week! :) Social Studies/Language Arts: We are continuing to use our hamburger paragraphs to write about different aspects "flow" in their writing by using transition words such as Suddenly, Although, First, Second, Last, Despite the fact, In fact. We are also focusing on using apostrophes in the appropriate place and expanding our use of punctuation to involve more than just periods or exclamation points. On Thursday we travelled to Studio Bell/The National Music Center for our 8th trip of the year. Here, we had a jam packed day of adventures through this incredible building! We discovered natural sounds and how they are created as well as creating our own instruments! Each student completed an interactive scavenger hunt through the building and learned so much about Canadian History. It was amazing to look at the instruments and discover the engineering that took place in order to create each one! Thank-you so much to our 4 wonderful volunteers and I so look forward to our future trips! Important Upcoming Dates: ASAP - All money ($2.50) for the museokit that we brought in from Glenbow Museum is due as soon as possible. Thank-you to everyone who has brought it in already! We will be exploring this kit in the next coming weeks. February: 20th - Calgary Humane Society (In School): All 3 classes 27th - Niitsitipi Learning Center Guests (In School): All 3 classes 28th - TREC Education in Room 18 all day (In School) Have a wonderful weekend! <3 Miss Paddon |