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 :)
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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 |