Week of Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2017

Thank you very much to everyone who came for interviews!  Great conversations were had and it's great to have the home-school connection and support.

Notes:

• It is Christmas concert week!  The dress rehearsal will be at the school on Thursday at the school and the concert is Saturday at Park Meadows Baptist Church.  See below for times.  For the concert, students are to dress in their holiday best.
• The Book Fair is still running this week for any last purchases that students would like to make.
• If you haven't already, please return your child's signed report card envelope as soon as possible.

Curriculum:

• Math: There will be a quiz on Monday for the time unit and then we will begin our symmetry unit.  You can help at home by continuing to ask your child what time it is throughout the year and getting them to read it on an analog clock.  You can help with symmetry by looking around your home for objects that are symmetrical.
• L.A.
• Spelling: Lesson 5 continued.  Due to concert practice there will be no dictation this week.  Time permitting, classes will play games with their words in their own classes.
• Writing: This week will be the last week for the peace poems and then we will begin a special project for December.
• Science: We get to start learning about wheels and axles this week.  First by comparing them to rollers and then looking at them on their own.
• Social: There will be a test on Tuesday for the Foothills Region and then we will travel to the Parkland Region

This Week's Schedule:
Monday:

• No library for Samayoa and Rahim - a visit to the Book Fair will happen instead.  Students will be able to sneak down to the library on a different day for exchange.

Tuesday:

• Hot lunch if you ordered it
• Nelson library books due
• Family Fun Night in the gym 6:00-7:15

Wednesday:

• Energy Day Assembly 12:30 p.m.

Thursday:

• Dress Rehearsal A-K 9:00 a.m.
• Dress Rehearsal L-Z 12:45 p.m.
• Choir 3:30 p.m.

Friday:

• Frolicking Friday
• No Enrichment

Saturday:

• Christmas Concert A-K 1:00 p.m. (students arrive at 12:30)
• Christmas Concert L-Z 3:30 (students arrive at 3:00)

Week of Nov. 20-24, 2017

Notes:

• Please sign up for parent/teacher interviews!  The link is here on the blog to the right.
• Library exchange is changing!  Students will be able to exchange books early if they have finished them before regular library day.  If a student's work is finished and we are not in the middle of a lesson, there are times where Mrs. Chase is available to do quick book exchanges.
• If you haven't already done so and would like to, please return the permission form for going outside when it's indoor recess.  We had one last week and the kids who were able to go out had a great time!

Curriculum:

• Math: Oops on last week's post!  We did not do patterns but time last week!  The students were learning about how to read calendar dates in metric notation (e.g. 20/11/17) and that there are three ways to do it: day/month/year; year/month/day and month/day/year.  We also started exploring telling time on analog clocks using vocabulary such as quarter after/to, half past, etc. and telling time to the five minute mark (e.g. 3:05 or five after three).  This week we will learn elapsed time (how much time has passed), time to the minute and 24-hour time.  We need your help at home!  Please practice telling time on an analog clock with your child.  With so many digital clocks - alarm clocks, stoves, microwaves, cell phones, etc. kids find this a hard concept to pick up.  On the Math Review page there are some links to games to play to practice.
• L.A.
• Spelling: Lesson 5 starts today, look for the practice words coming home.
• Writing: This week we will start putting the writing responses we've done into a poem.
• Science: In science we will explore using rollers to move objects.
• Social: We have a little bit more traveling in the Foothills Region to do.  We are going to discuss our connections to nature and how to save trees by saving paper and then next week there will be a quiz.  See the "Social Review" page for a study guide.

This Week's Schedule:
Monday:

• Friday Letters due
• Samayoa and Rahim library books due

Tuesday:

• Storytellers will be visiting from the Lethbridge Public Library

Wednesday:

• Picture retake money due
• After school skate 3:45 p.m. Adam's Ice Arena

Thursday:

• Book fair begins
• Early dismissal for students 11:45 a.m.
• No school in the afternoon for students - parent/teacher interviews

Friday:

• No school for students - parent/teacher interviews

Week of Nov. 13-17, 2017

What a beautiful sunny day!  How nice to be able to really enjoy the outdoors.

Notes:

• Welcome to our three student teachers from the University of Lethbridge!  Miss Auer will be in Mrs. Samayoa's class, Miss Shepherd in Mrs. Nelson's class and Miss Barnowski in Ms. Rahim's class.
• Lots of items are being left behind at school on the shelves, hooks and floors.  Please encourage your children to pick up after themselves while at school.  

Curriculum:

• Math: Keep practicing those basic facts!  Our official unit on adding and subtracting may be finished but the skills are still required for many other areas of math.  We are going to be starting another mini unit on patterns this week.
• L.A.
• Spelling: Practice those Lesson 4 words!  Our dictation assessment will be on Thursday.
• Writing: We continue to write personal responses to different topics related to "peace."  These will all come together in a found poem.
• Science: In our Wheels and Levers unit we are going to learn about force and work.
• Social: This week we will discover more about the Foothills Region, particularly connections to nature and the natural resources in the area.

This Week's Schedule:

Monday:

• Samayoa and Rahim library books due

Tuesday:

• Nelson library books due
• School Council meeting 6:30 p.m.
• Hot lunch orders due online by 10:00 p.m.

Wednesday:

• Rock Your Mocs Day
• After school skating 3:45 p.m. at Adam's Ice Arena

Thursday:

• Alberta Opera presentation, "Jack and the Beanstalk" 9:30 a.m.

Friday:

• Frolicking Friday
• Report cards go home

Week of Nov. 5-10, 2017

Winter has arrived!  Check in with the Helen Schuler Nature Centre to get some great ideas for getting outside in the snowy weather.

Notes:

• Everyone is welcome at our Remembrance Day assembly on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.
• Thursday is a professional learning day for teachers - no school for students.
• Friday is a holiday for Remembrance Day.

Curriculum:

• Math: We are working on solving addition and subtraction word problems this week and will have a quick assessment to see how students are doing with their adding and subtracting 3- and 4-digit numbers.  Please keep up the basic adding and subtracting practice at home!  We've learned some fun games at school that are great to play as a family.  Some students need practice doing adding and subtracting with regrouping (i.e. carrying and borrowing).
• L.A.
• We are going to write personal response pieces this week to do with peace that will eventually be turned into a poem.
• Science: Our new unit, Wheels and Levers, starts today!
• Social: In the Foothills region, we will finish off with climate and move on to vegetation and animal life.

This Week's Schedule:
Monday:

• Friday Letters due
• Samayoa and Rahim library books due

Tuesday:

• Nelson library books due

Wednesday:

• Remembrance Day assembly 10:30 a.m. in the gym
• After school skate 3:45

Thursday:

• District Learning Day - no school for students

Friday:

• Remembrance Day holiday - no school