December 9 to 13

 

Thank you to all the amazing volunteers who made our day at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary possible.  Whether you came with us on the trip or you volunteered with Stampede Parking or a Casino.  Everyone had an amazing day out on the land looking for evidence of the urban wildlife in Calgary!

This week we also had a chance to work with our grade 4 buddies to create a prototype for a winter problem.

Literacy:

Over this week and next week as well, we have been wrapping up our study the sounds for all the alphabet.  Our final letters are j, y, x, qu, v, and z.

Our new heart words are: was, you, what, have, 

Reminders:

Spirit Days:

Monday, December 16 - Red and Green Day

Tuesday, December 17 - Jersey Day

Wednesday, December 18 - Holiday Hat and/or Crazy Hair

Thursday, December 19 - Pajama Day

Friday, December 20 - Clubs Day

Wednesday, December 18

- Library Book Exchange 

Friday, December 20

- Last day of classes before winter break

- Clubs

Saturday, December 21 to Sunday, January 5

- Winter Break - NO SCHOOL

Monday, January 6

- First day back to class

December 2 - 6

 

Just a reminder that tomorrow is our field trip to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary.  This is a winter themed field trip and will be outside for a majority of the day.  Please ensure your child is dressed for the weather.  Your child will also need a snack, lunch, water bottle, and an empty backpack.

I Can Create a Work of Art Using Different Colours of Paint

We used watercolours to create a sunset scene.  Students had to be careful to make sure they cleaned their brush in-between each colour so they could get a nice banding of colour to represent the sunset.

Literacy:

This week we worked with the letters and sounds for w and j.

We added the heart words: was

Reminders:

Monday, December 9

- Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Field Trip

Wednesday, December 11

- Library Book Exchange 

Thursday, December 12

- Spirit of Giving Holiday Event 5:30 - 7:30pm, 

We would like to invite families to join us in celebrating the Spirit of Giving on December 12^th from 5:30-7:30. We will be hosting an open house during this time, where families can participate in various activities that celebrate the season and give back to our community. We will be donating all of our creations to various local organizations. We encourage families to bring a food donation for the Calgary Food Bank that evening. Please join us any time between 5:30 and 7:30 for family fun, including crafts, singing, stories, refreshments, and more. Since this is a family event, we expect all attending students to be supervised by their families.  

Spirit Days:

Monday, December 16 - Red and Green Day

Tuesday, December 17 - Jersey Day

Wednesday, December 18 - Holiday Hat and/or Crazy Hair

Thursday, December 19 - Pajama Day

Friday, December 20 - Clubs Day

Friday, December 20

- Last day of classes before winter break

Monday, January 6

- First day back to class

November 25 - 28

 

This week (and last week) we learned about the artist Henri Matisse and his work with stained glass.   He created stained glass and wall murals  for a chapel in Vence, France shortly after WWII.  He agreed to take on this commission as a form of gratitude for a nurse that had helped him recover from cancer.

We learned that art was often made up of organic and geometric shapes.  For this project we focused on cutting organic shapes from paper to create our own "stained glass windows".  We are not quite done this project and will finish our last step next week.

I Can Talk About and Draw the Different Features in Different Types of Communities

This week in social studies, we continued learning about different community types.  Students worked on representing urban communities in their visual journals.

Literacy:

This week we worked with the letters and sounds r /r/ and l /l/.

Our new heart word is: from

Reminders:

Wednesday, December 4

- Library Book Exchange 

Monday, December 9

- Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Field Trip

Thursday, December 12

- Spirit of Giving Holiday Event 5:30 - 7:30pm, 

We would like to invite families to join us in celebrating the Spirit of Giving on December 12^th from 5:30-7:30. We will be hosting an open house during this time, where families can participate in various activities that celebrate the season and give back to our community. We will be donating all of our creations to various local organizations. We encourage families to bring a food donation for the Calgary Food Bank that evening. Please join us any time between 5:30 and 7:30 for family fun, including crafts, singing, stories, refreshments, and more. Since this is a family event, we expect all attending students to be supervised by their families.  

Friday, December 20

- Last day of classes before winter break