Week of Dec. 11-15

Important Dates:

Spirit Days! Last Week of School:

Monday Dec.18 – Do You Wanna Build a Snowman (dress like a snowman or in silvery/blue colours)

Tuesday Dec.19 - Mad about Plaid

Wednesday Dec.20 - Tree Topper Day (festive hair or hats) + Christmas Carols in the gym in the afternoon

Thursday Dec.21 - Wear your favourite pjs 

Friday Dec.22 - dress like your favourite holiday character

Dec. 22 - Last day of school before the Winter Break

January 8 - Classes Resume

Big Thanks to all of the families who gave to Families Helping Families!

We were so appreciative of your generosity.

Our Week:

Art

Mr. Kelly was in this week and led us in a guided drawing of a Martian landscape.  

We also created gnomes using 3D shapes and crafting materials.  Those will come home next week in time for the holidays.

Some students were asked to support our K friends with some work:)

Math

This week we continued to build our level of understanding of addition and subtraction in both grades.  Mrs. Cox's group was working with missing addends, missing subtrahends and balancing equations while Ms. Patterson's group was working on regrouping with larger numbers.

We also continued our work with geometric shapes and are exploring various polygons, parallel lines as well as perpendicular lines.  

Literacy

Students who have completed their narrative writing started to write some Christmas themed short stories based on some funny writing prompts.  We continued our active reading strategies using Raz-Kids.  Literacy groups will start up again after Christmas.

Inquiry

While learning and researching the geographic regions of Alberta, we are studying Alberta's natural resources.  We paused our research to discuss this topic more specifically.  We are looking into renewable resources and non-renewable resources.  In science we have been doing some coding work with the Indi Cars.