Grade 3/4 Mountain Plover/Swift Fox (Paterson/Cox)

Important Dates: Student Led Conferences     -Booking opens Saturday morning for Thursday afternoon and Friday  No School Friday 15th for Conferences We are excited for families to come in to see some of the amazing work the students are preparing to share with you. Welcome to our Scholastic Book Fair!   Wednesday Mar 20 to Fri Mar 22     What?     Student purchases during school and family purchases during parent conferences, for students, please help your child by sending their money in a baggie or envelope with their first and last name on it in their backpack, not on their person.   Wondering how much things cost?   The average book is $8.00 to $17.00 and bookmarks/erasers/pencils/gadgets start at $1.00 and go up to about $17.00 for diaries.   Debit and Credit is accepted.   For those wishing to surprise their child with purchases or gift them at a later date, please e-mail our school librarian at blcarde@cbe.ab.ca and she will arrange for ...

Way to go with swimming all week, students!  We also want to say a huge thank you to all of the parents who were able to volunteer! Upcoming Dates: Student Led Conferences - March 21-22 (Sign up will come out in the next little while) Our Week: Swimming!! After returning from swimming each day the students were quite tired so our inquiry work with wheels and axles and levers was a good way to keep students engaged!  Students have been designing, building and testing their devices.   Math: While we continue to develop our multiplication and division skills, we took some time to create analog clocks and discuss time as well. Social Studies: We are continuing to read, "Ticket To Curlew" which is a novel about a family who moved to Alberta and settled the land over 100 years ago.  We are learning about the land, tools, housing and life on the prairies long ago.

Dates to remember:   March 4-8  -K & Gr 3/4 Swimming (Bring a small bag with towel, bathing suit if not wearing it, extra underwear, snack) Thursday, March 07 -Fun Snack  Pink Shirt Day! A virtual visit from Monique Gray Smith, a celebrated Indigenous author of several books including, When We are Kind and You Hold Me Up. These books were a large part of our learning this week as we participated in the Pink Shirt Day initiative.  As part of our Pink Shirt Day work, we created symmetrical hearts. Within the hearts, we found 90-degree and 45-degree angles, and parallel lines, and even used a geometric tool called a 'Mira' to help us see both symmetry and congruence.  It was so fun being in the Hub/MakerSpace this week.  We designed pink shirts using a variety of materials available and programmed our Indi cars to make the shape of a heart using our knowledge of angles.   Inquiry: The Bison, through giving its life and sharing every part of its b...

  Dates to Remember:  March 4 - 7 - Swimming We are still looking for volunteers for swimming for our two classes (especially male volunteers for the boy's change room). Please follow this link if you are available to volunteer and have your police clearance. Swimming Volunteers Ignite - Indi Cars/Geometry challenge Make a course for your Indi car on grid paper, did you have any 90 degree angles, 45 degree angles, parallel lines, is it symmetrical? Outside fun! Our first prototype of our wheel and axle project.  Building devices with 4 wheels.  We have shopping carts, trains, buses, wheelchairs and even a portable toilet. Math: Students are working on expanding their knowledge of multiplication and division while practicing their basic facts to build fluency. Literacy: As we read our fable of choice, we have been making predictions based on the limited information from the story. As we continue to read, our predictions change and strengthen as we gain more informatio...

Important Dates to remember:  Feb 15-16: Teacher Convention- no school Feb 19: Family Day- no school Feb 21 : EHS School Council Meeting - 6:30 PM  This past week, we applied some of our gymnastics skills and did mission impossible!  While we investigate simple machines we have also looked at Alberta in the past and the technology at the time.  We came to learn that the means of transportation slowly changed over time. Did you know that horses are not native to Alberta?  How do you think hoses came to Alberta?  Part of our Valentine's Day celebration was spent surveying our classmates about their favorite chocolate bars. We used tally marks and created a bar graph to record our data. We then used our bar graph to inform us about what chocolate bar is most popular or least popular.  We could also tell how many more or less students liked a certain chocolate bar.   

Important Dates: - Teacher's Convention (Thursday, Friday) - Family Day (Next Monday) - Please return swimming forms by Monday Happy Lunar New Year!  Today a student shared red envelopes with everyone.  Thanks so much!  Best wishes for 2024! Gymnastics!  Math: We have been learning about what multiplication is and various strategies we can use when multiplying.   -Making Equal Groups -Skip Counting -Using a Number Line -Using and making Arrays What do you know about Alberta's regions?  After gathering research and documenting our findings we have started to present our learning! We are now experts!  Learning about the Lunar New Year: Science: Our recent experience at Telus Spark has inspired us to inquire about the brilliant Leonardo Da Vinci who was a  painter, engineer, and scientist.  We have been learning the story of how Leonardo's Mona Lisa was stolen and then returned to the L ouvre Museum. We are going to take this information a...