January 20 - 24

January 20 - 24

We started off the week with a trip to Rabbit Hill. The students took ski or snowboard lessons and then they spent the day practicing their new skills. They had a lot of fun and progressed so much! We are looking forward to our next trip to Rabbit Hill in March!

Our Kidblog writing schedule this week included:

Talk About it Tuesday - Rabbit Hill Field Trip

WeSearch Wednesday - Skating

3, 2, 1 Thursday - Week in Review

The students did a great job of performing the song “Cool Kind Kid” at the Friday morning assembly. The song was chosen to go along with the school theme for the month, which is manners and good behaviour. 

LA

We started a novel study this week. Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl is about a cunning fox who outwits three farmers at every turn. Mr. Fox doesn't realize how determined the farmers are to get him! 

This whole group novel study allows the students the opportunity to read aloud to the class. This helps to build their fluency, expression and confidence. After every couple chapters, we complete various activities on vocabulary and comprehension.

Math

We began our new unit in math on Multiplication and Division. The main focus this week was on sets and groups. The students were asked to determine which information was provided and which was not among: how many sets, how many in each set, how many altogether.

Social

We learned about buffalo and how they were essential to the survival of the First Nations People, especially the Plains people. Every part of the buffalo/bison was used. Buffalo jumps, buffalo pounds, snow banks and water holes were all used by the First Nations people to hunt these animals. We watched this video https://safeshare.tv/x/ss599219b85301b to learn more about the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Southern Alberta.

Thank you to Kairo's mom, Jasmine, for sharing some of her knowledge of the Cree culture and language with us. The students even learned the numbers 1-10 in Cree! 

PE

We spent 3 days at the Dale Fisher Arena, practicing our skating skills. We were lucky enough to have some NAX players and coaches on the ice for the last 2 days. The students had a blast developing their skating skills while playing games and rotating through stations. Thank you so much to the volunteers who came to help tie skates and go on the ice with the students! 

 

 

Thank you to Ryker's family for bringing hot chocolate for our WHOLE CLASS!! What a treat to enjoy after skating on Thursday! 

Art

We added the finishing touches to our Birch Tree and Birds pictures and they are now on display. They look fantastic!

We spent some time on Friday afternoon drawing in our sketchpads with 4A. The students were given the choice of using ArtHub for Kids, or just free drawing. They really enjoyed having the opportunity to be creative with friends from the other class.

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!

Our Student of the Week is also collecting pop tabs for wheelchairs. He would love if you saved yours for him and sent them to school to add to his container! Thank you!