April 22nd, 2022

 Hello Families, 

This week in Literacy our focus was on clarifying tricky words. As a class we read the book "Watercress." We paused throughout the story to pay special attention to some challenging words. We discussed strategies when we come across words we don't know such as reading the sentence to think of what makes sense. Some new words that we came across included: glinting, squelching and abrupt. Working together we used the context of the story to gain the definition of these words and use them in our own sentences. 

A couple of other notes of upcoming events: 

-Next week expect a field trip form in your child's backpack. We are scheduled to spend the day at Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation area on May 4th! If you would like to volunteer for this trip please email me at dajackson@cbe.ab.ca and I can send home the volunteer forms as well.

-If you have any empty cardboard cereal boxes, We are looking to collect them for an upcoming project in Math. If you could bring any to school that would be fantastic!

Thanks and have a great weekend,

Drew 

This week in math with Ms. Yasin, students explored fact families! This involved looking at 3 related numbers and identifying their addition and subtraction relationships. Further, students were able to use this learning to find missing numbers in their fact families and create related facts from an addition or subtraction equation. 

^{Music Update}

Grades 1-6 were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to view the Opera The Brothers Grimm performed by Calgary Opera.  This was a free virtual performance we watched during music time.  We did have a few students away and a few wanted to share it with their families.  I have attached the link which is live until April 29^th at 6:00PM.  Please feel free to view it.  The program is about 50 minutes.  We will be doing follow up activities in music class next week around this performance.  If you have any questions please don't hesitate to email me.

https://vimeo.com/695497598/fd19ee568b