Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Agenda for Week 16 - Dec 16-20

Agenda for Week 16 - Dec 16-20
Bloggers are 4 special people:  
Daily Five: Elaina  Math: Josie  Science: Taylor   Social Studies: Keely
Photographer:  Emmaline
Recess Green Team: Liam and Cedar
Important Items This Week: 
  • Carolling in the learning commons
  • no school on Friday - classes start again on Mon Jan 6 
  • Plates and containers left behind on Festive Evening are on the shelves just inside the main door if you would like to pick them up.
  • Students will be encouraged to bring all winter clothing home for the break.

Monday

  • last day for Fill a Sock
  • Polar Express day
Tuesday

  • carolling at 9 am


Wednesday
  • carolling in library
  • Library Day
Thursday

  • last day of school


Friday

  • no school

Sunday, December 15, 2019

End of Week 15!

End of Week 15! 

Important for next week!

  • Polar Express Day Monday - wear your christmas clothes/pajamas or your Dr. Coffin shirt!
  • Fill a Sock  Campaign- One more day to donate! The deadline has been extended to Monday! Dr. Coffin will support the Drop In Center’s “Fill a Sock, Fill a Need” Campaign again this winter season. On Christmas morning the Drop in Center likes to surprise their clients with a sock filled with the things that we all need on a day-to-day basis. Here are some of the items we are collecting starting on Monday: Socks (this will be what we use to stuff everything into), Gloves, mitts and hats, Lip balm, Travel size toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Hand Warmers, Calgary Transit tickets, Cough drops, Travel mugs, Deodorant, Brushes and combs, Chocolates and Candies, Razors and shaving cream, Travel size Shampoo and conditioner.
Special Report from our classroom bloggers: 

Josie, our Daily Five blogger reports:

This week in Daily Five we finished our plan for our Roll A Story. We conferenced with Ms Cowdy and we started writing. We also did snowman synonyms for word work.

Taylor, our Math blogger reports:

This week in math we got new math stretches and they were Christmas ones!For math we had a practice test so Ms Cowdy can see what we know. It was very fun!

Keely, our Science blogger reports:

In Science this week, we participated in the rocks and minerals presentation at the Glenbow Museum. On FAF, we made ice volcanoes. We did a fabulous job singing our Rock around the Christmas tree song at the Festive Evening.

Liam, our Social Studies blogger says:
This week in Social Studies, we did slides about the Glenbow museum artifacts.

These are pictures taken by Joachim: 
























Videos from our FAF volcano building!

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Agenda for Week 15 - Dec 9-13

Agenda for Week 15 - Dec 9-13
Bloggers are 4 special people:  Taylor, Liam, Josie, Keely. They will be reporting on the things we did this week. 
Photographer:  Joachim
Recess Green Team: Elaina and Emmaline
Important Items This Week: 
  • Fill a Sock  Campaign- Running from Monday Dec. 9 – Friday Dec. 13, Dr. Coffin will support the Drop In Center’s “Fill a Sock, Fill a Need” Campaign again this winter season. On Christmas morning the Drop in Center likes to surprise their clients with a sock filled with the things that we all need on a day-to-day basis. Here are some of the items we are collecting starting on Monday: Socks (this will be what we use to stuff everything into), Gloves, mitts and hats, Lip balm, Travel size toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Hand Warmers, Calgary Transit tickets, Cough drops, Travel mugs, Deodorant, Brushes and combs, Chocolates and Candies, Razors and shaving cream, Travel size Shampoo and conditioner.
  • The annual Festive Evening takes place on December 12, 2019. Details and a link to RSVP was sent out to families on Wednesday, December 4.
Monday

  • Field trip to Glenbow Museum


Tuesday

  • Please finish your daily Five planner sheet.


Wednesday
  • Library Day
Thursday

Friday

  • FAF - dress for the weather


Friday, December 6, 2019

End of Week 14!

End of Week 14! 

Important for next week!

  • Field Trip to Glenbow Monday - don't forget your lunch - we are still missing some forms! Please bring them in by Monday morning!
  • Festive Evening is next Thursday night. Our class will be singing!
  • Fill a Sock  Campaign- Running from Monday Dec. 9 – Friday Dec. 13, Dr. Coffin will support the Drop In Center’s “Fill a Sock, Fill a Need” Campaign again this winter season. On Christmas morning the Drop in Center likes to surprise their clients with a sock filled with the things that we all need on a day-to-day basis. Here are some of the items we are collecting starting on Monday: Socks (this will be what we use to stuff everything into), Gloves, mitts and hats, Lip balm, Travel size toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Hand Warmers, Calgary Transit tickets, Cough drops, Travel mugs, Deodorant, Brushes and combs, Chocolates and Candies, Razors and shaving cream, Travel size Shampoo and conditioner.
Special Report from our classroom bloggers:

Emmaline, our Social Studies blogger says:
This week in Social Studies, we watched a video about Calgary in the 1940's. We talked about what events changed Calgary's growth. 

Keely, our Math blogger reports:
This week in math we worked on textbook pages and continued our math stretch. Grade three practiced ordering numbers. Grade four continues learning about sorting numbers using venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams. 

Taylor, our Daily Five blogger reports:
This week in Daily Five group 2 worked on a new word work page. It was Santa similes.We also moved onto WOW#9, we are writing a Christmas story. The stage we are at now is the planning stage.

Liam, our Science blogger reports:
In Science today we asked the big question, "Will a mountain last forever?" We looked at what would happen if we took a ice rock and shook it around. We did a hypothesis and conclusion on our ice rocks and went over the answers with the teacher.


These are pictures taken by Jiarui: