Learning Update for March 9-13
Great job students in room 2 for participating in your first term's class council sponsored ECO CHALLENGE last week. Each challenge had a set of points in hopes of getting to 100 points. Together, they managed to get over 300! This was such an amazing demonstration of environmental stewards. Thank you to B, S, and I as our outgoing Class Council for all of the time you put in over the past few months to build class culture and plan activities for your classmates.
Reminders:
- Email for signing up for upcoming learning conferences will be coming out to you this week. Conferences will be Thursday, March 19 in the evening and during the morning of Friday, March 20. This set will be student led, which provides an opportunity for you to spend some more time in the classroom to view, interact, and ask your child to explain about their work. There are four time slots open for each of the available hours of the conference times. You should set aside about 30 minutes around the time you book. There will be other students and their families in the room sharing their work too. The time within the hour you are booked into is flexible as we know we have families with other classrooms to attend to as well. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me: anmoore@cbe.ab.ca
- Lifetouch Photo orders are due Tuesday, March 10
- Please ensure your child is dressed for the weather, mornings can be cold and all students should have a jacket should the weather turn throughout the day.
- Students are starting a science project that requires a glass jar or a clear plastic container (food clamshells) to show their work in. Please set aside if you have small pieces of fabric, plastic containers, odds and ends that you no longer need. The project is to create a planet from their research in a jar/container that can be viewed 360 degrees. Students should use recyclable or reusable materials that can be re-imagined at their materials to show the planet's composition. We would liek to limit the impact the project has on the environment so minimal plasticine and glue should be used. Students and I have brainstormed these items so they should have some ideas of things they could use. If you have extra jars or plastic containers, please send those along if you can.
- Class Elections will be on Wednesday. Candidates will be giving their speeches on Tuesday with an opportunity for voters to ask questions to help them decide their next Mayor, Grade 5 and Grade 6 Representative.
- Spring Break will be March 23-29, with classes resuming Monday, March 30.
- Please help keep everyone healthy and safe. Review the CBE Updates regarding the Corona Virus: https://www.cbe.ab.ca/news-centre/Pages/coronavirus-update-for-cbe-families.aspx
- Inline skating continues until March 17.
ELA Writing-students are focusing on narrative story writing. They have been working on developing story plans that include all the parts for the story to help them develop organization and include the necessary content to write the whole story. This week we will be looking at writing story beginnings that hook a reader in.