Friday, November 23rd

Thank you to everyone who came in for parent teacher conferences this week. It was great to update you on your child's progress in Grade 4. 

This week we continued with descriptive writing. We wrote about a picture prompt of an enchanted land. To  prepared to wrote detail generating questions to generate ideas and we planned sensory words that could be included. 

We worked hard to finish our cardboard challenge indoor recess games. We hope you enjoyed looking at them! Next week we will focus on instruction writing to go along with these games.

In Science we finished our compost posters. We will be presenting them to all the classrooms in the school next week and implementing their compost bins. 

In Social Studies we have continued learning about the natural features of Alberta's regions. 

In Math we have been playing a variety of games to reinforce our mental math, addition and subtraction skills. 

Next Week's Spelling Pattern:

The Sound F - Since this week was busy and short we will be continuing this pattern next week.

The sound /f/ can be spelled in different ways. 

Practice Words:

Photo        Graph         laugh       cough       trophy        shelf    friend        enough       stiff           giraffe       nephew     

Reminders:

The Alex Donations - We are now collecting donations for the Alex Youth Center. We are collecting warm socks filled with hygienic products such as toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, lotion, body wash, soap, deodorant, hand sanitizer, etc. Please indicate if the sock is stuffed for a girl or boy. These will be donated to homeless youth in need. On Friday November 30th we will have an assembly with more information. Donations are being accepted from November 26th-December 19th. 

Field Trip - On December 11th we will be going on our visit out of school field trip to Fort Calgary. Thank you to everyone who volunteered. Field trip forms went home this week. Please fill them in and return them by Monday, November 26th. 

No School December 7th - On Friday December 7th the teachers have a professional development day and students have no school.  

Winter Concert - This year the winter concert will be on December 19th. The performance times are below. 

Daytime: 

12:50pm-1:45pm:  Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2.

1:55pm- 2:55pm: Grade 3, Grade 4

Evening:

5:30pm-6:30pm: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

7:00pm-8:00pm:  Grade 3, Grade 4.

Winter Weather Clothes - Please remember to have children bring snow pants and boots during the colder, wet season. The field can get very wet as snow melts. Extra socks in their backpack would be great as well.