At this time I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and trust that everyone will have some time to relax and be with family over the break while enjoying the start of a New Year!
In terms of classroom activities and curriculum here's a quick run down on what we were up to this week...
In Math this week we concentrated hard and continued to build on our fluency and accuracy with basic multiplication facts. We held a unit quiz to assess everyone's understanding of basic multiplication and everyone did really well. Our class average on the exam was roughly 89%, with a large number of students scoring in the 90-95% range! Upon our return in January we will be taking the next step and beginning to look at multiple digit X multiple digit equations, ie. 472 X 39 or 593 X 863.
In Language Arts we continued on with our routine language activities, and shifted our writing focus this week to all about Elves! Building on our role as elves in our Christmas concert we played around with an online elf name generator and all gave ourselves elf names to use in our various writing assignments. With one task we wrote about what our daily routines would be; in another we wrote about what we did for work for Santa; and with another we wrote about how Santa got his elves.
This month's home reading Laser City winner is Jenna! Congratulations on your win and congratulations for continuing to read at home in the evenings.
In Social Studies we continued to work with the topics of Native pictographs and petroglyphs. Our study of Writing on Stone provincial park here in Southern Alberta lead us to the creation of our native "picture" tales (see above). Using our "hides" we created adventure tales using both English and native picture symbols. Our study of the people of Alberta and how they influenced our province's development will continue into the new year as we expand into the fur trade and the arrival of European settlers.
Events News
Christmas Concert
What a fantastic night! The kids are hard work definitely played off as they managed to perform two fantastic shows! Throughout the entire rehearsal process our class has received rave reviews for how hard they work and how well they listen and sing - which only affirms everything I see on a day to day basis in class.
Super work Singing Elves!
Wolverine Ski Club
Our first Wolverine ski club field trip to Rabbit Hill was held on Thursday, December 22nd...and from all student accounts it was a great kick off event for our school's ski/snowboard club!
For those students who are interested the next club trip to Rabbit Hill is Scheduled for Wednesday, January 11th. The required permission forms and fee information is available now on-line. The required forms and fees must be received no later than January 6th in order to be eligible to attend the trip. If you missed the first trip you are still most definitely welcome to attend any or all of the remaining trips - the more, the merrier!
Upcoming Events
Friday, January 6 - Deadline to submit payment and permission slips for 2nd Ski Club trip
Monday, January 9 - First day back to classes
Wednesday, January 11 - Early dismissal at 2:30PM
Wednesday, January 11 - Wolverine Ski Club trip to Rabbit Hill (3:30PM -9:00PM)
Thursday, January 12 - Library: Book Exchange
Thursday, January 12 - Bake Sale: 50 cents/item
That's everything for this week, thank you and have a great holiday break!
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