Weekly Update: June 21

Happy last Friday of the year everyone!

We started the week with our field trip to the Royal Tyrrell Museum! Students had a blast digging for dinosaur bones, going on a hike in the badlands, and competing in a relay race as a pack of raptors.



For math, students finished their work on algebra with a review and a final test. The remainder of the year will be spent working on our math fluency, and practicing our skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

In ELAL, students had a final reading assessment and for National Indigenous Peoples Day, learned about treaty 7 and the Siksika Nation. After learning about the Siksika Nation's coat of arms, students created their own coat of arms on our last community walk of the year. At their sit spot, students including images and symbols in a coat of arms, and described how the images/symbols were important to them. They then shared one important image during a sharing circle.



In Science, students observed a teacher demonstration of combining baking soda and vinegar to create carbon dioxide. Students then learned about carbon dioxide, how it is produced and what makes up the air in our atmosphere. 

Students also had the opportunity to create drama games to play with our grade 2 buddies this week. They created a game in groups of 3, tested them out on our class, revised them with feedback, then taught the games to the grade 2 students.

A few reminders:

  • Next week is the last week of school! We have school Monday to Thursday
  • Monday is Crazy Hair Day
  • Tuesday is Activity Day
  • Thursday is the last day of school and will be a half day (students dismissed at 12:41pm)

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