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 Welcome to our 2022-2023 agenda/blog. I am so excited share what we are doing in our classroom community through this platform. Each week, myself or a student will update the learning of that week. Sometimes we may include photos, videos and/or student work. Similarly, we'll include important dates, homework and to do items. Looking forward to a great year with you and your child.

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May 16, 2023

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  Our week was a bit hampered due to the smoke (no walk and being stuck inside), however students were very adaptable.  A reminder that cell phones should not be out/visible during school hours.  The first PAT on writing was a success grade 6 students worked hard. The next ones are not until the end of June. We are so proud of their hard work. We hope that the smoke clears up and we are able to do a walk next week on Wednesday morning.  ELA:  students reviewed newspaper writing before the PAT  started poetry and will continue with poetry for the rest of May getting close to finishing Mars Patel podcast: Ask your child what they liked about it? What character they connected with most?  MATH: we continued with probability, experimenting with dice and spinners  Students learned about theoretical and experimental probability  next week we will continue with probabilty and some more experiments SCIENCE: looked at tires  How do scientist...
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February 15th

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February 2, 2023

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  February is Black History Month, we will be exploring and learning about Black Canadians. The goal of these activities is to give students the opportunity to learn about the ways Black Canadians have contributed to Canadian History and culture.   We will be doing gymnastics for the next week, students must have on appropriate clothing and have their hair tied back.  Here is the Learn Alberta student resource that may be useful to use at home, there are interactive activities and printable resources as as well  https://curriculum.learnalberta.ca/student-learning-hub/en/home Some of the topics that we will be covering in the future are: Chemistry:  Students learn about the properties and interactions of some safe to handle household liquids and solids. They test a variety of materials to see what happens when things are mixed together: what dissolves, what reacts and what remains unaffected. They discover that when a solid material dissolves, it can be reco...
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