Monday, December 18th, 2017

Good afternoon families,

Welcome to the last week of school for the year 2017. Students will be busy this week wrapping their work up so that they can start fresh in 2018. Please note that students return to school on Tuesday, January 9th, 2018.

Students are working on their individual culminating tasks related to our shared reading of "The Wild Robot". Some of the work includes creating digital book trailers, building an animal structure, creating an inspirational life lessons handbook, and writing a newspaper article on the author Peter Brown. 

To continue our study in Measurement, students are collecting data on a question that can be answered using measurement tools such as stop watches, measuring tape, meter sticks or weight scales. We are learning how to make sure that the data that we collect is accurate. Students were busy today collecting data from their classmates... enjoy the photographs that I was able to capture of true mathematicians at work. The next step will be to organize our data using a bar graph. 


A few reminders for this week:

Thursday, December 21st- Last Day of school for students. This is a full day. Wear your Holiday Sweaters! 

If your child will not be here for the entire week, please notify Mrs. Morden as soon as possible. 

Have a wonderful evening,
Mrs. Morden

Concert Information for Thursday, December 14

Concert Tickets will go home today, if you know that you will not be attending the concert on Thursday, December 14th at 7:30 please notify Mrs. Morden & return your tickets so that they can be given to another family. 

·   All families receive 2 tickets to the concert.  If you need more tickets there is a sign up list and it is possible we may be able to accommodate your requests.  Families are also able to attend our Dress Rehearsal on Thursday, December 14th at 1:00pm without a ticket.

Students are asked to arrive at the school on Thursday at 7:10 and meet their teacher in the classroom. Students do not have to wear anything special for the concert, but may choose to. Please do not wear hats.

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Are you ready to part with your child’s Halloween candy leftovers??? We’re looking for Halloween candy donations (chocolate bars and candy) that we will package as goodie bags for our upcoming Family Dance concession stand. 

There will be a box at the Winter Concert for your donations.

Thank you in advance.

Council

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Our school community is supporting this important community project again this year. You can choose to send non-perishable food to school during the month of December and families can bring a food donation to our Winter Concert on December 14.

In Alberta, one in ten individuals experience food insecurity, with 17% of Alberta's children living in food insecure households. In Calgary, 47% of Calgary Food Bank clients are families with children. The Calgary Food Bank is the first line of emergency food support for families and individuals facing crisis.

We can work together to fight hunger. If you, or someone you know needs support with access to food, please contact our school office.

Updates

Hello parents!

Our Winter Concert is only one week away!

Students performing in the 6:00 show (Mumford, Arnold, Loewen, Link, Green, Brown, Midgley,)  need to arrive at school at 5:40 pm on Thursday Dec. 14. 

Students performing in the 7:30 show (Burnham, Grant, Morden, Bouchard, Gray, Thomas, Ireland)   need to arrive  at school at 7:10 pm on Thursday Dec. 14.

Students in Grades 1-4 can wear what they like to the concert.  No hats please so we can see everyone’s smiling faces when they are on the stage! 

Thank you for your support, the student’s are very excited!

Julie Kawchuk

Jrhayneskawc@cbe.ab.ca

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School Council Message:

Are you ready to part with your child’s Halloween candy leftovers??? We’re looking for Halloween candy donations (chocolate bars and candy) that we will package as goodie bags for our upcoming Family Dance concession stand.