Weekly Update - January 9 - 13

It has been a great week back to school! The kiddos have gotten back into the routine like they never left. 

In Math, we took the week to review what we had learned before the break, including addition and subtraction with regrouping, decimals, and multiplication.

In Language Arts and Literacy, we started our inquiry about story writing. We will be using the guiding questions, What makes a story engaging? We took the time to read and take apart The Bad Seed book series. Students got the opportunity to identify and act out different components of the stories such as the hook, problem, solution, setting, etc. We will be building on story writing over the next couple weeks. 

Link to Dustin Short Film



In Social Studies, we are learning about physical geography of specific places. Grade 3's are looking at India and Grade 4's are looking at Alberta. 

In Science, we started to explore light and shadow. Looking at the different forms of light as well as beginning to understand energy. 

Class Pet 

Our class pets have finally arrived! We got two vampire crabs, one male and one female. The students have been super excited to observe them throughout the day. They are still getting used to their new enclosure and are timid but they do pop out from time to time. 


Reminder: We go outside each day, students should bring appropriate clothing and footwear for the day.

Friendly Reminders: 

  • Monday, January 30 - Report Cards (online) 
  • Friday, February 3 - No School - Non-Instructional Day
  • Thursday, February 16 & Friday, February 17 - No School - Teachers Convention 
  • Monday, February 20 - No School - Family Day 

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