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June 19

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Happy Friday, Everyone! This week, we read Ablaze With Colour - the story of Alma Thomas (an art teacher who didn't start her own art career "seriously" until she was in her 70s!) That's a fun fact, but the real focus of this book was on treating people with respect regardless of their skin colour. After all, we all want the same things - a happy, healthy family, love and laughter, fun celebrations and good snacks!!  Students had the option to create their Alma Inspired artwork with paper pieces (we chopped all the paper on Thursday) or with guache paint. They also chose the size and style of paper that they wanted.  We brought in some lunch tables to give ourselves more elbow room. I love how each art piece was unique but also similar. Just like us! Math card games are a great way to practice basic facts. Almost all of our plants have gone home now. Students had a nasturtium, bean or radish plant. We learned that there are three ways to harvest plants (manually, with...
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June 12th

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Grade 2 Update Please welcome Shirin, our new Grade 2 student.  As we get closer to summer, a reminder that library books and home reading books in red folders need to come back to school. Thank you. We encourage families to continue reading over the summer by visiting the Calgary Public Library. Grade 3 is often considered the final year for direct reading instruction, so continuing to practice over the summer is very helpful.  Please let me know if your child will be leaving early for summer holidays. In Science, we have been learning about deciduous and coniferous trees by exploring the trees in our schoolyard. We looked at a tree cookie and counted its rings to learn about age and time. Our sample was 32 years old. We also learned about the parts of a woody stem and how tree rings show the passage of time. In Math, students explored transformations including turns, slides, and flips using their initials. They created colourful shape art with patterns and built 3D shape mon...
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