December 12th

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Happy Friday! 

The Heritage Hand Project was sent home today.  

• It is due Monday or Tuesday next week, Wednesday at the latest.
• Fingers: draw or write family or community traditions (things you do again and again)
Examples: birthday traditions, Sunday dinner, camping, dancing, going to grandma’s house, celebrating holidays, special meals, sports you always do together...
• Palm: draw or write your heritage (passed down through generations and part of your deeper family history) Examples: family or country flag, family name, cultural clothing, traditional foods
• Colour the whole hand neatly and brightly
• We will present on Wednesday

Here is an example from another class: 

Language Arts and Social Studies
• Responded to a sentence or question we connected to after reading Night Tree by Eve Bunting
• Created an Arctic word web and used it to write facts in complete sentences independently
• Editing skills: makes sense?, finger spaces, capitals, punctuation
• Phonics focus: compound words, open and closed syllables, ing ending





Math
• Skip counting by 20s, 25s, and 50s
• Adding collections of coins
• Choosing the correct coins to show an amount

Social Studies
• Natural resources vs human-made items
• Town command cards now include land and water forms
• Learning the difference between traditions and heritage

Art
• Finger crochet and weaving
• Oil Pastel - inspired by Night Tree, a Christmas tree from the point of view of the animals as they visit the family's home

 Classroom News

• A bean bag has been donated to our classroom, and the children love it
• New classroom tradition: Reading to Baby Yoda
• Naduk and Clara created a list of classroom jobs that we will start soon

The Magic of Christmas

Every year, MTS supports a charity of choice to demonstrate the characteristics of citizenship. This holiday season, we are asking MTS students and community to once again support The Magic of Christmas. This charity loads up magically transformed Calgary Transit buses that look like Reindeer Buses on Christmas Eve with gifts and volunteers dressed as Santa and his elves. These Reindeer buses deliver the Christmas spirit to homes and families that need it most. In previous years our school community has demonstrated their generous nature by filling box after box of new toys, and personal and household items in order to spread some magic during the holiday season. Thank you in advance for your support of this charity. We will be collecting items until Thursday, December 18.


Thank you for your continued support. I appreciate you!

Ms.T


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