Monday, October 17th to Friday, October 21st

Over the last two weeks, the students have been working on a variety of literacy centers including word work that focuses on spelling patterns and partner reading where the students are working on their reading fluency. The students have also been reading within a small a teacher-led group. During this time, we have been working on making predictions and summarizing texts read.

We connected this work to our focus on fossils within social studies. Our learning focus was: identify other perspectives by exploring a variety of ideas, opinions, responses and oral, print. The students read three different newspaper articles from the Calgary area. One from 1882, another from 1948 and a final article from 2011. The students compared the changing perspectives around the importance of fossils within our province. The students wrote short summaries on the perspective represented in each article. The small groups then worked together to read a variety of opinions on fossils, matching them to the year and article they most closely matched. Have your child share their opinion about the value of fossils with you.

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Monday, February 13th to Wednesday, February 15th

This short week was all about kindness at Andrew Sibbald School. The grade two's and kindergarten classes kicked our week off with a fantastic assembly centered on the concept of kindness. This was a perfect fit with our Valentine's celebrations this week and Pink Shirt Day next week.

September 12th to September 16th

This week, we began our work in Social Studies by introducing Alberta's fossil heritage. The students worked together to make observations and inferences about a variety of fossils. This activity was our starting point for the outcomes; students will appreciate how Alberta's fossil heritage contributes to the provinces unique character and how did archeologists and paleontologists discover the presence of dinosaurs in Alberta?

Monday, May 15th to Friday, May 19th

The students in grade four have been reading a new book, The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau. The book tells the story of a city without natural light that is t hreatened by an aging infrastructure and rapidly diminishing supplies. The book offers a variety of wonderful opportunities to connect to our science unit: Building Devices and Vehicles That Move. The students played the role of one of the jobs in the book, Pipeworks Laborer, and worked collaboratively to design a pipe system that could carry water from one place to another. This met the learning outcome: Use simple forces to power or propel a device such as moving water downhill.

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