Our latest art project inspired by our work for Black History Month and the stories of barn quilts are student designed and created quilt squares.   How beautiful they look all together on Our Smart Cookies board!

 Week of March 28

Monday:    Math weekly #11 comes home.  Please double check that you don't still have a portfolio at home as we still have a number of them that have not made it back into the classroom.  

Tuesday:  Music & Library   (last library before break - please return books)

• Social presentations (Gr.4 Provincial park tourism, Gr. 5 Persuasive Speech)
• Gr.5 Science Electrical safety quiz

Wednesday:     

Thursday: Music   

Desk and locker clean out for the break- you should expect to have any food containers or winter clothing coming home from school.  

Friday (half day - dismissal at 12:01 for spring break):  Math weekly #11 due in the morning.

Have a great spring break everyone and see you back in class April 18th when we get to do gymnastics! 

For participation in gymnastics students will need to come with a change of clothes (or wearing appropriate clothing) to participate.  Shoes and socks also need to be removed so an extra foot scrub the night before is appreciated :)

***Please be sure to have completed the online Alberta Gymnastics waiver (linked below) so that your child can join in when we get there ***

All students have to have a new online form completed for the Alberta Gymnastics Federation.  Please complete this as soon as possible by following the link Alberta Gymnastics Federation - release of liability

Gymnastic dates for our class will be Mondays, April 18, 25, May 2, 16 and 30th (no class on May 9th or 23rd)

  Week of March 21

Monday:  Spelling #10 goes home.  Assignment to be completed and handed in Friday morning 

Tuesday:  Music & Library  RR should come home - this is due with a signature and complete on Thursday.   

Ski gear can be dropped off after school from 3:30-4:00 at our classroom if needed for our ski day tomorrow (come to the back door) - or bring it in Wednesday morning.

Wednesday:    Norquay Ski day.  All gear and students need to be at school on time for attendance.  We will be leaving on the bus at 9:00 for the hill.  

* Please make sure your child has appropriate outdoor clothes, their bag lunch with drinks, and any other gear they will need. * 

All volunteers (unless we already have an alternate plan) can also meet at the school with their gear at 8:45)

Thursday: Music   Please send all portfolios back to the classroom so we can keep adding the evidence of our great learning into it for the last part of the year.

Friday (half day):  Spelling is due

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Gymnastics is coming back after Spring Break!

-After a long delay because of COVID our gymnastics program has been rescheduled and will start the Monday right after spring break.  Our gymnastic time starts Monday, April 18th right after lunch.  

The field trip form was sent way back before Christmas break and I have a copy for everyone that was here already, but if your child was not in our classroom yet, they will need to bring in their copy next week to be able to join us.  

***All students also have to have a new online form completed for the Alberta Gymnastics Federation.  Please complete this as soon as possible by following the link below:

Alberta Gymnastics Federation - release of liability

LGMS field trip form (sent home before Christmas - if not already returned must be printed out and returned Monday morning)

Gymnastic dates for our class will be Mondays, April 18, 25, May 2, 16 and 30th (no class on May 9th or 23rd)

  Week of March 14

* no weekly homework *  

Parent-teacher-student interviews take place this week both in person and online.  Please be ready to arrive on time and leave the classroom or link at the end of your session.  I will email out the link by tomorrow.  We will be using the same one for everyone so please login only at the start of your session.  

These are only 10 minute interviews so your child has been working hard to get their portfolio and goal setting ready to share with you.  They will be doing the majority of the talking so it's very important that they are with you. 

Thank you for helping to support your child and celebrate the great learning that they have been doing!

Monday:  New Reading Records have been handed out.  These are due completed and with a parent signature by March 24th.    

LGMS library virtual book fair begins

Tuesday:  Music & Library

Wednesday: Interviews 5:00-8:00   Portfolios come home for students with virtual or phone meetings set up.

Thursday: Music  Interviews 4:00-7:00

Friday (no school for students): Interviews 8:30-11:30

 https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5174999

All money raised will buy new books for our library.  Please see the flyer and QR code coming home today.

 Light and Chemistry Final Projects

Check out the link to our final video projects for our grade 4 light unit and grade 5 chemistry unit.  

(If you don't see your child's in here, please have that conversation with them - some of the stop motion videos using the app would not download images and remained empty black screens so we had to be flexible and made new plans involving google slides)

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* Please remember to book your parent-student-teacher conference time by following the link sent out to you by LGMS last week.  When I checked this morning only 10 of our 26 families had bookings so there are still lots of times available*

Monday:  Book talk presentation have started and we will be completing the end of them on Tuesday.

Math Weekly #10 comes home and is due back by Friday morning

Tuesday:  Music & Library   Science final projects are due (these were due Monday but one extra day extension was added since there have been some technical issues)

Wednesday:

Thursday: Music 

Friday (full day):  Math weekly #10 is due

Flashlight Friday in the morning - students are invited to bring 1 comfort item (blanket, pillow or stuffy) as well as a few small snacks, their flashlight and a mix of favorite books for reading.

If your family has a much loved picture book that you are ok sending I also read stories out loud during out morning and it's fun to share ones that have a special significance.  

Look at these great multiplication strategies that we've been using in class to work with large numbers.  The right strategy makes all of the difference!

If your child hasn't shown you how they prefer to work with these large numbers yet, please ask them to.  You may be amazed to see these interesting strategies in action (and you can head to our Muy Importante on the math section of he website to see a little more about how these work).

Maddy: Math used to be hard but then window came and made light!

Maeve: I like split it because it's easy!

Cedar: Math used to be a crime, but then split it came along and saved the day.

Blaze: I like steal the zero because it makes big numbers into single digit multiplication.

Elizabeth:  My heart got split when math was hard, then split it came and made my heart whole.

Chloe: I like rainbows because they are beautiful, and who knew you could use them to even do math!

Taylor: I like upgraded bubbles because I like bubbles and advanced numbers.

Connor: With great brain power comes great responsibility.

Finley: Multiplication problems are like food for my brain!