Week 25

This week we had a wild, amazing and marvelous week. 

In Science, we have been building our Simple Machines park. Based on our plan and our criteria, we are in the process of continuing to gather materials, build using our tools and continually revising our plan to match our playground equipment. 

In Social Studies, we have been reading our textbook to learn about the settlers and how they first came to Alberta. We have been using a chart to organize the pros and cons describing the positive experiences and the struggles that settlers faced when coming to and living in Alberta. 

• A pro was that settlers could purchase a colonist car to travel with. The colonist car were versatile in that you could transport your personal belongings and then make room for sleeping. 
• A con was that they had to share 1 bunk and 1 meal when traveling to Canada by ship. Once they arrived on the East coast of Canada, settlers had to take a long ride to Alberta by train. This took around 8 days. 

In Math, we had our practice check-in quiz on Wednesday and then our actual check-in quiz on Thursday for addition and subtraction strategies.

In Language Arts, we have been working on revising our Cat/Rat Perspective using peer and teacher feedback. Some of us are printing our final copies.

This week, we also had a drama performance by grade 10 students from Diefenbaker Highschool. Their performance was hilarious, hysterical and amusing.

Reminders:

• Student Led conferences are on Thursday, March 21 and Friday, March 22. Conference bookings can be make through the PHS website.
• Miss Kreze will begin Music tests starting next week. Please have your child practice the material provided.
• We will not be having Daily 5 next week due the shorter week.
• Spring Break is from March 22nd to March 31st. School will resume on Monday, April 1st.

• We will be constructing playground parks for our simple machine unit, so please continue collecting items to use for the project such as, popsicle sticks, cardboard, straws, bottle caps, string, cardstock, pipecleaner, rubber bands, plastic lids/containers, tinfoil, thimbles, buttons, toothpicks, sticky tack, etc. If you have a glue gun and/or Lego people that you are willing to bring in that would be very much appreciated.

Have a great weekend!