This week in Learning:

FLA: continuing and finishing our poetry unit. Booklets will be due next Tuesday, the 27th. Recitals will begin on that same day.

ELA: continuing Shadows of Disaster, reading and comprehension questions.

MATH: finishing this unit on geometry and measure. Today we looked at AREA and then it will be volume. Review every night is encouraged .

SCIENCE: continuing with unit on trees. Looking at stages of the forest, producers, consumers and decomposers.

RELIGION: this week is devoted entirely to the unit task assigned to students on GC. It will be due next Tuesday and should show evidence of what they learned in this unit on LENT and Easter.

ART: continuing with optical illusions.

Special: tomorrow we will be watching Shane get his head shaved...He has raised over 4000$ for Kids cancer and we will be live streaming from the gym.

Welcome Back!

I hope that your break and your Easter was a time of rest and reflection.

This week in Learning:

MATH: we will continue with geometry and move onto polygons.

SCIENCE: Air and aerodynamics tests go home today for signatures. We move onto Trees and Forests and how we can best treat them and care for them.

FLA: we will continue in poetry, having fun with words and putting them together.

ELA: we will begin a new novel study today. It is a historical fiction and the author lives right here in Calgary. Nightly reading and comprehension questions will be required.

Religion: Did you know that Easter is not over yet? There are a few more weeks until we return to ordinary time. Today we look at Good Friday and Easter Sunday and symbols to represent them.

ART: agrandissement is due tomorrow. Next we move to optical illusions.

Also of interest:

Shane had mentioned in his Student council election speech that he wanted to raise money in exchange for shaving his head. Well...he is ready. For those interested, here is his webpage for donations. He has surpassed his goal, but if you are interested here is the link: Looking forward to seeing those blue eyes again!

https://www.childrenshospital.ab.ca/site/TR/Events/General?pg=fund&fr_id=1110&pxfid=12128

Today we watched part of the film of "The Life of Jesus. We began just before the agony in the garden. Here is the link in case you wanted to watch its entirety as a family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgUPt2KI08

May you all have a blessed Easter and spend some quality time with loved ones. 

Joyeuses Pâques 

IMPORTANT due dates coming up:

 It may be necessary for your child to have some catching up to do over the break. Ample time in class was given for projects in Music and Art and these will be due after the break. They include:

Music: project on a musical instrument

Art: Sketchbook (value) and "agrandissement" (making a picture bigger with gridding).

Students should also be up to date on their symbols for Lenten journeys in Religion, 3 poems in FLA (acrostiche, haiku and mot-valise) and the Social test has been moved to after Easter by Mme Browne.

 Zoom for our Thursday Liturgy if you would like to join us Mme Allyson's 4/5 class is doing it

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/8147532633?pwd=ZnA1d09SYnRmOElWL0xOWCttOWFnUT09

Meeting ID: 814 753 2633

Passcode: fSN3WJ

 Here is the website for you to look at the new curriculum proposed by the AB govt. 

https://www.alberta.ca/curriculum.aspx

Here is the website for you to have your say about the new curriculum. I believe it is important to note that not ONE teacher was on this panel for its redevelopment. 

https://www.alberta.ca/curriculum-have-your-say.aspx

This week in Learning:

MATH:   We continue with making triangles and naming them according to their sides and angles.

FLA: continuing with poetry unit, although today we will look at "imperatif" verbs for giving directions to our learning buddies...How to make a rocket

ELA: continue working on debates, we will have them this week.

SCIENCES: test on Wednesday

SOCIAL: today I went through the chapter on munipal gov't and they have their test also Wednesday because there is a liturgy Thursday, the original date of the test.

RELIGION: we will complete our Stations of the cross and pray them on Wedensday. Your booklets should be completed by then.

ART: SKBK value is due after Easter, as is "blowing up" (agrandissement) your image.

Liturgy Thursday at 10 am for Easter. Zoom link will be sent soon if you wish to join us.