Week of April 15th - 18th, 2024

 This week we: 

• Finished our second week of Drum Fit in P.E. 
• Learned more about the Green Line and Haultain Park in Downtown Calgary before deciding which we'd like to build in for our Level Up Calgary Minecraft project
• Practiced creating different multiplication and division algebraic equations to match various types of word problems
• Learned about the prefix "sub" and the different forms it comes in with various words
• Began our Human Sexuality unit by reviewing what we had learned about puberty in Grade 4 as well as learning about the journey of the egg
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  Read/highlighted important information from the City of Calgary Resilency Plan and categorized our ideas about, "What makes a place great to live in?" into the different Social, Economic, and Climate Resiliences
• Completed a check-in about multiplication and division algebraic expressions to see if we could create our own word problems and equivalent equations to match a given expression
• Created our sketches of our builds for our Level Up Calgary Minecraft projects

Reminders: 

• Tuesday, April 23 – SPIRIT DAY: Dress as Your Favourite Book Character Day - Your child can dress up fully as their favourite book character, or wear something small that gives a hint at what character they might love. (Such as wearing a paper bag crown for Elizabeth in ‘The Paper Bag Princess’; mouse ears for the mouse in ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie’; or a lightening bold on the cheek for Harry in ‘Harry Potter’; etc.) 
• Thursday, April 25 – 3:30-6:30 – Book Fair open for sales in the Learning Commons
• Thursday, April 25 - 4:30-6:00 - Family Literacy Event Open House
• Thursday, April 25 – 4:30-7:30 – Food Trucks on-site to purchase food if you like.
• Wednesday, April 25 – SPIRIT DAY: Stop, Drop and Read Day - Students will carry a book everywhere with them throughout the day and will stop to read whenever they hear an announcement. They can choose to bring a favourite book from home on this day if they would like.