Important Dates: September 27th- Field Trip: Calgary Zoo September 28th- Orange Shirt Day Assembly (9am) -Grade 3's will be hosting the assembly :) -Parents are welcome to attend the assembly Due: Field trip forms! Please bring in pictures and a magazine (if you have one related to something you are interested in) to create a collage on your visual journal :) Curriculum updates: We have been working on different thinking routines to help us document our learning in meaningful ways. These have included: -See/Think/Wonder/Sketch- We have 5 mystery artifacts that we are looking at that Ms. Parent has brought in. They are all related in some way or another...but all we know so far is that they are a mystery! We have to use our observational skills to look closely at the objects, to notice small details and to use those observations to think about the artifacts and to ask good questions about the artifacts. -Adventure Maps- These are great tools for summarizing a story
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Important Updates: September 13th- Terry Fox Run We need one volunteer for the run! If you are interested- please let Ms. Parent know :) Reminder: We are collecting Toonies for Terry and donations for the Terry Fox Run. Terry Fox's brother, Fred Fox, will be attending our assembly next week! All students received a brown envelope with important information and forms to be filled out. Please return those to Ms. Parent as soon as possible. Highlights: Week of September 4th-7th We had a sharing circle on our first day to introduce ourselves and share some fun things we did in the summer or to share something we were looking forward to this year. We had several class meetings to discuss: -Entry & late slips -Where to find materials in the class and to talk about the different learning spaces -To talk about classroom expectations/expected and unexpected behaviors -To discuss the the expectations around fire drills and lockdowns (which we practiced) -Where the bound