Ms. Parent's Grade 5/6 Blog

Important Dates May 14, 15 - Urban Tour Field Trip May 15 - Fun Lunch May 16 - Early Dismissal May 17 - PD Day - No school for students May 20 - Victoria Day - School is closed May 24 - Volunteer Tea May 29 - Fun Lunch Highlights from our week: We started out our week preparing and setting up our journals for the first two days of our Urban Tour. We had an additional conversation about our upcoming field trip with some additional expectations and reviewing others that we thought were very important. We also read Harry Potter and continued to work on identifying problems and solutions, summarizing what we are reading and identifying new words. We continued this work on our day in between trips as well as creating our first web/map for day one. We also had an art morning on Friday where we used mixed mediums on watercolor paper to create some cool projects :) We had an AMAZING first two days on our Urban Tour! Flexibility was our game. We were so lucky to run into the

Important Dates May 7, 9, 14, 15 - Urban Tour Field Trip May 15 - Fun Lunch May 16 - Early Dismissal May 17 - PD Day - No school for students May 20 - Victoria Day - School is closed May 24 - Volunteer Tea May 29 - Fun Lunch  Urban Tour Field Trip Our Urban Walk Field Trip is coming up next week. Thank-you to everyone who has volunteered to help us with this amazing learning experience! Please bring in all field trip forms for our Urban Tour.  If anyone is still interested in volunteering for our Urban Tour, please contact myself or Ms. Jo-Lynne. We currently need one volunteer for each day. Here are some highlights from our week: We had our last trip to the Calgary Zoo this week! Students enjoyed revisiting their animals for a study on it's behavior and we were lucky the weather held up for us! We had our 3 sessions of Alien Inline this week! The students worked hard to practice the techniques shared by Slater which included stopping (a