May 6th-10th, 2019
Important Dates
May 14, 15 - Urban Tour Field Trip
May 15 - Fun Lunch
May 16 - Early Dismissal
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 City Hall School Coordinator, Ms. Sheila, as we were walking into the Municipal Building on our first day. We had been looking at landmarks we could see (the Burns Building, Calgary Tower and the Center Street Bridge lion). She let us know that there were some delicious pancakes at Olympic Plaza for the Stampeders. We were in! What we didn't know, was it was actually the Grey Cup Party and our decision to be flexible (not that it was tough once I mentioned pancakes) turned out to be one that started our day out with pancakes with sausages, mini footballs, and pictures with Ralph the mascot and the Grey Cup! Afterwards, we walked through a children art gallery where we documented an interesting piece of art in our journals and then explored the rest of the gallery. We also changed our plan when we were invited into the Council Chambers to sit in on a planning committee. It was pretty awesome to have our class introduced by a council person and to have everyone clap for us! In our afternoon, we walked to the East Village Playground where we looked closely at the different structures: looking at what they are made of, how they are set up, who they are accessible for and then we moved into the testing part of our research :)
On our second day, we continued to look at artifacts inside and outside of the municipal buildings. Afterwards, we toured Stephen Avenue to journal and explore some of the history that exists in the old and new buildings. We ate lunch with the Famous Five before walking to St. Patrick's Island to continue our exploration and front work on our upcoming playground and bridge building tasks. We observed several beam bridges, two truss bridges and we walked along a suspension bridge (George C. King/Skipping Stone Bridge) on our way to and from the park.
Congratulations to Warren who took a HUGE risk and performed at the Music Monday assembly- he was just incredible! Thank you to Rocky who made the acknowledgement of the land- I am proud of you for taking on the task with maturity and respect.
We had 3 birthdays in our class this week: Rocky, Zac and Cohen.
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 City Hall School Coordinator, Ms. Sheila, as we were walking into the Municipal Building on our first day. We had been looking at landmarks we could see (the Burns Building, Calgary Tower and the Center Street Bridge lion). She let us know that there were some delicious pancakes at Olympic Plaza for the Stampeders. We were in! What we didn't know, was it was actually the Grey Cup Party and our decision to be flexible (not that it was tough once I mentioned pancakes) turned out to be one that started our day out with pancakes with sausages, mini footballs, and pictures with Ralph the mascot and the Grey Cup! Afterwards, we walked through a children art gallery where we documented an interesting piece of art in our journals and then explored the rest of the gallery. We also changed our plan when we were invited into the Council Chambers to sit in on a planning committee. It was pretty awesome to have our class introduced by a council person and to have everyone clap for us! In our afternoon, we walked to the East Village Playground where we looked closely at the different structures: looking at what they are made of, how they are set up, who they are accessible for and then we moved into the testing part of our research :)
On our second day, we continued to look at artifacts inside and outside of the municipal buildings. Afterwards, we toured Stephen Avenue to journal and explore some of the history that exists in the old and new buildings. We ate lunch with the Famous Five before walking to St. Patrick's Island to continue our exploration and front work on our upcoming playground and bridge building tasks. We observed several beam bridges, two truss bridges and we walked along a suspension bridge (George C. King/Skipping Stone Bridge) on our way to and from the park.
Congratulations to Warren who took a HUGE risk and performed at the Music Monday assembly- he was just incredible! Thank you to Rocky who made the acknowledgement of the land- I am proud of you for taking on the task with maturity and respect.
We had 3 birthdays in our class this week: Rocky, Zac and Cohen.