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On   Thursday, November 28th , team up with your grade to represent your color of the rainbow! Let’s see who can shine! Grade: 5/6 - red 4 - orange 3 - yellow 2 - green 1 - blue & indigo K – violet

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IMPORTANT DATES November 28: Battle of the Colours - Grade 5/6s wear RED! November 28: PoWer Hour December 4: Fun Lunch (Wok Box) December 5: PoWer Hour (last session) December 12: Winter Celebration at 6:30 pm December 18: Fun Lunch (Boston Pizza) December 18: Report Cards come home :) December 19: Last day of classes before break December 20: PD Day - No school for students January 6: PD Day - No school for students January 7: Classes resume IMPORTANT INFORMATION  Revised Assessment and Reporting - Link Here is the link to the school website to access the  revised assessment and reporting documents  .   Here are Some Learning Updates Mathematics - We had a bit of an end of unit assessment in our place value unit. Of course the concept of place value will continue to play an important role as we continue on in upcoming concepts. We also reviewed addition and subtraction with regrouping. Please ask me if this is a skill I might need some extra practice on a

IMPORTANT INFORMATION  Art Cards  Art cards went home last week. If you choose to order, instructions are inside the card. Order deadline is Sunday, November 17th. IMPORTANT DATES November 20: Fun Lunch November 21: Early Dismissal (11:45 am) November 21 & 22: Parent-Teacher Conferences November 28: PoWer Hour - Session 3 WHAT WE DID We were fortunate this week to have the Calgary Opera come to our school and share a performance with us! Ask me to share a lesson I learned from the story. We continued playing ringette this week in PE. Next week we start our hockey unit :) In mathematics this week we had our first problem on the week and it was called "Which Scripts" which consolidates our work in place value in a complex but intriguing way. Ask me about the problem! We were asked to consider WDIK (what do I know) and to describe our thinking through the problem solving process. We also continued our work in place value and considered how we

A note from Ms. Anderson: Thank you so much to all those who have pre-ordered and paid for their recorders.  This is just a friendly reminder that recorders cannot be ordered until all monies are in.  We’ve extended the dead line for forms and payment to November 14 th .    Please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Anderson if you have any questions or concerns. pjanderson@cbe.ab.ca    403-777-6880    Ext. 7014

IMPORTANT DATES November 1: PD Day - No School  November 5: Picture retakes November 6: Fun Lunch November 7: PoWer Hour - Session 1 November 8: Remembrance Day Assembly (Grade 2s leading) November 11: Remembrance Day - School closed November 14: PoWer Jour - Session 2 November 20: Fun Lunch November 21: Early Dismissal (11:45 am) November 21 & 22: Parent-Teacher Conferences November 28: PoWer Hour - Session 3 LEARNING UPDATES In mathematics, we have continued to look at BIG numbers (greater than one million), focusing on the value of each place, recognizing the different families and deepening our understanding of how to represent those numbers. This week we are thinking about organizing the numbers to make the biggest and smallest number and using expanded form to represent those numbers. With our reading nook design projects, we are also exploring the concept of measurement. Additionally, we have continued to explore different curricular concepts through ou