We have a class pet!! Please read this update for information.

Happy first day of break to all of you! We had a fantastic first term in our classroom and enjoyed a wonderful celebration on the last day to wrap up our learning for the decade. I am sure most of you have now heard the BIG news!! Ms. Parent brought in a new class pet for Christmas- a beautiful little hamster named Olive. It was actually quite the ordeal as one of the students in our class happened to be at the store while Ms. Parent was picking her up and she had to use a distraction of some cute puppies to actually complete the adoption without her seeing ;)

The intention in bringing in a class pet is to: support the development and learning of the sense of responsibility and kindness for other living beings, to help students learn and have respect for animals in our classroom and to provide students with opportunities to talk, write stories and research about animals as it supports language and research skills.

Ms. Parent will be the primary caregiver of Olive and incur the ultimate responsibilities and costs associated with having her stay with us in our class. The students in the class will not be mandated to care for Olive outside of the school and instead this is just to support our learning as mentioned above. If you have any questions or concerns, please send Ms. Parent an email at taparent@cbe.ab.ca