Friday, March 13th

Wow! What a blizzard out there today! This morning our "fresh air" was when we ran from the Clubhouse into the school to get Chromebooks and to read and play games with our Big Buddies!

Some of us were finishing up our "Olfigger from Iceland" stories (we were re-telling from Ms. Karen Gummo) and some of us were working on slide shows about St. Patrick!

Ms. Gummo came on Wednesday and told us a story about 2 neighbours, a fence and a bridge. We got into groups of 3 and practiced retelling it. Then we shared with the class. Ask me to retell it!

Next Monday and Wednesday Ms. Gummo our storyteller is back to tell us more stories! We will be listening hard to practice retelling the beginning, middle, and end.

In Math, we are continuing to work on repeated addition and subtraction and how that connects with multiplication and division. During our "daily warm-ups," we sometimes have challenge questions that we work on all together. Yesterday, we discovered the difference between AREA and PERIMETER and went around the room measuring things with non-standard measurement! Ask me what I measured and what I used to measure with!

Unfortunately, SaaKokoto was sick and unable to visit on Thursday. In the next few weeks, we are going to be discussing what Calgary and the land around looked like before 1911. Did you know Calgary was named Calgary in 1884? Before that, the First Nations had 5 different names for what is now called Calgary - we will discover those in the next weeks too!

We looked up the flags of some of the Treaty 7 nations and drew The Blackfoot Nation flag. Ask me about the colours and what is on the flag. We are hoping SaaKokoto can tell us all about it when he comes to visit us next time.

A reminder that next week TREAT DAY is CANCELED. We are making this decision to keep everyone healthy. 

Thank you for staying home if you or anyone in your family is feeling sick or coughing...we will continue to do our best to keep everyone safe and healthy. Stay cozy and read together this weekend:)