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COVID-19 Update

Dear Parents, We still do not yet have much information on how school is going to proceed at this point, but I wanted to update you on what we know so far. As stated in messages from our principal, the district, and the Alberta government, schools are indefinitely closed to students.  We are now progressing towards an alternate form of learning. The kindergarten teachers are preparing materials to go home for when parents are able to come pick up supplies, shoes,  etc. at a later date. I, for one, will have materials for the earlier planned St. Patrick's Day activities (including all the resources for two art activities I already had planned), unfinished work from your kids, and I will also include some materials for future activities so that you will have something to keep the little ones busy for a little until alternative methods are set up. Please do not come to the school yet. You will be contacted as to what date and time you can come in so as to stagger entries in...
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Plan For Week of Feb. 18 - 21

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Dear Parents, I hope you all have a wonderful and restful long weekend with your families. I am a bridesmaid at a wedding, so I will be having a busy one. :) Please know that if I am not responding to messages between Thursday and Sunday this week, it is because of all the events surrounding the wedding. I should be back on track come Monday afternoon. A few notes regarding this week and next week: Wednesday - We made kindness notes for our friends in the school, which went very well. The grade 3s were in to help us, the grade 4s did their kindness jars (including one for all the kindergarteners in Ms. Law's class) in their own class, and even Mrs. Vigna's class joined to make some kindness jars for the staff. It was a great way to show kindness and love to everyone in the school to celebrate Valentine's Day.
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Science Unit - Week 3

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And finally the rest of the science unit activities have been finished - for now! We were very lucky to have Mrs. Yates to come in to talk to us about hibernation. We learned, for example, that bears don't go to the bathroom when they hibernate... their pee is converted in energy for them to use! Wow! Mrs. Yates also brought in a bear fur and some skulls of various animals that hibernate, including a bear and a bobcat.
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Science Unit - Week 2

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This week we only managed to fit in two science days due to some last-minute rescheduling. The first was Mad Scientist day, of which there unfortunately were no pictures taken due to how much fun we were having! We had a sensory walk station where the kids walked through bins of things from beans to shaving cream. There was a rock station, a magnet station, a measuring station, and a station where budding scientists got to mix various items in test tubes and see what happened. Next day was Detective / Forensic Scientist day. There was a fingerprinting station, a lip print station (many lysol wipes were used in the cleaning of the lipstick tubes :D), and a station where the kinders had to figure out a mystery powder using the senses of sight and touch. fingerprinting station
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Science Unit - Week 1

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Hello parents! It's been a while, but I started taking photos again this week because we've just started a very exciting and engaging unit - an Introduction to Science! Grade 4/3, our buddies, have also been in the classroom to help us every day when it comes to centers time. Monday, Day 1, was biology day. We learned about pine trees since it is too cold outside for regular plants to grow. We did activities such as learning how the roots of a tree drink up water and the tactile hands-on activity of picking out pine cones and pine needles. We also started our first science experiment - putting pine needles into various solutions to see which ones are bad for the pine trees (will kill the pine needles). We used water, oil, vinegar, and coffee. Stay tuned to see which ones will hurt the pine needles because so far they are going strong! (Which shows how hardy pine trees are!)
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Remembrance Day and Community Helpers

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Hello again from Ms. Law! It is a busy time what with report cards being done, but I wanted to get in a blog post to let you know what we've been doing the past two weeks. Last week was full of activities going up to Remembrance Day. We read the poem "In Flanders Fields" and made poppy art with various painting techniques (paintbrush with watercolours for grass and sky, thicker paint with a milk bottle cap for the poppy flowers, and our thumb for the black poppy middle). We also wrote questions for a soldier, Ms. Law's friend Corporal Sam Donovan. We watched the video the next week, on November 13. (If you would like a copy of the video to see, you can contact me!) And, finally, we practiced for the Remembrance Day liturgy, which we helped lead along with the grade sixes. Thank you so much to anyone who was able to make it! (faces of children who are not to appear on social media are blurred as per our district's privacy rules) This week, we h...
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Halloween and All Saint's Day

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This week, we were learning about saints for All Saint's Day (tomorrow) - our saint books will be finished next week. Fr. Jonathan came in to answer some of our questions about saints, such as "Are saints for real?" and "Who was St. Michael?" We also did some Halloween activities throughout the week, such as our skeleton and bat art projects. And, finally, on Wednesday, we had our Halloween centers day. Unfortunately, most of my pictures didn't turn out, but here's a picture of one of the kids working on a pumpkin activity (guess who?! :) ) Next week - Remembrance Day activities!!
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