Cranston Team 72: What is Important about the Canadian Arctic?

Dear Children and Families,

Parent-teacher Conference

If you were unable to attend your conference prior to spring break and would like the opportunity to see your child’s work Ms MacMillan will be available in the classroom on Thursday April 13^th from 3:15 to 4:15pm. Please confirm you would like to attend via email lgmacmillan@cbe.ab.ca

Save the Dates:

Arbor Day Celebration May 4^th

Science Centre Field Trip May 23rd

Zoo Field Trip June 5th

Reminders:

-Friday Club day tomorrow, half day only.

-Home Reading: return Reading Give it a Shot pages

Important Words:

POWER WORDS: practice any 5 you like!

These are words we are learning to read and spell.

ACADEMIC WORDS: Arctic Community

Prairie Community

Atlantic Community

These are words that we are learning to understand the meaning of.

Today:

We read to self today.

We worked with our Canadian Community group to write what we know and what we want to know about our tree. Next week we will begin searching for true facts that will help us learn about our tree.

During word work we talked about the 2 vowel rule. If two vowels go walking, the first one does it’s talking and says it’s name.

In math we added a CHISENBOP page to our Adding Strategies book that can help someone else learn to add.

Ask me what I did today to become a Hip-Hop Master during our gym dance lessons.

We had a special guest visit during social studies. We learned all about the Arctic from Ms Lilles today. Ask me what is important about the Canadian Arctic.