Monday December 16 - Thursday December 19

Wednesday
- Had caroling today and had a guest performance
- We have been working so hard on all our projects so we got to watch a movie as a treat!
- Had our amazing toy fair - students and staff were blown away by our amazing toys! Congratulations to everyone on a job well done
- Tomorrow we will celebrate with our buddies, reminder to please bring a snack if you can

Tuesday
- Had time to finish up our social studies and science projects and review our rubrics for the projects.
Our toy fair is tomorrow afternoon
- Finished some math with fractions and started a new logic mystery puzzle
- Got to hear Sam Effah speak! He was very inspiring and has some incredible stories

- Practiced explaining our toy for the toy fair tomorrow!
Reminder that we are doing a winter party with buddies Thursday. If you can please bring a snack for us and the buddies
Tomorrow is also sleepy Santa - PJs, Christmas sweaters or anything else festive are welcome!
We will also be doing a movie with Mrs. Campbell's class - feel free to bring an extra snack in your lunch bag tomorrow for the movie


Monday
- Had a Christmas Scavenger hunt around the school - ask your child one interesting fact that they learned
- Did our Christmas Logic puzzle
- Had parachute in gym with Mr. J
- Did some graphing in math
- Wrote to Sam Effah, he is a former Hawkwood School who is now an Olympian and runner up on Amazing Race Canada. He is coming into Hawkwood School tomorrow to share his story!
- Final day to work on our toys!
Sleepy Santa/PJ day is Wednesday!!

Monday December 9 - Friday December 12

Friday 
- Half of us finished our toys today!
- Worked on a literacy activity with our little buddies - we were trying to solve an Elf on the Shelf mystery!
Our buddies spoiled us with bringing snacks again! If possible, please bring in snacks next Thursday for our two classes (please note that both classes have peanut allergies)
- Update - due to some conflicts, our toy fair will just be running December 18 @1:30 - 3:30
We are still collecting items and cash donations for the Calgary Food Bank

Enjoy your weekend! 

Thursday
- We are still working towards completing our Alberta Regions Poster! Several of us finished today!
- Worked with Mrs. Harms on a rubric we can use to assess how we solve word problems in math and did another word problem with her
- Got to work with the composer again in music with Mrs. Vroom's class
- Starting our procedural writing for how to build our toy and had some more building time



Wednesday
- Continued working on our Social Studies poster - they are looking great and will be coming home hopefully before winter break!
- Had our last day of inline skating! 😞
- Worked on some review of place value and base ten blocks with a holiday theme
- Had some time to catch up on work and build some more! It looks like Santa's workshop in our classroom

Tuesday
- Today we were given more time to work on our posters for our Social studies project
- We enjoyed our second day of inline skating with coach C.
- Did some math work with division facts (we discussed that brushing up on our multiplication and division facts over the winter break would be a great idea as we will be diving into these concepts in January)
- Got to build some more of our toy FYI toy fair is next week - December 18 @1:30 - 3:30 and December 19 @ 11:00 - 12:00 Please feel free to stop in to see our toys


Monday
- Continued our Social Studies Posters
- Had inline skating! If you forgot your helmet today, please bring one tomorrow
- Helped our buddies research their Calgary landmark
- Worked on learning some French holiday words and made a BINGO sheet
FYI a form was sent home today for our ski days in the New Year. Please complete and return ASAP
- If you ordered from Mixing Spoons please see the image below of what times to pick up your orders!

Monday December 2 - Thursday December 5

Thursday
- Worked on gathering our research for our Social Studies poster
- Had our second presentation from Ms. Vanessa from CPAWS
- Learned about Head Smashed in Buffalo jump - ask your child a fact they learned about this historic site
- Had another opportunity to build our toy
- Reminder - no school tomorrow - PD day for teachers
The picture below was from our CPAWS presentation - ask what types of waste makes our water polluted and how we can help

WE ARE COLLECTING NON PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS AND CASH DONATIONS FOR THE CALGARY FOOD BANK 

See you Monday!! 

Wednesday
- Learned about our new Social Studies project about the regions of Alberta - ask your child what region their project is on
- Did some math work with multiplication and the distributive property of multiplication as a review from last year
- Read a book about Buffalo facts and did some research from our Fort Calgary kit
- Had some more time to build our toy

Tuesday
- Continued exploring our buffalo kit from Heritage Park and some of it's historical artifacts - as of today we have got to explore and examine 6 artifacts
- Worked with Mrs. Harms in math again on problem solving and different strategies we can use and what to do if/when we get stuck
- Had CPAWS in to do a presentation in the afternoon, they will be in one more time this week to work with us - check out their website and discuss ways that we can help take better care of our planet and it's water
- had time to build our Toys!

Monday
- Had some laptop time to finish our Alberta Research and our OREO writing
- Got to explore a Buffalo Kit from Fort Calgary and some special artifacts about Alberta's history. We will be working with this kit for the next two weeks
- Mrs. Campbell and Ms. Jonasson did a lesson on making the perfect WOWbutter and Jelly sandwiches focusing on instructional writing - ask your child how the lesson went!