Our Learning March 8-12:

Items to note:

- In support of our social studies learning on municipal government, we will be attending the Town Council meeting at 2 pm on March 8. Our class is looking forward to experiencing this procedure. We have been told that Mayor Sorensen will be acknowledging our presence in the meeting which we are excited about.

- On Tuesday, Mayor Sorensen will be meeting with us virtually. We are hoping to learn about her role as Mayor as well as the role of Municipal Government in our lives specifically here in Banff.  We are hoping to learn from Mayor Sorensen about how municipal governments make laws, how it is organized and how young people can become active participants in the government. We are also hoping to learn about the unique political and geographic setting of being located in a national park, with information about the Mayor's collaboration with the federal government.  Additionally, we are hoping to learn about her collaboration with the provincial government, for example, related to COVID-19.  

- On Friday, one of our students is going to share their expertise on how to use stop motion to demonstrate their learning. I am hoping that families will be comfortable sending their child to school with a device (tablet, phone, ipad) that we will be using for educational purposes. Our plan is to first practice using stop motion with the end goal for re-creating one of the scenes from our current narrative writing piece into a stop motion video. The intention for this learning is to give students another avenue to demonstrate their learning. If you are comfortable with your child bringing to school a device for next Friday, the following FREE app is required: Stop motion Studio. I understand that different families will have different parameters around installing apps on to a family device therefore if your child could already have this app installed that would be wonderful. Please do not worry if your child does not have a device to bring to school as we have several ipads at school that we can use. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

-Our parent teacher conferences are scheduled for March 17,18 and 19. You will have the choice of a 15 minute telephone meeting or Google Meet virtual meeting. Appointments must be booked online at https://banff.schoolappointments.com (not Parent Portal). If you created an account for the November conferences please use your login and password (see the Forgot Password tab if required). New accounts can be created by clicking on Register. If you choose a virtual meeting, a link will be emailed to you by March 16, 2021. If you choose a telephone meeting, you will be called at the telephone number you provided when you created your account. Please click here for instructions. In addition to booking a conference with your child’s homeroom teacher, conferences can be booked with our French teacher, Ms Keon and our Music teacher, Ms. Emro. This system is now open and appointments must be booked by noon on March 12. After March 12 the online booking system will be closed - parents will be required to email their child's homeroom teacher directly to change or cancel an appointment.

- We are planning to have our chapter 10 math test on Wednesday

- We are planning to have our sky science unit test on Thursday

Our Learning:

Science - we will be reviewing our learning this week on sky science and will be writing our unit test on Thursday.

Math - we will be reviewing our learning on finding perimeter, area and volume with a test planned for Wednesday.

Writing - we will be wrapping up our recent narrative story and then working through the editing and revising process.

Social - we will continue our learning on the municipal government along with attending Monday's Town Council meeting and meeting with Mayor Sorensen on Tuesday.

Thoughtbook - we will be working on using figurative language to describe different body parts of a character. Our character will be a dog and we will work through describing, for example, the ears and tail.