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Dear Parents & Guardians,

So far most of our staff and students are still in Good Health but as we see Covid-19 infection numbers rise, I am counting on your support to assess your child's health and readiness for school attendance on a daily basis.

Important Updates and Reminders:

1. Spelling Test on Friday (Sky Science words)

2. Math - Geometry assessment on area, perimeter and volume (+ conversions) also this Friday


In Math, we are reviewing and practicing volume, area and perimeter problems this week.

We also reviewed multiplication, as you need it to determine the above mentioned quantities.

4.5 x 7 or 27x 42.


In Social Studies, we spent the past 3 days researching the different types of municipal governments and the names for their leaders and councils.

Did you know that the head of a rural municipality (county) is called a reeve. The head of a Metis FNA is titled chairperson, whereas Indigenous communities are being led by a chief. Alberta has a total of 44 FNA (First Nation Authorities) within the Treaty # 6,7,8 regions.

In science, we are continuing our space exploration.

Today we learnt about the distance measurement light years.

Light travels at a speed of nearly 300 000 km per second.

The light photons emitted from the Sun take about 8 minutes to travel to Earth.

This represents a distance of roughly 150 mio. km.

The nearest star (other than our Sun) is 4.4 light years away - which is roughly 41 trillion km.

We did the math today in class!


In LA, we continue to read and answer questions about each chapter of our novel study.

Students reflect on character development, create illustrations and make predictions and inferences.

I am planning for 2 more weeks of novel study before heading into our next unit - story writing.
















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