Ms. Field 2022-23

 May 23-26, 2023 My apologies for not posting an update last week. I had a family emergency and was away. However, I am back this week and we accomplished a lot!  This week: -Welcome 2 new students! -Finished learning about the different political platforms for the election on Monday. -Wrote about who we would vote for and how we think it would help Alberta/Albertans. -Learned about Chromatography and tested different ink to solve which pen wrote the mystery note. -Analyzed handwriting. -Responded to our Podcast Mars Patel. It is online to stream if your child would like to listen to the next season! -Practiced our graphing skills. -Wrote concrete and acrostic poems. We also published our "I am" or Biographical poem. -Discussed what life would be like if we lived every day twice in anticipation of our new novel the Double Life of Danny Day. -Worked through social scenarios using our conflict resolution framework in Health. -Developed our serving and bumping skills in Volleyba

May 8-12th, 2023 Even though it was a rainy week, we were fortunate to get to the pond to listen to Elder Harley Bastien. He spoke to us about how we are the future leaders and it is our responsbility to care for the Earth. Today, your child has a sent you an email about the last month of school. We fell away from emails when our student teacher was here, but we are back! Students were asked to share some things they are proud of and one thing they want to work on between now and the end of the year. I will keep this week short since I think most would rather hear from their child than me! :) Students are also coming home with their Social test. I asked students who received under 20/25 to take home for a signature.  We also had a 5/6 community meeting with Mr. Lang and Ms. Bonanno to discuss some of the choices that are being made as a 5/6 community. We talked about appropriate language use, respecting personal space and boundaries, and lunch time expectations.  A reminder that Wednes