Friday, April 9, 2021

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Friday, April 9, 2021

Messages and Reminders:

- Please make sure students are dressed appropriately for the weather. Remember it is only April and Calgary weather can be quite unpredictable. 

- Next week we have two guest speakers - a dietician and an Air Force Pilot.

- Students with IPP's, please return the signed copy by Monday. 

- Order of Operations Test on Tuesday.


Weekly Update:

In LA we started learning about the elements of a news article and how they are written. We spent some time analyzing them and will be learning how to write our own in the coming week. During math, we continued working on order of operations and will have our final test on Tuesday. In social, we did some textbook work to answer questions on Ancient Athens and further our learning. Finally, in science we learned about the forces of flight and how they affect an airplane. 

Important Dates: 

Thursday, April 22 and Friday, April 23 - parent/teacher/student virtual conferences
Friday, April 23 - no school (conferences)
Monday, April 26 - no school (non-instruction day)
Thursday, April 29 - SJAM virtual orientation (in class for students and evening session for families)

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