Grade 4

After approximately three months of caring for our plants, we harvested them! We grew kale, lettuce, arugula, spinach, carrots, and white icicle radishes. Our garlic chives didn't sprout, so the garlic chive group planted basil in late October; hopefully that will survive winter break and we can enjoy it in the new year! Our yield ended up being a veritable feast of vegetables  —  we hope that you had a chance to try our completely classroom-grown salad at our Solstice celebration! We found that it had a lot more flavour than a lot of the vegetables you buy at the supermarket. The radishes and the arugula were particularly peppery. Have a lovely holiday! See you in 2019!

While we were at Master's Art Gallery, we did a math challenge where we had to buy art but there was a budget of no more than $30,000.  No, we did not actually buy it!  The art had prices from $1 500 to $21 000.  Also, some of the art was so expensive that it didn't have price tags.   One by Tom Thompson cost about half a million! While we were there the gallery owner Ryan Green  told us about the Group of Seven and a couple of other artists who were inspired by them.  Lawren Harris was doing realistic drawings and then went into making nature with shapes, then went into geometrics and back to realism.  There was an artist, Emily Carr, who had a monkey named Wow.  She moved from doing first nations (indigenous) villages and started doing forests.  She stopped for a period of time because people weren't encouraging. Abstract art is a kind of art where it wants you to see your own thing.  It was considered NOT art for a while, but...

We are happy to announce that grade four has an Education Assistant, Mrs. Brubacher.  She started today and is also the Lunchroom Supervisor for room 306.  This means that we now have an adult supervising the students in each room, instead of having to split their time between them.  Mrs. Brubacher's hours are still to be determined, but we will have another adult to help with reading, math, small groups, etc.  We are so pleased to be able to have extra support for our grade four students!

In a recent email to parents regarding our schoolwide Winter's Solstice celebration day, we talked about an attached file - but there was no attachment.  Oops! Here is the wish list for our Langevin charity, the Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter.  Click here to go to link