Weekly Update

Swimming will start on November 27th and ends on December 1st. It is from 9:10 to 10:30am. Please have your child wear their swimsuit before school to ensure the transition to the pool will be smoother. Mr. Gustafson will be taking the classes to swimming this week.

Here is a suggestion of things to bring for swimming:
- swimsuit
- googles
- swim bag or a plastic bag
- towel
- underwear

Parent Volunteers, thank you so much for coming in this week to help us out with this event. Swimming is part of the physical education that offers a great opportunity for students to explore and learn the skills to play and be safe in the water. Please arrive a few minutes early on the first day to go through some information with you. You are required to sign in at the office before the day starts. Thank you!

Social Studies
Students have been exploring the different artifacts from Peru, India, Ukraine, and Tunisia. They studied the geography, clothing, resources, and many more.  As they carefully examined the artifacts they had to think critically on where these artifacts are from and its importance. Here's a quick snapshot of our Social Studies this week. Thank you Fort Calgary for such a resourceful kit to share in our classrooms. This upcoming week, students will dive into what globalization means and explore some global organizations that helps improve the quality of life in other countries. They will also take part on the decision making of how they can contribute and support others in their community.




Mathematics
Students have been working hard this week to solve addition and subtraction problems using various Montessori materials and mental math strategies. Please review addition and subtraction with your child.

Grade 3s:
- Students are working addition and subtraction up to 1000 using 2 or more strategies.
- Students learned how to represent numbers to 1000 using Montessori manipulatives such as the Place Value chart, Golden Beads, Colour Bead Bars, Number Line, and the Stamp Game.

Grade 4s:
- Students are working addition and subtraction up to 10000 using 2 or more strategies.
- Students learned how to represent numbers to 10,000 using Montessori manipulatives such as the Place Value chart, Golden Beads, Colour Bead Bars, Number Line, and the Stamp Game.
- They are also building understanding of algebra.

This week, students will be working on skip counting by 3s, 4s, and 25s to 1000. You can support your child by practicing skip counting at home too.

Here are some fun videos to get the students started:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxPKnLtnus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BhGeOgRxCE


Literacy
I would like to give a big thank you to all the volunteers who put in the time to support our Word Work. This week, we have been talking about "expert writing". Students brainstormed their passions and chose one to reflect and to learn more about. Students used the hamburger graphic organizer to support in the introduction. This week, emphasis will be on the body paragraphs.

Students continue to be working hard on their Word Work and recognizing blends. Grade 4s were working on the long i last week.

Spirit Day

Upcoming Spirit Day: 
Students and staff are encouraged to wear their clothes either backwards, inside out OR both on Thursday November 23rd! Like all Spirit Days, participants are encouraged to be fun and creative with this theme, but to remember that it also needs to be school appropriate including allowing students to participate fully in all classes. 

November 18

Thank you parents for attending the Math Night on Wednesday. Students worked hard in learning the games and created videos on how to teach those games to you. We really appreciate your time to come and learn the math games.  In addition, we would also like to give a big thank you to parents who kindly purchased books to add to our book collection. Students are really excited to dive into them.





Upcoming events:
- Swimming is on November 27th to December 1st. We are looking for volunteers, especially male volunteers. If you are available, please let us know.

November 10

Upcoming Events:

- We will be going swimming from 9:10am to 10:40am from November 27th to December 1st. We are looking for 6 - 8 volunteers to help us with the swimming field trip. If you would be available, please let us know. The cost of the swimming lessons is $30 and parents can pay it online.

- November 13 - Practice Lockdown in the afternoon.
- November 15 - Celebrations of Learning. Our school will be hosting a Math Night for families to come learn and have fun. Scholastic Book Fair will be there that evening in the Learning Commons.
- November 17 - PD Day

Celebration of Learning on November 15

The first CJP Celebration of Learning will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 15th from 6:30pm - 8:00pm.  This night's theme will be "Math in Our World: Promoting Positive Math Experiences."  Students and families are invited to come and play a variety of math games, read math stories, solve puzzles and problems, and learn more about how math is used in everyday life.  Classrooms from Kindergarten to Grade 6 will be open and sharing ways that families can engage in meaningful and fun math activities.  Please be advised that not all classrooms will be open for this event, as a second Celebration of Learning will take place in Spring 2018.  If your child's classroom is not open for our November celebration, you are still encouraged to stop by.  There will be a variety of math activities for everyone to enjoy.  All CJP families are invited to attend this fun and interactive celebration!



Special Events this week:

Our school watched "Jack and the Beanstalk" production hosted by the Alberta Opera. In class, we read various versions of Jack and the Beanstalk and students had to re-tell the story from a different character's perspective. Please ask your child about the performance as well as how they re-told the story.

On Friday, we had our Remembrance Day assembly. We talked about peace and why we need to remember those who had fallen. We read a book called "Dreams of Freedom". Please discuss what they learned this week. 

Lock Down

On Monday, we will have a lockdown. As to what a lockdown is, please click the link below to be re-directed to the Calgary Police website.
http://www.calgary.ca/cps/Pages/Youth-programs-and-resources/School-resources/Preventing-school-violence.aspx 

It is important to us that our school remains safe and that students understand lockdown procedures. Talk with you child and review with them what they believe the lockdown expectations are.

Some lockdown expectations include
-remaining calm and stopping what they are doing inside the classroom
-go to the green dot posted in the class
-remaining quiet at all times

Extra Recess
As a school we have raised about 750 pounds of food! The food bank was so impressed with our donation that the Me to We club has given everyone at our school an extra long recess starting Monday at 1:50pm. Please ensure you are dressed for the weather.

November 3

Parent Volunteers:
We would like to give a big thank you to parents who came to our school this week to help us prepare our Word Work centers.

Science:
Students were reviewed the Hearing and Sound vocabulary and math through solving problems and puzzles. They worked collaboratively with their team to unlock a series of locks to break into the mystery box. Breakout SUCCESS!


Math:
Thank you for all the Food donations that was brought in. We have collected over 100 items. We really appreciate your ongoing support. Our classes have been collecting the data using tallies and learned to transfer the data to a pictograph and a bar graph.


Upcoming Events:
- We will be going swimming from 9:10am to 10:40am from November 27th to December 1st. We are looking for volunteers to help us with the swimming field trip. If you would be available, please let us know. The cost of the swimming lessons is $30 and parents can pay it online.
- Alberta Opera will be presenting on November 8th
- November 15 - Celebrations of Learning. Our school will be hosting a Math Night for families to come learn and have fun. Scholastic Book Fair will be there that evening in the Learning Commons.
- November 17 - PD Day