Weekly - Update December 15

Math 

Students have been working hard this week on addition and subtraction. Here are some of the questions they were working on. Please ask your child how they solved them. 

Citizenship Expo on December 21

Students have been working on their global citizenship project for 3-4 weeks now and we would like to invite you all to come and check out our work. This is an opportunity for students to share their learning with you.

Students want to extend their citizenship to people around their community. They want to make scarves and friendshipbots to spread care and kindness to people around us. The following pictures is a general idea on what we are planning on making in class as part of a Social Studies project as well as Art.

An infographic about Friendship bots created by Devin and Reuben.

Senior Home visit
Students in the Friendship group will be visiting the Senior home on Tuesday for half an hour. It will be split into two groups: 10:20am group as well as the 11:10 group. They will have an opportunity to make gingerbread cookies and play games. If you child has allergies that we need to be aware of, please let us know. 

Upcoming Events:

Music Sharing Class on Monday, December 18th in students' Music class. 

Spirit Days:

On Tuesday December 19th is it TOQUE TUESDAY. Students and staff are encouraged to wear their toque in class all day to show their school spirit.

To have a fun and cozy last day of classes before Winter Break our second Spirit Day will be PAJAMA DAY on Thursday December 21st. Don’t bother getting dressed that day and just wear your pjs to school. 

Heaven can wait donations

Hi parents, your children in room 20 and 21 are raising donations and money for a shelter, called Heaven Can Wait they will be making stress balls to sell to raise awareness for pets. Just to note, your child can bring some objects for the pets. Each stress ball costs 1 dollar and pouches are 3 dollars. Donations include blankets, dry cat food and dog food, cat and dog beds and toys for pets.

  You should help this shelter because it saved tons of animals when

we had the flood, the forest fire and other natural disasters, also they

save old and abandoned pets.

Student Bloggers: A.C & M.T

Volunteers and Donations!

Hello Room 20 & 21!

We have incredible citizenship projects going on in our classrooms. There has been a lot of hard work and effort put into each project. However, we need volunteers to help us!

On December 19th (Tuesday) from 10:30 - 11am and 11:10 - 11:40am two groups of students will be visiting the senior home, Carroll Place Calgary, right by our school. If you are interested in volunteering please email us to let us know. We would love to have you for an hour. At the senior home, students will be reading, playing games or making cookie dough.

Another volunteer opportunity is to help bake our gingerbread cookies that we are donating to the Calgary Drop In Centre. Below is there twitter post! We would like 2 volunteers for each time. If you would like to stay for a whole morning great! (Coffee will be provided). If you would like to come in during the afternoon please let us know as soon as possible so we can change the volunteer times.



Volunteer Times for Cookie Baking in our Staff Room on December 18th (Monday)
9:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:30

Lastly, classes are looking for donations towards the Heaven Can Wait Animal Rescue Foundation. If you would like to donate wet or dry cat or dog food, toys, blankets, and gently used animal beds please bring them in this week and next week. Students will be blogging and updating the CJP newsletter soon so stay tuned! Below is their website
Heaven Can Wait Animal Rescue Foundation Website

December 7

Reminders:
- PD day, no school on December 8th
- Friendship Presentation on December 15th
- Pajama day and last day before winter break is on December 21
- Parents are invited to our Citizenship Expo on December 21 from 10am-10:30am
- Winter holiday celebration activities from December 19-21st

Information for Parents:
Parents, if you haven't had the chance to pay the activity fee and other field trip fees, can you please go into the school website to pay online.

Citizenship Expo on December 21
Students have been working on their global citizenship project for 3-4 weeks now and we would like to invite you all to come and check out our work. This is an opportunity for students to share their learning with you.

Students want to extend their citizenship to people around their community. want to make scarves and friendshipbots to spread care and kindness to people around us. The following pictures is a general idea on what we are planning on making in class as part of a Social Studies project as well as Art.


We are looking for donations for the following items:
- small buttons
- fleece material (lots of it) to make scarves and robot ornaments
- card stock paper to make personalized cards
- needles and threads for sewing


Math

Students worked on Ms. Ma's chocolate problem this week. They had the opportunity to come up with personal strategies using addition, subtraction, and multiplication to solve it. Please ask your child about the problem and how they solved it.


Literacy
Students have been working on their expert writing for 2 weeks. They are in the final process of making their final copy today and will continue next week. Some of them may have taken the work home to work on it as a choice.

Weekend journals have been handed out to students to write and reflect on their learning this week. As mentioned to the students, they can also work on their math skills too. Students can use the book to work on their rounding to the nearest 10s, 100s, and 1000s as well as addition and subtraction to 1000 (Grade 3) or 10,000 (Grade 4).

Club Information:

Message from the Leadership Club

Division 1 Reading Club - will take place during afternoon recess (2:05 - 2:20) on December 6, 13, and 20.  If your child is interested in coming to the Learning Commons to listen to a read aloud please come.

Division 2 Reading Club - will take place during afternoon recess (2:05 - 2:20) on December 7, 14, and 21.  If your  would like a quiet place to read their own books, as well as learn tips about writing their own stories, please come on these days

Message from the Me to We Club

Following a tradition of generosity and compassion during the winter season, CJP will again be collecting new, warm socks filled with toiletries for the Calgary Drop In Center. These small gifts of comfort are offered to those in need. By donating a new pair of socks and filling it with useful articles, you will make a difference in someone's day. Travel size is perfect! Here are some ideas; small Kleenex, lip balm, shampoo, creme rinse, comb, toothbrush and paste, nail file, disposable razors, hand cream, dental  floss, nail file, Q-tips, bus ticket, hand made card with good wishes, hand sanitizer, etc. 

Stuffed socks can be brought in anytime before our last day of school, December 21st. 

Extra Resources
This week is celebrating 50 years of "coding" and Apple is hosting free children workshops where kids can learn about computer coding. Computer coding is not just technology but also related to critical thinking, science, engineering, and creativity. For more information about the programs offered, click on the link. 

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Globalization and Citizenship

Rooms 20 & 21 have been learning about globalization, quality of life, rights and freedom and citizenship. Students have been learning that citizenship means a feeling of responsibility towards others and helping them. They have been exploring organizations, different countries and completing different critical thinking tasks to understand and appreciate their rights and freedoms as Canadian citizens. Below is the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child in pdf form.

UN Rights of the Child Poster
UN Sustainable Development Goals: this is what the organization believes will help end poverty

This document has been a huge part of our class discussions. The significance of this document has been important in their learning about citizenship because students have been learning that there are people in the world, and even within our country, who do not have the same quality of life, rights and freedoms as they do (inequality).

Students studied different international organizations for their own citizenship projects. An example of one was from an international organization called Plan International. Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children's rights and equality for girls.
Plan International
https://plancanada.ca/because-i-am-a-girl



To illustrate this point, students completed the Marshmallow Challenge. Below is the video explaining the challenge itself and its purpose.



Students engaged in this team building challenge, but were faced with limitations and restrictions depending on what group they were put in. 
Group 1: have instructions on how to build a well constructed tower in English, hints on how to build a successful tower, all the materials at their desk, best and extra supplies at their disposal, and lots of help from the teachers and EA
Group 2: have instructions in English, good supplies, materials at their desk, only allowed two hints from adult supports
Group 3: Given basic supplies, no instructions, all materials at their desk
Group 4: no instructions or hints, must walk to get supplies and are limited in terms of how many items they can carry back to their table to complete the challenge
Group 5: have to complete another task that will take 10 minutes before they even start their tower
Group 6: unreadable instructions (in French), no hints/help, lack of materials

So what have we learned? How do we continue to discuss citizenship? How do we talk about the inequalities that we see? Below are some video prompts to help you engage in those conversations. There are also discussion questions below to help facilitate the conversations.

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Discussion Questions 
1. What is empathy? How do you show someone you care?
2. What is responsibility? How do you show responsibility at home and at school? 
3. Do your rights and freedoms change as you become an adult?
4.Why is it important to learn responsibility and empathy in order to be a good citizen?
5. How does showing citizenship increase equality and opportunity for others?
7. Who do you know is a citizen that has made a difference? (i.e Terry Fox, Malala Yousafzai, Christian and the Buddy Bench idea, etc)
8. What are some of the local organizations that help others? How do they make a difference?
9.  What are the difference between a right, want and need? Are there similarities between them? 
10. What are you thankful and grateful for? How do you show appreciation? 

December 1st Update

Literacy

Students have been working on their expert writing this week. Here is a sample of a Grade 3 expert writing so far. Don't forget, this is only a draft.


Some students choose to take their written work home to complete. There's no weekend journal this week.
















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In Math, students completed a calendar math problem this week on skip counting by 3s, 4s, and 25s.


Here is an example of the math problem. We have gone through this problem in class but please allow your child explain their work to you.

Please review the following with your child:
- skip counting by 3s,4s, and 25s to 1000.
- Strategies to solve addition and subtraction up to 1000 (Gr 3) and 10,000 (Gr 4)
- Play Adding War with your child using a deck of cards to practice their mental math strategies and estimation.

Social Studies
Students have been working on an globalization inquiry project. They have been researching local and global organizations on how to help others. Please ask your child about what their ideas are and what their project is about.

For the whole month of November, students explored the term Peace and Globalization. In their collaborative art piece, students shared what peace means to them. Together, they have created this mural that is displayed outside of the office. Please come check it out!




Physical Education

It has been an exciting week of swimming! Students took the responsibility of taking care of their belongings and many of them expressed their enjoyment. Thank you parent volunteers for your support!