April 22 - 25

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IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES

May 8 – Booster Juice Day (order by May 3 on healthyhunger.ca if participating)

May 15 – 6:00 – 8:00 Family Dance


BOOK DONATIONS CAN STILL BE SENT

If you have gently loved books to donate to our outdoor library, please send them to school with your child and we can add them to the cart.


SAVE THE DATE: FAMILY DANCE ON THURSDAY, MAY 15 

Our Parent Fundraising Society is happy to be planning a Family Dance for Thursday, May 15 from 6:00 – 8:00.

A link will be sent to you from our Parent Fundraising Society soon to buy tickets for the Family Dance. (More information to come next week.) Tickets will be $15.00 per family and will include entrance, a DJ, a photo booth, outdoor games, and temporary tattoos.

  • One ticket per family is required. Parents or guardians must stay with their children during the dance. Children cannot attend with older siblings or alone. Thanks for your understanding!
  • Only 250 family tickets will be sold due to fire regulations.

A Snack Shack will be available with items like chips, Freezies, candy bags, and glow sticks. These can be bought with concession coupons, which can be purchased in advance when you buy your tickets.

Although tickets are not for sale yet, when it is time and you have placed an online order for the dance, our parent volunteers will prepare a bag for you with your ticket and coupons. These will be sent home by Wednesday, May 14.

As this is a fully parent volunteer organized and parent volunteer run event, we appreciate the hard work of the parents putting in the time to make it happen! We thank them for their support in making it a success!


Earth Day + Poetry

We were introduced to our Poetry Unit by reading, The Elders are Watching by David Bouchard and illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers.

"Art and poetry combine in this powerful book that delivers an important message about human relationships with nature.   As the elders watch the rampant destruction of natural resources through activities like mining, logging and over harvest they despair at the toll humans are taking on the land.  The only way to stop the devastation is to urge young people to change the future by protecting the integral connections between man and the Earth which provide us with so much."  - Learning for a Sustainable Future


TUSC
Students are presenting their TUSC on Wednesday.  They can work on their speeches and presentations at home if needed.

Math
In math we completed our Show What you Know about Fractions and Ratios.  Our next unit will be Measurement - Area and Perimeter.

In music students started to learn play C, F and A minor on the ukulele.  



Students are simulation voting in the Federal Election on Monday with the program Student Vote.  5D are taking the roles of the election officials.  Students will take on the roles of the Central Poll Supervisor, Scrutineer, Deputy Returning Officer, Information Officers and media.

Students are planning where the voting screens and and ballot boxes should be placed. 



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