February 23rd - 27th

 

A huge thank you to everyone who was able to attend conferences this week! it is always so wonderful to connect and celebrate your child as well as discuss next steps in helping them continue to be successful 💗

Learning Intentions:

- Students relate traditions to Canada's heritage

I Can:

- explore ways the land contributes to First Nations and Inuit tradition and identity

- explain how heritage is passed down through generations and reflects the traditions of people and communities

We had an amazing field trip at The Confluence Historical Site and Parkland this week. It was a great opportunity for us to visit this place of significance, reflect on history and learn about the people who shaped our city. Thank you to all of our parent volunteers who were able to join us and make it possible to go...we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 

We participated in a few different sessions and learned so much! We talked about the 3 indigenous groups - First Nations, Inuit and Metis, and learned some important Blackfoot words that we can use to demonstrate our understanding and respect - we say iinii instead of buffalo and lodge instead of tipi. We learned a little more about how Canada was originally called Kanata and had the opportunity to work through different stations learning about the importance of the land. 

We took a walk to see where the Elbow and Bow rivers meet and had the chance to see a true Metis cabin!

We had lots of fun engaging in hands on activities like building a log cabin as well as learning and playing a variety of Inuit games!

February 17th - 20th

 

Learning Intentions:

- Students examine roles, responsibilities, and self-regulation and their connections to self-understanding

I Can:

- investigate opportunities to participate in community roles

- explore how the roles and responsibilities of people contribute positively to community well-being

- explore ways communities work together to support self-regulation

This week it was really great to see our school community come together to cheer on our Canadian athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics! We focused our learning around the importance of community and talked about different ways people within a community support each other.

• "We can support each other when we need help or when we are hurt."
• "When you invite other kids to play you are working together like a community."
• "Helping others be their best is important in a community because it's important to celebrate each other"
• "Being a good role model is important. We need to be good citizens of our community."

We worked together researching and creating our Canadian Indigenous Olympic Athlete One-Pagers and were inspired by how hard each of these athletes worked to get to the Olympics.

We also learned a little more about the Olympic Events!

February 9th - 11th

 

🍁 Go Canada Go 🍁

Learning Intention:

- Students investigate physical activity and relate it to personal experience

- Students demonstrate teamwork and support participation in a variety of physical activities

I Can:

- Describe experiences as a result of participating in adventurous play

- Exhibit teamwork in a variety of physical activity contexts

Ask your child to tell you all about the fabulous Sibbald Olympics that Mr. B set up for the week! Students played hard and really enjoyed getting the chance to be Olympians!

As we began celebrating the beginning of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games being held in Milano Cortina, students were very excited to share their knowledge of what they already knew about the Olympics. Each day we looked forward to the Olympic trivia questions that Mr. Campbell announced and we always excited to research to find the answers! Here are just a few of the questions:

• How many Canadian athletes are participating in the 2026 winter Olympics? How many of those Canadian athletes are from Alberta?
• Which Canadian province has the most athletes participating at the games?
• How many different events are there in the Winter Olympics? How many of the events can you name?

We talked about the hard work and resiliency of the athletes and how excited and honored they must feel to be representing Canada. Checking the medal standings was a daily highlight as we cheered for Canada and looked at the standings of other countries as well. 

We learned about current Indigenous Olympians competing in Milano as well as some of the Indigenous trailblazers from earlier times. 

February 2nd - 6th

Learning Intentions:

- Students investigate addition and subtraction within 100

I Can:

- can compose a sum in multiple ways, including with than two addends

- investigate strategies for addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers

- solve problems, using addition and subtraction of countable quantities

Building fact fluency in math is the ability to recall the answers to basic math facts automatically and without hesitation. Automaticity in math facts is fundamental to having success in many different areas of higher mathematics. We work on building our basic facts fluency in lots of different ways such as dice and card games, number talks, fluency folders and problem solving. Students are encouraged to use a variety of strategies and tools in their math learning such as blocks or counters, hundreds charts, number lines, or whiteboards while completing their math work.

Here is some parent information about addition and subtraction from our Math Up resource: