Peace Group

  Reminders: Please return all visual journals, work completed over our online learning, headphones, and indoor shoes. This Friday is a PD Day.  Our Day:   Many of us wore orange shirts today to honour the victims of residential schools. Those of us in Mrs. Campbell's side went outside to tie orange ribbons to our tree to show respect. Today, during coulee school:  On the Biologists side, we started writing on our animal of choice. It's time to show what we've learned!  As Historians, we continued working on our watercolour paintings.  The Environmentalists are nearing the end of our work on our persuasive writing pieces. 

Reminders: Please return all visual journals, work completed over our online learning, headphones, and indoor shoes. Next Friday is a PD Day.  Our Day: We began our day with some word work where we made words using letters that were given to us. Our letters were E-H-O-R-S-S-W. How many words can you make with those letters? After our Literacy block, we had our coulee school lesson.  On the Biologists side, we worked on our planning sheet where we started writing about the animals we have chosen to study.  As Historians, we continued working on our watercolour paintings.  The Environmentalists continued working on our persuasive writing pieces.  In Math, we played a game that encouraged us to practice our addition and subtraction skills.  Have a great weekend!  

Reminders: Please return all visual journals, work completed over our online learning, headphones, and indoor shoes. What a great day for a coulee walk!  The sky was sunny, the birds were singing and the students were experiencing so much in the natural surroundings. The Biologists: Spent time at what we call "The Duck Pond," but we may need to rename it as we got to see a muskrat! It was as if the stars aligned as yesterday we were learning about the Canada Goose and lo and behold a pair of Canada Geese flew up into the air and we could connect this to our learning. We also had time to do a Wetland Scavenger Hunt. The Environmentalists: The coulee was our laboratory, to identify the human impact on the coulee.  We gathered our findings and we will be using this information to assess the positive and negative impact on the coulee.  We also were being environmental stewards of the coulee by picking up the trash as we moved through the coulee. The Historians: We brought the pas

 Reminders: We are going on a coulee walk tomorrow morning. Please dress for the weather.  Please remember to return school materials back to school.  We are back in school – and that means our Fun Lunches and Snacks resume too! Our June ‘Fun Foods’ will be: June 3: SNACK ‘Out of Chaos Cookies’  June 17: SNACK ‘The Saucy Bread Company’  June 24:  LUNCH - TBD By Popular Vote  Highlights from our day: Mrs. Campbell's class is starting Reader's theatre during our literacy block! Students are excited to work in small groups and read their parts. Reader's theatre helps to improve reading fluency and is a fun way to read in a group! In coulee school we finished up our research on Jack Rabbits, completed a guided drawing, labeled its body and read a book called, How To Be. Students in Mrs. Campbell's group (Mr. Kai's students) acted out how to be different animals based on the animals presented in the read aloud.  Mrs. Bowles' (Campbell students) coulee school group co

 Reminders: We are going on a coulee walk Thursday morning. Please dress for the weather! Please bring all learning materials back to school - i.e visual journals, coulee school work that was produced, coulee school folders etc.  Highlights from our day: We were so happy to see everyone back at school today!  Students loved the SPARK video shared at lunch in the Kai/Bowles room today, try it out at home! https://youtu.be/yFUvg7mkKCM Coulee school highlights: Mrs. Campbell's class investigated Head Smashed In Buffalo  - Pisskan (in Blackfoot) Jump with Mrs. Bowles. Mrs. Bowles' class started the rough draft of their persuasive writing on why it is important to protect green spaces such as the coulee, with Mr. Kai.  Mr. Kai's class learned about Jack Rabbits, with Mrs. Campbell. We found they are actually hares and not rabbits! Hares and rabbits are actually quite different species. 

 Reminders and Updates: We will NOT be going on a coulee walk tomorrow. We will be taking the time to get organized at school before beginning online learning on Friday.  ONLINE learning begins this FRIDAY.  More information will follow soon. Thank you for your understanding and patience PLANT A SEED FOR GLENBOW RANCH! & RAISE FUNDS TO ‘STEWARD AN ACRE’ Eric Harvie School is Sponsoring a One-Week Fundraising Blitz to raise funds in support of our happy place: Glenbow Ranch Park! Students are invited to engage in some “Environmental Home Challenges” of their choice. For every completed challenge, they are asked to donate a loonie or a toonie by dropping them into the ‘Glass Fundraising Jars’ that will be located at the entry/exit doors May 5 – 12, 2021 both in the AM & PM.  Every donation earns students the right to “Plant a Seed for Glenbow Ranch” on our Living Wall in the Hub!  On May 12/21, we will count all our donations to see if we are able to purchase ‘An Acre to

Reminders: Tomorrow is: Hats On! for Mental Health Day On the first Wednesday in May, Albertans are invited to wear a hat to raise awareness of the importance of good mental health. Participating schools will relax their hat rules and encourage students and teachers to build understanding by wearing hats to school. WE ARE GOING FOR A COULEE WALK ON THURSDAY MORNING. PLEASE DRESS FOR THE WEATHER AND PACK A POCKET SNACK! HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR DAY: Mrs. Campbell's class focused their inquiry time around a mystery bone that Ms. Huebner's class found in the coulee. They hypothesized what animal it could be from, what could have happened to it and why it was in the coulee. They recorded the information in their field journals Mr. Kai's class continued to work on their persuasive writing and went to Music class. They also got some new words for word work today. Mrs. Bowles' class wrote personal narratives about if they lived 1000 years ago in the coulee and created watercolour p

 Reminders:  We are planning on going on another coulee walk this Thursday morning so long as the weather continues to cooperate. Pencil that into your calendars!  May 5th will be Hats on for Mental Health Day .  Our Day: We have been continuing our coulee learning today!  In Mr. Kai's class, we are nearing the end of our persuasive writing. In Mrs. Bowles' class, we continue to develop our understanding of Calgary's past through art.  In Mrs. Campbell's class, we investigated a mystery egg and applied all our knowledge of animals to figure out which animal it may have come from! We think it belongs to a Canada goose 😉