Celebration of Learning

Hello Parents,

Our celebration of learning is tomorrow from 6:15-7:45. The grade 3's and 4's will have separate times when they are demonstrating their Karate. Grade 3s will need head to the music room for 6:30, demonstration at 6:40 in the gym. Grade 4s will need to head to the music room for 7:00, demonstration at 7:10 in the gym. Please try and arrive before your Childs demonstration time so they are able to show you all they have learn't in Karate.

Both rooms 10 and 11 will be showing their work in Room 10. Room 11 will be closed so please come join us in room 10. We will have math games, literacy games and a word work station. The grade 3's science projects will be in there so they can show you their work. The grade 4 students will show you their IRIS to demonstrate how they used green-screen to make their projects about a country.

Our semi-annual book fair will once again be housed in room 22, and the parent association will also be hosting a Cafe on the stage, bring your change.

We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow night.

Have a Terrific Tuesday

Ms. Youngblood and Ms. Tang 

Pink Shirt Day

It's for stopping bullying. - Justin

Pink shirt day and orange shirt day are different. Orange shirt day is for residential schools. Pink shirt day is to stop bullying. - Kai F.

The story of pink shirt day, there was a boy that wore a pink shirt and then these bullies came up. They were being mean. The next day people started wearing pink and it became a thing. - Abdul Aziz

Pink shirt day is to encourage other upstanders. - Artie

Everybody is recommended to wear a pink shirt and if you don't have one, then red or orange are an option. - Kai Q

Encourage your child to wear pink! - Hugh

If boys have a pink shirt, please wear it. If they don't, orange, red or purple are the closest colours. - Alex

Tomorrow is pink shirt day. We wear pink shirts for Anti-Bullying. - Emma

Remember to wear pink! - Hugh, again.

Please listen to Hugh. - Alex

Thanks for reading!

- Grade 3s

Why would they change math?! (Grade 4s)

Dear parents,

Many of you have identified that helping your child practice math at home can be a bit confusing. Here's a guide to some of the addition strategies that have been taught this year. Stay tuned for subtraction strategies.

Addition Strategies

Cheers!

Ms. Tang

Scholastic Book Fair

Hello Parents,

SCHOLASTIC’S BOOK FAIR
IS COMING TO OUR SCHOOL! Yay!


The Scholastic Book Fair will be at our school Tuesday February 26h to Wednesday February 27th. Students will be visiting the fair during class time; they will be allowed to purchase books during that time, but we also encourage you to look over the highlights flyer and the wish list they will bring home. Parents are welcome to visit anytime; remember to sign in at the office and pick up a visitor’s badge.


Please have your child fill out the ballot on the highlights flyer for a chance to win free books!

Did you know: 80% of the sales from this fair come back to the school in the library and home reading materials? Last year, our Scholastic book fairs brought in over $8500 worth of books for the library, home reading program, and English as a Learned Language support.


You may send cash or a cheque with your child to purchase their books. Cheques should be made out to CJP. Visa, Mastercard, and debit are also accepted when you visit the fair.


THE FAIR WILL BE OPEN THE FOLLOWING HOURS:

Tuesday February 26th 9:10am-4:50pm (opened after school)
Wednesday February 27th 9:10am-4:50pm (opened after school)
6:30pm-8:00pm (running along the Math Celebration of learning event)


CLOSED DURING RECESS AND LUNCH ALL DAYS



We still need volunteers, help us run a successful event! No experience needed, kids are welcome to come and help after school with their parent volunteers. A valid police clearance is needed for school hours volunteering. Please sign up at : http://signup.com/go/sTqTnUU

Have a Magical Monday,

Ms. Youngblood and Ms Tang

Grade 4 Social Green Screen Project.

Hello Parents,

The grade 4's have been working very hard on a green screen project for Social Studies. The project is to showcase the geography of one of the four countries they have studied. They have learnt how to shoot and upload a green screen project. On Wednesday February 27 we would love to show you our green screen projects as well as show you how we film a green screen. Our projects are on IRIS if you'd like to check them out and see all of our hard work.

See you Wednesday night!!

Ms. Youngblood

Room 11's Week at a Glance

"We started learning about creating value in art." - Artie

"In social, the grade 4s got to do our green screen, write a script and practice with other people in our group." - Megan G.

"The grade 3s are also doing a video with a script." - Artie

"In buddies, we made a fortune teller for zones of regulation, and there was a fire drill." - Matilda

"In literacy, we worked on writing with inspiration from a scuba dog." - Megan S.

"During Wonder Wednesday, we learned about how toothpaste was made." - Zaahir and Yungeon

"In literacy, red group did Starfall." - Elijah

Have a great weekend!

- Tang's Gang

Room 10's week at a glance Feb 19-22

Hello  parents of room 10,

"We learned how to draw the Taj Mahal." Emma

"The grade 4's did our green screen for our Social Studies." - Julia

"We are working on organizing our work." Ava

"We learned how to say the days of the week in French." Simon

"For the grade 3's we are planning out a project with our countries and we are going to advertise on an advertisement video." Justin

"We used a graphic organizer to organize our work then got feedback from our peers." Kendall

"We made a feedback poster there are three sections good feedback, ok feedback and scary feedback." Joe

"We learned about a famous landmark in India." Henry

"We had some Jr High School students come and help us with math on Wednesday." Dane

"We did our word work test today." Maryum

"We practiced our kicks in Karate on Tuesday." Zac

"Ms. Youngblood went to a heritage site in Peru when she was 15 it is called Machu Pichu." Kai F

"In our Karate residency is our Kata we gave them five chances before we strike." - Kai Q

"We learned that a lot of famous such as Albert Einstein and Henry ford all had Dyslexia like our teacher Ms. Youngblood." Justin

"We had buddies and we are going to read to them." Sam

"We hope to see you on Wednesday Night for the celebration of learning so we can show you all that we have learned." -Youngblood Youngsters

I hope you have a great and safe weekend

Ms Youngblood and Room 10

Grade 3 Social Studies Video

Great Minds Think Alike

Dear Room 10 Parents,

Today in Health we learned about several people including George Washington. Albert Einstein, Henry Ford and so many more.

"Henry Ford Invented the assembly line." Kai F

"Walt Disney was the creator of Disney." -Truly

"Did you know that the smallest things can have the most amount of energy?"- Joe

"Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone." Ava

"Walt Disney also created Mickey Mouse." Braxson

"Walt Disney was told in school that he wasn't creative enough." - Kai F

"The Bell telephone company is named after Alexander Graham Bell." Kai Q

"Winston Churchill could barely pass geography." Henry

"You shouldn't judge people if they cant read its about what they think." Lachlan

" I would really like to see all of these peoples grades." Truly

"George Washington was the first president of America and he invented the America dollar." Joe

"We learnt about the best teacher ever called Ms. Youngblood."- Julia

"Ally in the book Fish in a Tree has Dyslexia."- Maryum

"All of these people had Dyslexia and Ally in the book Fish in a Tree had Dyslexia and thats how it connects."-Simon

"John Lennon was one of the creators of the Beatles." Kai F

"All of these people had Dyslexia." Ryleigh

"We learned that even if you can't read you can have a great mind."- Justin

"Never, Never, Never Give up"- Winston Churchill (Ben)

"We have the best teacher ever." - Youngblood Youngsters (Tiny Humans)

Sincerely,

The Youngblood Youngsters

Check out our sweet kicks!

Valentine's and Valen-tiles

In Writing, Tang's gang has been using our paragraph organizing skills to do something very special this week. We've been writing paragraphs to other teachers that come to help our class out all the time (Mrs. Hamel, Mrs. O, Mrs. Lindon) and show them how much we appreciate their kindness. Ask me about who I've written a Valentine to!

In math, the Grade 4s are working with tiles to see how many different arrays we can make using a given number of tiles. Ask me:

• what arrays I made for my number today
• what array you can make with ANY number
• what array you can make with any EVEN number

Room 10's week at a glance: Feb 11-13

Hello friends and family,

We would like to share with you what we did this week in class.

Art

"We made art projects for Valentines day." - Joe

" We learnt about Chris Uphues who is a street artist. Our art was inspired by his work." - Kai

"We made pictures of hearts with faces." Braxson

Writing 

"We made an organization rubric." -Ava
" We are doing art." - Ryleigh

"We have been working on organizing our writing using graphic organizers and we even made our own rubric." Kai
"In math we used arrays using floor tiles. As big as 120 floor tiles." Ben

Math 

"In math we did multiplication questions using arrays." Emma

"In math we did patterns." Jacob

"In math the grade 4's did math rotations." Kendall

Social Studies

"In grade social studies we are learning about India, Peru, Ukraine and Tunsia." -Sam

"Peru is in South America." Landon

"Tunisia is in Africa." André

"Indias hottest temperature reaches plus 45 degrees celsius." Henry

" Tunsia's heat can reach up to an average of 81 degrees and we learn't cursive writing." Simon

"The Urkranian mountains are the Crimean mountains they are heavily and less eroded." Julia

"India has the Himalyan mountains." Zac

"In Ukraine the temperature can get over 85 degress." Ava

"Tunsia has the Atlas mountains and Tunsia and had the smallest mountain." _ Kai

"Ukraine is located in Europe." Kai and Justin

"India has the worlds third highest mountain." Henry

"It would be 19 hours to fly from India to Alberta." Jacob

"The Himalayan mountains in India can be 8850 meters." AbdulAziz

"In the winter in Urkraine the temperature is 4." Ava

"The average day in Peru in the summer can reach up to 28 degrees celsius." Sam

"The mountains of Peru are called the Andes and are 6000 meters tall." Joe

"Lima is the capital city of Peru." Maryum


"Me and Ms O worked on a project learning about Calgary." Dane



"On Wednesday we wrote the blog with everyones ideas." Justin


"On Wednesday we had the Valentine card exchange." Joe

Happy Weekend!

Here is a picture of the rubric we made! 

Love,
The Youngblood Youngsters


I hope all of you have a safe and relaxing long weekend. See you on Tuesday!
-Ms. Youngblood

Karate!

We started a new Phys. Ed. unit; karate! In karate, we learned how to start; with three bows. One bow is to say thank you to the creator of karate, the second is to the sensei and the third is to our friends/family/team. Next, we learned how to block properly. The types of blocks that we learned were double block, high block, low block and circle block. Everybody learned how to keep themselves safe when they're in danger. Also, we learned how to punch properly without breaking our thumbs. Lastly, the type of martial arts we are learning about is from Japan. We learned how to count to ten in Japanese! That's what we did today in karate.

Oos!

-Tang's Gang

Karate Residency

Welcome parents/ guardians of room 10,

Today we started our Karate residency.

"We learned blocks and punches"- Andre

"Please wear loose clothing we have Karate on Tuesday mornings for the next three weeks." Henry

"We learned some japanese and some sweeps."- Justin

"We learned how to bow at the founders, creators, sensei and friends." Julia

"We played a fun game called sensei says" Ryleigh

"The gym is now called the Dojo." Joe

"We learned how to balance and hop over lines." -Ava

"We learned double blocks." Kai

"We learned stances." Jacob

"Karate was very fun" Justin

"The sensei would walk around and hit us softly with pool noodles so we can block them." - Joe

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Room 10 

A Step To Growth Mindset

Dear families,

Today we took our shoe drawings from last week and began learning about how to give and receive thoughtful, specific feedback. We used the TAG strategy for giving feedback.

Tell me what I did well.

Ask me questions about my work.

Give me a suggestion.

"It's important to do TAG to make people feel confident and happy about their work and then you can give suggestions." - Megan S.

"I feel very good about myself because people said what I did good." - Alex

"When you have a growth mindset, you're thinking about what you did good and you're not having a fixed mindset because you're getting feedback from people." ... "You're helping get better at taking suggestions and not getting upset quickly." - Megan G.

"The TAG strategy is important because it increases your growth mindset quicker and it helps you get better growth mindset." - Artie

Draft 1 by Hugh

Draft 1 by Jack

Draft 1 by Ellie

Draft 1 by Parker

Ask us about growth mindset and our shoe drawings! Thanks for learning with us!

Namaste,

- Tang's Gang

Valentines Day

Hello parents

We hope you had a relaxing weekend. As many of you are aware Valentines day is fast approaching. As we do not have school on Thursday we will be doing our exchanges on Wednesday. Can you please provide your child with an empty Kleenex box or shoebox to put their valentines in. Please refrain from sending your child with any class treats as we will not be having a class party. Wednesday is a day to show our respect and gratitude for one another.

Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Ms. Youngblood and Ms. Tang

Music Sharing Tuesday

Music Sharing Class will be on Tuesday, February 12th during music. If you would like to share, please remember to bring what you need on Tuesday!

Faceoff/War

Dear families,

Here's a math game to help you practice basic operations.

Materials:

• A deck of cards
• 2 players

1. Deal all of the cards so that each player has half of the deck. Keep the pile face down. 
2. Decide between you and your partner if face cards will be taken as a 10 or 0.
3. Both players will flip their top card at the same time. The first person to correctly add/subtract/multiply the two flipped numbers will keep both cards and put them at the bottom of their pile.
4. If both students answer the math fact at the same time, they will each flip another card. The first person to correctly answer the new problem, will keep all four of the cards.
5. The winner is the person with the most cards when playing time is complete.

Happy mathing!

Ms. Tang and Ms. Youngblood

Updates

Class photos will be on Thursday, February 7

Polar Bear Club

During indoor recess days, the Polar Bear Club offers the option to go outside for play and physical activity, improving mood, attention and fitness for students. Students who have returned a permission form signed by a parent or guardian and are properly dressed will have the choice to go outside or stay inside during indoor lunch recess. If your child is interested in having the option to participate each time a Polar Bear Club is called, please complete and sign the form and return it to your child’s homeroom teacher. 

Young Writers' Convention (YWC)

Students should go to the learning commons on Thursday, February 7 if they are interested in learning about the YWC, an opportunity to learn more about writing from keynote speakers and authors. We are looking for students who have a desire or passion to write, regardless of their current writing skills.

Look-alike Day: This Friday, students should find a friend (or friends) and dress exactly alike! If you don't know who to match with, feel free to wear a red shirt and dark pants.

ATTENTION PARENTS OF STUDENTS IN GRADES 4!!!

From mid January to the end of February, Alberta Education will be conducting the annual Accountability Pillar Survey. The Accountability Pillar Survey uses a set of 16 indicators consisting of surveys of students, parents and teachers on various aspects of education quality. In mid-January, parents of students in grades 4, 7 and 10 across Alberta will receive a survey from Alberta Education in the mail which can be returned directly to Alberta Education in the self-addressed, stamped envelope provided.

In February, students in grades 4 and all teachers will be completing their surveys online at school. Survey results will be available to jurisdictions in May, and will be reported publicly by jurisdictions as part of their 3-Year Education Plans and Annual Education Results Reports. All surveys are anonymous and ask respondents about their experiences with their school.

The Accountability Pillar Survey provides an opportunity for Alberta Education, school authorities and local schools to ensure that we’re equipping students for success. Your participation in the survey is very important, so we encourage you to return your survey promptly.

I would like to point out that answering “I don’t know” to a question is treated as a negative response (disagree) to that question. It would be more beneficial for us if parents answered either “Strongly Agree”, “Agree”, “Disagree” or “Strongly Disagree”. This would give us a clearer indication of how parents felt we were doing on this indicator.

If you require more information to answer a particular question, please contact Dr. Bettesworth or Ms. Sharpe at the school. On behalf of Captain John Palliser School, thank you for taking the time to provide us with valuable feedback regarding the educational services we provide your child. Please contact me at the school if you have any further questions regarding this survey.

Student Led Conferences

Dear families,

Thank you so much for taking the time to come to CJP and see all of the things that we are learning about! We always appreciate your support. If there are any questions or concerns, please contact Ms. Tang or Ms. Youngblood. If it is a lengthy conversation, we would be happy to book a meeting.

Stay warm!

Ms. Tang and Ms. Youngblood