Robotics Residency

Hello Parents

Today room 10 started their robotics residency. Room 11 will be starting theirs next week. The STEM learning lab will be in our school teaching us all sorts of exciting things about coding and STEM. Room 10 will be working with the Dot and Dash robots. Today we learned about how to code the robots and participated in fun activities with the Dash and Dots such as making the dash drive in a square and helping it cross the street. There is a school wide celebration of learning on November 14 from 6:30- 7:30 this will give you an opportunity to see the work your child has been doing with robotics.


Bellow are some pictures of all of the fun we had today.











Have a great night

Ms. Youngblood

Sullivan the Pumpkin

Hello Room 10 parents

Our class wanted to introduce you to Sullivan the pumpkin. This week we wrote a story about the life cycle of a pumpkin. We learnt about how the pumpkin comes to our school as well as how a pumpkin breaks down in the compost as part of the Waste in Our World unit in Science. The students will be bringing their Sullivan the pumpkin writing home to show you during the week next week.

We also got the amazing opportunity of bringing Sullivan to life. Here is a picture of how we decorated him. One of the students came up with idea of Sullivan the business pumpkin. You will also be able to meet Sullivan the pumpkin in real life at the dance tonight at 6:30. Sullivan hopes to
 see you there.

Word Work in Room's 10 and 11

Hello Room 10 and 11 Parents

We hope you are all having a great day. We have so enjoyed getting to know and learn with your student.

We wanted to let you know that word work will be coming home every Tuesday and Thursday with your child. They will come home with a bag of their words they have gotten on Monday. If you could please quiz them on all of the words in their bags that would be greatly appreciated. With word work we are focusing on the pattern in the words to help them spell out and identify more difficult words. Feel free to ask your child to teach you about the pattern they are learning. The extra work at home really helps them prepare for the word work check in on Friday's.

Room 11 dose not have word work list this week but will get a new list on Monday.

We appreciate all of your support and the extra work at home to help your child thrive and grow.

Kind regards

Ms. Youngblood and Mrs. Hogue

Family Fall Dance and Jack-O-Lantern Contest | Nov. 2, 2018

Hello Room 10 and 11 Parents

The CJP Parent Association is hosting a family fall dance and pumpkin contest from 6:30-8:30 pm in the CJP school gym tomorrow November 1.

Come and dance the night away, enjoy a treat from the bake sale and try your luck at the 50/50 draw. Make sure to take a photo at the photo booth, and vote for your favourite jack-o-lantern carved by CJP students. Please remember change if you want a delicious treat from the bake sale.

Costumes are optional, but always fun!!! No masks or toy weapons please. This is a low waste event.

Did your child get too much candy on Halloween?

The Happy Birthday Project will be collecting any candy that you may throw away. There will be a collection box in the office tomorrow so if you are attending the dance feel free to bring any unwanted candy with you. If you're not attending the dance feel free to send the donated candy to school with your child tomorrow. There is more information bellow about the project and their efforts to help children in need.

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We hope that you all can make it to the dance!

Kind regards

Ms. Youngblood and Mrs. Hogue

Halloween in Rooms 10 and 11

On Wednesday, Oct. 31st, students are welcome to wear costumes to school if they choose.  Please do not include masks or accessories that could be lost.  As well, costumes that include gore or violence are not permitted.  Alternatively, students are invited to wear orange and black if they would like.

We will partake in Halloween themed activities throughout the day, including math and writing activities.  We also hope to end the day by watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," as a supplement to our study of stories and visualization. 

Please let your child's responsibility teacher know via email should you have any questions or concerns about our plan for the day. 

Room 10's Field Trip to the Military Museum

Hello Room 10 parents

We went on a field trip to the Military Museum on October 23. The purpose of this field trip was to learn about the stories of the Indigenous people of Alberta. More specifically we learnt about the stories of the Indigenous veterans in Canada.

We learnt about Mike Mountainhorse he was an Indigenous veteran in WWI who told his story on a story robe. One story that he shared on his robe was when they scared some other soldiers out of a home and got to eat their hot meal. We had a chance to make our own story robe about events in our lives that were important to us. Below are some examples of our story robes.




Our next stop was going to the airplane hanger where we got to see real jets from the Cold War. We also saw a replica of a shelter that people would hide in during the Cold War.




Here is some of us looking at some of the suits that the pilots would wear.




Here we are listening to our wonderful volunteer Maryliz telling us about her childhood growing up during the Cold War. Her father was a pilot in the army and they had to move to Germany. We loved hearing her stories.



After looking at the planes we had a really cool presentation about some of Canada's Indigenous Veterans. Did you know that there were over 1,200 Indigenous Veterans that served in the Canadian Army?
 


One of our favorite parts of the day was the artifact circle where we got to touch many different artifacts that Indigenous veterans would use during wars. Bellow is a Buffalo hide shield we learnt that the Indigenous used this to protect themselves. We also learnt about how there are no more Prairie Buffalo they are all extinct. Our tour guide told us that now all we have is Wood Buffalo he told us a great story about when Wood Buffalo run through the forest it sounds like a lightning storm because they knock down all of the trees.




We all learnt that the Indigenous people would camouflage themselves with Snowy Owl feathers because they would blend in with the snow.




We had an amazing day at the Military Museum! Thank you to the Museum for having us. As well as thank you to our wonderful volunteers without you it would not have been the same.

We Scare Hunger!

WE SCARE HUNGER!

 

NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY, BUT IN CANADA 1 in 7 CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL HUNGRY.  36% OF FOOD BANK USERS IN CANADA ARE CHILDREN AND YOUTH!

 

THIS HALLOWEEN, BE HUNGER HEROES

Take action this Halloween to collect non-perishable food items at school and in your community to help stop hunger before it strikes.

 

Starting on Monday October 15^th, the Me to We club will begin to collect non-perishable food items. We will continue to collect non-perishable food items until November 9^th. All food items will be donated to the Calgary food bank to help hungry Calgarians. 

 

Classroom Challenge: Which classroom can collect the most non-perishable items?

As teachers collect donated goods from students during October 15^th to November 15^th, they will tally the amount collected. The class to collect the most food items will have their class picture proudly displayed on the Me to We club’s Hall of Fame display case for everyone to see!

 

School Challenge: Can the school raise a total of 800 non-perishable food items?

 

Many food banks ask for the following non-perishable items:

o   Rice

o   Flour

o   Pasta

o   Canned fish and meat (Tuna, salmon, corned beef and chicken)

o   Stew and soup

o   Canned or dried beans

o   Canned fruit and vegetables

o   100% fruit juice

o   Canned or powdered milk

o   Cereals

o   Tomato sauce

o   Peanut butter

o   Baby products (formula, diapers, baby food)

 

Thanks for your support,

The CJP Me To We Club