We sang our hearts out!

 Friday, December 15, 2023

Thank you to all who were able to attend our Holiday Assembly. The students were so excited to share their songs and poems with you and it was wonderful to see your smiling faces supporting them in the audience!


Looking Back


This week we focused on the sounds /qu/ and /ck/. Our words this week were do, back, where, always, very, come . Thank you for continuing to practice at home using the small paper that comes home at the beginning of the week. Please also continue to send your child’s ziplock bag into school everyday so that they may choose a new book to read at home and have their bag for important notices being sent home. Thank you!


This was a very exciting and busy week in Grade One. We continued to share our family traditions with the class and have been building our skills in asking a question after hearing about a friend’s tradition. Thank you to all who have sent in a tradition for your child to share. If you have not yet done so, there is still time! Please either email a picture of your family tradition or send in an artifact with your child for them to share with the class. Thank you for your help!


We learned about the Indigenous tradition of making and sharing Bannock this week. We heard a story about some children who were learning to make Bannock with their Grandmother and learned how to say Grandmother in Cree language (Kokum). We learned about following a recipe and tied our math learning in with our social studies, working together as a community to take turns measuring and counting ingredients to add into a bowl. We were very excited to take a walk to see the oven in the school and to bake the bannock. 


We read another version of “Stone Soup” and came together as a community today to make our own Stone Soup to share. Thank you to all who contributed to our soup. The students really enjoyed creating it together and sampling it with the bannock we made. 





In Science, we worked on our final project for our unit on Matter. We demonstrated our understanding of properties by creating a “Shapeshifter” out of many different materials and then changing its properties to use the exact same materials to “shift” it to another object. We took pictures of each object and wrote the properties of each, noticing and explaining how they had changed. 


Looking Forward


The Magic of Christmas Fundraiser

 

This holiday season, McKenzie Towne students and staff are encouraged to support The Magic of Christmas. 

Every Christmas Eve, The Magic of Christmas loads up Calgary Transit buses that are magically transformed into “reindeer buses”, with hundreds of gifts and volunteers dressed as Santa and his elves.  Then they deliver Christmas spirit into the homes and hearts of those who need it most.  From December 5th to Dec. 18th, please bring in new, unwrapped donation items (not food) and place them in the boxes located in the front foyer. 

Please see the attached wish list for ideas of items to donate.

For more information or to make a monetary donation, please visit
https://www.themagicofchristmas.org/

Thanks for your support!


Please return library books. There will be no library sign out next week. 


There are many exciting events happening next week. A few to note:

Monday 18th - Carolling in the gym at 9:00 am - parents are invited to join, however, this is not a performance, it is a community carolling session.

Tuesday 19th - Festive Sweater Day 

Wednesday 20th - Fun Lunch

Wednesday 20th - Carolling in the gym at 1:15 pm - parents are invited to join, however, this is not a performance, it is a community carolling session.

Thursday 21st - Pajama Day


December 25 - January 5 - NO SCHOOL Winter Break

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