Urban Reflections

We are learning about different communities in our world, specifically urban and rural communities. 

We now are familiar with several Calgary landmarks and, inspired by these, we created cityscapes that incorporated the Bow River and a landmark using Mr. Sketch markers and water.  They are dazzling!

 

Grade Ones Travel Back in Time to Fort Calgary...

Students traveled back in time to train as North West Mounted Police officers, learning how to stand at ease, salute, fall out, and take the oath.

Students worked cooperatively to build a log cabin, complete with a sod roof!

As characters from Calgary's past, students participated in a train ride from Red Deer to Calgary, where a real-life event was re-enacted, with the help of students actors and actresses ;)

We wrote about our adventures back in our classroom and, using transparency images of our characters, a little bit of water colour and a steam train, we shared some of our memories from our trip back in time!

Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Insert web photos of pens
River critters
School clean up

Grade One Students Take Care of Their World!

This year, as part of our social studies We Care For Our World and religion themes of stewardship, grade one students are collecting and recycling writing utensils.  These are returned to Terracycle and recycled into plastic picnic tables, garbage cans and lotion dispensers.  We counted 291 writing utensils on our first collection around our school!