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Report Cards Report cards are coming home today, January, 24. These reports are a summary of information on Ed Inform up until mid- January. The more recent entries on Ed Inform are not included in this report. The language has changed for the report card. We now use the descriptors emerging, developing, proficient and extending. The description for these terms is on the back of the report card cover. As always if you have any questions or concerns, please contact me and we can chat about your concerns and questions.  Please return the envelope and report card cover to the school. The report card is yours to keep.  Ed Inform I am adding new examples of learning activities to Ed Inform. The learning activities show what activities  your child is doing in class to meet the expectations for this topic/ unit. On Ed inform this week I am including learning activities under the following learning samples: New reading videos under « reading » New activities unde...

Force and Motion We are studying force and movement as part of our science curriculum. We have explored "push" and "pull" outside on the playground and the swings. We have briefly talked about friction and gravity as well. We will be doing experiments in class to further explore gravity and friction. We will be trying to see if we can change the amount of friction on an object by using different materials. Thank you for the caps that we will use in these experiments. 2D Shapes We have started a unit on shapes. We are beginning to explore the properties of shapes. This is mainly to build the French vocabulary. The children are also building the shapes which reinforces the attributes of the shapes e.g. a triangle has 3 sides and 3 corners. We will move on to finding the shapes in our environment here at school. The main goal for the students is to be able to sort shapes according to their attributes. They can sort by size, colour, shape or thickness. We will ...