Orange Shirt Day

Orange Shirt Day-September 30th

Every child matters!

Thank you families for dressing for the crazy Calgary weather!  Your children arrived today on-time with labelled boots, coats, mitts, hats, snow-pants, scarves and... orange shirts!  Well done!

A HUGE thank you for packing those recess snacks in a quick easy side pouch/zipper.  It makes getting all bundled up worth it when your child can easily access a snack without having to open up a lunch-kit or go digging through a bottom-less pit of a backpack.

Reminders: 

Library book exchange and book orders due Tuesday, October 1st

Terry Fox Run and Orange Shirt Day

A wet and chilly Terry Fox Run today! But the students persevered! 

Thank you for bundling up warm, running for Terry and for the generous donations for cancer research! Hawkwood School students are making a difference!

Our class ran 69 laps in total!

Monday, September 30th is ORANGE SHIRT DAY!

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SAVE THE DATE:  Family Literacy Night

Autumn Scavenger Hunt

Before the weather changes, we got outside for an Autumn Scavenger Hunt

We were delighted for how many things we could actually find-even a worm!!!

Collaboration and cooperation in small groups...

Look closely... Look deeply...Observe!

Friday: Muffin Breakfast, Terry Fox Assembly and Terry Fox Run

Dress for the weather!  Toonies for Terry! 

Thank you for the kind support for cancer research!

Library Learning Commons

Keep Library Books safe!

          Today we were gifted NEW library book bags from a generous donor. 

In Grade One, we are allowed to sign out TWO books from the library.  Today the book bag and books came home in our backpacks.  Please read together at home using a variety of reading strategies.  Send back the two library books and book bag on Tuesday, October 1st for our next book exchange time.  A weekly book exchange schedule will be coming home soon for October.
Book orders also came home today -  due October 1st.    HAPPY READING!

Leaf Critters and Leaf Inquiry

Wearing our Autumn Colours...

We read "Leaf Man" by Lois Ehlert &"Look What I Did With A Leaf"by Morteza E. Sohi and designed our own unique leaf critters.   We are proud of our leaf critters!

 

We followed that up with some leaf reporting using our mathematical skills and scientific inquiry. 

Thank you for all the variety of leaves and Autumn donations!

Tomorrow we will be counting our leaves by 1's/2's/5's/10's

Autumn Colour Day

Wear your AUTUMN colours tomorrow!

Happy Season of Fall!  It is officially Autumn...

Bring in a selection of Autumn leaves of different colours/shapes in a zip-loc bag.
New Acronym of the Day: A.M.A. = Ask me about 

A.M.A. what the Weather/People/Plants/Animals are doing in the season of Autumn
A.M.A. Photo Day! We all smiled so nicely! 😁 Cheese!
Dress for the AUTUMN weather!  
Terry Fox Run Friday! 
Thanks for the "Toonies for Terry" and donations for cancer research
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Toonies For Terry

Toonies For Terry Campaign starts today! 

Did you know...
•Students of Hawkwood School are invited to fill out the pledge forms sent home today
•Students are invited to bring in a toonie (or more) to fill our classroom running shoe
•In Gym, we are learning how to pace ourselves when running, practicing our breathing & form
•Our school-wide Terry Fox Run will be Friday, September 27th

 Remember it is our Photo Day on Monday... SMILE! 😃

Building Community

We are always looking for positive fun ways to build COMMUNITY as a class. 

Checking our Blog at home together also helps build COMMUNITY. 

Stay connected.

A big thank you for sending back the folders daily (even if empty)

Look for the September book orders today-they arrived! Happy Reading!

Signs of Autumn

Seasonal Changes: Looking for signs of Autumn -Hawkwood Ravine

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Building repeating patterns from Nature

What patterns do YOU see?

Fire Drill and Field Trip

What did you do at school today?   Today we had our first practice school-wide fire drill.  The students did a great job demonstrating safety, responsibility and good listening!  😋

Reminder:  Hawkwood Ravine Community Walk tomorrow rain or shine.  Dress for the weather.

Seasonal Changes: Looking for signs of Autumn

Calgary Opera Meets Hawkwood School

Today we launched our Calgary Opera Residency for the 2019-2020 school year! 
Save The Date: Performances on May 27/28th @ Hawkwood School.  
Hawkwood School was selected for an exciting opportunity to work with Calgary Opera! 

K-6 will work alongside a librettist to write/create an original story.  Each class will then work with a composer to create our music. Finally,  we will then work alongside a director to help us make the opera spectacular. Volunteers will be needed!  If you have a skill/ interest you would like to share with us we will need help with costumes (sewing), set building (carpentry), prop making, choreography, setup and strike crew (muscles lol), make up, hospitality, merchandise, advertising, front of house, research, business manager or treasurer.
A special invitation for Hawkwood Families:
Calgary Opera has extended a discounted ticket price for our families.  Simply call the box office and then know you are with Hawkwood School Let's Create an Opera.  

Let the amazing learning adventures into opera begin!  

Reminders:
•Send back completed/signed Demographic Forms Monday
•Read, respond and return the weekly Home Journal in folder
•Ask your child to show you their new RAZ-KIDZ home reading account
•Thank you to all who made it out for the BBQ and Meet The Teacher Night!

Looking Ahead:
•Community Autumn Walk to the Hawkwood Ravine Tuesday, September 17th-Seasonal Changes (please dress for the weather)
•Autumn Inquiry: Plants, Weather, People, Animals and Sunlight
•Continue our work with patterning, the core of a pattern and looking for patterns in nature
•Read to Self and Literacy Centres
•Read to Someone (EEKK position)
•Representing "TEN" (Monday is our 10th day of school)
•Booster Juice/Kernels Popcorn Fun-Snack
•Bucket-filling opportunities-developing community
•Four day learning week-PD Day Friday (no school)