Gray Dragon
HPE Journalist
This is Dragon Gray bringing you back from High Prairie Elementary School.
The KJ class appreciated the opportunity to be an archaeologist. The students were delighted to each find their own dinosaur. Then they researched and learned their names.
In Grade 2, students have been so busy reading, writing, and working to improve their number sense! They also have a lot of fun in science and learn a lot about boats and buoyancy. Students had the opportunity to examine and build many boats and explore how to make the best boat for travel and transportation. The students even learned why a sailboat has a keel.
The 3rd graders were so excited they got to rollerblade at school. Students will learn a fun obstacle course to complete. All levels, from kindergarten to grade 6, had the chance to take two in-line skating lessons with Kruz, an Alien In-line instructor. He taught them about safety equipment and how to wear it correctly, how to fall safely and how to stop. All the very important things to know when inline skating.
Students then played games practicing stopping and falling safely. The second time they went to a lesson, there was an obstacle course for them to try. The students had a great time last week. This event was one of the ways the Spell-A-Thon money was used.
Many classes go swimming now. Please make sure your child has their bathing suit and towel at school on the days they go swimming.
It’s a very busy month at school. Many excursions on foot and by bus. PAT exams are held for Grade 6 on June 14, 15, 16, 22 and 23. Athletics day is June 17. Please read your child’s diary each day so you know what is going on.
Students and staff are so excited that they can finally go places and do things. Please ensure that all of your child’s release forms are signed and returned.
Grade 5 students visited EW Pratt High School this week for a fun little tour! Thank you, Professor Keaton Morton, for all your help!
The Grade 5/6 and Grade 5 students had a presentation on wetlands last week. It was a pre-teaching on the trip they are going to take to the Jackpines. They discovered bog, water tests and swamp monsters. We would like to thank Alyssa from the Lesser Slave Watershed Council for coming to talk with the students.
In Grades 3/4, students work together, learning to read and interpret graphs, identify important ideas and details, and create questions that reflect important information found in graphs. Students examine real-life examples of different types of graphs, including their own personal growth with reading in a line graph.
Last week, the 5th/6th graders came to class to find there was a crime scene in their class. They spent the morning using their evidentiary and investigative skills. Teacher Brenda Coulombe had set up six different stations that students walked through: shoe prints, chromatography, hair and tissue samples, fingerprints, and handwriting samples. The students worked in groups to complete their survey forms and to try to figure out “Who did this”. It was a great way for the students to demonstrate exactly what they learned in that science unit. It’s also great hands-on practice for the upcoming PAT Science test.
Coulombe said the best part of the day was the students cleaning up the mess!!
This is Dragon Gray bringing you back from HPE.
