May 10, 2016

Hello families and friends,

Yesterday we had a visitor from Teacher's Pet come and work with us on an insect investigation.  Thank you to all the volunteers who came out to support us with this!  The students had a great time with it and they learned a lot about insects.  In the spirit of this activity, our words of the week for this week are "insect", "thorax", "head", "abdomen", and "legs" for all students.  This morning, we had a presentation from Yellow Fish Road.  Over the next few weeks our classroom is going to be participating in the Yellow Fish Road Project.  This non-profit organization seeks to educate students and their communities about the effect of pollution in the storm water drainage system upon the river ecosystems that surround us.  As part of our work in this Canada wide initiative we will going out in our community and painting "Yellow Fish" on the storm drains as a reminder to everyone, that what we put down the storm drain goes straight out to our river water.  In order to do this project we will require approximately 4 volunteers on the afternoon of May 25 to help lead small groups of students in carrying out the painting and distribution of Yellow Fish Road door hangers.  If you are available to help us, please let your child’s teacher know as soon as possible.  Thank you!

In the afternoon we had a practice evacuation.  The students did a great job with this!

The EcoTeam is excited to invite you to our next event to inaugurate our garden beds on Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 1:00 pm.  We plan to plant the plants, and water the garden.  We invite families and members of the community to join us.  We thank The Calgary Foundation Neighbour Grants for this opportunity to see our wish of growing vegetables to serve the community come alive!  Please let Ms. Goldberg know if you are able to attend or lend a hand in any way at <amgoldberg@cbe.ab.ca>.  Bring a hand shovel and a small watering can if you have one!  The event will probably last only 1 hour or so, so please arrive on time!

Next week we will be swimming.  Thank you to all of you who volunteered to help us out with this.  If you noted that you would be able to volunteer but did not get a form please email me at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca> and I will get one to you as soon as possible.

Have a great evening!