Mrs. Spreen's Class Blog

Hello! We have made it to the final week of school!  I recently looked back to see when I had last posted, and was shocked to realize that it had been so long ago. We have been incredibly busy during the day with swimming and learning that time has flown very quickly. We have completed all of our LA projects, and are now focussing on free writing. It has been interesting to see the students develop their writing styles.  One of my favourite units with this group of students was our poetry unit - who would have thought there were so many good poets in this bunch?  There were some amazing poems written! In Math, we are wrapping up our geometry unit tomorrow.  It has been a whirlwind unit! Please check at home for any textbooks that may still be in your home as we are missing a few. Thanks. Science was wrapped up with the final exam in the Plant unit.  Many of the students excelled in this unit.  I hope the plants we started continue to live healthy lives for you this summer. So

Hello, We have made it to June!  Only 20 more school days and your child will be on summer holidays! We have been quite busy in our classroom with both curricular activities and non-curricular activities. Curricular: Science - We have been working through our Plant Growth and Changes unit.  We have determined ways to sort a variety of plants through both characteristics and uses.  We have discovered why plants are important to humans and the environment, what the different [arts of plants are and their purposes, what different plants need to grow best, different ways that plants reproduce and how seed travel, how plants are affected by the environment in our community and how we can grow healthy plants.  It has been an intense few weeks with this topic!  We will be wrapping up this unit within the next few days, and students will be bringing home their plants on Friday. Social - We have been discussing how immigrants came to Alberta and the contributions they have made to the