Mrs. Spreen's Class Blog

Hello RBES Families! This Monday our annual Fruit Fundraiser order forms were sent home! This fundraiser supports the Grade 4's year end trip to Camp Warwa! We order from  DeSimon e Family Farms in BC. When making your orders and collecting from friends and family, please be sure to make your checques out to  RBES . If you need a copy of the delivery form, you can  click this link!   These forms will be due  Thursday, October 18th . We do not have an exact date of delivery, as it depends heavily on harvest, but we expect it to arrive in the 2nd or 3rd week of November. The Grade 4's thank you in advance for your support! 

We are happy that Black Gold has included the walking field trip form again so any field trips that are just walking in Devon will be covered and you will not have to complete a form for each one.  Your teacher will communicate with you closer to the time when they will be for each event.   Our first walking field trip is the Terry Fox Walk on Friday, September 28. Your child will not be able to participate in the Terry Fox Walk if you have not completed this form - included in the Verification Forms.    To complete the verification forms, log on to PowerSchool.  We have detailed instructions  on our website  as we have had many frequent questions.  You will see that the verification forms will show that your child is in the "wrong" year.  Black Gold set up the process for the majority of the schools who do this process in the Spring - so it shows your next school and grade for next year.  We do ours now - so you just have to ignore that.  There are other questions y

Hello, Quite the weather we are having this week, I must say.  I do not mind the cooler temperatures as it helps us to settle into school routines.  We have been busy learning this week: Social - we are reviewing directions and mapping skills from last year.  This will help us in our discussions about Alberta and its location within Canada.  It will also help us as we learn where our ancestors and early settlers have come from in Alberta's past.  We have begun a visual dictionary of landscapes found within Alberta to help us as we explore Alberta's uniqueness. Science - we are beginning our year with the topic of Waste and Our World .  We have sorted out what truly is trash and what are durable, non-durable and disposable goods. We began a discussion about "recycleables" and "compostables", but have not yet completed it. Math - Nearly everyday, we complete a "MAD MINUTE" based on products.  (It is a misnomer as it is a 2 minute timed test.)

September 4, 2018 WELCOME TO 4C! I think it's exciting to have this new group of students to work with today - and that means new parents to 4C as well!  Just a few things you need to know about 4C: 1.  I am a terrible blogger. I forget. I don't take pictures - don't even think about it until after the experience has passed. I will try to be better. I promise I will try. 2.  There aren't many assigned homework tasks.  If your child works well in class, during class time, he/she probably won't have much homework.  If he/she is absent from school, then, he/she may have homework. 3.  There will be a parent handbook coming home shortly.  I am just editting it for this year, and will be sending it home (paper copy, please let me know if your family needs more than 1 paper copy for multiple households). 4. We hope to be hosting a parent information night on September 13, at 6:30 PM. In addition to sharing information about this year, we will be requesting vo