May 19-22 Weekly Update

Important Reminders & Updates

Next week is a full week of school! Please see Mrs. Brinson's email this past week regarding important changes for next year and other items. I have linked it below!

Northern Lights News for May 25-29   Hello families,  Please click HERE for next week's News!  Updates include: North Trail High School's Spring Carnival: Key Club Spring Carnival 2026 Poster.pdf  Dance Thank Yous and Door Prize Winners! Alex Munro Open House Information (for our 125 students moving from NLS to Alex Munro next year)

 Learning Updates

Literacy: This past week, students engaged in a number of writing and reading stations. The writing stations were focused on revising our diary of an animal journal by adding details to include transition words, time markers and conjunctions. We also wrote a nonfiction summary paragraph about an article we listened to called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ask your child what it was about! The last writing piece was a free story writing where students used their imagination and creativity. For the reading stations, one was focused on fluency, one was practicing our vocabulary building and the last one was about making inferences, which is taking clues from a text to understand what's happening. 

Math: Students are continuing to work on measurement. This past week, we focused on reviewing using personal referents (ie. finger or hand or arm span) and benchmarks (ie. a pencil is 10 cm) to measure items. We also reviewed perimeter and finding the missing length of polygons.

Science: We learned about how First Nations, Metis and Inuit groups connect and live on the land in the four seasons, while focusing on plants Indigenous to Alberta and buffalos. 

Wellness: May is Asian Heritage Month! We engaged in six different Asian cultures and learned about them through arts and crafts. Ask your child about what they made! On Thursday, we also engaged in World Cultural Day!

Student Highlights

Ezleah said: On Tuesday in writing, we did stations and one was summarizing about a story. 

Oleg said: On Thursday, at gym, we played volleyball and today was the last day of volleyball!

Ayla said: On Thursday, we did six art projects and I did the Korean fan and the Arabic tiles.

Kain said: On Wednesday, in gym, we did volleyball. In Math, we made a home for Ivan and his friends!

Neepseese said: In Math, we made a zoo for Ivan and Stella and Bob and Ruby. 

Nathan said: We did cultural art day! I did henna on a paper hand.  

Charvi said: On Thursday, we did a cultural art project and there were six stations. We did two today and we will do two tomorrow. I did the Turkish rugs and the Korean fan!

Photo Highlights

We had a special visit from Ryker!!