🌎 Exploring Our Community - A community is a place where we live, work, and play!
This week we are learning that a community is a place for
you and me! It includes places like schools, skating rinks, grocery stores,
houses, parks, and more. A community is where people help each other, talk to
each other, and feel welcome.
Students showed their understanding by drawing three
pictures of places they might see in their own community. Some included 7-11,
their house, school, a gas station, and the dollar store. Many added extra
details like roads and street signs!
You can help continue the learning at home! When you are
walking or driving, ask your child what they notice in your neighborhood. What
buildings and signs do they see? What makes your community special?
One of our favorite activities was exploring our place in
the world using Google Earth! We zoomed out to see the Earth, then Canada, then
Calgary, and finally our school. Students were excited to share places they
know, like Dairy Queen, Tim Hortons, Vivo, the Children’s Hospital, and the
dentist’s office. We began drawing these places on a map in our journals and
will keep adding to it as we learn more about our community.
Link to our school calendar: Simons Valley School Calendar
Friday Class Schedule
Library Day is Tuesday, February 24, 2026!
Thank you for helping your child to remember their library book AND plastic protector BAG each Tuesday!!
If you have any questions or need to contact us, our emails are:
Mrs. Oster: rdoster@cbe.ab.ca
Mrs. Sutherland: klsutherland@cbe.ab.ca
Mrs. Wiskar: mjwiskar@cbe.ab.ca
