April 2 - 5

Minecraft Challenge Season 3

Learning Outcomes

English Language Arts

Examine a variety of text features that organize content and emphasize information that is most important.

Examine ideas and information within texts that are explicit and implicit.

Use evidence from texts or additional sources to support responses and interpretations.

Make connections between features of land and personal experiences.

Engage in collaborative dialogue when sharing ideas, solving problems, or making decisions.

Contribute to discussions or dialogues by agreeing, disagreeing, and adding to or explaining ideas.

Use respectful language when collaborating with others.

Demonstrate adaptability to build consensus when perspectives or opinions within groups differ.

Science

Design and carry out an investigation of a practical problem, and develop a possible solution.

What Did Students Do?

Minecraft Challenge Level Up Season 3

Prior to Spring Break, students began reading and understanding The City of Calgary's Strategic Direction Document that our city council uses to guide all decisions. This was our first step in the Minecraft Challenge. Students were invited to think like City Planners and they needed to examine guiding documents to frame their thinking. 

Students read this document, determined the most important information and summarized each section into a graphic organizer. 

This week, students continued their Minecraft challenge work. Students logged into the Minecraft world and engaged with NPC representations of various individuals to inform their designs. They heard from people like:

Each person shared insights about council's strategic plan and their thoughts about how to make Calgary a vibrant, sustainable, diverse and equitable place to live, work and play. Students summarized each NPC's message. 

Students got into their groups and chose their site: Hultain Park or Green Line and got planning! They had to explain how each feature of their build addressed vibrancy, equity, diversity and unity and one of the resiliencies.

Then it was time to start building! Students were so excited to begin the building work within Minecraft. It was wonderful to see students collaborate and help each other out. Students offered to help address tech issues, log in challenges and how to navigate within the Minecraft space. The Grade 5s demonstrated excellent collaboration, problem solving and support for one another! Big thanks to our Grade 6 students who came to help us with a variety of tech issues and for teaching us how to save, import and share our builds!

Ask Your Child About:

- our work so far with division and what the divisibility rules are for 2 and 5

-the TREX art exhibit and the one they chose to reflect upon

-their guided reading novels and the events, characters that they read about this week

-the villain character they created based on the TREX art piece they chose

Upcoming Events

April 8^th – Gymnastics equipment begins in Phys Ed  

April 10^th – School Council Meeting

April 12^th – Spirit Day – ‘Anything but a backpack day!’   April 17^th – Fun lunch   April 19^th – CBE System PD Day

April 23^rd – Spirit Day – ‘Twin Day’  

April 30^th – Grade 5 Field Trip to Bow Habitat Station