During the month of October, Teacher’s PET visited the Grade Three students to introduce the four world communities of Peru, India, Ukraine and Tunisia in their Social Studies unit. The students applied their mapping skills by identifying each country’s location in relation to Canada’s location. The students “flew” around to each destination to explore their

For the past week, Mountain View has been host to Bricks 4 Kids! Bricks 4 Kidz provided Mountain View students with an extraordinary opportunity to learn, build, and play with LEGO® Bricks. Grades 1-4 each had an exciting, hands-on, in-class experience where they built on their curricular outcomes in science of structures, buoyancy, and/or simple

Grade 4 students at Mountain View have been busy helping our school and environment by running our drink container recycling program! Each day at lunch recess, volunteer grade 4 students make their rounds to each classroom to collect drink containers. They then work as a team to empty, clean and count the containers. It's hard,

The Grade 3 students at Mountain View campus recently tested their hands on building skills with a visit from Clay for Kids. Students made coiled Indian elephant pots to supplement our Social Studies focus on India and learned about the specific properties of clay as a building material. They discovered that when working with clay,

On Friday, April 20, the Grade Two classes had the opportunity to take part in a Ukrainian Cultural presentation and dance workshop in the Mountain View Campus gymnasium. Students began their morning by engaging in a discussion about Ukrainian history and culture while looking at some artwork and artifacts. Students then got to practice traditional

This month was an exciting month for the grade one classes (1Hess, 1Mawji, 1Pollett, 1Yanofsky and 1Khandani) as we celebrated our 100th Day of School! Students explored their numbers from 1-100 at a variety of different literacy and math stations and created their own crowns to mark the day! Have a look at the pictures

At the end of January, Grade 3 students from all classes had a visit from Teachers’ Pet to learn more about our four main countries of study in Social Studies. Students “flew” from station to station landing in the countries of Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine, and India to explore what makes each country unique. They examined

On Wednesday, February 7th Ms. Hutchinson's class enjoyed a field trip to Fort Calgary. They explored the lives of four groups of people who made significant contributions to Alberta today; First Nations, settlers, Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) and missionaries. They examined luggage to determine which group would have carried the artifacts contained in

Winter in Grade One is fun! Students engage in winter learning activities through different forms of art. Have a look at the pictures to see how grade ones (Ms. Hess’ Class, Mrs. Pollett’s Class, Ms. Mawji’s Class, Mrs. Yanofsky’s Class and Ms. Khandani’s Class) showed their understanding of animal changes, tree changes and more! Each

In December the Grade Two students attended a field trip to Telus Spark where they practice being Junior Architects and constructed miniature boats. Students designed up their own building structures, providing them with unique names and services, and tested their floating devices on an indoor river. Students also got to explore the science centre's interactive