Dear Evergreen Families,

Building a strong academic vocabulary is essential for your child's future success in school and beyond. To support their learning, we are focusing on three key strategies as part of our School Development Plan this year. First, we teach academic vocabulary by introducing important words in all subjects, explaining their meanings, providing examples, and helping students break down unfamiliar words through decoding and word origins. Next, we model and scaffold vocabulary by consistently using subject-specific terms and providing helpful tools like word walls, concept maps, and visual organizers to reinforce understanding. Finally, we reinforce vocabulary by regularly integrating and repeating key terms, helping students retain what they’ve learned and gain confidence in using academic language.  By strengthening their vocabulary skills, we are giving students the tools they need to express ideas clearly, think critically, and succeed in all areas of learning. 

Our Grade 1 students have been learning about landmarks as part of their Social Studies exploration on communities and places. Landmarks are special features that help us recognize and understand a place. Students are learning that landmarks can be natural, such as mountains, rivers, forests, and lakes, or human-made, such as buildings, parks, bridges, and pathways.

As part of this learning, students are also building their Social Studies vocabulary. They are practicing and using words such as landmark, natural, human-made, prairie and map. Developing this vocabulary helps students talk about and describe the places around them with greater confidence and understanding.

Through discussions, stories, and learning tasks, students are exploring some of the important landmarks in our local community and thinking about why these places matter to the people who live here. They are also learning that many landmarks have special meaning in Indigenous cultures, and that First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples often share stories and traditional names connected to the land.

Students are identifying familiar landmarks, sharing why certain places are important to them, and creating drawings or simple maps that include landmarks they recognize.

UPDATES AND INFORMATION

Student-Led Conferences: Conferences are coming up on Thursday, March 19th between 3:30pm and 7:30pm for grades 1-5 and EES, PE with Mrs. Paterson and Music with Ms. Sousa and 8:00am-7:30pm for Kindergarten and Friday, March 20th, between 8:00am and 12:00pm K-5 and EES and Music with Ms. Sousa.  Our students are excited to share their learning with you.  Student-Led Conferences are a wonderful opportunity to actively engage students in the learning process. Students have opportunities to:

  • assume greater control of and accept personal responsibility for their academic progress,
  • lead conversation with their families about their strengths, goals and next steps in learning,
  • practice the process of reflection and self-evaluation, and
  • develop organizational and oral communication skills.

Conferences are booked through your MyCBE Account.  Booking opens on Monday, March 9th at 3:00pm. For support in how to book conferences please visit:

https://support.cbe.ab.ca/mycbe-powerschool-school-conferences-booking


School Council Meeting: Please join us for our School Council meeting this Wednesday at 6:00pm. In addition to the teacher’s report where we will share some of the learning happening across classrooms, you will also learn about:

  • School planning, which includes the school development plan, school budget and school fees.
  • How the school development plan sets the overall focus and direction for a school to improve student learning outcomes.
  • How the school budget provides funding to implement our school development plan.
  • School fees and why they are necessary.

We know we make better decisions to support student learning when we build understanding and work together Watch this short video to learn about the planning work schools do to improve and support student learning.


To preview the presentation in advance of the meeting click below:


2026 Evergreen School Planning Engagemement Presentation.pdf 


School Council Hosted Movie Night:

Link to tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/family-movie-night-a-minecraft-movie-tickets-1984641575377


Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday!