DATES TO REMEMBER
March 3: 2025-2026 Returning & New Registration Opens!
March 3 - 6 Grades 7 - 9 Parent Collaboration Meetings
March 3: Grade 1-6 Raymond Celebration of Learning
March 6: Grade 1-6 Cardston Celebration of Learning
March 7: PD Day - NO SCHOOL
March 10: Deadline to Register for All School Field Trip - NOON
March 10-11: NO SCHOOL - WAS Planning Days
March 12: Regular PEP/SRP Class Day - Grade 1-6 Raymond Campus; Grade 7-9 Cardston Campus
March 13: Regular PEP/SRP Class Day - Grade 7-9 Raymond Campus; Grade 1-6 Cardston Campus
March 13: Deadline to Register for PEP/SRP St. Mary’s Dam Field Trip
March 14: NO SCHOOL - Non Instructional Day
March 20: PEP/SRP St. Mary’s Dam Field Trip 9:00 AM -1:00 PM
March 24: All School Ski Trip - See Details Below
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March 24, 2025 WAS All School Ski Trip:
Mr. Goble, along with other WAS - Staff supervisors, will be accompanying students on the ski trip to Castle Mountain on Monday, March 24, 2025.
****STUDENT IN GRADES 1-4 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT ON THE SKI HILL ****
If you wish to be a Chaperone for your student and others, there will be a significant lift ticket price reduction. (Chaperone Lift Ticket $59.00) Being a Chaperone requires you to stay with a group of students assigned to you for the whole day.
**SKI/SNOWBOARD HELMETS ARE MANDATORY FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS. NO BIKE OR HOCKEY HELMETS ALLOWED**
Adult/Parent Cost
$10.00 -Transportation Fee (per person)
$59.00 -Chaperone Lift Ticket
$111.95 -Regular Adult Lift Ticket
$30.00 -Chaperone Equipment Rental
$50.00 -Regular Adult Equipment Rental
$5.00 -Helmet Rental Only
Student/Child Cost
$10.00 -Transportation Fee (per person)
$39.00 -Mandatory Lesson (all students)
$15.00 -Lift Ticket
$26.00 -Equipment Rental
$5.00 -Helmet Rental Only
DEPARTURE TIME:
RAYMOND CAMPUS- MUST ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 6:15 AM, Bus Departure 6:30 AM SHARP
CARDSTON CAMPUS- MUST ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 6:45 AM, Bus Departure 7:00 AM SHARP
APPROX RETURN TIME:
Bus Returns Raymond Campus- 6:00 PM
Bus Returns Cardston Campus- 5:30 PM
Itinerary:
8:30am Arrive at Castle Mountain, Receive instructions and pick up equipment
9:10-9:30am Students will meet instructors by the trail map (located just outside Snow School)
9:30 -11:30am Groups divided according to skill level and have lessons with a Castle Mountain employee( Chaperones and Parents can Ski while students attend lessons)
12:00pm Meet in the Lodge for lunch
12:30 - 3:30pm ski/snowboard on your own (Teachers/Chaperones are recommended to keep their students in the same morning groups and ski together. Letting students ski alone or with buddies has a higher risk of injury)
3:30pm Meet at the lodge to return equipment and pack up
4:00pm Bus will depart the lodge to travel home
5:30pm Expected arrival time at WAS Cardston Campus
6:00pm Expected arrival time at WAS Raymond Campus
A staff volunteer will be available in the ski lodge during the school day as a school representative/emergency contact.
DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS 12:00 PM NOON on MARCH 10, 2025. ***WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROCESS ANY LATE REGISTRATIONS
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Mrs. Kimberlie Milner: Librarian kimberlie.milner@westwind.ab.ca
LIBRARY HOURS:
Monday & Wednesday 8:00-4:00 PM (alternating Wednesdays at the Raymond Campus)
Friday 8:00-1:00 PM
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SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
WAS Facebook WAS Website WAS DIGITAL ONLINE RESOURCES:
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL RESILIENCY ORDERS
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Tutorials
Grades 1-3 Mrs. Chandra Gold (Raymond)
Grades 1-3 Mrs. Heather Ryder (Cardston)
Reading, Writing and Math tutorials are offered on Mondays and on Wednesday afternoons in Raymond. In Cardston, tutorials are offered on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
In RAYMOND, there will be no 1-3 tutorials on Celebration of Learning (monthly check-ins) and Numeracy and Literacy Screening Days.
Grade 4 -6 Mrs. Kain (Raymond)
Reading, Writing and Math tutorials will be offered on Mondays in Raymond.
There will be no tutorials on Celebration of Learning (monthly check-ins) and event days.
Grades 4-6 Mrs. Heather Ryder (Cardston)
Reading, Writing and Math tutorials will be offered on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please contact Mrs. Kain to schedule. carolyn.kain@westwind.ab.ca
Grades 7-9 Mr. John Creed and Mrs. Juliann Sommerfeldt
MONDAY PEP/SRP INFORMATIONAL MESSAGES
Cardston: Teacher Tutorials will be on the following Mondays - Feb.10, Feb. 3, Feb. 24
Raymond: Teacher Tutorials will be on the following Thursdays - Feb. 6, Feb. 27
Tutorials Cardston schedule Raymond schedule
john.creed@westwind.ab.ca - juliann.sommerfeldt@westwind.ab.ca
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Mrs. Gold: Grades 1-3 chandra.gold@westwind.ab.ca
Grade 1 Language -
Phonics: Continue learning all 26 letters and their sounds, blending letter sounds to put together words, taking words and segmenting (breaking apart) sounds and rhyming the words
Sight Words: Read and spell 6 words from the lists weekly. Let me know if you're using your curriculum's sight word lists; otherwise, I have Alberta Ed lists for each grade.
Reading Strategies: Using read-alouds and reading comprehension strategies during independent reading enhances text understanding, enjoyment, and overall literacy. Focus on identifying the main idea, key details, and making connections and predictions.
Writing: Review printing letters (both lowercase and uppercase) and practice forming basic sentences, like "The cat sat." Model writing with your child and discuss why it is important and the ways it can be used.
Grade 1 Math - Add/sub to 20, use mental math strategies to count on, count back, doubles etc. visualization to 15 -place value to 100.
Grade 2 Language -
Phonics: continue reading and spelling r-controlled vowels, au, ai, aw
Sight Words: Read and spell 6 words from the lists weekly. Let me know if you're using your curriculum's sight word lists; otherwise, I have Alberta Ed lists for each grade.
Reading Strategies: work on comprehension strategies like predicting and inferring
Writing: continue using BHH to record thoughts and feelings about the text
Grade 2 Math - double-digit add/sub with regrouping, take 100 grids and build 1000 grids, understand fractions in sets or in a whole, comparing fractions with like denominators, place value to 100, review skip counting from random points and printing number words like days, weeks, months, years and holidays
Grade 3 Language -
Phonics: continue working on vowel combination sounds and their spellings from your phonics program
Sight Words: Read and spell 6 words from the lists weekly. Let me know if you're using your curriculum's sight word lists; otherwise, I have Alberta Ed lists for each grade.
Reading Strategies: Begin using Notice and Note strategies with the 3 Big Questions of “What Surprised Me?” “What did the author think I already knew?” “What challenged, changed or confirmed what I knew?”
Writing: Persuasive writing
Grade 3 Math - interpret place value within 100 000, add/sub numbers with 3-digits, mult/div up to 9 x 9
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Mrs. Kain: Grades 4-6 carolyn.kain@westwind.ab.ca
ELAL: We are continuing to study the novel The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. They have examined the story's setting and narrative point of view. Students will start reading Chapter 1 this week.
Math: Students are continuing their work on decimals. They are examining tenths and hundredths place values and converting fractions to decimals. We will be starting financial literacy in the next couple of weeks.
Social Studies: Grades 4&5 continue to work on Canada and Alberta's history. Grade 6 just finished examining the Iroquois Confederacy and is starting Canadian democracy.
Science: We are continuing to work on the Energy unit. We will finish this unit in 2 weeks and move into Earth Systems.
Reminder: Celebration of learning is next week. Please bring your child’s at home program to for me to look over. You can also email me photos of your child’s work or create a slide show presentation.
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Grades 7-9
Mr. Creed john.creed@westwind.ab.ca
Mrs. Sommerfeldt juliann.sommerfeldt@westwind.ab.ca
Please see our weekly PEP informational message https://docs.google.com/document/d/19QddelpcQXRkbcfF_HUdZk6HwBq8XN6jTFG917pVlgw/edit?usp=sharing