Visit Our Community!

In Social Studies, we've been learning about landmarks and communities. A community is where we live, work and play. Using everything we've learned, we created our own community, St. Nick Town! 

Our Grade 1 classes brainstormed landmarks we could include in our town. At home, each child created a landmark, an important place, for our town. We assembled everything, adding roads, trees, and movable people, to create our own community!

We couldn't be prouder of what we collaborated to create! 

Our town has a beautiful school...

... with a creative playground!

Stop by the rec center to play a little soccer!

Watch a movie at the theatre, visit our veterinarian, and grab a bite to eat!

Our town stays safe because of our caring firefighters and police.

A town isn't complete without mail carriers and a church!

Feeling unwell? Our hospital is here to help!

Bring your family to our community pool:

Grab some fries on your way to get your groceries! 

Take in a game at the arena and be ready to cheer! 

Visit the pet shop if you have a furry friend:

Our grocery store, toy store and coffee shop are ready to serve you!

This collaborative project has been an absolute highlight in our Grade 1 classes and we've been stopping traffic in the hall! Thank you for your incredible home support!

Landmark Magazine!

Today, the students were tasked with helping our Premier!

After learning about and presenting landmarks in our province, a very serious (albeit completely fictitious) task was handed to the boys and girls. 

Ms. Rachel Notley is planning to publish a magazine featuring incredible places to visit in Alberta. Hearing that we have recently become experts on landmarks in our province, she tasked us each with creating a page for her magazine!

Students were to choose and draw an Alberta landmark, then write a caption explaining why the landmark is important. 

These submissions will look great in Ms. Notley's "make believe" magazine!

The students' landmark projects will be coming home later this week in their Evidence of Learning envelopes, accompanied by a little rubric. 

Enjoy!


Rubric and task modified from the Alberta Assessment Consortium's "Welcome to Our Community" performance assessment. 

A Virtual Field Trip Around Alberta!

We skied the slopes in Jasper, rode the steam train in Stettler, screamed on the roller coaster in Calgary's Calaway Park, and oooh-ed and ahhh-ed at the amazing dino bones in Drumheller. Whew! What a week! 

This week we explored landmarks and map-reading, but we never left our classroom at Holy Redeemer! We enjoyed the students' presentations, along with several websites, webcams, YouTube clips, interactive sites, and more! 

Below is an interactive map of the landmarks we explored. Zoom in on Alberta, click on a red "pin", and enjoy an Alberta landmark! Links are included with several of the pins. 



Thank you, families, for preparing our little presenters so thoroughly! 

We toured Alberta!

We enjoyed a 360 view on Jasper's sky tram, we rode the roller coaster at Calaway Park in Calgary, we explored the UFO landing pad in St. Paul, and we ooooh-ed and aaaahhh-ed at the Three Sisters mountains in Canmore. What a week! We had a ball!

Surprisingly, we never left our classroom at Holy Redeemer! We enjoyed several websites, webcams, YouTube clips, interactive sites, and more! What a fun and exciting week! Please explore below to see all of the Alberta landmarks we "visited" this week!

Zoom in on Alberta, click on a red "pin", and see an Alberta landmark! Links are included with several of the pins. Enjoy!




Thank you for preparing your child for our Alberta Landmarks Project!