What do animals need to survive? Ss experienced 4-day old chicks and quickly determined they need food, water, warmth, a home, a mommy, a place to sleep and their brothers and sisters to help them grow into strong and healthy chickens! Douglas Harkness School CBE

How do chicks eat, smell, feel and move around? What do they look like? Can chicks live on their own? Can they fly? Many inquiring questions as we learn more about our school guests! Douglas Harkness School CBE

Manipulating sounds to make new words can be fun and challenging. We are working on /qu/ which sounds like /k//w/- it's tricky! Douglas Harkness School CBE

Ss finished up composing and decomposing 3d shapes and are now learning about symmetry. Can you find the line of symmetry on our love monsters? Douglas Harkness School CBE

We are so grateful for your generous donation and can’t wait to start our APPLE Schools journey with you! Calgary Board of Education

Today we celebrated a partnership with APPLE Schools that will result in support of physical activity, mental wellbeing and health programming in four southern Alberta schools.

🎉 Exciting News Alert! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce our partnership with the Calgary Flames Foundation to support student health in southern Alberta! With their generous donation, we're expanding our reach to four new schools, two in Medicine Hat and two in Calgary. 1/3

These happy kids got to spend the afternoon with the Calgary Flames and ask them some pretty important questions during our APPLE Schools Flames Foundation launch assembly ♥️🔥♥️ “Does teamwork make really make the dream work?” Calgary Board of Education

It’s Math Night at DHS Douglas Harkness School CBE tomorrow! We can’t wait to see students and their families for a fun evening together 💫 All Are Welcome 🤎 Ms. Sleno DHSPurdy

100 things we know how to do, 100 days smarter, writing close to 100 words and sorting and counting 100 fruit loops were a few ways we celebrated our 100th day of school today! Douglas Harkness School CBE

Having fun fine-tuning our badminton skills with options of a string racket or foam racket! Douglas Harkness School CBE

SS had fun skip counting by 2s, identifying numbers greater than and less than and adding within 20 on our giant number line! Douglas Harkness School CBE

Ss worked hard with a brain buster challenge in math. How many squares do you see? Douglas Harkness School CBE

Thank you Ms.S for visiting our gr.1s and telling us all the great things the Calgary Public Library has to offer, reading 2 very fun books and doing a great community body break! We can't wait to visit our community CPL branch! Douglas Harkness School CBE, DHSDron, DHSLombardo

Ss were very excited to see which eggs will hatch into baby chicks by watching the candling process with the use of a special flashlight. We look forward to mid next week for the hatching to begin! Douglas Harkness School CBE @

What does equal and not equal mean? How can we represent equal and unequal? Ss used movement, scales, cubes, dominoes, and whiteboards to experiment and show their understandings. Douglas Harkness School CBE

Thank you Ms. H for doing an amazing job teaching us about community, past, present and future, and basketball 🏀!! Douglas Harkness School CBE

Ss were excited to learn about the digraph /ck/ in phonics today! Douglas Harkness School CBE

At recess this morning Ss had a great time exploring ice, water, floating, balance, agility and creativity as they made ice fishing holes and caught huge ice fish and sharks! We can't wait to see what our 'pond/lake' will look like tomorrow! Douglas Harkness School CBE

Thursday is the last day for students before spring break and schools will close on Friday. We hope all students and school staff have a fun, safe and rejuvenating break! Classes resume on Tuesday, April 2. #WeAreCBE