Monday Nov 22nd

 Hi all,

Today we looked at the writing we have done so far and did a self assessment. We will go over these at parent teacher conferences later this week. We had music and did a number of the day. We also looked at how we can use number lines to order numbers! This afternoon we made a cool picture of a grain elevator and did centers in gym.

Reminders:

Wednesday is the Pillars of Care assembly. Winners got their slips today and will be posted on the blog on Wednesday too.

Thursday evening is parent teacher conferences

Friday morning is also parent teacher conferences and also there is no school on Friday. 

Friday Nov 19th

 Hi all,

Today we read to ourselves and to a partner. We did a writing sample based on this picture of a library. 

We cleaned out our desks, played tag games on the scooters in gym, and started designing our own marvellous medicines. 

Here is a note from our admin:

With the holiday season soon approaching it's important to care for others and give back to those who are less fortunate than us.  This holiday season, Beddington Heights School will be a part of 2 programs that the city of Calgary runs for those less fortunate.  

The first program is Loonies for Lunches.  Loonies for Lunches would bring students together to collect loonies to donate to the food bank. Each school and/or classroom would create a donation box to collect the loonies and perhaps have some healthy competition to see which class could raise the most. The loonies would then be used by the Food Bank to purchase food for our Weekends and More program that makes sure kids get the nutritious food they need on the weekends to stay healthy and learning.  

The Mayor's Food Drive is where we collect non-perishable items, i.e. can goods, sealed boxed items, for Calgary's Food Bank.  Both programs start this Monday to Dec 14th. 

For more information, please visit https://www.calgaryfoodbank.com/wam/, thank you for the support on this!

Reminders:

Wednesday afternoon is our in school virtual Pillars of Care assembly 

Thursday evening and Friday morning are parent teacher conferences. Please sign up for a slot on mycbe

Friday - no school

Thursday Nov 18th

 Hi all,

Today we started off with our library exchange. You can bring your books home but remember to bring them back next Thursday so you can go back to the library!

We had a fantastic first show and tell from Adi who showed us a cool Christmas ornament! We practiced ordering numbers in math by looking at the first digit in a number ie 47 is smaller than 71 because 4 is smaller than 7. 

We wrote wow word sentences after lunch and then had a look at a couple other factors of daily life in Alberta and Saskatchewan. 

We ended our day finishing off the book George's Marvellous Medicine. Tomorrow we will be using our imaginations and designing our own marvellous medicines! 

Wednesday Nov 17th

 Hi all,

LIBRARY DAY IS TOMORROW! If you have a library book at home then bring it in tomorrow or else you are stuck with it for another week. 

Today in class we did some free writing. That is where we can write about any ONE thing and try to stay on topic. 

We met Mr. Beechey's favourite math friend, the number gator. If you want a good ear worm check out his song here. 

We also tried out an app called Draw and Tell and tried out some math word problems. 

This afternoon we talked about what daily life is like in Alberta and Saskatchewan. We ended our day on scooters and heard some more of George's Marvellous Medicine.

Have a great night!

Tuesday Nov 16

 Hi all,

Today we got 5 new Wow words! We are looking at the long a sound. "able, maple, game, came, brave". We learned a new way of practicing words. Staircase words are when you make a staircase shape by adding one letter at a time in a new line

m

ma

map

mapl

maple

We had music with Mr. Wiens and learned about the ballet. We did a number of the day before lunch too.

This afternoon we had mathletics. We talked about what jobs come with the natural resources eg wheat can have a farmer or a baker. We ended our day in the gym on scooters and then read a little more of George's Marvellous Medicine. 

Monday Nov 15

 Hi all,

Today we started off our day nice and quietly with some silent reading. We journaled about our long weekend. We tried to add more details to our writing by picking just one thing to write about and saying as much as we could about that one thing. We did a basic facts quiz and practiced making numbers with base 10 blocks. This is going to really help us when we start doing bigger adding and subtracting numbers. 

This afternoon we talked more about adjectives and used our 5 senses to help us. We talked about what natural resources they have in Saskatchewan and also read a little more of George's Marvellous Medicine.

Just to reminder as we start our show and tell to log into the Google classroom and look at the examples there to help you out. Especially if your name happens to be Adi and it's your week this week :)

Wednesday Nov 10th

 Hi all,

Today we practiced some more word work activities with all our old words. This is such a short week that we didn't have time to work with new words.

We did our reading and got to read with a partner today too!

After recess we had our digital Remembrance Day assembly. It was really sweet to hear them all singing Highway of Heroes!

This afternoon we played some new math games and then talked about Show and Tell. This will start next week. There is a letter in backpacks today with some info. Please check out our Google Classroom for the rubric, expectations, and schedule! 

We ended our day with gym and then started a new read aloud George's Marvellous Medicine. 

Reminders:

No school till Monday