Dear Parents & Guardians, I am sending home the student photos from picture day. You can order them online or return your form back to me. Next week, there will be the grade 6 vaccinations. Tomorrow for Halloween students are allowed to dress up as long as the costume is appropriate for an elementary school. We ask that masks and other accessories (e.g. weapons) stay at home. Today in class we reviewed many social studies terms to prepare for tomorrow's test. Here is once more the guiding principle for our Canadian representative democracy. F reedom - Citizens have rights and choices (freedom of speech/believe/move) R epresentation - Every citizen has a voice and votes for someone in government E quity - Fairness - Everybody gets what they need to be successful J ustice - Law/Rules -ensure that rules are being followed and citizens are safe LA: There will also be a spelling test tomorrow on the words I posted on Monday. As you know, we are having our monthly Pillars of Care
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Dear Parents & Guardians, Upcoming events and reminders: Spelling Test on Social Words this Friday Social Studies Assessment on Decision-Making this Friday Halloween at BHS on Friday Pillars of Care Assembly hosted by our room We have started our poetry project today. Ask your children which types of poems they are planning on including in their presentation/ project. Here is a quick overview of sample poems we learnt about in class: Ryhming Couplet Tercet Quatrain Limerick Cinquain Diamante Haiku Senryu Concrete/shape Poem Acrostic Bio Poem Ballad (We learnt this one today in class) Blue poems must rhyme. Green poems count syllables or words. Example of a Limerick: There once was a very big star Who did't know where we are He shone very bright And casted his light But he was away way too far. In social studies, we reviewed the different ways to make decisions. VOTING - CONSESUS - REPRESENTATION. This will be part of the test on Friday.
Dear Parents & Guardians, Upcoming events and reminders: Spelling Test on Social Words this Friday Social Studies Assessment on Decision-Making this Friday Halloween at BHS on Friday Pillars of Care Assembly hosted by our room As you can see, we have a very busy Friday ahead of us and will work towards achieving all these goals.Below is a picture of our spelling lists on the social words. Said words / concepts will be part of the test in Social Studies. This list was sent home today to allow practicing the words at home. In Math we reviewed long decimal multiplication and addition/ subtraction once more. Our goal is to start a review of long division towards the end of this week. We will also be completing and comparing a few more graphs related to last week's Chanie Wenjack Walk. Stay tuned to see the whole grade 6 walking data here on this blog.
Dear Parents & Guardians, Next week will be a 5-day week finally. Today we completed our Walk for Chanie Wenjack. In total our Room 15 students walked 218 km in 3 gym classes and one extended recess. In a math lesson we then calculated and recorded our data. Lastly, students created a bar graph including total and average distance walked. In LA, we had reflection questions about Mind, Spirit,Heart & Body related to the experiences at Residential School. Students are in the process of creating a medicine wheel including their personal responses to the questions.
Dear Parents & Guardians, This week I am taking the class outside to participate in the Walk for Chanie Wenjack. Chanie Wenjack was a young boy who ran away from residential school in Northern Ontario. This is part of our Indigenous Learning with ties in to Math and LA. We are recording our distance each day and will multiply it by the number of student walkers. We will also reflect on a specific question during and after the walk. Today's question was about the practices at residential school. By the end of the week students will create a bar graph showing the partial and total distance of the walk. Our Learning in the 4 Core Subject Areas today: Math: Rounding review on decimal and whole numbers. Social Studies: Students provided examples of equity and equality. => This will be part 2 of their social studies skit mar. Science: Photosynthesis Investigation LA: Using visualization as a tool when reading texts.
Dear Parents & Guardians, Important reminders: No school on Monday, October 18th due to a system-wide PD-Day October 19th is PictureDay. IPP forms are being sent home with students on Individual Program Plans BHS fundraiser information BHS Parent Council Fundraiser | School Apparel Beddington Heights Parent Council Association is excited to be working with Calgary Silk Screen Inc (a Calgary Based company) to offer all Beddington Heights Students, Staff and Family members our latest School Swag. Along with your comfortable, quality clothing $5.00 from each item sold will go to our school. Click on the link below to begin shopping, there is no time restriction on when you need to order by. The Campaign will remain open till the end of the 2021/2022 school year. You also have the option on to have your items delivered to your home (for a delivery fee) or you can collect your order at Calgary Silk Screen when your items are ready. Thank you for your continued support of our
Welcome back to week 7 of School! This short four day week should be very quick and engaging for our students in grade 6. Tomorrow we are doing ROBO Garden and I have been informed that the website has fixed some of the challenges. Upcoming Events and reminders: social studies skits will be performed this week starting Thursday. Concrete Poems are due by Thursday as well. No school on Monday, October 18th due to a system-wide PD-Day October 19th is PictureDay. IPP forms will be sent home by Friday this week to parents (only applies to parents whose child are on an IPP). Our Learning in class today: Math: Multiplying whole and decimal numbers (long multiplication skills) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5qLWP3Fqo LA: Learning about different forms of poetry (couplet and tercet) Social Studies: Work time in groups to develop their equity and equality skits Science: Grouping deciduous broad leaves by type, shape, margin & arrangement. https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/leaf/4
Dear Parents & Guardians, Important updates and reminders: No school this Friday, October 8th => System-wide PD-Day No school on Monday, October 11th => Thanksgiving Long Weekend Picture Day is Coming to BHS => October 19th - I sent home a reminder with your child. Today we had our first lesson on Robo Coding and experiences quite a bit of technical difficulty. I am hopeful that the website won't be as glitchy next week. If you want to, you can have your child try to code from home. Their usernames and passwords are very easy to remember. https://playground.robogarden.ca/ In Social Studies we learnt about FREJ yesterday. This acronym describes the 4 Pillars of our Canadian Democracy: Freedom - individual rights of each citizens Representation - elected representatives in government that give citizens a voice Equity - fairness Justice - laws that govern society (courts & police) In the next few days students are going to create 1-2 skits on the principles of equit
Hello Parents & Guardians, Important updates and reminders: No school this Friday, October 8th => System-wide PD-Day No school on Monday, October 11th => Thanksgiving Long Weekend Math Assessment on Decimals and Place Value was sent home today Science Quiz tomorrow on Analyzing tree cookies / Types and Parts of Trees Today in science every student was tasked to analyze and measure the growth of a tree cookie (round disk that shows the growth rings). Tree rings vary due to a multitude of factors such as, drought, competition for sunlight or water, fire or bite damage, infestations caused by insects, bacteria or fungi, etc. In class, we reviewed the causes and tried to piece together the growing conditions of each tree. This will be part of tomorrow's assessment. In LA, we started a new project: Concrete Poetry! https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/h93WRmDCotQmLQ/concrete-shape-poems Ask your child, which shape they have chosen and which words they want to use to convey the
October 4th Important updates and reminders: Please return the AHS vaccination forms (no matter if you wish for your child to be vaccinated or not) asap No school this Friday, October 8th => System-wide PD-Day No school on Monday, October 11th => Thanksgiving Long Weekend I sent home the marked rhyming poems from September 22nd today. Take a look at your child's work and provide them with some feedback Dear Parents & Guardians, After a week away in isolation I am back in class and eager to progress our learning. This week, students are going to learn about the following topics in the big four subject areas: 1) Science: Tree growth - Analyzing tree rings => There will be a short assessment check-in on Wednesday. 2) Social Studies: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens and Government 3) Math: Decimal computation - multiplying decimals and rounding decimal numbers 4) LA: Identifying literary devices in Poems and creating our own poetry. => We will be writing a c