Good afternoon families of room 18!
Here is a recap of today!
We started our day out with pillars of care nominations! The winners will be announced tomorrow and parents will be contacted throughout the school day. We tried to get these done today but had quite the discombobulated day.
I’m the morning, we had some time to present some of our stop motion videos and were quite impressed by what we saw! Due to technology bookings, we will finish watching the rest tomorrow morning. We also had some live action slots that were very well thought out and presented. I am a super proud teacher!
We had an opportunity after recess to watch some of Wonder, as it was a well-enjoyed book from earlier this year. We intend to compare and contrast the book to the movie, as well as support our position through a short writing excerpt tomorrow, after we finish the movie.
After lunch we had a seed survivor presentation for an hour, and once again, many proud teacher moments where the kids made numerous connections to their learning in science. From making connections to our atmosphere, regions, wetlands and many more, room 18 showed off just what they’re made of to our presenter.
Once our presentation was over, we had many distracted brains. We returned to class to try to finish our video presentations if were foiled when another classroom needed the iPads we were using, and so we had some free choice time to finish up our letter to ourselves, poetry, or a letter to Ms. Laird.
Finally, it is with mixed emotions that I announced to the kids today that I will be leaving Beddington Heights at the end of this year and moving to Hugh A Bennett to teach grade 3. I am very touched by the students’ reaction today when they heard the news and will miss having the opportunity to loop with my wonderful grade 4 students. I have truly enjoyed the opportunity to work with this group of kids who continually put up with my pushing them to think critically and make connections between what they’re learning and their own lives. I look forward to our last two days together!
Reminders:
- grade 6 moving on assembly: tomorrow at 1:15
- pillars of care assembly: Wednesday at 12:30
- report cards come home on Wednesday at 2:30
Monday, June 25, 2018
Friday, June 22, 2018
Friday, June 22, 2018
Dear families of room 18,
Here is a recap of what happened this week in class!
Math: students examined the concepts of symmetry and types of lines (parallel, perpendicular, etc.) looking at a variety of shapes. We also spent some time reviewing multiplication and division, and will continue to do so next week.
Language Arts: We are currently in the process of writing a letter to ourselves to use as a reminder for next year of different learning and self-regulation strategies we have used and found success with this year. Hopefully, students will be able to read this letter at the beginning of next year and help them start their next grade off right!
Science: Due to a few students not being done their videos, the class agreed to wait until Monday to have our viewing party. We will be watching them in the afternoon, and will not have any more delays!
Students were also working on a self-portrait of themselves wearing glasses (connected to the concept of symmetry), with the glasses showing a reflection (another math concept we are working with) of what they will be seeing this summer.
Reminders:
- Last day of school: Wednesday, June 27
- Pillars of Care Assembly: Wednesday, June 27 @ 12:30
- Grade 6 Moving on Assembly: Tuesday, June 26 @ 1:15
- All items in the lost and found that have not been claimed will be donated on June 28th
Here is a recap of what happened this week in class!
Math: students examined the concepts of symmetry and types of lines (parallel, perpendicular, etc.) looking at a variety of shapes. We also spent some time reviewing multiplication and division, and will continue to do so next week.
Language Arts: We are currently in the process of writing a letter to ourselves to use as a reminder for next year of different learning and self-regulation strategies we have used and found success with this year. Hopefully, students will be able to read this letter at the beginning of next year and help them start their next grade off right!
Science: Due to a few students not being done their videos, the class agreed to wait until Monday to have our viewing party. We will be watching them in the afternoon, and will not have any more delays!
Students were also working on a self-portrait of themselves wearing glasses (connected to the concept of symmetry), with the glasses showing a reflection (another math concept we are working with) of what they will be seeing this summer.
Reminders:
- Last day of school: Wednesday, June 27
- Pillars of Care Assembly: Wednesday, June 27 @ 12:30
- Grade 6 Moving on Assembly: Tuesday, June 26 @ 1:15
- All items in the lost and found that have not been claimed will be donated on June 28th
Monday, June 18, 2018
Monday, June 18, 2018
Dear families of room 18:
Today was a hectic day!
We began the day with MATH and a lot of it! Students were asked to take a look at math equations that presented letters as missing decimal numbers, for eg. 2.8 - Z = 4.7. This was what we did to warm up our brains during "Morning Math". After this, we had music for 30 minutes prior to returning to the class and getting back into math. Students were asked to identify the characteristics of 3D shapes in preparation for transformations and translations. We discussed edges, vertices, and faces, and also looked at clues to help identify the names of shapes that may be unfamiliar to us.
After recess, we came in and worked had our last day of major prop-preparation before we start filming our stop-motion movies tomorrow. I am REALLY excited to see how these movies turn out as we learned quite a bit from our last round of movies, and students are trying to be creative but efficient. Stay tuned! If possible, I will try to find some way of posting them to the blog so you can all enjoy them as well! This will all be dependent, however, on our friend Technology.
During the afternoon, we had an opportunity to get back to Language Arts and our poetry writing. Many students are now in the finishing stages of their blackout poetry and are ready to move into their paint chip poetry. We are also working on reviewing concepts covered throughout the year, such as contractions, and will also be doing some intensive word work this week.
Have a great night!
Reminders:
- Pillars of Care Assembly, June 27th - pm
- June 29th, all lunch boxes, supplies, and clothing left in the school will be donated
Today was a hectic day!
We began the day with MATH and a lot of it! Students were asked to take a look at math equations that presented letters as missing decimal numbers, for eg. 2.8 - Z = 4.7. This was what we did to warm up our brains during "Morning Math". After this, we had music for 30 minutes prior to returning to the class and getting back into math. Students were asked to identify the characteristics of 3D shapes in preparation for transformations and translations. We discussed edges, vertices, and faces, and also looked at clues to help identify the names of shapes that may be unfamiliar to us.
After recess, we came in and worked had our last day of major prop-preparation before we start filming our stop-motion movies tomorrow. I am REALLY excited to see how these movies turn out as we learned quite a bit from our last round of movies, and students are trying to be creative but efficient. Stay tuned! If possible, I will try to find some way of posting them to the blog so you can all enjoy them as well! This will all be dependent, however, on our friend Technology.
During the afternoon, we had an opportunity to get back to Language Arts and our poetry writing. Many students are now in the finishing stages of their blackout poetry and are ready to move into their paint chip poetry. We are also working on reviewing concepts covered throughout the year, such as contractions, and will also be doing some intensive word work this week.
Have a great night!
Reminders:
- Pillars of Care Assembly, June 27th - pm
- June 29th, all lunch boxes, supplies, and clothing left in the school will be donated
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Good afternoon families of room 18,
Grade 4's, please see this message from Ms. Locke:
Please bring in pictures/images/items that can be assembled into a collage that best represents you.
Here is a recap of what we worked on today!
Science, students have begun their last foray into stop motion animation with a discussion on how humans can negatively impact wetlands. Having learned from our previous attempt at stop motion, students have a checklist at school of tasks that must be completed in order prior to beginning to build props and film the video. Today, most students had the opportunity to finish a storyboard that outlined the impact they chose as their focus.
Social Studies: We have continued to present on our famous Canadians, we will have one more day of presentations tomorrow.
Language Arts: Blackout poetry! This is a unique way of building poetry from pages of text out of books. Students were instructed to find a page from a book they were reading that had interesting and exciting vocabulary to have photocopied. Today, students who had finished the two previous styles of poetry had the chance to begin planning this new style, which will require them to also decorate the page in some unique way.
Grade 4's, please see this message from Ms. Locke:
Please bring in pictures/images/items that can be assembled into a collage that best represents you.
Here is a recap of what we worked on today!
Science, students have begun their last foray into stop motion animation with a discussion on how humans can negatively impact wetlands. Having learned from our previous attempt at stop motion, students have a checklist at school of tasks that must be completed in order prior to beginning to build props and film the video. Today, most students had the opportunity to finish a storyboard that outlined the impact they chose as their focus.
Social Studies: We have continued to present on our famous Canadians, we will have one more day of presentations tomorrow.
Language Arts: Blackout poetry! This is a unique way of building poetry from pages of text out of books. Students were instructed to find a page from a book they were reading that had interesting and exciting vocabulary to have photocopied. Today, students who had finished the two previous styles of poetry had the chance to begin planning this new style, which will require them to also decorate the page in some unique way.
Monday, June 11, 2018
Monday, June 11, 2018
Dear families of room 18:
Today we had a PACKED day!
We started the day off with music and followed it up with a half hour of DEAR so students can identify a page of text that they would like to use for our next form of poetry. After that we moved into social studies presentations on our famous Canadians. After recess we had gym, which was rescheduled because of health, and science. We then moved into math and language arts after lunch, followed by an hour of health at the end of the day.
Because we started health today, we are working on a crunched timeline and are zooming through tasks at the speed of light. This has actually turned out to be a blessing as students no longer have time to waste! Students in both grades should have come home with some form of homework, a crossword or a fill in the blank.
Have a nice night!
Today we had a PACKED day!
We started the day off with music and followed it up with a half hour of DEAR so students can identify a page of text that they would like to use for our next form of poetry. After that we moved into social studies presentations on our famous Canadians. After recess we had gym, which was rescheduled because of health, and science. We then moved into math and language arts after lunch, followed by an hour of health at the end of the day.
Because we started health today, we are working on a crunched timeline and are zooming through tasks at the speed of light. This has actually turned out to be a blessing as students no longer have time to waste! Students in both grades should have come home with some form of homework, a crossword or a fill in the blank.
Have a nice night!
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Message about Volunteer Tea
Dear families,
Please read the below message about blog:
On Friday, June 8th, Beddington Heights School is hosting our annual Volunteer Tea to thank and acknowledge all the contributions that parents have made this year. The formal program will begin at 8:15 am and conclude at 10:00 am. We encourage all those who volunteered their time this year to join us.
Our students will be performing a song as part of the presentation. We hope that all of our volunteers can join us to celebrate their contributions to our school community.
Thanks!
Please read the below message about blog:
On Friday, June 8th, Beddington Heights School is hosting our annual Volunteer Tea to thank and acknowledge all the contributions that parents have made this year. The formal program will begin at 8:15 am and conclude at 10:00 am. We encourage all those who volunteered their time this year to join us.
Our students will be performing a song as part of the presentation. We hope that all of our volunteers can join us to celebrate their contributions to our school community.
Thanks!
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Good afternoon families of room 18!
Here is a recap of what we did in class today:
Math: Both grades sat down to consolidate their learning with area and perimeter. Grade 5 students walked through some problem solving with me and found some areas where their understandings were a little mixed up. We fixed the problem and then they were sent to construct some 3D shapes that will help us with our lesson on volume tomorrow. There will be a quick quiz on Friday to wrap that portion of measurement up. Grade 4s have been demonstrating their readiness with this topic and will also have a quick quiz on Friday, some of them even decided to try to challenge themselves with the grade 5 work today.
Science: We continue to finalize our work in our wetlands unit as we move toward the end of the year. Students are now consolidating their knowledge about the roles of organisms in a wetland, as well as the different parts of a wetland and the roles they play.
Language Arts: We started something called a "reversal poem" yesterday and the kids continued to work on it today. Students are creating some really interesting poems that consider both the positive and negative side of a feeling. Over the course of our poetry unit, students will be creating a variety of poems to the best of their ability and then submitting their favourite two poems to me for review. Through this unit, I am hoping to help students feel poetry is an accessible method of written expression and that poetry doesn't always have to rhyme!
Social Studies: Deadline coming! Students will be sharing their social studies presentations this coming Monday! While many students decided to not create a heritage minute as their final product, I am still very excited to see the connections they have made between their famous Canadian and the other knowledge we have accumulated over the year. Due to our schedule, today was the last day for computer research, so students who have not completed their presentations will need to do so at home.
Reminders:
-Fun lunch tomorrow!
-Sports Day afternoon: Tomorrow! Please remember to send your child with a water bottle, sunscreen, hat, bug spray, etc.
-HS permission forms came home today, please sign and return this form for MONDAY. Students who do not have permission on Monday will need to sit out until we have parental permission for participation.
Here is a recap of what we did in class today:
Math: Both grades sat down to consolidate their learning with area and perimeter. Grade 5 students walked through some problem solving with me and found some areas where their understandings were a little mixed up. We fixed the problem and then they were sent to construct some 3D shapes that will help us with our lesson on volume tomorrow. There will be a quick quiz on Friday to wrap that portion of measurement up. Grade 4s have been demonstrating their readiness with this topic and will also have a quick quiz on Friday, some of them even decided to try to challenge themselves with the grade 5 work today.
Science: We continue to finalize our work in our wetlands unit as we move toward the end of the year. Students are now consolidating their knowledge about the roles of organisms in a wetland, as well as the different parts of a wetland and the roles they play.
Language Arts: We started something called a "reversal poem" yesterday and the kids continued to work on it today. Students are creating some really interesting poems that consider both the positive and negative side of a feeling. Over the course of our poetry unit, students will be creating a variety of poems to the best of their ability and then submitting their favourite two poems to me for review. Through this unit, I am hoping to help students feel poetry is an accessible method of written expression and that poetry doesn't always have to rhyme!
Social Studies: Deadline coming! Students will be sharing their social studies presentations this coming Monday! While many students decided to not create a heritage minute as their final product, I am still very excited to see the connections they have made between their famous Canadian and the other knowledge we have accumulated over the year. Due to our schedule, today was the last day for computer research, so students who have not completed their presentations will need to do so at home.
Reminders:
-Fun lunch tomorrow!
-Sports Day afternoon: Tomorrow! Please remember to send your child with a water bottle, sunscreen, hat, bug spray, etc.
-HS permission forms came home today, please sign and return this form for MONDAY. Students who do not have permission on Monday will need to sit out until we have parental permission for participation.
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