November 2, 2017

Hi families,

Here is a message from Mr. Sadowsky about the Beddington Movember event:

Beddington Heights is showing we care by running a Movember competition to bring awareness to and raise funds for prostate cancer research. Most of our male staff members will be growing a moustache for the month of November. Students may vote all month as often as they like for who they feel has the worst moustache. The cost is $1.00 per vote. $5.00 = 5 votes etc. Mavericks will be set up in the gym at lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays to collect votes. You may also give your vote to Mr. Sadowsky at any other time. All proceeds will be donated to the Movember foundation on behalf of Beddington Heights school. At the end of the month, the teacher with the most votes, therefore the worst moustache will come to work on December 1st with his hair dyed in a bright funky colour. If we raise $1,000.00 or more as a school, all the participants will dye their hair on December 1st.
Let's show everyone how much Beddington cares.
Thank you for your support!

Participants: Mr. Hebert, Mr. Weins, Mr. Sadowsky, Mr. Lancee, Mr. Mueller, Mr. Shackelton, Mr. Softley, Mr. Berry,
Mr. Mahon, Mr. Beechey, Mr. Jackson

I apologize profusely about not getting to blog yesterday! If you have any questions that go unanswered, please let me know!

We have now finished most of our Social Studies presentations and completed rubrics will be sent home with students tomorrow. I was really impressed at how some students were able to weave in so much information while maintaining the theme of the project! We discussed how to improve upon our work for next time and to use class research time more efficiently. For the next week we will be focusing on summarizing our social studies knowledge in preparation for moving on to our next unit.

Today in math we reviewed 4 digit and 5 digit addition to compliment our work with rounding and in preparation for moving on in our number unit. Students had fun challenging each other at the whiteboard today. Tomorrow there will be a small quiz which will actually be sent home on Monday. Our last quiz was really a formative assessment piece for me, so once I had it I could direct our learning.

Yesterday in science we spent some time talking about temperature and the factors that affect temperature. We then took some thermometers and made some predictions about where we would find the warmest and coolest spots in our classroom. Students taped thermometers to those spots and have been periodically taking temperature readings to see how even the temperature inside the school can fluctuate. We will be working on reviewing our science knowledge next week in preparation for a unit test.

Finally, in Language Arts, students have been practicing attribution tags and quotation marks in writing. We have been using comic strips to practice this skill and looking at how to insert the tags at the beginning, middle, and end of quotes with proper punctuation while using a variety of tags "instead of said". We've seen some pretty creative uses of alternatives to said and I am excited to see how students insert these into their narrative writing later on this year.

Reminders:
-Our veterans food drive has now begun, if you are able to send in non-perishable food items - please do!
-Our Movember campaign continues and there are some pretty terrible mustaches being nurtured by the male staff of Beddington Heights


Have a safe and snowy evening!