December 7, 2020

Happy December 7, 2020!

Reminders:

-Beddington Heights is participating in the Mayor's Annual Food Drive this year!  Please bring in any nonperishable food items for the Calgary Food Bank!  Also, we are collecting monetary donations. This will be a great act of kindness and show a great deal of care for others during a trying time of year for those who are less fortunate.  The drive ends Dec 11th.  Thank you for your support on this!

-Winter Break starts December 18th! Less than 2 weeks!

-The first week back from school we will be doing online learning (Jan 4-11) I have given parents their log ins in a private email earlier in October. We have practiced logging in now three times! They may need some additional help at home when the time comes.

-Safety reminders: We want to keep our friends, family and classmates safe this year...

What can I do to keep myself safe?

§ You can practice healthy habits at home, school, and play to help protect against the spread of COVID-19. At school we need to continue to do the following:

§ Wear a mask in classrooms, hallways and shared spaces.

§ Keep your hands out of your mouth, nose, and eyes- This will help keep germs out of your body.

§ Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.

§ Follow these five steps— wet, lather (make bubbles), scrub (rub together), rinse

and dry. You can sing the “Happy Birthday” song twice.

§ If you don’t have soap and water, use hand sanitizer. All classrooms now have hand sanitizer for you to use.

§ Monitor your health each day before you come to school. If you feel sick, stay home. Just like you don’t want to get other people’s germs in your body, other people don’t want to get your germs either.

Today in room 5: 

Today was a big day for room 5! We broke our down into several small parts and accomplished quite a bit!

I gave the students their usual 30 mins to start the morning to catch up on creature typing. During this time students also read or finished their word work from Thursday.

We then went through our morning calendar and added the days of the week, number of the day, and weather graphs. As a class we did a math talk and looked at how to represent different numbers. I gave each student their own number and asked them to represent it as many ways as they could. Students could draw pictures, use tens grids, tallies, number lines, and tens and ones blocks to represent a number. 

After our calendar we took some time to have a sharing circle. In this sharing circle we reviewed the rules of only allowing one person to talk, sharing feelings, showing respect for others answers, and building a sense of community. Today we practiced this with the question...What did you do on your weekend? Students did a wonderful job waiting their turn to speak, listening to others, and sharing what they did on the weekend and how it made them feel.

When we finished recess on the playground we moved into some printing and letter sound practice. Today's letter was Ss. We talked about the sound it makes, how to print it upper case and lower case, and where the sound can be found within other words. Students used books to support their findings of words that contain Ss.

After lunch we moved into some word work time. Below is the list of this weeks wow words!

are

did

must

now

but 

please

Our task today was to write them in pencil, rainbow and your favourite color. Once they finished they were tasked with finding the words in books to see how they are used!

After gym playing some jumping jack dodgeball we transitioned into math. Today's math lesson reviewed being able to write numbers four different ways. The ways we practiced were:

Number

Place Value (Tens and Ones)

Expanded form

and pictures (using tens and ones blocks)

The table the was missing different ways to write the numbers and it was up to students to fill in the blanks. Below is the sheet we completed today.

It was a great to review these concepts and it keep it fresh in their brains :)

We finished off our day watching the rest of Inside Out. After the theme we discussed how we were feeling with everything happening in the world. We also compared how the feelings in Inside Out are similar to how we feel during the zones of regulation. Students compared how the Zones shows us calming strategies and ways to move back to being happy and ready to learn. It is great to see students using these strategies daily in room 5 :)

Have a great evening everyone!

Stay safe.

Mr Lancee