December 9, 2020

 Happy December 9, 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.

Highlights from the day!

In Language arts today I introduced the students to some word work games that we will use with literacy centers from now! There are quite a few to choose from and the students were very excited to try them today!

Some of these games include: Wood words, pop words, magnet letters, I spy words, and sight word bingo to name a few. 

In the afternoon I gave students some time to work on Razkids reading their leveled books. I have been trying something knew in which I let students choose their book to read from the digital books on the ipads. It is great to learn the interests of the readers and mix up the resources we use to read. 

Today we also started a Charlottes Web comic! We discussed as a class six important events that took place in the first half of the book. We used these to build six sections of a comic page! Today we focused on the first two sections and will continue this throughout this week and next.

We finished off our day practicing some single and double digit addition using number lines and hundreds charts. I will be giving a basic facts test tomorrow to see how much we have grown!

Have a great day everyone!

Mr Lancee