Monday Jan 25, 2021

 Happy Monday Jan 25, 2021!

Reminders:

No school Friday Jan 29th.

Reading...Give it a Shot 

BHS has enrolled in the Calgary Flames reading program.  Students will be bringing home tracking sheets to monitor how much they read each day.  Can you please sign the spot needed if they are reading at home?  

When your child reads 30 minutes they will earn one reading card. I have sent home a green folder with the sheet to track your minutes! Once they collect all 24, they can move onto the bonus card collection of Harvey the Hound doing funny things! The reading competition started Monday, January 18^th and ends March 26^th. Teachers will be tracking totals in order to hopefully win a virtual visit from the Calgary Flames. The more they read… the more chance we have of the Calgary Flames visiting our school virtually!   

Thank you for your support and work with encouraging your child to read!  

Go Flames Go!

I took down everyones minutes today! But I forgot to hand out cards!! I will give them all tomorrow.

This week in room 5:

Language Arts:

-Literacy centers have begun! 

    -Our centers are read to self, read to someone, word work, teacher table, word work games         and working on writing! Today I introduced everyone to their groupings. Some students             did read to self, others did word work while I worked with students at the teacher table.

-Wow Words

    This weeks words are:

            -under

            -going

            -into

            -our

            -think

- Monster writing good copies! We will be taking our rough copies and rewriting them as finished and edited work to display on the wall in the class.

- January writing sample (based off a picture, Thursday!)

Math

-Today we played some number sense and addition games as a fun way to start off the week.

-We will be continuing our practice with double digit addition for the next two days. Tomorrow I will show the students another strategy that may help some who are struggling with regrouping!

Science

-Today we explored the rules around the north and south poles of magnets. We used a pencil and ring magnets to test and practice the interaction of North- North, south- south, and north - south poles.

Based off the picture....

The bottom magnets are all facing north-South North-south north-south so they are attracted to each other (opposites attract!!)

The top magnet is south north so the poles repel!

-We will also be testing how to make your own magnet at school tomorrow.

Social

    -Investigating the differences in food prices in a prairie community, compared to an arctic community.

    

    -Creating our Iqaluit mural (whole class project)

    

    -Creating Iqaluit style houses and buildings for the mural.

    

    -Creating Aurora Borealis art

Phys ed. 

-Last week of racket sports & fitness/games with Mr sadowsky