Friday April 30, 2021

Happy Friday April 30th 2021!

Reminders:

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

May 10: Spring pictures day

Today in room 5:

Today was dress a like a teacher and teachers dress like students day. I was overjoyed to see the number of students that dressed up as me today! Way to go on those fake beards!

We started our morning by quickly handing out the pillars of care ribbons before heading off to the gym to sing O Canada and Garbage for the school. The grade twos did a fantastic job singing loudly for all to hear. We then quickly hurried back to class to announce who won each of the pillars of care and watch the rest of the school announce their winners.

After snack and some go noodles I then gave the students a chunk of time to finish writing their stories. I went through each of them today, and I have to say I loved hearing all of the students creative ideas!

We then moved into mathletics focusing on measurement. The students focused on the concept of length and how to measure and compare the length of different objects.

Today we moved our mindfulness outside to try out a "Sit Spot". When we do sit sit spots we find a spot in nature and use our senses to observe and appreciate our surroundings. The students loved using their senses to smell the wind, touch the grass, hear leaves rustling and watch the clouds roll by. After our sit spot we enjoyed some play outside using our classroom balls.

We finished up our day by having a sharing circle before cleaning the room and heading on our way!

Have a great weekend everyone :)

Mr Lancee

Thursday April 29, 2021

Happy Thursday April 29, 2021

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

Spirit day Friday: Dress like a teacher, teachers dress like students!

May 10: Spring pictures day

We began our day with some quiet reading and time to finish planning our characters and settings. 

After our morning meeting we had a quick snack before getting to some story writing. Today we learned some ways to start our stories. Opening lines such as once upon a time, one day, one night, it was a warm/cold summer day are just a few of the ideas we came up with. Students then got to work taking their planned characters and writing about how they fit into a setting they created. Next week we will be adding in problems and how to solve the problems!

After recess on the playground we moved into math. Today we learned some measurement vocabulary! We talked about length, width, height and the distance around an object. Students then used interlock cubes to measure the different dimensions of their book box!

When we finished lunch the students had their final session of kickball before heading inside for social. 

The students loved the social lesson today! We used ipads to research different land and sea animals in Meteghan and the maritimes. We then compared them to some of the animals we see here! Students then were given some plasticine to build their animal while simultaneously looking at their ipad to catch all the details. I have taken a picture of all of them and we will add them to our Meteghan mural hopefully tomorrow!

Have a great day everyone!

Tuesday April 27, 2021

Happy Tuesday April 27, 2021

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

Spirit day Friday: Dress like a teacher, teachers dress like students!

This week in room 5:

Language Arts

1. Reading to self and listening to reading

2. Story Writing

    -Planning and creating a setting and character 

    -Creating a beginning to a story all about the planned setting and characters

3. Wow words

Mild: 
your 
sing
work
tell
buy

Medium:
right
those 
many 
first
their

Spicy:
found
round
because
again
after

4. Read aloud: The BFG 

    -Listening to a novel as a class!

Math

Measurement using non standard units

    1. How to measure objects in the room

    2. Learning the rules of non standard units (Objects have to be the same size, no spaces)

    3. Measuring large objects using non standard units 

    4. Learning terminology such as: Length, height, larger than, smaller than, heavy, light

    5. Mathletics

(Apologies for a bit overlap in concepts covered from last week in science and social. I was away last week for a couple days so we are playing a bit of catch up)

Science 

The great viscosity race!

    - Today we did this race using 4 new liquids. The students loved being able to make predictions about which liquid would flow the fastest. We tested oil, hand sanitizer, honey and dish soap. The placements were:

1. Oil

2. Hand Sanitizer

3. Honey 

4. Dish soap

Social

-Learning about the daily life activities in Meteghan.

-Learning about the animals that can be found in Meteghan and the Maritimes. 

Art

-Creating sea creatures using plasticine

Health

Inclusivity-What does can we do to show it?

Thursday April 22, 2021

Happy Thursday April 22, 2021!

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

No school Friday April 23rd (Conferences) 

No school Monday April 26th (PD Day)

REMINDER!
Online parent teacher conferences Thursday April 22 (3:30-7:30 pm) and Friday April 23 (8:00am-1:00pm)

Please log into your mycbe account to sign up for conferences! We still have many spaces open!

Today in room 5:

Today was Earth Day! We talked as a class about what Earth Day means to us. We also read two books to learn about how we can help the earth!

Check out this book by Todd Parr! The Earth Book

We began our day with some quiet reading before our morning meeting. 

We then got hard to work in science going through the water cycle from the previous day! Yesterday the students watched the Magic school bus gets wet before cutting before cutting and glueing their own water cycles. Today we gave definitions to the four steps:

Evaporation

Condensation

Precipitation

Collection

before it repeats again!

We then moved into math and did some addition to 100 review! We reviewed the hundreds chart, columns and regrouping strategies before trying some questions.

In the afternoon we used a catch up block to finish our water cycles before heading to the gym. In gym we took a break from kickball and played various tag games.

We finished off our afternoon by watching an episode from Our Planet. (I skipped over the one sad part!) Watching this helped the students with seeing how beautiful the earth and its creatures are. It is up to us to keep the earth clean for future generations!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Student Led Conferences!

Have a great evening :) 

Enjoy the long weekend!

Monday April 19, 2021

Happy Monday April 19, 2021!

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

No school Friday April 23rd (Conferences) 

No school Monday April 26th (PD Day)

Online parent teacher conferences Thursday April 22 (3:30-7:30 pm) and Friday April 23 (8:00am-1:00pm)

Please log into your mycbe account to sign up for conferences! We still have many spaces open!

This week in room 5:

LA:

    -Learning about settings (The where and when a story takes place) - one of the key story elements for story writing

    -Practicing phonics with beginning letter blends

    -Word work:

This weeks words:

Math:

    -One more day of reviewing how to read a clock

  

    -Skip counting review

    -Addition to 100 review

    -Mathletics!

Social

    -Learning about the daily life of the Acadian people from Meteghan

    -School life (Learning some french greetings)

    -Clam hunting, lobster fishing and whale watching (May not have time to get to everything!)

Science

    -The water cycle 

    -Comparing different liquids such as honey, water, oil

    -The great viscosity race! Comparing how liquids move and flow

Art

-Earth day posters!

Looking forward to seeing everyone Thursday and Friday!

Friday April 16, 2021

 Happy Friday April 16th!

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

Online parent teacher conferences Thursday April 22 (3:30-7:30 pm) and Friday April 23 (8:00am-1:00pm)

No school Friday April 23rd (Conferences) 

No school Monday April 26th (PD Day)

Some exciting but kind of late news!

For the remainder of the year I will send home scholastic book orders for students that would like to buy new books! Apologies for not doing sooner...But there is still time to get some great books for this spring and summer!

Wondering how to access scholastic?

Visit scholastic.ca/clubshop

Everything will be shipped to your home directly.

When you enter the class code at checkout our class earns 20% of the order value back. I will then spend this on more books and resources for the class to use!

Here is our class code:

RC139987

Today in room 5:

We began our day with some time to do listening to reading on raz kids or read to self with with our new library books.

After our morning meeting we moved into doing some wow word sentences. We used our wow words this week in a sentence that had to have capitals, periods, at least 4 words, and a wow word.

We then had snack and gym with Mr Sadowsky before continuing our exploration of our time math. Today we did the opposite of yesterday and learned how to add the minute and hour hands to our analog clocks. Yesterday we read analog clocks and learned how to tell the time. This essential skill will carry on for the rest of their lives! Make sure you practice at home :)

We finished up our day a sharing circle before doing the happy dance with the minions. 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mr Lancee

Wednesday April 14, 2021

Happy Wednesday April 14, 2021!

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

Online parent teacher conferences Thursday April 22 (3:30-7:30 pm) and Friday April 23 (8:00am-1:00pm)

No school Friday April 23rd (Conferences) 

No school Monday April 26th (PD Day)

A note from Mr Sadowsky: 

-Unless it is below zero or pouring rain, teacher led classes will be outside for the remainder of the year, including light snow. Classes with me will be outside beginning in May for the remainder of the year. With the Covid numbers going up and the new variants, it is much safer to have classes spread out outside and the class in the gym having the entire gym to also be able to spread out more. A  large number of schools have been outside all year due to Covid concerns and this is for the safety of our students and staff. 

Volunteer Parent Patrollers are here for your safety!

With COVID restrictions this year we are unable to have student volunteers as Patrollers. 

However, thanks to the amazing members of parent council, we now have Volunteer Parent Patrollers ready to help our students use the crosswalks safely.  

Reminders:

Please watch for the parents in bright yellow and orange vests at front of the school and the NE corner just outside the compound.

Students and parents who walk to and from school, say hi and let the Parent Patrollers know you need to cross, then wait until the Parent Patrollers say it is safe to cross.

Students and parents in cars, please be patient and wait until everyone is out of the crosswalk and the Parent Patrollers lower their sign for you to drive on through.

​Thank you for your cooperation and help with keeping Beddington School safe!

Today in room 5:

We started our day with some reading and catch up time to finish our liquid and non liquid pages from the previous day. 

Room 5 then went off to gym with Mr Sadowsky to compete in the Beddington Olympics!

After a quick morning meeting we began writing about the characters we created from the previous day. As a class we reviewed how all characters have feelings, personalities and their own appearance. Students then used sentence starters to start journaling about their characters. 

After recess in the field we had some time on Mathletics! Today's focus was questions all about the days of the week, months of the year and using terms such as yesterday and tomorrow. 

When we finished lunch we had some time to do math centres. I currently have 6 centres for the students to choose from. They cannot do the same centre back to back. The centres are:

- Telling time

- Working with money

- Pattern blocks making pictures using 2D shapes, and patterns

-Number of the day

-Build it word problems

-Make a pattern using coloured squares

I will try to switch up some of the centers each week to keep them relevant to what we are learning!

Next came social time.

Today we planned our trip to Meteghan, Nova Scotia! We used a to do list to help us with the planning.

To do list:

1. Look into where we we are going (Using tourism videos of Nova Scotia)
2. Find out the weather for today and tomorrow (Using the weather network)
3. Plan what clothes we will need to bring (Drawing and adding labels to a picture of ourselves)
4. Print off our plane tickets

At 12:50 we were ready to board! Our classroom turned into a plane and Captain Lancee flew us off to Meteghan! We observed the landforms, bodies of water and what the homes looked like as we flew.

We finished off our day by reading to someone or listening to reading on Razkids.

Twas a busy but wonderful day!

Have a great evening everyone :)

Mr Lancee

Monday April 12, 2021

Happy Monday April 12, 2021!

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

Online parent teacher conferences Thursday April 22 (3:30-7:30 pm) and Friday April 23 (8:00am-1:00pm)

No school Friday April 23rd (Conferences) 

No school Monday April 26th (PD Day)

A note from Mr Sadowsky: 

-Unless it is below zero or pouring rain, teacher led classes will be outside for the remainder of the year, including light snow. Classes with me will be outside beginning in May for the remainder of the year. With the Covid numbers going up and the new variants, it is much safer to have classes spread out outside and the class in the gym having the entire gym to also be able to spread out more. A  large number of schools have been outside all year due to Covid concerns and this is for the safety of our students and staff. 

Volunteer Parent Patrollers are here for your safety!

With COVID restrictions this year we are unable to have student volunteers as Patrollers. 

However, thanks to the amazing members of parent council, we now have Volunteer Parent Patrollers ready to help our students use the crosswalks safely.  

Reminders:

Please watch for the parents in bright yellow and orange vests at front of the school and the NE corner just outside the compound.

Students and parents who walk to and from school, say hi and let the Parent Patrollers know you need to cross, then wait until the Parent Patrollers say it is safe to cross.

Students and parents in cars, please be patient and wait until everyone is out of the crosswalk and the Parent Patrollers lower their sign for you to drive on through.

​Thank you for your cooperation and help with keeping Beddington School safe!

This week in room 5:

LA:

Story Writing

-Relearning characters feelings and personality traits

-Creating our own characters

Wow Words- Choose from the three lists below!

These words should be able to be read and spelled correctly.

Choose your level of difficulty!
Mild: 
both
call
gave
pull
read


Medium:
does
first
green
right
sleep


Spicy:
always
because
these
which
write

We will be creating some wow word sentences Friday!

Reading:

    -To self, someone and listening to reading (Razkids)

Phonics

    -Practicing beginning letter sounds with blends _l, _r, (b, c, f, t, g)

Math

Learning to tell time!

    -We created clocks today to practice telling time on a non digital clock.

    -We will use the clocks to also

            ...Skip count by 2, 5, 10

            ...Problem solve

            ...See patterns in clocks

Social

    -Adventuring around Meteghan
    -We will begin to explore the landforms and bodies of water of Meteghan and Nova Scotia

    -We will start creating our Mural

    -We will be flying to Saskatoon on Wednesday!

Science

    -Today we made detailed scientific observations on how to draw a detailed diagram of a piece of nature. We then looked at its physical properties such as: Height, size, weight, color and texture.

    -Liquids!

    -We will be comparing different liquids and non liquids and creating a definition of what a liquid is.

    -We will also look into how evaporation works using jars that are open and closed!

Art 

    -Combined with science and social

    -Social- Creating landforms and city drawings

    -Science - Creating nature observations

Have a great evening everyone!

Mr Lancee

Friday April 9, 2021

Happy Friday April 9th, 2021 everyone! 

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

Online parent teacher conferences Thursday April 22 (3:30-7:30 pm) and Friday April 23 (8:00am-1:00pm)

No school Friday April 23rd (Conferences) 

No school Monday April 26th (PD Day)

A note from Mr Sadowsky: 

-Unless it is below zero or pouring rain, teacher led classes will be outside for the remainder of the year, including light snow. Classes with me will be outside beginning in May for the remainder of the year. With the Covid numbers going up and the new variants, it is much safer to have classes spread out outside and the class in the gym having the entire gym to also be able to spread out more. A  large number of schools have been outside all year due to Covid concerns and this is for the safety of our students and staff. 

This week in room 5:

Today we began our day with some time to listen to reading. We used the ipads and read Razkids at our desks.

We then moved into a morning meeting and had a discussion about a change to our schedule. I am going to be adding a math and reading block to the afternoon and I let the students vote on whether they would like the reading or math block right after lunch or at the end of the day. This gave the the students some choice in their learning and from now on we will have math centers/games after lunch and reading to someone/listening to reading at the end of the day.

Students then had about 30 minutes to finish their Spring break writing! I will be making some new folders to help the students organize their writing materials better for each day.

We then had snack before doing a large desk clean! 

The students finished their morning with 30 minutes of gym outside.

We then had a sharing circle talking about what zone we were in and our favourite part of the week.

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Make sure you read and do some mathletics :)

Mr Lancee

Thursday April 10, 2021

 Happy Thursday April 10, 2021 everyone! 

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

Online parent teacher conferences Thursday April 22 (3:30-7:30 pm) and Friday April 23 (8:00am-1:00pm)

No school Friday April 23rd (Conferences) 

No school Monday April 26th (PD Day)

A note from Mr Sadowsky: 

-Unless it is below zero or pouring rain, teacher led classes will be outside for the remainder of the year, including light snow. Classes with me will be outside beginning in May for the remainder of the year. With the Covid numbers going up and the new variants, it is much safer to have classes spread out outside and the class in the gym having the entire gym to also be able to spread out more. A  large number of schools have been outside all year due to Covid concerns and this is for the safety of our students and staff. 

Today we began our day with some reading and catch up time to finish our "What I notice about the Maritimes" research pages. 

The students then went off to gym with Mr Sadowsky to compete in the Beddington Olympics!

After our morning meeting and snack we moved into some writing. Today the students continued to work on their What I did over my spring break writing. Tomorrow will be the last day to work on them before I look into them.

After recess on the compound we moved into some mathletics on Ipads. I have assigned several things for students to complete. Try and get some done at home :)

In the afternoon we had read to someone before moving into science. 

Today we started our new science unit: Liquids! I gave the students some time to record anything they KNOW about liquids. Students had several ideas about:

-There are many types of liquids (coke, water, coconut water, juice, tea)

-Humans are 70% water

-Liquids can change into ice and water

-Water makes up clouds

They also had several questions about liquids!

-What is a liquid?

-How many different liquids are there?

-How are different liquids made?

-How does water become steam?

To wrap up our science block we watched Bill Nye: Fluids! The students loved getting a preview of several concepts we will be learning about this unit.

We finished our day by cleaning the room before heading home :)

Have a great day everyone!

Mr Lancee

Tuesday April 6, 2021

Happy Tuesday April 6, 2021 everyone! 

Hope you all had a wonderful spring break! 

I was able to take some time for myself and relax, get outside and have fun!

Reminders:

Pillars of Care Friday April 30th

Pillar of the month: Inclusivity

Online parent teacher conferences Thursday April 22 (3:30-7:30 pm) and Friday April 23 (8:00am-1:00pm)

No school Friday April 23rd (Conferences) 

No school Monday April 26th (PD Day)

This week in room 5:

Language Arts:

• Blends review & learning about the blends tr, fr, gr
• Planning, writing and sharing journals about what we did on our spring breaks
• Reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading

Math

• Calendar based problems relating to days of the week and months of the year
• Calendar problems related to our birth month
• Mathletics

Social

• Intro to new unit! Meteghan (Maritimes community) in Nova Scotia.
• Where is Meteghan on a map of Canada
• A look into the Maritimes landscapes using ipad research

Science

• Intro to new unit! Liquids
• Watching Bill Nye Fluids video
• What do we know and wonder about relating to liquids
• How to do detailed scientific drawings

Health

• Learning about inclusivity
• Learning about "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart"
• How to be a Problem Solver

Looking for some extra practice with words at home?

Below are the grade one and two sight word lists for you to practice :)