Thursday, April 29th

Reminders

1. Pattern Quiz was today, we will try to mark it tomorrow or Monday. 

2. Friday is Pillars of Care & Students dress as a teacher, teacher dress as a student/another teacher day! 

Have fun with it! 

3. SJAM virtual parent tour next week, day and time to be announced soon 

4. May 10th picture day 

5. Ancient Athens Unit test next Thursday or Friday ...study guide to be sent home soon. 

6. Parents who missed interviews, call me at the school or email me if you wish to talk sometime.

Today we read to start and worked on the Pillars of Care display board.

In gym it was the last day of Olympics. Tomorrow we will be our last day of kickball...it is 43 Team Kaden  to 39 Team Kyte. 

After our math quiz and snack we had the SJAM virtual tour; the students were excellent during it. 

In science we designed our parachutes and labelled the material we are using for them.  Then we got to building and some even got to testing their first design.

In social we continued to work on our Travel & Co Brochures about ancient Athens.  

We hope everyone has a thrift Thursday! 

Pillars Winners

 GRADE 5/6 Mr. Shackelton

Care for Others: Ameliah - She invented the kindness box in our classroom, where every student writes a nice note about another student once a week.  This is so amazing, and the students love it! Great work. 

Care for Learning: Dayton - He has taken great strides in his learning these past few weeks.  He is trying his best, doing all the work that's expected of him, and really putting in the extra time at home too.  I am so proud of you!  Kyte - Has been excellent in showing his learning this year.  He has been acing assessments and helping others in math a great deal! 

Care for Place: Amy - These past few weeks Amy has been dismissing the class and ensuring everyone cleans up after themselves.  She has shown great leadership and pride in this job!  Keep up the great work.

Care for Self: Kaden - Kaden has been making sure all of his projects are completed to the best of his ability.  He is a natural scientist and leader in the classroom.  He’s encouraged to continue growing in these characters throughout the rest of his schooling. 

Pillar of the Month: Lucas - He is the definition of inclusiveness.  He always makes sure everyone in our class is happy at recess, and visits those who are sitting alone.  He is a very positive contribution to the entire classroom.

Tuesday, April 27th

 Reminders

1. Pattern Quiz Thursday! I sent home a mock test for them to practice with tonight and tomorrow. 

2. Friday is Pillars of Care & Students dress as a teacher, teacher dress as a student/another teacher day! 

Have fun with it! 

3. SJAM virtual student tour 10-11am Thursday

Today we read and continued our epic kickball match, the score is 29 (team Kaden) to 26 (team Kyte)

In math we reviewed patterns and talked about what is on the quiz this Thursday.  I sent home a practice booklet for all the students to do. 

In LA we finished off learning about the elements of news articles and going to be writing our own tomorrow for the first time.

We then had our sharing circle, kindness box readings and learned about sit spots.  Sit spots will be replacing our mindfulness next week, where we do more outside to improve our senses. 

In science we learned about streamlining and drag.  We will be building various types of paper airplanes to test out the difference between streamlined planes vs not.  Thursday and Friday will be parachute day. 

In social we started our ancient Athen brochure project.  We explored the ins and outs of the project, the mark rubric, student exemplars, and finally where to find all the info they need (notebook, textbook, handouts, internet)

PS: If you were the parents who asked for grammar books can you email me?  I forgot who I need to give some too. Thanks

Thursday, April 22nd

  Reminders

1. Please sign up for parent teacher interviews!  They are Thursday and Friday and will be done through Teams, like last time.

2. No school Friday and Monday

3. Stories have been sent home please sign the rubric and return the rubric

4. April 29th 10-11am SJAM student orientation.  Parent orientation will be sometime in May once they know their budget and what teachers are teaching what. 

5. TUESDAY BRING ANY MATERIALS YOU WANT TO BUILD PARACHUTES ... I will supply as well, but anything extra is on you guys.

Today after gym and reading, we watched some educational videos on Earth Day.  Then we made pledges through our art to how we will help the Earth.

In science we learned about drag and will be building parachutes and testing and fixing and retesting. 

Then we did patterns on mathletics.  

We also corrected our 2nd Athens booklet to get ready to start out brochures next week.

We hope everyone has a Thor's Hammer Thursday! 

Wednesday, April 21st

 Reminders

1. Please sign up for parent teacher interviews!  They are Thursday and Friday and will be done through Teams, like last time.

2. No school Friday and Monday

3. Stories have been sent home please sign the rubric and return the rubric

4. April 29th 10-11am SJAM student orientation.  Parent orientation will be sometime in May once they know their budget and what teachers are teaching what. 

In gym our match continued 16 (team Kyte)  to 19 (team Kaden) 

In math we continued with patterns with focus on word problem patterns. 

In LA we learned how to use the frayer model for vocabulary.  We also did a practice annotation, close reading, and comprehension questions based on a news report. 

Music was a test day for ukulele play.

In science we learned about thrust and propulsion and drag....we are getting closer to building our own parachutes. 

In social we continued with an Athens work book that we will be taking up tomorrow.  

We hope everyone has a wicked Wednesday! 

Tuesday, April 20th

Reminders

1. Please sign up for parent teacher interviews!  They are Thursday and Friday and will be done through Teams, like last time.

2. No school Friday and Monday

3. Stories have been sent home please sign the rubric and return the rubric

Today we read and hung up our forces of flight posters.   In gym we started a new match and its 10 (team Kyte)  to 11 (team Kaden) 

In math we continued with patterns. 

In LA we reviewed are stories, and read our favourite parts of our stories to the class. 

Then we completed our IRIS goals for the interviews this Thursday / Friday. 

In social we were working on booklet to get us ready for our project next week. 

In science we learned about Bernoulli's Principle and how plane wings use it to help generate lift. 

We hope everyone has a tremor Tuesday! 

Monday, April 19th

 Reminders

1. Please sign up for parent teacher interviews!  They are Thursday and Friday and will be done through Teams, like last time.

2. No school Friday and Monday

Today we read to start off our day.  In math we dove into the why and how of patterns for some higher level thinking. 

In LA we went through the elements of news articles and practice using indirect speech.  We did some practice finding the 5Ws from leads.

Then we finally corrected our social work book before lunch.

In science we continued to explore the forces of flight.  We are starting with lift tomorrow.

We hope everyone has magnificent Monday!

Friday, April 15th

 Today was our last day with Mr. Santos.  The class did a great job on his card and farewell! 

We did a special art project with him for most of the entire day.  The students brought home their space art that they are very proud of. 

The project involved making headlines from magazines, about the news article they are writing.   The articles are about a favourite lesson that Mr. Santos taught. 

We had mathletics for an hour in between the art project.

We are ending the day with kickball.  

THE FINAL SCORE WAS SHACK'S TEAM 63 - SANTOS' TEAM 62!!!

We hope everyone has a fast and furious Friday! 

Thursday, April 15th

Reminders

1. April 30th Spirit Day:

Dress as your teacher / admin / secretary / EA / Lunch / any teacher / basically any staff member 

Teachers will dress like a student or another teacher 

Today we went to the library to start our day. Then we continued our epic kickball game...it is now 46 (shack) vs 42 (santos).  Tomorrow is the final round before we pick new teams Tuesday. 

In math we did stations with patterns.  They had increasing, decreasing, 2 steps, and pictures, and word problems with patterns to solve.

In LA we are doing n big art activity tomorrow and today they had the computers to start their news article that will be painting tomorrow. 

In social we started taking up the booklet.  We finished the 40 questions and Y/N chart.  Tomorrow or Monday we will finish the fill in the blank section before moving on to some textbook work on it. 

In science we presented our forces of flight posters.  Each group did an amazing job.  We also had the pilot guest speaker.  The students were very attentive and asked great questions about his journey.

We hope everyone has toontastic Thursday! 

April 30th Spirit Day

April 30th will be "students dress like a teacher, teachers dress like a student day."  Students dress like any teacher, EA, admin, lunch supervisors, caretakers, or any adult in the building.  

Have fun with it! 

Teachers, if you don't want to dress like a student, please dress like another staff member 🙂 

Wednesday, April 12th

 Reminders

1. Guest Speaker - RCAF Pilot tomorrow! 

Today was a great day of reading then an excellent kickball match! The score going into tomorrow is 36 (shack) to 38 (santos)!!

We did patterns with shapes today for a change.

We worked on reading our own news articles from Kids Time and worked to identify the 5 Ws 1 H, headline, dateline, byline. 

In science we finished our forces of flight posters and will be presenting them tomorrow.

The dietician was a great experience and I am sure our critical thinkers will be questioning what you purchase for groceries from now on haha.  They were great during it.

We ended our day with mindfulness and recess. 

We hope everyone has a wacky Wednesday! 

Tuesday, April 13th

Reminders

1.  Wednesday - Dietician 1-2pm 

2. Thursday - RCAF Pilot Presentation  - 1:15 - 2:15pm

3. Athens chart and questions due tomorrow 

Today we read and caught up as a class chat first thing. 

After gym they continued solving patterns at different stations.

In LA we explored a news report and learned almost all the elements in them. 

In science we explored the 4 forces of flight in groups, on a poster paper researching from some websites.

In social studies we continued our exploration of Ancient Athens.  For homework the students need to complete the chart and the assigned questions. 

We hope everyone has terrific Tuesday. 

Monday, April 12th

Reminders

1.  Wednesday - Dietician 1-2pm 

2. Thursday - RCAF Pilot Presentation  - 1:15 - 2:15pm

Today we read and then we continued our kickball match, my team is up 28 to 26. 

In math we started trying input output machines for patterns.  These involve 2 steps and 2 operations. 

In LA we finally started a new unit!  Newspaper writing.  We will be learning all the ins and outs of them before we start writing our own.

In science we worked on what questions our class will ask the guest speaker on Thursday. 

In social we had to do a challenge to fill in the blanks! It involved 2 different textbooks, laptops and their notes.  We will be continuing this tomorrow and taking it up Wednesday. 

We hope everyone has a miscellaneous Monday! 

Friday, April 9th

Reminders

1. If you are one of the students that didn't make the story deadline today, PLEASE do it this weekend.  If not, parents will be notified each day we don't have it. 

2. Next week we have a dietician guest speaker and an Air Force Pilot guest speaker 

Today we did our basic quiz to start the day.  After that students continued to work on their pattern handouts. 

They had gym with Mr. Sadowsky, then snack.

We had 1 hour to do the final push for stories, and most students made the deadline.

Then we had our appreciation circle before we did a giant class decorating.  Lately the students have handed into me a lot of drawings to hang up, so we did that.

For the last hour we started some science notes, then finished our epic kickball match.

We hope everyone has a Footloose Friday! 

Thursday, April 8th

 Reminders

1. STORIES ARE DUE TOMORROW! 

2. Study for your basic fact quiz by practicing on Mathletics 

Today we kicked off with our weekly visit to the library before heading outside for some classic kickball.  The score was 9-4 for my team going into today's match. And by the end, my team was losing 13-14.  Very excited to keep the rivalry going. 

In math we practiced for our quiz tomorrow by reviewing multiplying and dividing decimals. 

Then we had about an hour and 15mins to work on our stories.

After recess we continued to learn more about ancient Athens class structure and how their society functioned. 

After lunch and mindfulness and recess we had another hour to finish to keep the story train going! 

We hope everyone has a thoughtful Thursday!

PE OUTSIDE FOR REST OF YEAR

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. If you have parent concerns, you can let them know 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. "

We have gym at 8:30am, so make sure to have a warm jacket and a hoodie and/or mitts and a toque. 

Wednesday, April 7th

 Reminders

1. Final copy of stories due this Friday! 

We read to start the day, as per usual.  Then the students had Olympics with Mr. Sadowsky. We worked on patterns that had decimals, and used all 4 operations.  Some were even 2 steps.

In LA we are doing the writing process.  We are in the editing and revising stage with our stories.  

In the afternoon we did mindfulness outside followed by recess.  We also did a lot of ancient Athens today! 

We covered the entire class structure of it and will be answering questions tomorrow in it.

We hope everyone has a whimsical Wednesday! 

Volunteer Parent Patroller info

 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!

Tuesday, April 6th

Reminders

1.  IPP parents please get them into me this week

2. FINAL COPIES DUE THIS FRIDAY for stories!  We are starting news reports next week.

Today was a welcomed experience to see all your lovely children return, I missed them!

We did patterns in math to start, just increasing and decreasing.  In gym we are doing a kick ball unit and full court olympics.

We hope everyone has a tubular Tuesday! 

We did our appreciation circle and today, had 2 hours to work on our stories.