Tuesday, November 30th

 Reminders

1.  Spelling Test #6 Friday! 

2. Last day of in class time for science tomorrow --- Due Monday Dec 6th! 

3. Mayor's food bank --- BRING IN ANY CANNED OR DRIED GOODS for the less fortunate.

4. Loonies for Lunch - same as above but bring in a loonie to help homeless people for their lunches

Today we worked on science until music.  In LA we focused on chapter 3 of HP1.  We have some questions to answer tomorrow about it before moving to chapter 4. 

In math we moved onto area of squares, rectangles, and L - shapes.   We will be continuing with this for the rest of the week.

In the afternoon we did our coding / students had more time to get their science projects finished.

We hope everyone has a terrific Tuesday! 

Monday, November 29th

Reminders

1. Crazy Hair Day TOMORROW!

2.  Spelling Test #6 Friday! 

3. Last day of in class time for science tomorrow --- Due Monday Dec 6th! 

Today we worked on our science for 1.5hrs.  Then we did a big clean in the class.

We continued with perimeter using conversion and missing sides of polygons.

Then we went through our big math spelling list, and they students have to use each one in a sentence properly. 

After that we did our HP novel study and had gym.  We are doing floor hockey in gym. 

In the afternoon we had some of the Calgary Stampeders working with Telus to do an anti-bullying presentation for the grade 6s.  It was really well done. 

Then we went back to the novel study to end the day.

We hope everyone has a musical Monday! 

Spelling Test #6 - Measurement words

 

December Spirit Day

December Spirit Day is the last day of school this term, Friday Dec 17th, and it will be Festive Holiday themed.  That could mean, ugly holiday sweaters, dress as Santa or his elves or his reindeer or a snowmen/women, or even a lit-up holiday tree! Basically, anything to get into that holiday cheer!  

November Spirit Day - Tuesday the 30th - Crazy hair Day

 November Spirit is this Tuesday, Nov 30th, and it is crazy hair day! Students and staff will wear their craziest hair styles they can whip up this Tuesday! 

Thursday, November 25th

  Reminders

1. Powerschool bookings for Parent Teacher Interviews

2. Parent teacher interviews Next Thurs and Fri

3. No school Friday

4. SCIENCE PROJECT INFO: 

Last in class working day Tuesday, Nov 30th.  

Project due Monday Dec 6th 

Today we did our science project and then fitness week in gym.   We continued the day with mathletics.  In LA we did our reading assessment that we do every 3 weeks, when students finished they could work on their science.  

In the afternoon we had lunch, recess, mindfulness, then we had our weekly health visit from SoupeStars program.  Today's focus was how to shop in grocery stores.  I even learned some tips! 

We hope everyone has a Turkey Thursday, and an excellent weekend. 

Wednesday, November 24th

 Reminders

1. Powerschool bookings for Parent Teacher Interviews

2. Parent teacher interviews Next Thurs and Fri

3. LA and Math tests sent home to be signed 

4. Basic facts and spelling quizzes sent home to be signed

5. No school Friday

Today was quite the day! We worked science to start the day, and had music.  We worked on social cities then continued HP1 adventure. 

In math we started perimeter in measurement, by exploring polygons with missing sides.

In the afternoon we worked on science after the assembly.  The class was great during the assembly. 

We hope everyone has a chicken wing Wednesday! 

Tuesday, November 23rd

Reminders

1. Powerschool bookings for Parent Teacher Interviews

2. Parent teacher interviews Next Thurs and Fri

3. LA and Math tests sent home to be signed 

4. Basic facts and spelling quizzes sent home to be signed

5. No school Friday

6. Pillars of Care Assembly Wednesday Afternoon, winners have been notified

Today we worked on our science project until 930am.  Then we continued our HP1 novel study until recess and snack. 

Then we continued to learn about to convert units of measurement before gym.

In the afternoon we had our robo coding period.

We hope everyone has a terrific Tuesday! 

Trees and Forests final Project

 

Monday, November 22nd

    Reminders

1. Powerschool bookings for Parent Teacher Interviews

2. Parent teacher interviews Next Thurs and Fri

3. LA and Math tests sent home to be signed 

4. Basic facts and spelling quizzes sent home to be signed

5. No school Friday

6. Pillars of Care Assembly Wednesday Afternoon, winners have been notified

Today we read and worked on our cities.  In math we started our new unit, measurement.  We will be working on unit conversion this week before starting perimeter + area +volume.  In gym we started a new unit, fitness.  Students will be doing timed exercises and rotating through a variety of each this week.

In science we continued with our diorama project.  We also started our novel study on Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone! 

We still don't have a due for the science project, we will see how far the students get this week and make one. 

We hope everyone has a muggle Monday! 

Friday, November 19th

   Reminders

1. Powerschool bookings for Parent Teacher Interviews start tomorrow. 

2. Parent teacher interviews Next Thurs and Fri

3. LA and Math tests sent home to be signed 

4. Basic facts and spelling quizzes sent home to be signed

Today we did our mathletics school challenge and tried to do as many correct quizzes as we could in an hour.

After that we did our spelling quiz, basic fact quiz and peer assessed both of them.

We then had snack and worked on our social cities.

After that we had time to work on our big science project that I will get up for you guys to see at some point today or this weekend.

We hope everyone has a fabulous Friday! 

Mayor's Food Drive + Loonies for Lunches

With the holiday season soon approaching it's important to care for others and give back to those who are less fortunate than us.  This holiday season, Beddington Heights School will be a part of 2 programs that the city of Calgary runs for those less fortunate.  

The first program is Loonies for Lunches.  Loonies for Lunches would bring students together to collect loonies to donate to the food bank. Each school and/or classroom would create a donation box to collect the loonies and perhaps have some healthy competition to see which class could raise the most. The loonies would then be used by the Food Bank to purchase food for our Weekends and More program that makes sure kids get the nutritious food they need on the weekends to stay healthy and learning.  

The Mayor's Food Drive is where we collect non-perishable items, i.e. can goods, sealed boxed items, for Calgary's Food Bank.  Both programs start this Monday to Dec 14th. 

For more information, please visit https://www.calgaryfoodbank.com/wam/, thank you for the support on this!

Thursday, November 18th

  Reminders

1. Spelling Test Friday - 18 word list! It was posted last week

2. Basic Fact quiz Friday

3. Powerschool bookings for Parent Teacher Interviews start tomorrow. 

4. Parent teacher interviews Next Thurs and Fri

5. LA and Math tests sent home to be signed 

Today we started off with reading and went to the library.  We then introduced the big bad diorama science project.  I will post the project and rubric tomorrow. 

We had music and started our local government unit by talking about what services a city has to pay for.

We then worked on long division to get ready for the quiz tomorrow. 

In the afternoon we learned about the benefits of exercising 60mins a day in our SoupeStars program!  

We hope everyone has a thunderous Thursday! 

PS: check out the lunar eclipse tonight! 98% partial cover and the biggest lunar eclipse in over 600 years! 

Wednesday, November 17th

 Reminders

1. Get your poems done! I am very disappointed some students don't know how to do work at home.  You are in grade 6 now and it will only get harder next year!  --- 4 students not done yet. 

2. Spelling Test Friday - 18 word list! It was posted last week

3. Basic Fact quiz Friday

4. Powerschool bookings for Parent Teacher Interviews start tomorrow. 

5. Parent teacher interviews Next Thurs and Fri

6. LA and Math tests sent home to be signed 

Today we read to start the day and worked on our spelling sentences and examples.

Then we did a really big science lesson about human interactions and conservation, tourism,  and forestry.  Then we talked about how to get an indigenous perspective into those as well as sustainability. 

Then we did LA peer assessment and 3 math peer assessments before ending our day with mathletics. 

We hope everyone a wacky Wednesday! 

November Pillars of Care Winners!

Congrats to the November Winners for the Pillars of Care Assembly this month! 

Care for Others: SImon - He has been sharing his personal technology with other students in the class, helping to get laptop carts, helping others to clean tech, and helping others put away their items properly.  Thank you for all the extra help Simon. 

Care for Learning: Massa - She has been crushing all of her assessments, assignments, and in class activities to the best of her abilities.  She wrote excellent poems in her project and even wrote an outstanding ballad. 

Care for Place: Adam - Without being asked Adam cleans up his spot and his group’s spot.  He always volunteers to clean laptops, to go return them, and always makes sure spare laptops are charging. Keep up the great work.

Care for Self: Hafsa - She missed some time with us this month, but she did not miss any assignments, assessments, and important class tasks.  Thank you for caring for self by resting up and caring for yourself by ensuring you didn’t miss any work! 

Pillar of the Month: Ayesha - Coming to a new school isn’t easy, and she has shown great courage this year already.  Ayesha is learning how to make new friends, adjust to a new school and it’s expectations, and to her crazy teacher’s expectations too.  Keep up being courageous Ayesha, it is paying off!

Tuesday, November 16th

 Reminders

1. Get your poems done! I am very disappointed some students don't know how to do work at home.  You are in grade 6 now and it will only get harder next year! 

2. Spelling Test Friday - 18 word list! It was posted last week

Today we read, worked on spelling and then did volleyball.

We then continued learning about human interactions with the forest, and hoping to get to the end of unit task Thursday for trees and forests.

In social we continued to design our cities.

In math we did another graphing assessment, we will be marking all 3 tomorrow as a group.

We also had our end of unit poetry quiz today.  We will be marking that tomorrow as a class.

Then we ended the day with the robo coding program I signed the school up for. 

We hope everyone has a toothy Tuesday!

Spelling Test #5

 

Make sure: *Departments of government* not "govern"

Wednesday, November 10th

   Reminders

1. NO SCHOOL THURS AND FRI

2. Poetry / lit term quiz Tuesday  Nov 16th  ... I posted a review today. 

3. Poetry Project due Monday Nov 15th ------ new!

4. Nov book orders due Nov 24th 

5. Please register for parent teacher interviews. 

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Today we had an hour to work on our poems, then we went to the library.  After the library we had recess and snack and read until the assembly started.  We had an awesome wreath for it and the students were great during the assembly. 

After that we did a couple graphing worksheets and had volleyball with Mrs. Sterne.

In the afternoon we worked on completely our IRIS math, LA, and health goals for the year.  We will be sharing these at parent teacher interviews.   Then students had more time to work on their poetry project.

We hope everyone has a wisdom Wednesday. 

Poetry Quiz Review

 

Class Wreath

We did our hands with a message written to the fallen soldier and veterans still alive.  The hands are to symbolize we are connected together and able to grow because of their sacrifice.   For the poppies, we tried our hands at 3D poppies, and I think they turned out quite well! 

Lest we forget 

 

Tuesday, November 9th

  Reminders

1. Pictures due Nov 8th. --- today online

2. Poetry / lit term quiz Tuesday  Nov 16th  ... I will post a review today. 

3. Poetry Project due Monday Nov 15th ------ new!

4. Nov book orders due Nov 24th 

5. Remembrance Day assembly tomorrow at 10am

6. Please register for parent teacher interviews. 

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Today we finished our wreath for the first hour, it looks amazing!  Then we continued to work on our serving and hitting before scrimmaging in volleyball. 

After volleyball, we had an hour to work on our poems.  The students asked if they could work through their snack and recess break, and  of course I said yes. 

After that we worked on our graphing skills.  We graphed the data of our Walk for Wenjack.  We did line graphs, bar graphs, triple line graphs, triple bar graphs, and even a pie chart.   Everything will be hung up tomorrow. 

In the afternoon we our Tuesday coding,  and students who felt they needed this time for their poetry project worked on that.

We hope everyone has a Twisted Tuesday! 

Get your Christmas on...

 Get Your Christmas On....

Beddington Heights Elementary Parent Council is happy to announce their first fundraiser of the year, Growing Smiles. They are selling beautiful poinsettias, wreaths, boughs, outdoor greenery and indoor planter.

The Campaign will run from November 5th -19th, 2021.

Pick up will be December 3rd. Details to follow

Thank you for your interest and your continued support of our school 

 

https://beddingtonheightsschool.growingsmilesfundraising.com/home

Monday, November 8th

    Reminders

1. Pictures due Nov 8th. --- today online

2. Poetry / lit term quiz Tuesday  Nov 16th 

3. Poetry Project due Monday Nov 15th ------ new!

4. Nov book orders due Nov 24th 

Today in class we worked on our poetry project for an hour before music.  After music we had DEAR and gym.  In gym we worked on serving, hitting, and playing a game of volleyball.  

In math, we worked on our display board which is about graphing and the Chanie Wenjack walk. 

In the afternoon, after mindfulness, we worked on our wreath for the assembly this Wednesday.  We will be finishing it tomorrow. 

We hope everyone has a magical Monday! 

Poetry Project

 

Thursday, November 4th

   Reminders

1. Spelling Test #3 Friday ---- tomorrow!

2. Pictures due Nov 8th

3. Poetry / lit term quiz Nov 10th

4. Poetry Project due Monday Nov 15th ------ new!

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Hey all, I was away yesterday but the class was amazing! 

Today we started long division and will be doing this tomorrow as well.  In LA we worked on our poetry project and I taught some students who wanted to learn about a ballad, how to do one.

In science we learned about the nutrient cycle and the life cycle of tree.  

We then did our science spelling definitions and practiced for the quiz tomorrow. 

In the afternoon we had our soupestar health lesson.  This one was about stranger danger.

We hope everyone has a Thor's Hammer Thursday! 

Tuesday, Nov 2nd

  Reminders

1. Spelling Test #3 Friday 

2. Spelling test sent home to be signed

3. Pictures due Nov 8th

4. Poetry Project due Tuesday Nov 9th 

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Today we read, then did a health lesson about vaccinates and immunizations for tomorrow.  We then had music and had an hour to work on our poetry project. 

Then we did our basic fact quiz and marked it together.

We ended the day with our coding program. 

We hope everyone has a tremor Tuesday! 

Monday, November 1st

 Reminders

1. Basic Fact quiz tomorrow

2. Spelling Test #3 Friday 

3. Spelling test sent home to be signed

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Today we read to start the day then did our spelling test and peer assessment.  After that we got new words and had to look up their definitions.  

In LA we worked on our poetry project and had a lockdown.  Our class did great! 

After recess and snack.  After that had science and learned the difference between food chains and food webs.   Then we looked at some native to Alberta.  

We did our IRIS goal setting in the afternoon for math, LA, and health.  But the website was down to type them in.

We then ended the day with mathletics looking at statistics as we will be graphing our walks from the Channie Wenjack week and the other grade 6 classes too. 

We hope everyone has a meaty Monday! 

Spelling Test #3 ----Nov 5th

 

Spelling Test #3 is this Friday, Nov 5th