Wednesday Dec. 15, 2021

 Happy Wednesday Dec. 15, 2021

Reminders:

1. December Spirit Days: Wednesday Pyjama Day, Thursday Plaid Day, Friday Holiday gear day.

2. Patrollers will be happening this year! If you're interested we will be handing out sign up forms next week. We are also looking for some amazing parents that would be willing to support the patrollers by becoming patrol supervisors! Email me at malancee@cbe.ab.ca if you are interested.

3. No spelling this week!

4. Last day of class Dec. 17

5. Secret Santa gifts due tomorrow please!

6. Area perimeter volume quiz tomorrow!

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some DEAR and time to work on social cities. 

After our morning catch up we did a large math review for the test tomorrow. 

The test will be on:

- area and perimeter of triangles, rectangles, and L shapes.

- conversions from mm to cm, cm to mm, km to m, m to km.

-Volume of rectangular prisms.

After math we had a short block to read one chapter of Touching spirit bear and answer questions.

The students practiced caroling in music, and basketball in gym before starting a science lesson. 

Today in science we learned about different constellations and how they are viewed by different cultures. Students got together in groups of 5 and 6 to read through a text about different constellations then drew and explained what the constellations were about. 

In the afternoon we had some time to play board games during our indoor recess before we worked on social cities for 30 minutes. 

The last chunk of our day was spent doing a virtual assembly and singing along with the school to different Christmas songs! It was a fun way to end the day and spread some holiday cheer. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday evening!

A message from...

Beddington Heights Parent Council  

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

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!

Monday Dec. 13, 2021

Happy Monday Dec 13, 2021

Reminders:

1. December Spirit Days: Wednesday Pyjama Day, Thursday Plaid Day, Friday Holiday gear day.
2. Mayor's food bank --- BRING IN ANY CANNED OR DRIED GOODS for the less fortunate.
3. Loonies for Lunch - same as above but bring in a loonie to help homeless people for their lunches

4. Patrollers will be happening this year! If you're interested we will be handing out sign up forms next week. We are also looking for some amazing parents that would be willing to support the patrollers by becoming patrol supervisors! Email me at malancee@cbe.ab.ca if you are interested.

5. No spelling next week!

6. Last day of class Dec. 17

7. Secret Santa gifts due Tuesday Dec 14 please!

8. Retest for the science quiz will be on Wednesday!

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some DEAR before diving into volume in math.

To find the volume of a shape you simply multiply the length, width and height!

I would like to give a check in quiz to the students on Thursday to assess their level of understanding with geometry so far.

It will be a mix of area, perimeter and volume. 

After math we marked our asteroids and comets reading comprehension questions as a class. This carried us to gym and we played some basketball with teams rotating on and off.

For social today we learned about local government structure and how governments give people a voice. The last 30 minutes was spent working on our social cities. 

In the afternoon I started the students on a scavenger hunt using a website and some pre-created questions. We will continue this tomorrow!

Hope everyone has a wonderful evening. 

Mr Lancee

A message from...

Beddington Heights Parent Council  

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

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!

Friday December 10, 2021

Happy Friday December 10, 2021

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!  

Reminders:

1. December Spirit Day Friday December 17th -Holiday themed
2. Mayor's food bank --- BRING IN ANY CANNED OR DRIED GOODS for the less fortunate.
3. Loonies for Lunch - same as above but bring in a loonie to help homeless people for their lunches

4. Patrollers will be happening this year! If you're interested we will be handing out sign up forms next week. We are also looking for some amazing parents that would be willing to support the patrollers by becoming patrol supervisors! Email me at malancee@cbe.ab.ca if you are interested.

5. No spelling next week!

6. Last day of class Dec. 17

7. Secret Santa gifts due Tuesday Dec 14 please!

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some time to study for the two tests today. 

We then had our spelling test and marked it together. 

Immediately after we had our science test. Students that failed the test have the option to rewrite next week to pull up their mark.

We then had some time to eat snack and watch a movie while creating some collaborative holiday symbols for our holiday tree. 

We finished our day with an appreciation circle and some dodgeball in the gym. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

A message from...

Beddington Heights Parent Council  

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

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!

Wednesday December 8, 2021

 Happy Wednesday December 8, 2021!

As a class we decided we are going to start doing fun Fridays. This means we will choose a theme for every Friday (such as anime, specific colour, hats) that we will vote on each week. We are doing this as a way to further strengthen our class community and have a laugh each Friday.

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!  

This year we will be doing Secret Santa for those that would like to participate. The max is $5 for spending. We will exchange names when I get all the forms back. I sent home the form today. It can also be found below. Apologies for the error on the sheet I sent home. It says 2018. I had it fixed...but I printed the old document.

Reminders:

1.  Poetry projects were due Tuesday Nov 16
2. Trees and forests project due MONDAY Dec 6. I am giving students the weekend to work on them. We have started to present the projects in class.
3. December Spirit Day Friday December 17th -Holiday themed
4. Science test this coming Friday December 10 Review can be found below
5. Mayor's food bank --- BRING IN ANY CANNED OR DRIED GOODS for the less fortunate.
6. Basic Facts test tomorrow!

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

8. Patrollers will be happening this year! If you're interested we will be handing out sign up forms next week. We are also looking for some amazing parents that would be willing to support the patrollers by becoming patrol supervisors! Email me at malancee@cbe.ab.ca if you are interested.
   

9. spelling Test Friday

Spelling week 7 

1. Novel study 
2. Chapter 
3. Character 
4. Setting 
5. Fiction 
6. Non-Fiction 
7. Narrator 
8. Paragraph 
9. Genre 
10. Author 
11. Publisher 
12. Vocabulary 
13. Symbolism 
14. Dialogue 
15. Conflict 

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some DEAR time before diving into math. In math we explored the area and perimeter of triangles, rectangles, squares and L shapes. 

After math, snack, and recess we library. Only one book is allowed to be checked out over the holiday break. Today we did another round of reading a non fiction text and answering questions. Students came up with questions before, during and after the reading and then answered reading comprehension questions based off blooms taxonomy. 

After this big reading comprehension task the students went off to gym to play basketball with our gym specialist.

In the afternoon we had mindfulness and recess followed by reading a chapter of our novel study. 

We finished up the day by doing some Kahoots to prep for our science test on Friday!

Trees and Forest Science Test Review

Date: Test will be this Friday

Format: 20 MC questions

Topics

-producers

-consumers

-decomposers

-herbivores, omnivores, carnivores

-ecosystem

-plants vs trees

-Forestry

-Logging practices

-Forest Recreation

-Food chains vs food webs

-layers of the forest

-leaf type

-leaf shape

-leaf margin

-layers of a tree (outer bark to heartwood)

-coniferous vs deciduous trees

-xylem vs phloem

-soil erosion

-nutrient cycle

-photosynthesis

-abiotic vs biotic factors

A message from...

Beddington Heights Parent Council  

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

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!

Monday December 6, 2021

 Happy Monday December 6, 2021!

As a class we decided we are going to start doing fun Fridays. This means we will choose a theme for every Friday (such as anime, specific colour, hats) that we will vote on each week. We are doing this as a way to further strengthen our class community and have a laugh each Friday.

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!  

This year we will be doing Secret Santa for those that would like to participate. The max is $5 for spending. We will exchange names when I get all the forms back. I sent home the form today. It can also be found below. Apologies for the error on the sheet I sent home. It says 2018. I had it fixed...but I printed the old document.

Reminders:

1.  Poetry projects were due Tuesday Nov 16
2. Trees and forests project due MONDAY Dec 6. I am giving students the weekend to work on them. We have started to present the projects in class.
3. December Spirit Day Friday December 17th -Holiday themed
4. Science test this coming Friday December 10 Review can be found beliow
5. Mayor's food bank --- BRING IN ANY CANNED OR DRIED GOODS for the less fortunate.
6. Basic Facts test Thursday!

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

8. Patrollers will be happening this year! If you're interested we will be handing out sign up forms next week. We are also looking for some amazing parents that would be willing to support the patrollers by becoming patrol supervisors! Email me at malancee@cbe.ab.ca if you are interested.
   

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some DEAR before continuing our exploration of finding the perimeter and area of L shapes. We will continue this work tomorrow by exploring how to find triangle areas.

After math we read another two chapters of Touching Spirit Bear and answered questions from chapter 6-8. Students need a bit more time for the questions so we will finish them tomorrow.

We also had gym and music which were followed by some more time on our novel study. 

In gym we are learning basketball, and in music we are practicing a Christmas carol to sing in front of the school virtually.

The end of our day was spent going over our science review for the upcoming test Friday. We also had presentations of our science projects! I want to see the students level of understandings and give the students a chance to share what they have learned from our trees and forests unit. 

A message from...

Beddington Heights Parent Council  

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

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!

Friday December 3, 2021

 Happy Friday December 3, 2021!

As a class we decided we are going to start doing fun Fridays. This means we will choose a theme for every Friday (such as anime, specific colour, hats) that we will vote on each week. We are doing this as a way to further strengthen our class community and have a laugh each Friday.

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!  

Reminders:

1.  Poetry projects were due Tuesday Nov 16
2. Trees and forests project due MONDAY Dec 6. I am giving students the weekend to work on them.
3. December Spirit Day Friday December 17th -Holiday themed
4. Science test next Thursday Dec. 9 I will give out a review tomorrow.
5. Mayor's food bank --- BRING IN ANY CANNED OR DRIED GOODS for the less fortunate.

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

7. Patrollers will be happening this year! If you're interested we will be handing out sign up forms next week. We are also looking for some amazing parents that would be willing to support the patrollers by becoming patrol supervisors! Email me at malancee@cbe.ab.ca if you are interested.
   

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with DEAR and a bit of time to study for our spelling test.

We then completed our spelling test and marked it as a class.

After spelling we had our anime themed snack time and watched some best moments from the students favourite anime shows. 

The next hour was spent finishing science projects and cleaning up our room. We also had notes of care and an appreciation circle before Mr Wiens took the students off to music.

We finished the day off with a competitive game of dodgeball. 

A message from...

Beddington Heights Parent Council  

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

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!