Friday Jan 28, 2022

Happy Friday Jan 28, 2022

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

Social Cities are now almost a week late. Parent calls have been made. Please ensure work is being completed on time.

Attention all patrollers,

On Wednesday February 2^nd you will be receiving patroller training in the gym from 8:30-9:30am.

An announcement will be made when the patrollers need to come for training. 

We will have our schedule sent out shortly after the training is complete. 

Patrollers will only be patrolling in the mornings for now. Hopefully, we can have some parent volunteers join us so we can do pm patrolling.

Thanks, 

Your patrol supervisors,

Mr. Lancee and Mr. Shackelton

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with a desk clean and some time to study before our pillars of care assembly.

Thanks to all the winners and great presenters in our presentation today.

After our assembly we did our weekly spelling test. They have been sent home to be signed!

Before we went off to gym we went through our kindness box today. Our kindness box is a new thing we have started in room 16. Each week the students can write a note of kindness and submit it to the box. We then read them as a class every Friday!

After gym we had snack and took some time to read the end of Touching Spirit Bear.

We finished our day by cleaning the room and having an appreciation circle to review our class goals and the wisdom we gained from the week.

Thursday Jan 27, 2021

 Happy Thursday Jan 27, 2022

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

Basic Facts Test Thursday

Spelling Test Friday. 

Social Cities are now almost a week late. Parent calls have been made. Please ensure work is being completed on time.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some quiet DEAR time before diving into our triweekly basic facts test.

After snack and recess we had continued our exploration of the moon phases. Below is a cool website if you would like to learn more!

Moon Website

After science we went to gym for fitness and an intense game of dodgeball.

We finished our morning with a chunk of time on laptops. Students accessed the website above, finished spelling sentences and did some mathletics assignments.

We finished our day with a guest presenter (Ms Austin our AP) who read a chapter of Touching Spirit Bear to the students. 

Have a great evening everyone!

Mr Lancee

Spelling words: Week 9: These are words from our novel study.

1. unusually

2. whispered

3. flickered

4. sleepiness

5. shuddered

8. murmured

9. handkerchief

10. impatiently

11. frightened

12. gossiped

13. stifled

14. exasperated

15. business

Monday Jan 24, 2022

Happy Monday Jan 24, 2022

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

Basic Facts Test Thursday

Spelling Test Friday. 

Social Cities are now almost a week late. Parent calls have been made. Please ensure work is being completed on time.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some quiet DEAR time before diving into measuring angles. 

Students used protractors to measure the different angles and classify them.

After snack and recess we had a chance to read another two chapters of our novel study. We will finish the book hopefully by Wednesday.

After reading we did skipping and fitness in gym.

We finished our morning with a review of rotation and revolution concepts in space. Students filled in a concept map that had several questions about the concepts we covered. We finished this in the afternoon.

The last chunk of our day we had an appreciation circle and I asked the students three questions.

1. What would you like to learn about this week?

2. Who/What do you appreciate?

3. What is our goal as a class?

Our goal for this week is to try and print neater. (Student chosen)

Have a great evening everyone!

Mr Lancee

Spelling words: Week 9: These are words from our novel study.

1. unusually

2. whispered

3. flickered

4. sleepiness

5. shuddered

8. murmured

9. handkerchief

10. impatiently

11. frightened

12. gossiped

13. stifled

14. exasperated

15. business

Friday Jan 21 2021

 Happy Friday Jan 21 2021!

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

Basic facts test was today. Please sign and return Monday.

Spelling Test today. Please sign and return Monday.

Basic Facts test next Friday (Yes we are doing another one!)

Social Cities and Write ups Due TODAY!!! I had several students tell me they are done and left it at home or nearly done. I want these handed in tomorrow so I do not have to make phone calls to parents.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with 25 mins to read or study before our spelling test. This was immediately followed with writing our 16 questions spelling test.

After a short break the class wrote their 15 question basic facts test as well.

Today during snack we watched some anime for anime Friday.

We did an indigenous lesson today to learn about the wisdom of the buffalo. After we finished the students answered reflection question on buffalo cut outs which we will add to a mural in our classroom. 

Next we had a short block to read another chapter of our novel study before having an appreciation circle and heading off to gym for a game of dodgeball. 

Hope everyone has an awesome weekend and can get outside!

Mr Lancee 

Wednesday January 19, 2021

Happy Wednesday January 19, 2021!

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

Spelling Test Friday

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

3 Math tests sent home last week+ 1 more this week: Measurement 1, Computation from Nov., Computation from dec. Measurement final test.

Social Cities and Write ups Due TODAY!!! I had several students tell me they are done and left it at home or nearly done. I want these handed in tomorrow so I do not have to make phone calls to parents.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with a survey on google classroom to measure the students feelings on zones of regulation, sit spots and daily mindfulness. Anyone who has missed this survey can still access it through google classroom. 

We then used the next part of our morning to finish reading chapter 18 in Touching Spirit Bear. Today I let the students use technology to answer the different questions after our reading.

After an indoor recess and snack we continued pt 2 of our lesson on triangles and angles. Yesterday we learned about the different ways to classify triangles by angles and sides. 

Angles: acute, obtuse and right.

Side lengths: Scalene, isosceles and equilateral.

We learned how to classify triangles by names such as acute equilateral and obtuse scalene!

After math we had a presentation from WE Events about how we can support people in our community through Equity.

Room 16 had mission impossible today with Ms Sterne before lunch and indoor recess.

In the afternoon we had science and explored the concepts of rotation, orbit and revolution. This will help us to understand our day night cycle and the seasons in the year.

Math Spelling Words

Triangle

Isosceles 

Obtuse

Right 

Degrees

Quadrilateral

Protractor

Polygon

Rectangle

Interior

Scalene

Equilateral 

Acute 

Measure 

Opposite

Vertex

A message from 2022 Family Guide

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We hope this annual resource - divided into seasons to help families all year long - will give them some great activity ideas or inspire them to get out and explore this beautiful region we call home. We have tons of local information to help families discover the many, many resources, activities and supports that are still available right here in our backyard! 

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Monday January 17, 2021

Happy Monday January 17, 2021!

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

Spelling Test Friday

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

3 Math tests sent home last week+ 1 more this week: Measurement 1, Computation from Nov., Computation from dec. Measurement final test.

Social Cities and Write ups Due Wednesday!!!

Rapid antigen Covid test kits were sent home today with all students.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning some time to work on our novel study. We read one chapter and answered 5 follow up questions.

After our novel study we started marking our measurement test from Friday. These were sent home today to be signed.

The students then had music with Mr Wiens and Gym doing gymnastics. 

For the last hour of the morning I had the students work in pairs or threes to design posters that showed their understanding of emiting vs reflecting light objects in our class, atmosphere and space. 

In the afternoon we reviewed the election process for local governments and had 30 mins to work on social cities. These are due Wednesday!!!

Hope everyone has a great day.

Triangle

Isosceles 

Obtuse

Right 

Degrees

Quadrilateral

Protractor

Polygon

Rectangle

Interior

Scalene

Equilateral 

Acute 

Measure 

Opposite

Vertex

Friday January 14, 2021!

 Happy Friday January 14, 2021!

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

3 Math tests sent home this week: Measurement 1, Computation from Nov., Computation from dec.

Social Cities and Write ups Due Wednesday Next week.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some time to study before our two tests. We then immediately wrote the spelling test followed by our area, perimeter, and volume test. 

I decided to leave the marking to Monday so we read two chapters of touching spirit bear instead. 

We finished our morning off with an appreciation circle before music and gym. 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mr Lancee

Thursday Jan 13, 2021

Happy Thursday Jan 13, 2021!

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

January 14 - Spelling test (words found below)

January 14 - Measurement Test 

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

3 Math tests sent home this week: Measurement 1, Computation from Nov., Computation from dec.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some DEAR time to read our library books from the previous day.

The next chunk of our morning was spent doing a big review of measurement concepts for our test tomorrow. We covered unit conversions, area and perimeter of triangles, rectangles and L shapes, volume of cubes and finding the LWH of a cube that we know the volume of. 

We then went outside for recess and time on the compound (Thank goodness for the warmer weather!)

In LA today we did a small group activity to discuss whether the main character of our novel study handled his banishment. Students discussed this serious topic and shared their answers with the class. The last chunk was spent reading another chapter of Touching Spirit Bear.

After LA we had science and continued the daytime amount of sun and observations we can make about the sky. We are graphing the amount of daylight as we go and noticing which planets can be seen each day! We also worked in small groups to create posters showing different things that emit or reflect light in our solar system, atmosphere and classroom.

The students had gym with Ms Sterne today and began gymnastics. The rule is...no neck stuff. Which means, no handstands, flips or holds that would otherwise cause damage to the neck.

We finished our day with some mindfulness meditation before working on our local government cities. 

Hope everyone has a Terrific Thursday evening!

Mr Lancee

Spelling Words- Sky Science:

Solar System

Orbit

Rotation

Revolution

Tilted

Axis

Lunar Cycle

Reflect

Emit

Waxing

Waning

Crescent

Gibbous

Light year

Universe

Monday January 10, 2021

Happy New Year!!! 

Welcome back to room 16 and a new year.  Hope you all had a wonderful extended winter break! 

Covid safety: Please remind students about the importance of wearing masks and using hand sanitizer. If you are sick, stay home, do a rapid test and email me if you need extra work.

Pillar of the month: Wisdom

Reminders:

January 14 - Spelling test (words found below)

January 14 - Measurement Test 

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

3 Math tests sent home today: Measurement 1, Computation from Nov., Computation from dec.

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with a welcome back conversation and a reminder of the school, classroom and covid safety rules.

We did a desk change and placed ourselves into rows to keep safe and follow covid protocol.

After setting up our room we had some time to reflect on our winter breaks. Students had 30 minutes to write all about what they did on their break, the food they ate, presents they got and more. 

We then went outside for recess and time on the field (Thank goodness for the warmer weather!)

The next chunk of our morning was spent doing review for our test on Friday. We are continuing our exploration of measurement this week focusing on area, perimeter and volume of 2D and 3D shapes. I sent the test from before the break home today. Correcting the work is a great way to see where you went wrong and improve for next time.

After math we had science and began following the daytime amount of sun and observations we can make about the sky. We are graphing the amount of daylight as we go and noticing which planets can be seen each day!

The students had gym with Ms Sterne today and began gymnastics. The rule is...no neck stuff. Which means, no handstands, flips or holds that would otherwise cause damage to the neck.

We finished our day with some mindfulness meditation before working on our local government cities. 

Hope everyone has a marvellous Monday evening!

Mr Lancee

Spelling Words- Sky Science:

Solar System

Orbit

Rotation

Revolution

Tilted

Axis

Lunar Cycle

Reflect

Emit

Waxing

Waning

Crescent

Gibbous

Light year

Universe