Friday April 29, 2022

Happy Friday April 29, 2022

Reminders: 

CORRECTION **** May 4 - SJAM visit (Coming to BHS) to choose options.

Mock LA PAT being written May 6

May 11 - Sun safety presentation

Charter of Rights and Freedoms story boards due Friday (next week)

Attention all parents and families!!!! We are looking for baby photos to aww and chuckle at our grade sixes for the end of the year farewell assembly. Please bring them in by June 1st!

Units this week:

Math:  Patterns

Social:  Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Flight and Aerodynamics

LA: News articles

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some DEAR before heading off to the gym for our first in the gym assembly. In the assembly today we watched an acknowledgement of the land, sung O Canada, handed out patroller of the month awards, and handed out pillars of care awards. Students loved seeing themselves in the monthly video!

After the assembly we had our spelling test and snack. I gave the students a chunk of time to finish writing their news articles. THESE ARE DUE MONDAY.

Social projects are due next FRIDAY. PLEASE SPEND SOME TIME WORKING ON THEM OVER THE WEEKEND.

We finished our day with an appreciation circle before playing Mr Shackelton's class in kickball outside.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Options

Attention parents and students, 

A packet was sent home today with details about options for next year. Please have a look through it and decide on your top 6 options for next year! 

Below is the message from SJAM!

 Hello future SJAMers!

 

Over the next two weeks, staff from Sir John A. Macdonald School will be traveling to our Elementary feeder schools to assist the Grade 6s with their option selections.

 

Please look over the attached document with your child and decide what options they would like to take in Grade 7.  Students will get four options, two per semester, or 3 if one of their choices is Band as it’s a full year option.  If your child does not want Band for sure, please do not make that selection!  It is a priority so any students that select Band will be placed in it. If you think your child would like Band but wants to explore, please choose Music.

Students must make four selections AND two alternates in the event that we can’t place them in their first four choices due to class size restrictions.  If these choices are not made, we will make them for you and students might not like where they are placed so it’s very important to make all the selections. Please have a conversation with your child as to which options they would like to take.

 

It is important that we have selections chosen to ensure that we have accurate representation of students’ desires and can staff accordingly.  If a class has a low request number the option may not be offered.

 

In the event that your child is out of area and has been accepted to SJAM for Grade 7, we are not traveling to schools out of our designated area but we will enable the feature so that they can log into their PowerSchool account and do it from home.

 

If your child is pre-registered to attend a different junior high next year, please do the option selection anyway.  If by chance your situation changed and your child ends up coming to SJAM, we want those requests to be there.

 

The Power School Portal will be open from May 3^rd to May 16^th.  You will be able to see the options in the Power School Portal and be able to change a request until May 16^th. 

 

 

Growing Smiles Fundraisers

 

Growing Smiles Spring Fundraiser

It's Spring! That time of year again where everything is new and beautiful and growing! Beddington Heights Elementary is happy to be Fundraising with Growing Smiles once again we will be selling beautiful hanging baskets, along with many varieties of potted plants. Our Campaign is starting Friday April 29th - Friday May 13th. Orders will arrive Thursday May 26th at Beddington Heights School  Pick up time to be determined closer to delivery date. Please click the link below and place your order. Feel free to share with your family and friends! Please place child's name, teacher's name (if you know it) and grade on order form to assist with sorting. You can make payments via credit cards or e-transfer to beddingtonpca.ca  Password :plants If you have any questions about the fundraiser, please send us an email at beddingtonpca@gmail.com https://beddingtonheightsschool.growingsmilesfundraising.com/home   [beddingtonheightsschool.growingsmilesfundraising.com/home]

Wednesday April 27 2022

 Happy Wednesday April 27 2022

Reminders: 

Basic Facts Quiz tomorrow

Spelling Test Friday- spelling sentences also due Friday

Friday Pillars of Care assembly

Friday Dress as your favourite character day

CORRECTION **** May 4 - SJAM visit (Coming to BHS) to choose options.

Mock LA PAT being written May 6

May 11 - Sun safety presentation

Attention all parents and families!!!! We are looking for baby photos to aww and chuckle at our grade sixes for the end of the year farewell assembly. Please bring them in by June 1st!

Units this week:

Math:  Patterns

Social:  Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Flight and Aerodynamics

LA: News articles

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with filling in our self reflections for our DL board and voting on the pillars of care winners. Congrats to our winners!

In math today we reviewed our basic facts before continuing our work with patterns. We have now learned how to identify how a pattern increasing or decreasing and now it is practice practice before starting input output machines next week.

After recess we had some time work on our new social project. We are creating storyboards with the programs storyboardthat.com or by drawing them by hand. These storyboards are being done solo. They MUST have a storyboard that shows a problem being experienced by someone and how their rights have either been infringed or supported by the charter of rights and freedoms. EVERY STORYBOARD MUST ALSO HAVE A SCRIPT EXPLAINING THE STORYBOARD.

In LA today we worked together to create a news article. I showed the students how they can use the facts sheet to create a news article with quotes, facts a creative headline and well developed rest of the article. 

We finished off the day by learning how the forces of flight help to keep a plane in flight. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday evening. 

Spelling words 

1.  airplane 
2.  flight 
3.  gravity 
4.  drag 
5.  lift 
6.  thrust 
7. air pressure 
8.  engine 
9. airfoil 
10. feathers 
11. adaptations * 
12. air resistance* 
13. aerodynamics* 
14. streamlining* 
15. atmosphere* 

Tuesday April 26, 2022

 Happy Tuesday April 26 2022

Reminders: 

Basic Facts Quiz this week

Spelling Test Friday- spelling sentences also due Friday

Friday Pillars of Care assembly

Friday Dress as your favourite character day

CORRECTION **** May 4 - SJAM visit (Coming to BHS) to choose options.

Mock LA PAT being written May 6

May 11 - Sun safety presentation

Attention all parents and families!!!! We are looking for baby photos to aww and chuckle at our grade sixes for the end of the year farewell assembly. Please bring them in by June 1st!

Units this week:

Math:  Patterns

Social:  Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Flight and Aerodynamics

LA: News articles

Spelling words 

1.  airplane 
2.  flight 
3.  gravity 
4.  drag 
5.  lift 
6.  thrust 
7. air pressure 
8.  engine 
9. airfoil 
10. feathers 
11. adaptations * 
12. air resistance* 
13. aerodynamics* 
14. streamlining* 
15. atmosphere* 

Monday April 25, 2022

Happy Monday April 25, 2022

Reminders: 

Basic Facts Quiz this week

Spelling Test Friday- spelling sentences also due Friday

Friday Pillars of Care assembly

Friday Dress as your favourite character day

May 5 - SJAM visit (Coming to BHS)

May 11 - Sun safety presentation

Attention all parents and families!!!! We are looking for baby photos to aww and chuckle at our grade sixes for the end of the year farewell assembly. Please bring them in by June 1st!

Units this week:

Math:  Patterns

Social:  Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Flight and Aerodynamics

LA: News articles

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some DEAR time before diving into story writing. I gave the students an hour and a half to write their April stories based off a picture. The picture was of several paintings based off first nations scenes. They planned, talked and got right to work writing.

After LA the students went off to music with Mr Wiens and then gym to play belly ball. 

Today in math I gave the students a patterns check in to see their skills increasing and decreasing patterns.

In science we explored the Bernoullis principle and how it explains how planes can fly, then wrote down our spelling words for our spelling sentences. 

Hope everyone has a fantastic Monday evening!

Spelling words 

1.  airplane 
2.  flight 
3.  gravity 
4.  drag 
5.  lift 
6.  thrust 
7. air pressure 
8.  engine 
9. airfoil 
10. feathers 
11. adaptations * 
12. air resistance* 
13. aerodynamics* 
14. streamlining* 
15. atmosphere* 

Thursday April 21, 2022

Happy Thursday April 21, 2022

Reminders: 

Earth Day Friday

BEDMAS test Friday

No spelling this week

Attention all parents and families!!!! We are looking for baby photos to aww and chuckle at our grade sixes for the end of the year farewell assembly. Please bring them in by June 1st!

Units this week:

Math:  BEDMAS

Social:  Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Flight and Aerodynamics

LA: News articles

Today in room 16:

Today we started our morning with some to do DEAR before starting math. In math we had a test review of the BEDMAS concepts we covered in class. If students did not finish it, they should complete it at home. 

After math we had science and did research on the different forces of flight. I gave the students a chart to answer the questions:

What are the forces of flight?

How do these forces affect a plane? bird? frisbee?

What causes these forces?

After science we moved into LA and broke down news articles. We looked at how you can use different devices to make headlines more exciting, use direct quotes/indirect quotes, and how articles are written in an ice cream cone format with all the tasty toppings and ice cream.

We finished our afternoon by exploring the last section of the charter, enforcement rights!

Hope everyone has a great evening!

Mr Lancee

Monday April 19, 2022

Happy Monday April 19, 2022

Reminders: 

Earth Day Friday

BEDMAS test Friday

No spelling this week

Units this week:

Math:  BEDMAS

Social:  Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Flight and Aerodynamics

LA: News articles

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with our usual appreciation circle to discuss our goals and plans for the week.

We then jumped into our math review for orders of operations questions following must, should and could style questions. These can be found below.

After math moved into LA and worked on some reading and breaking down of news articles. We used the information in the articles to fill out the articles by the categories below. 

When math was finished everyone went off to music and gym before looking at the charter of rights and freedoms in social. I have provided the notes below for students who are away.

The afternoon we did a KW chart to talk about what we know and wonder about our new unit...Flight and Aerodynamics! We finished off the day with a Bill Nye on Flight that you can watch below for extra practice.

Bill Nye Video

Hope everyone has a great evening!

Mr Lancee

Thursday April 14, 2022

Happy Thursday April 14, 2022!

Reminders: 

No school Friday or Monday

Upcoming units next week:

Math:  BEDMAS

Social:  Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Flight and Aerodynamics

LA: News articles

Today in room 16:

We started our morning some time to study before writing our properties of air quiz. I sent home MOST of the tests today....some are sitting in my out bin and will be sent home Tuesday. 

After science today we had LA and started breaking down news articles. The students analyzed a new article about comets before breaking it into the categories below. I will attach the article for any students who were away today and would like some practice.

We then began exploring the charter of rights and freedoms in social. I will post all of the notes below for any students who were away. 

Math today consisted of completing mathletics assignments. These can be found on mathletics and also completed at home!

Hope everyone has a great evening!

Mr Lancee

Monday April 11, 2022

 Happy Monday April 11, 2022!

Reminders: 

Science Test on the properties of air thisThursday.

No school next Friday or Monday

Upcoming units next week:

Math: Starting BEDMAS

Social: Starting Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Finishing Properties of Air

LA: Starting news articles

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with an appreciation circle  to discuss our goals for the week. 

We then moved into math and started our new unit... Order of Operations. At the bottom you will find some review questions! Order of Operations Video.

After math we moved into LA and began our exploration of news articles. Today we read some articles and analyzed how they are broken down into:

After math we had our first social lesson on the charter of rights and freedoms. Today we explored what our rights are and were introduced to the charter. The Charter!

We finished our day by exploring one science experiment to prove how air is effected by temperature! The last chunk was spent exploring what air is made of. 

For the test Friday students need to understand the different properties of air below and connect them to the different experiments we did in class.

Hope everyone has a great evening!

Mr Lancee

Friday April 8, 2022

Happy Friday April 8, 2022!

Reminders: 

Science Test on the properties of air next Thursday.

No school next Friday or Monday

Upcoming units next week:

Math: Starting BEDMAS

Social: Starting Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Science: Finishing Properties of Air

LA: Starting news articles

Today in room 16:

Today was a very big day for marking and test writing.

We wrote our spelling test, which helped with the review for our social test. Next we marked and wrote and marked our social test. Lastly we marked our integers test before heading off to gym for some dodgeball.

We finished up our day by doing some science experiments with baking soda and vinegar. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Mr Lancee

Wednesday April 6, 2022

 Happy Wednesday April 6, 2022!

Reminders:

Provincial Government Test Friday

Integers Test Thursday

Narrative stories final copies are now late! 

Spelling Test and sentences due Friday!

Spelling words: (Some "words" are multiple words such as the MLA one. The students need to know them for their test social test Friday. Spelling does not count on the social test but knowing the words and what they mean is the key to success!)

premier

cabinet

minister

capital

bill

act

opposition

political party 

legislative assembly

member of the legislative assembly (MLA)

constituents

referendum

Lieutenant Governor

representative democracy

Pillar of the month: Self Reflection

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with our basic facts quiz. We will mark this test tomorrow and have it sent home. The rest of math was spent reviewing the integers material for our test tomorrow. 

For the test.... 

Students need to be able to add and subtract integers and decimal numbers

Compare integers using greater than or less than

Order integers from greatest to least and least to greatest.

Solve integer word problems.

Practice sheets can be found at the bottom.

After math we started our social presentations. These presentations are on different sections of provincial government and are used as a way to help the students teach each other about what they have learned.

We had quick science lesson today in which we continued our exploration of air pressure. We learned how air pressure is controlled in part by altitude! 

We finished our day by going over the rest of the study guide and doing some fun kahoots about provincial government. SOOOOOOOOOO study study study!!!

Integers video

Add and subtract integers with decimals

Practice questions:

Social Test review:

Hope everyone has a wonderful evening!

Mr Lancee

Monday April 4, 2022

Happy Monday April 4, 2022!

Reminders:

Provincial Government Test Friday

Basic Facts Test Wednesday

Integers Test Thursday

Narrative stories final copies are now late! 

Spelling words and sentences due Friday!

Spelling words: (Some "words" are multiple words such as the MLA one. The students need to know them for their test social test Friday. Spelling does not count on the social test but knowing the words and what they mean is the key to success!)

premier

cabinet

minister

capital

bill

act

opposition

political party 

legislative assembly

member of the legislative assembly (MLA)

constituents

referendum

Lieutenant Governor

representative democracy

Pillar of the month: Self Reflection

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with a quick appreciation circle to talk about the week and our goal of not spreading rumours or gossip around the classroom. 

We also had our artist in residence come for a visit! This awesome experience has the students each creating a board with a piece of a design on them. Every student in the school paints the boards and we then they will be combined and placed on one of the fences. 

After recess and snack we moved into spelling. The spelling words are from our provincial government unit as a way to help the students study for their test Friday.

In gym today we began creating our own games. These games will be presented to the class for everyone to play. 

After gym we had a large work block in social. I gave the students a big chunk of time to work on their social posters. We will present these posters Wednesday and Thursday to the class to help us study. The posters are an in class project.

In the afternoon we had our math block. With their being two tests this week we did basic facts and integers review. Below are some examples for all students to practice. I sent home a check in test the other day to see how students are doing. 

Integers video

Add and subtract integers with decimals

Practice questions:

Social Test review:

Hope everyone has a wonderful evening!

Mr Lancee