Friday February 4, 2022

 Happy Friday February 4, 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: Love

Reminders

Patrollers start next week!

No school February 17, 18, 21 (Teachers convention and family day)

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

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with some catch up time to finish the math, art, social and science from the week. We now have our space art up on the walls for all to see!

The hour after this time spent was spent learning the ins and outs of Minecraft education! This week the students had fun in creative mode exploring how the program worked. Next week we will start building our own city.

We then moved into a large debate style city council meeting in which we investigated a proposed bylaw written by a student. The students argued for and against the bylaw and met as cousillors between each round of debates. Afterwards they voted on the motion and the motion was rejected. Very cool experience for all the students!

We finished our morning with gym and an appreciation circle to review how we showed love this week and review our weekly goals.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Mr Lancee

Parents – just a reminder that our patrollers are on duty each morning in rain, snow, and fine weather (We do not patrol on blue days).  Could you please wait until they call, ‘Point, double-check, and proceed,’ before making your way between the pylons and safely across the street.   

Patroller schedules were sent home today! Please ensure your children are familiar with their day and time. We are only doing morning patrols for now. Please arrive at 7:45 am, get ready, be on the crosswalk with your team at 7:50 am. Shifts end just after 8:00 then students will head to class. Subs should also be on time in case they are needed! 

 

Please also be aware of our parking guidelines. 

They are: 

-no parking for any length of time in the bus zone!  

-no parking within 5 metres of a stop sign or cross walk or corner of 2 streets (Tell them they should be able to take 5 large steps between their vehicle and any of these)  

-stay out of the staff parking lot 

 

Thank you as well to our Patrol parents who ensure our students arrive on time to volunteer.  It’s greatly appreciated! 

 

Mr Lancée & Mr Shackelton 

Your BHS Patrol Supervisors 

Thursday February 3 2022

Happy Thursday February 3, 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: Love

Reminders

No school February 17, 18, 21 (Teachers convention and family day)

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

Today in room 16:

We started our morning with our Moon and ROAR (Rotation, orbit, axis revolution) quiz. They have been marked and sent home to be signed and returned. 

We had a short math block today doing Mathletics on laptops after our quiz.

After snack and an indoor recess we watched a few Pixar shorts. I am using the Pixar shorts as a way to help teach the students about plot mountain. We first watched Day and Night to see characters, settings, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and the resolution. We broke it down as a class then I had the students examine the short Burn-E. They filled in the different sections of the plot mountain independently before going over it as a class.

For social studies today we looked at different Calgary bylaws. After exploring a large list of the different the bylaws in Calgary we got to work on creating or amending our own bylaws. The students needed to create a concern that could actually happen within their city. From this they bring the concern to a councillor who will bring it as a motion to city council. Tomorrow students will be doing a mock city council debate in which they will be for and against the passing of the bylaw. We will debate and vote on whether the new bylaws will be passed. 

In the afternoon we created some space art! Students had free reign on their space designs of a celestial body or object. We used chalk pastels, crayons, paint and black paper to design our space art. Pictures will be coming soon!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Mr Lancee

Tuesday February 1, 2022

 Happy Tuesday February 1, 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: Love

Reminders

January 28: Pillars of Care assembly

January 31: No school (PD day)

Patroller Training tomorrow

Science quiz- Moon and ROAR Thursday!

Social Cities are now very 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 class meeting and appreciation circle. In our circle I asked the following questions...

What do you want to learn about this week?

How can you show our pillar of the month love?

What is our weekly/personal goal?

The students had some great answers for all three questions!

After our circle we had math and did a big review of triangles and how to identify them by angles and sides. If you are looking for extra practice head over to mathletics to complete some work!

Today it was too cold to be outside so we had an indoor recess. Afterwards we started a new LA unit and learned about the plot mountain. The plot mountain teaches us about all the structure of narrative stories.

Introduction/exposition---> rising action----> climax----> falling action-----> resolution

In science today we reviewed the moon phases. There will be a quiz on the moon phases and ROAR (rotation, orbit, revolution, axis) Thursday!

We finished off our afternoon by exploring the grade social studies textbook. We reviewed key terms looked over real life examples and answered questions together.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Mr Lancee

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