Terry Fox Run

 Tomorrow is Terry Fox day at Beddington Heights.  

Please help us reach our goal of $500.00 by sending a toonie for Terry.

We have been working hard to answer the question, "Who was Terry Fox?"  We have looked at some videos, read a few books, had several discussions, shared out thinking and even read a letter from Terry's brother to the children of Beddington Heights!

We have been skip counting by 2, 5 and 10 in math.  Next we will review odd and even numbers on ten frames.

"What is a scientist?"  is a question we began exploring today with a video and discussion.

Wednesday will be Orange Shirt Day at Beddington - please wear orange for our smudging ceremony at 8:30 am.  We started a discussion of residential schools by reading Shi-Shi-Etko this morning.  Shi-Shi-Etko was going away to a residential school and collecting memories from her home to take with her.  We helped her to make a memory bag.

No school Thursday

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Meet The Teacher Presentation

 Meet the Teacher Presentation

Here is the link to see the slides that we were unable to share tonight

Meet The Classroom

 Meet the Teacher is tonight and since you can't come to the classroom we've included some pictures of our classroom so you can see where we spend our days.

Run Terry Run

 Our annual Terry Fox Run is being held on Tuesday, September 28, 2021.  We will be doing our run during our gym classes to maintain our cohorts and physical distancing.  Unfortunately, families are not allowed to come participate or watch due to COVID restrictions.  Please make sure your child is dressed ready to run on that day.  Proper outdoor footwear is required (running shoes please).  If the weather does not cooperate, we will do the run in the gym.  We are taking donations for the Terry Fox Foundation (for cancer research).  Our preferred method of donation is online.  You can access the Beddington Heights donation page: 

 

Beddington Heights School Fundraising Link: http://www.terryfox.ca/BeddingtonHeights
Username: 2021AB1927 
Password: CUREAB1907 

 

Your child has a pledge sheet in their backpack today.  It has more information on how to access the online donation page as well as room for bigger donations if you wish.  You can still just send in cash without the sheet. 

We will be collecting donations until Oct. 1, 2021.  If the school raises at least $500, Mr. Shackelton will allow his students to dress him up and he will come around to each class to show us his outfit. 

 

Last year we raised $1017.85.  Let’s see if we can raise even more this year!!! 

RUN TERRY RUN!

 

Patience

 Patience is the fifth pillar of the month for September at Beddington.  Today after reading the story, 

'The Impatient Caterpillar' we discussed all the ways someone in a classroom might be impatient and created ourselves a list of non-examples.  We thought of, cutting in line, being rude, yelling out, being distracted etc.  We really had a good time coming up with those!  Then we brainstormed what being patient looks like, and can be in our school.

Work continues with putting together a one hundreds chart.  We have determined one must look closely at all the numbers and what goes around a number.

Word work activity today was around rhyming words and their spelling patterns.  

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On A Roll

 With two other partners every one built a hundreds chart this morning, which proved to be very difficult.  Playing, 'On A Roll to 100' little learners were tasked to work together to place the numbers one to one hundred in the correct position to create a life size hundreds chart.  They rolled dice and placed numbers together.

We read, 'Oscar Lives Next Door' which is the true story of Oscar Peterson the Canadian jazz musician and then talked about how to chat with a partner about a story.  Ideas that will be useful when we are reading with a partner.  While we chatted we listened to some of Mr. Peterson's music.  We decided we liked his style!

We began a discussion about First Nations people and how they see themselves connecting to everything.  We each began drawing ourselves and how we are all connected to our families, homes, communities and our land.

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Number Detectives

 We are well on our way to becoming number detectives!  We are starting each morning by building a number from two digits and then answering 10 questions about that number.  Little learners are showing that they think flexibly about numbers and can represent their number in various ways.  Questions such as write the number in words, write the standard form of your number, write the expanded form of your number are explored.

We have read the poem, Friends by Jessica Crum, together and found that she wrote in a pattern!  We also found that there was a pattern to her use of capitals and periods.  We brainstormed together things we like to do with our friends and then we started writing our own poem following Ms. Crum's pattern about friends.  

Please have headphones for your child that they can keep at school for computer use - labeled with their name please.

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Medicine Wheel

 Demographic and digital citizenship papers due tomorrow -

We have created together a Medicine Wheel and linked it to our pillars of care.  we are encouraging students at Beddington Heights to be open to different perspectives, cultural traditions, and ways of seeing and knowing.  We also looked at some pictures of the Medicine Wheel that is on Nose Hill Park.  If you are interested in a family field trip it is located just above the Winter Club on 14 Street.

We continue to lay the ground work for our reading and writing times.  We have started recording different ideas that we could use as a writing topic and students have begun a writing sample for me.

Today in math we were looking at patterns on the 100 chart and students coloured the pattern they could best explain using math words.

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Who reads?

 We have begun practising reading to ourselves in the classroom.  We started with a discussion about who reads and quickly came to the conclusion that everyone reads!  We will be building stamina in the month of September for reading to ourselves.  My goal is 30 minutes of uninterrupted reading time every day.  Staying in one spot, quiet, reading the book 3 ways, and thinking about the book are the rules we agreed on. Today we made it to 1:34 seconds and someone got out of their desk.  So we reset the stopwatch and tried again.  We made 10 minutes before little voices were heard.  Not too shabby for our first try.

Ask your child to tell you about Number Detectives that we started today.  We begin every morning with the 10 question activity.

A set of forms were sent home today for your completion and signatures.  Please return them with the Digital Citizenship form by Friday this week.

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3 Ways to read a book

 In a backpack near you there is a Digital Citizenship form for you and your little learner to sign.  Today we talked about what a digital citizen looks like and who they are.  Students need to return their form to me before the can use any technology at school.

We have been busy this week becoming readers and writers.  One of the discoveries we made was that there is 3 ways to read a book.  

1.  Read the pictures - look at the pictures and think about what is happening

2. Read the words - read the words on the page and think about what is happening in the book.  Ask questions when you don't understand.

3.  Retell the story - using the pictures and the words we remember to think about what is happening.

Grade 3 students should be reading 20 minutes a day at home by themselves and 10 minutes a day to someone else.  Practise, practise, practise.  

See you Tuesday!

Welcome Back -

 Welcome to the 2021 - 2022 school year!!  

I am super excited to be back in the building with your little learner.  I am looking forward to a great year together.  This is my 31 year with CBE and before that I taught 4 years in the Foothills School Division.  While I have lots of experience in the classroom I am still a work in progress and I'm learning about learning!  I believe in the power of play, and we play a lot in the classroom. I enjoy playing myself and this summer we took up Pickle Ball.  We play outside without fail. I like to walk, hike, kayak, snowshoe, ski and skate. I believe you can't get better at something without practising.  So every day we practise our reading and I will ask you to practise at home as well.  I read myself every day and occasionally I even share with my students what I am reading.  With your help we will have a successful year together.

If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to contact me either through email, ljanderson@cbe.ab.ca or phone - 403-777-6610.

Mrs. Anderson -