The November Pillars of Care assembly was held virtually this afternoon and we would like to recognize the winners in room 10:
Care for Place - Lucas
Care for Self - Calvin
Care for Learning - Noah
Care for Others - Kenny
Courage - Sophia
Parent/Student/Teacher conferences are Thursday evening and Friday morning - please book an appointment using your CBE account for a virtual meeting or give me a phone call and we can chat!
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We began nonfiction writing today with the purpose of providing our reader with facts and information about the 3 types of rocks in the rock cycle. Our rock book will share our understanding of rocks, use descriptive language, and include non-fiction text features such as chapters, diagrams and headings. We continue to work towards our writing goals of making our writing interesting for our reader and making our writing clear for our reader.
Thirteen Moons On A Turtles Back is our mentor text this week for visualizing. The poems explain the changing seasons and the thirteen cycles of the moon according to Indigenous legend. Everyone has a poem to read, picture words to find, sense words to look for, visualize and draw. We will put all our pictures together on the turtle's back when we are finished and I will share with you the results!
Please book a conference time for Thursday or Friday this week on your CBE account.
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All art starts with lines and we can create lots of things with simple lines. After watching, 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' this morning we created 15 different kinds of lines that we can use in our drawing. We made zig zags, spirals, loops, wavy (we noted that we use a lot of these lines in our handwriting! Great connection between activities😀) and then we took our line for a walk and created organic shapes that we filled in with other kinds of lines.
The Magic School Bus flew through here this morning in the episode, Battle for Rock Mountain. The students in her class were learning about the three kinds of rocks - igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. Coincidence because that is what we are doing!! We talked about what we already knew about the rock cycle and the three types of rocks and then we added the information that was new from Ms. Frizzle. We are getting set to write our own book about the rock cycle. Perhaps, Magic School Bus style!
We are beginning to set goals for student/teacher/parent conferences next week. Every one already has writing goals that they can talk about and we will also have a reading goal, math goal and wellness goal that will be the foundation for our discussion together. Please make sure you book an on-line appointment.
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We have discovered that rocks are made of minerals. Every rock has different amounts and types of minerals. Today we took a purple ball of clay and pretended it was a pure purple mineral, a blue ball of clay and pretended it was as a pure blue mineral and a yellow ball of clay and pretended it was a yellow mineral and put them together to make rocks!! You will see each rock is a different size and shape.
Minerals make rocks!
After reading stories, looking at a video and some pictures we have determined that the quality of life has to do with 5 feelings: being safe, secure, comfortable, healthy and happy. When you have a good quality of life you feel safe, secure, comfortable, healthy and happy. When you have a poor quality of life you do not feel safe, secure, comfortable, healthy and happy. As we look at the countries of India, Tunisia, Ukraine and Peru we will keep this in mind.
Math quiz today on number sense (even and odd numbers, skip counting and using a hundreds chart). Our next basic facts test will be on Monday. We are all working to improve our basic facts to 18.
We are writing a walking story (a story that describes - nothing really happens there are no characters, setting, problem or solution but it includes lots of detail) about one of our friends. Today we told a partner about our story plan and tomorrow we will begin to write. Our walking story will include a great beginning so that our reader will want to read our story.
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The poppy puzzle we created in our classroom with words of remembrance around the edges. The picture of Corporal B.G. Anderson was taken in 1942 before my father-in-law was shipped to Italy to fight during World War II. He was injured during a battle and sent home to recover.
At Beddington Heights today we stopped to remember all those who went to war for us to ensure the freedoms we enjoy today. Lest we forget.
No school tomorrow or Friday.
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We used the rocks we found on Nose Hill Friday for writing today. We completed the last part of our work, Everybody Needs a Rock. Tomorrow we will conduct experiments on our rocks to determine their properties.
Good readers ask questions before, during and after reading. After brainstorming question words (who, what where, when, should, could) we wrote questions we would like to ask Captain Harry Colebourn about the baby bear he rescued and named Winnie. During social studies we used the same question words to ask questions about India - we are lucky enough to have a student in our classroom who lived in India and she did her best to answer our inquiring questions!
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No school Thursday and Friday
FROM 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
Tomorrow morning we will head out into the community to go on a rock hunt. We will head over to Nose Hill at 9:30 am. Children should bring their backpack with a water bottle and be dressed in layers. Walking shoes are recommended. The forecast for tomorrow is decent but it is November and it takes time to warm up everyday. Your little learner had written their own personal rules for finding the perfect rock. Ask them about their rules.
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Friday morning we are going on a rock hunt!
Today we read the book, 'Everybody Needs a Rock' with the ten rules for finding the perfect rock. Tomorrow we will write our own rules for finding a rock. Friday we will put our rules into action. We will leave the building around 9:30 and return for dismissal. We will leave after we have had snack but students will need their backpack for water bottles, extra clothing and to put their rocks in. The forecast looks good for Friday😎
We worked with odd and even numbers in math today - creating our own numbers, double, triple or more digits and working with the rule we created for determining odd and even.
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Our first lockdown practise was held today and a great job was done by all. Everyone was at the green dot quickly and able to stay quiet. Ask your little learner how a lockdown makes them feel.
We went on a rock hunt this morning through the buckets of rocks from our science room. We were examining them and classifying them based on their shape, texture and colour. There are many interesting rocks to be had!
Our work on the comprehension strategy of visualizing continues. Good readers not only see pictures in their head but they can also use their other senses to hear sounds, taste tastes and feel the emotions of the characters. We kept track of the words that put pictures in our heads and drew what we were seeing.
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