Work on your Balancing Animal Project

 

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]

Nanabush and the Bridge

We have been learning about strong, stable and sturdy structures in science.  Today we read the story, Nanabush and the Bridge, and engineers were challenged to make a bridge for Nanabush and his fish out of paper to symbolize the birch bark from the story.  The bridge had to hold the weight of Nanabush and his fish.  

We had to use what we already knew about structures to solve this problem.

Balancing Animal Project due Tuesday, May 3

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Balancing Animal Science Project - Tuesday, May 3

 In a backpack near you is the science project - Balancing Animal Science Project.  This is the reason you have been saving recyclables for the past several weeks.  Today we began designing our structure in the project booklet.  The challenge is to build something that is strong and stable.  Students will also need to reflect on the process of their design.  Structures need to be at school Tuesday, May 3 along with their completed booklets.

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Earth Day

 

After reading Hello, Earth by Joyce Sidman we were inspired to write our own poem to the Earth on this, Earth Day.  We wrote our own version of Hello Earth as a group.  Some of us then went on to write our own Earth Day poems during Freedom Friday.  

Ask your Little Learner about perimeter.  We were introduced to perimeter in math today and everyone was very busy practising with their ruler.

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Poetry Month

 April is poetry month and we have been reading and writing various poems.  We worked with a teacher in Kelowna last week via video link who helped us to write a poem with repetition.  It is our goal to have those poems done and published next week.

We have been taking groups of objects and dividing them into 2, 5 and 10 - determining if they are equal groups or if there is left overs.  We have linked division with multiplication and are working on the fact families.  

This morning we tested the strength of marshmellows, popcorn and playdough as fasteners.  Ask your little learner about their hypothesis and their results.

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Blurting Out

The enthusiasm to share our thinking has become a problem because it's easier to shout out than put up our hands.  We have to deal with this to allow everyone the opportunity to share their thinking.  We started off this morning with the story, "Interrupting Chicken."  to help those little learners who don't realize that there is a problem.  After the story we talked about the problem and everyone wrote on their sticky note why it is a problem to be blurting out all the time.  You will notice students have written, it's rude, I can't concentrate, I can't hear what anyone is saying etc.  After we read through all the sticky notes we had a sharing circle in which everyone offered an idea about how to help the situation.  Every child contributed to the conversation.  After listening to each other with our hearts wide open we took a sticky note to write down the best ways to help out.  Ideas range from be more thoughtful, self control, think of others to remove that person from the discussion.  Hopefully this will help everyone to remember how to contribute their ideas appropriately.

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Pysanky Eggs

 In our class discussion today we talked about the rise of little toys appearing in the classroom.  Things that create a great distraction, can easily disappear and cause arguments.  Just a reminder that it is school policy that toys remain at home - including stuffies, pop its, dolls etc.  Thank you for your help keeping things at home.

After reading Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco we created our own eggs painted in the Ukrainian style.  We created a design and then used watercolour paint and salt.  The salt was added while the paper was still wet and it should have pushed the pigment of the paint away and left a lighter spot.  It would appear we did not use enough salt, not the right salt or not enough water as our effect was not as dramatic as I would have liked but we are still pretty happy with our pysanky egg.

Little engineers were reminded again today to be collecting boxes, toilet rolls, yogurt containers for science next week.

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The Doorbell Rang

 The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins is our mentor text in math this week.  Through the story we encounter division.  The story starts with 2 children ready to share 12 cookies when additional friends and family begin to arrive to share the cookies.  Little mathematicians are retelling the story using pictures, numbers and words and generating a different ending to the story when grandma arrives with more cookies.  I am looking for little learners who understand the concept of sharing and can explain what each number represents in their story.

Bill Nye helped us to create a DID YOU KNOW about structures.  In the video we found out some great new information such as buildings and bridges are built to sway about 1 metre in high winds!  Ask your little learner what they thought was most amazing!

We should be ready to start building with all those recyclables you have been saving the week of April 18- toilet paper rolls, shoe boxes, cracker boxes. etc. will be needed.  The more the merrier.

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Artist in residence

 

Artist in Residence this week at Beddington Heights.  This afternoon we each painted a portion of a mural that will hang at the school.  

Art work

 

Our Georgia O'Keeffe inspired flowers for the family of Mrs. Paolini