Classroom code

 Thank you for your emails and messages about online school.  The kids are rocking it!

Thank you for supporting your little learners at home and all the patience that requires.  I miss each and everyone of them.

We have shifted to using a classroom code to access the classroom.  I sent all my students an email with this change on Tuesday morning.  Just to review:

Google home page

Click on the nine dots in the upper right hand corner

click on the meet button

enter the code bhsanderson

classroom will open for you - if I'm not there yet just be patient and try again in a few minutes.

Our first meeting on Thursday is at 8:00 am with Mr. Sadowsky his code is bhspe34

Thanks everyone

Schedule for On-line Learning

 I have sent you all a schedule through School Messenger for on-line learning.  It looks similar to the schedule we followed in January.  

Monday we start at 8:30 with Mr. Sadowsky for phys. ed.

Our first classroom meet will be at 10.  I will take attendance at this time for the day.  

Reading group A will meet Monday at 11:30.  I will let students know Monday morning if they are in that group.

Education Assistants are supporting our students and may be contacting your child to offer their help.

If you have any questions or see a conflict in the schedule send me an email!

Have a great weekend.

Google Classroom

 Tomorrow morning we will have our first Google classroom meet.  In a backpack near you is all the log in information in order for that to be successful.  Your little learner also has some lined paper for story writing, paper folded into 8 squares for story planning, a tape measure and a paper they will need for tomorrow's literacy lesson.  A full schedule for the next two weeks will be sent to you once we have determined how to best roll this out to everyone.

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Online Learning

 Please ensure your child still has their log-in information for online access.  We will be returning to the Goggle classroom as we did in January.  If you are not able to locate the card please e-mail me or call me tomorrow so I can get that information to you.  I will be sending home some paper and a few things I would like students to have.  Please check backpacks tomorrow.

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Textbooks

 Grade 3 have packed their suitcases and hit the road!  They are taking their cameras to either India, Ukraine, Tunisia or Peru and finding out a few things and then reporting back to us here at school!!  Today they used an old fashioned textbook to find the continent they are going to, the oceans they will cross and the direction they will travel.  Upon their arrival they took note of similarities and differences between their country's  flag and Canada.  Ask your little learner which country they travelled to -

Grade 4's also used an old fashioned textbook today (we had no internet).  Working with a partner they were finding information about Alberta's natural resources and what is renewable and what is non-renewable.  They discovered things like our sugar comes from sugar beets!!  Some of us decided not to eat sugar ever again!

Good readers can determine important information and interesting information.  After we read chapter 15/16 of Masterpiece everyone determined what they thought to be the most important event of the two chapters (hint - it was that Marvin's mom said he can no longer help James) and then picked an interesting detail such as Marvin's family ate Life Savers for dessert or that Marvin and James played hot and cold.

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Science

 We have different science experiments going on in the classroom right now!  They are fun and interactive, but it is very loud in here!!  Grade 3's have been challenged to build a bridge (using one piece of paper) that spans 15 cm and can hold the weight of Nanabush ( a character from a story we read) and his pack of fish.  They have no tools and no other materials, Nanabush only had birch bark.  Meanwhile grade 4's are deciding if a simple machine of a roller makes a job easier.  They are using playdough and a rolling pin to determine their answer.

Pillars of Care virtual assembly tomorrow.

Dress like a teacher tomorrow.

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Raisins in math

 I am a phone call or email away if you were not available for interviews last week.  

This morning we were estimating, grouping and counting raisins from the small raisin box we were each given.  Watching little learners group objects tells me a great deal about them and the numbers they are comfortable using.  We wrote about the raisins in our boxes and completed the math that matched.  For example: My raisin box had 7 groups of 4 raisins.  7x4=28 4x7=28. 28/4=7 and 28/7=4.  This brought us back to fact families and tomorrow we will look at larger numbers as we add together our raisin boxes with a partner and then in groups.

Grade 3 were surveying friends about bridges they are familiar with ie: someone who has been on a swinging bridge.

Grade 4 were building a roller system from materials in their desk to move a textbook.

Alliterations in our personal writing was our goal last week when we were writing to the earth on Earth Day.  Today we continued that piece of writing and promised action to look after our earth.

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Dress like a teacher (pick one in the building) on Friday