We are looking forward to seeing everyone at conferences on Thursday and Friday! The link to Microsoft Teams was in the email your teacher sent to you.
Reminders:
1. Terry Fox: Ms MacDonald's and Mrs. Taylors classes will be doing the Terry Fox run in the afternoon on Monday September 28th
2. Sense walk: Ms MacDonald and Mrs. Taylor's classes will be doing a sense walk around the community on Tuesday September 29th.
3. Orange Shirt Day: Wednesday March 30th
4. Google Classroom: information about the day and assignment will be posted to the classroom.
Wednesday!
Today in writing Mrs. Taylor's wrote about Terry Fox. We wrote about why he is a Canadian hero, why he ran across Canada, how he felt and what we think about Terry Fox.
Ms. MacDonald's class used the following picture to write about what we saw. We began to think about how we could describe what is in a photo.
In Math, Mrs. Taylor's class create a 100s chart pattern with our name. Tomorrow we will be looking for the other patterns that emerged.
Ms. MacDonald's class discussed what an attribute is. Ask me to share the attribute of a shape tonight.
In Health, Mrs. Taylor's continued looking at our Healthy Habits. Today we did Healthy Habit #2 which is about setting goals and having a plan.
We first looked at the goal setting - the very beginning stages.
We came up with 3 goals - things that we want to learn and get better at.
- Thomas: tricks at basketball, writing stories and batting the ball
- Taylor: painting, drawing pictures and rollerblade
- Ali: how to figure skate, how to roller-skate and to get better at patterns like 4-element patterns
- Landon: color in the lines, 4-element patterns and read a book alone
- Ryder: how to play basketball and hockey, and math
- Maggie: to ride a 2-wheeler, play soccer and learning about health more
- Sadie: to do multiplication, how to write with no hands and how to play soccer
- Sttavi: patterns in math, reading in english, writing big words
- Kai: reading in Cambodia, hard math,
- Eyla: to speak spanish, write better, learn more about puppies
- Jackson: to know all the things about times (multiplication), to read dogman books alone and know the words and to draw with more detail
- Hadi: to swim fast, to go fast on my bike and to get better at reading
- Nyssa: coloring pictures, reading and writing
- Dex: becoming an artist to paint, skate on ice and read alone
- Emma: color in the lines, read better and use my sounds better
- Connor: to be more brave, to do more tricks (jumping etc) and to get better at math
- Blaire: writing in the lines, golfing and reading
- Lacie: skip monkey bars, learn to read and learn hard math (double digit addition)
- Hannah: read better, paint on canvasses and shooting hoops with my basketball net
- Kaeson: riding a 2-wheeler, read books and do karate
Next, we will pick one goal to make a plan to help us achieve it.
In science Ms. MacDonald's class conducted an experiment to discover what items where attracted to a magnet. Ask me about which item surprised us.
Important Reminders:
- Tomorrow, Thursday Sept 24, is a half day for students
- NO school on Friday for students
- Parent Teacher Conferences are Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Please email your child teacher if you wish to have a telephone conferences, otherwise it will be on Microsoft Teams.
Happy Tuuuuuesday families!
Today in writing Ms. MacDonald's class wrote about themselves in preparation for an art project that they worked on in the afternoon.
Mrs. Taylor's class spent time learning about Terry Fox. Together we brainstormed all the thing that we know and learned about Terry Fox.
Here is what we came up with
Tomorrow we will be writing about Terry Fox.
In math Mrs. Taylor's and Ms. MacDonald's class worked on a pattern word problem. Ask me how many different patterns I could make with the colors blue, green, red. Ask me to make you a pattern with those colors. Ask me how many elements are in the pattern.
In Science we continued our magnet exploration.
Mrs. Taylor's class completed an experiment to show attract and repel - ask me what poles attract and what ones repel.
We then went outside to learn about the true magnetic north and south .... but then it got super windy outside so we decided the experiment would no longer work. We will try again tomorrow..
Important Reminders:
1. Google Meet: Today at 4:00
2. Conferences: on Sept 24th and 25th
3. Google Classroom: Over the next week we will be transition to google classroom where information about the class and assignment will be posted.
Happy Monday Families!
In writing today Ms. MacDonald's class learned about Terry Fox and thought about what makes him a Canadian Hero. Ask me about what makes Terry Fox a Canadian Hero.
In writing Ms. Taylor class wrote about one of our imagination ideas and WOW did we do an amazing job! Our writing eventually turned into little mini stories! We were focuing on adding more DETAIL to our writing and to tell MORE.
Ask me what I wrote about today - was it about a pet dino, candyland, a world where everything cost a penny, a pet that talks, unicorn shoes....
In Math we continued to look at patterns, focusing on elements. We can all make a simple 2-element pattern such as blue-green-blue-green, however, can we make it more interesting/intricate?
We are working on starting patterns and also completing patterns that have already been started - knowing the core of the pattern helps us with this.
Question - Can you make a 1-element pattern?
Next, we will be moving onto attributes.
In Social studies we continued to look at our world and started looking at our community, New Brighton. 
Today in writing we used our imagination to think out side of the box to turn a image into something different then wrote about it. Ask me what I drew and wrote.
Then we took sometime to finish our self-portraits and 7 health habits page.
Reminders
1. Conferences: please take sometime to book your conference.
2. Flexible Entry and new lunch times: https://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/newbrighton/about-us/school/principal-message/default.aspx
Happy Thursday!
We began our morning working on vowel endings - ed and en.
In math we looked at the patterns that we see on our 100s chart, specifically when we are counting by 2s and 5s. We challenged each other by picking a number (that we would say) and counting by 2s or 5s starting at that number. For example, "can you count by 5s starting at 65?" Ms. MacDonald's class also worked on skip counting by 10's
Can you help me skip count aloud by 2s, 5s and 10's? If you have a 100s chart at home that would help as well.
In writing we worked on our final brain pocket - and the most fun one - our Imagination or Memory Pocket.
- Mrs. Taylor's class watched the story, Imagine a Place, and then brainstormed some imaginative ideas together that we would want to write a story about.
- Mrs. MacDonald's class wrote about a memory they had. Ask me about my memory writing today.
Mrs. Taylor's class started a new art project. We started off writing about ourselves - what we love to eat, what we do not like to eat, our favourite color, our favourite part about us, our favourite animal etc
We then painted a colourful background, added a cool picture of ourselves and glued those facts about us around us.
We will be using this art as our visual journal cover.
The art was still a bit wet when these pics were taken...
Ms. MacDonald's class learned how to log on to our school laptops. We then spent time learning how to login to our GoogleAccount and how to get onto our google classroom. We had to use our school email (@edu.ab.ca) and a new password (ask me what it is) to get onto our google classroom.
Have a great evening!
Reminders:
- If you have not returned your child's demographic form please do so tomorrow or Monday at the latest. Thank you!
- Parent conferences are next Thursday and Friday - an email was sent out with instructions on how to book
- Half day for students on Thursday Sept. 24th and NO school for students on Friday Sept. 25th
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