Free Wildflowers!

We will soon be learning about Needs of Plants and Animals! I found this great website to get free wildflower seeds! Unfortunately I cannot get enough packs for everyone, but you can click on the link and have them sent directly to you.

It is through Cheerios and it's a plea to help Save the Bees! 1 in 3 bites we eat is made possible by bees and other pollinators, who spread the pollen that crops need to grow. That includes many of our favourite foods like apples, almonds, coffee, and of course, honey!

Let's grow some flowers! Click the link and follow prompts to Get Seeds


https://bringbackthebees.ca/?gclid=CjwKEAjw8OLGBRCklJalqKHzjQ0SJACP4BHrXlsKrmRUAgRfsNYRYmt4igXg4kK5YyYoBdiaqdSBYRoCk-Hw_wcB

SPRING BREAK

Happy Spring Break!

We were glad to meet with so many of you for conferences. If you have not yet spoken with us regarding your child, please send us an email to set up a time to meet with us after the break.

Alyssa Grunert - Room 3 - algrunert@cbe.ab.ca

Michelle Nelson - Room 4 - milnelson@cbe.ab.ca

We hope you all have a very relaxing Spring Break. We all deserve it!

See you on April 3rd!

April 

3rd Back to school - Student Teacher Ms. Chen starts

5th Artist in Residence for Grade 1

10th Artist in Residence for Grade 1

27th Math Showcase and Artist in Residence Night

Today we had Constable George Kovacs join our classroom to discuss tools we can use to help us in our lives. He told us all about the tools on his Police Uniform, but he said that they were not the most important tools he has. His eyes, ears, voice and heart are among our most valuable tools we can have and use.

After Spring Break we will discuss more about these tools and even make our own tool belt.

We had a discussion about Spring and talked about the different things we see:
What do people wear and do?
What do animals do?
What do plants and trees look like?
What is the weather like?

Some students were able to finish this while the other students went to Music. That class will work on and finish theirs tomorrow.

This afternoon we had Daily 5. We are getting fairly good at knowing exactly what to do and solving our own problems within our groups. This is something we continue to practice and work on.

We hope you have been able to sign up for Conferences. We will be happy to meet with you to discuss your child's progress and what we all can do to continue to help them.

This afternoon we did a Science Experiment! We used our sense of smell. We smelled 9 different containers and then chose from a few pictures to see if we were right. Not everyone has finished this yet, so we won't find out if we are right until Wednesday probably. 

We will add this experiment to the board in our hallway for everyone to try at the Conferences this Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. 

Tomorrow we have Constable George Kovacs coming to speak with us after recess. We are excited to hear what he has to say about being a police officer. After Spring Break we will have other community people coming into our classroom and we will even take a walk in our community. We will need Volunteers for that so keep your eyes open for a parent letter and volunteer form that will come home after Spring Break.

March 

21 Constable George Kovacs from Calgary Police Services will be a guest in our classroom @ 10:30.

22 Student Involved Conferences 3:30 - 7:30

23 Student Involved Conferences 8:00 - 12:00, no school for students

24 Professional Development day, no school for students

27 - 31 Spring Break

April 

3rd Back to school - Student Teacher Ms. Chen starts

5th Artist in Residence

10th Artist in Residence

27th Math Showcase and Artist in Residence Night

Leapin Lizards!!!

Those sneaky Leprechauns sure did leave a mess in our classroom. Yikes!!! It was a disaster. Our shoes were all over the place, pencil cases were on the opposite sides of the classrooms, desks and chairs were overturned.....it was crazy!!!! We even found some footprints from those sneaky ones! They left us a letter and a pot of temporary tattoos and lucky stickers! We were SO excited to explore those sneaky guys and what they did in our classrooms. Thank you to all parents who helped their child create super sneaky traps. We almost caught one, but they were too quick for us!

After our Pillars of Care Assembly the grade 1's participated in Makerspace! Mrs. Mesheau gave us some cups and craft sticks to build a tower. We explored how to do this and then we had to draw a design. Once we drew our design we received more cups and practiced building our towers. It was so much fun. So many students had such creative ideas. Once they were done with their groups tower, they got to join another group and build an even bigger tower! It was a great time!!!

The morning sure did go fast! It was over before we knew it!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend. See you on Monday!

Reminders:

March 

21 Constable George Kovacs from Calgary Police Services will be a guest in our classroom @ 10:30.

22 Student Involved Conferences 3:30 - 7:30

23 Student Involved Conferences 8:00 - 12:00, no school for students

24 Professional Development day, no school for students

27 - 31 Spring Break

Early Dismissal Tomorrow

Half day of school tomorrow! We call it our Kindergarten Day! School is out at 11am. Please still send a snack for your child. 

Jump Rope For Heart Forms are due TOMORROW please and thank you !

Wear Green Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is our Pillars of Care Assembly at 8:15am. Please check your child's home folder for a note if they are receiving an award. We would love to have you there. 

We continued to work on our floor hockey skills. We are getting really good at passing. We may be ready for a game soon.

We did a quick review of our 5 Senses and worked on choosing something that related to 3 of our 5 senses. We drew them on our paper and we will use those for our board in the hallway. 

Our Leprechaun Traps look WONDERFUL!!!! We wonder if the Leprechaun will go into every classroom at the same time. We will see!!!

A note from Parent Council:
“Our school Parent Council has sent out order forms for school apparel.  They are offering t-shirts, hoodies and sweatpants for all staff, students and family members of Beddington Heights to purchase.  Purchase of school apparel is not a requirement, but offered for those interested.  Sample sizes are available to try on at the school office, and will also be available during Student Involved Conferences, next Wednesday and Thursday.  Please note, there is a small pricing error on the order forms. The prices on the front of the notice are correct.  Thank you.”

We continued to work on our 3D shapes today. We completed our cube and rectangular prisms. We also started documenting the information we know about our shapes and what real world examples we have seen.

Just quick today because it's getting out late.

Leprechaun Traps due tomorrow please!!!

Reminders

March 

16 Leprechaun Traps Due

17 Early dismissal at 11:00

17 Pillars of Care assembly at 8:15

17 Jump Rope for Heart forms due.

21 Constable George Kovacs from Calgary Police Services will be a guest in our classroom @ 10:30.

22 Student Involved Conferences 3:30 - 7:30

23 Student Involved Conferences 8:00 - 12:00, no school for students

24 Professional Development day, no school for students

27 - 31 Spring Break

Today we watched a video on our 5 senses. It showed us lots of fun experiments that we can try. We will probably try a few out in class. Ask your child what experiment they want to do first. 

Watch for a note in the next day or two, in your child's home folder to see if they are receiving an award at our assembly on Friday. 

Have a beautiful warm evening!

Reminders

March 

16 Leprechaun Traps Due

17 Early dismissal at 11:00

17 Pillars of Care assembly at 8:15

17 Jump Rope for Heart forms due.

21 Constable George Kovacs from Calgary Police Services will be a guest in our classroom @ 10:30.

22 Student Involved Conferences 3:30 - 7:30

23 Student Involved Conferences 8:00 - 12:00, no school for students

24 Professional Development day, no school for students

27 - 31 Spring Break

Leprechaun Traps Due Thursday

We are so sorry the notice didn't give a due date! They are due in class on Thursday March 16th. That's this week! We need to set them up for the Leprechaun Thursday night.

We hope you have a great time building your traps!

Here is a link to pictures on google.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=leprechaun+traps&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSpq2IsdLSAhVNwWMKHd2UDXsQ_AUIBigB&biw=1034&bih=587

Happy Tuesday

In Grade 1 Science we have been learning about our 5 Senses. We did that awesome Popcorn activity last month. We will soon be getting lots of books from the Public Library about the 5 Senses and we will start LOTS of experiments. Some will involve tasting, smelling, touching, seeing and listening. If any parents have any possible concerns with these experiments please let us know as soon as possible. We generally taste, sugars, salt, sour and bitter and we will smell loads of different things. We of course know about all allergies in our classroom and will keep those in mind for the experiments.

We have been discussing "Little Deal and Big Deal" in class every day after lunch. We continue to add items on to the list and today we added different solutions for different "deals". We also make sure to ask students if it's a BIG or little deal when they are telling us something. Tattling made the list as a little deal. But if your arm is broken or you're bleeding LOTS that is a VERY BIG DEAL!!!! :) We hope the students will be able to handle smaller problems on their own and come to teachers with big problems or if they need help with different ideas or solutions.

Swimming Report Cards came home today! We have a bunch of great swimmers!


Important Dates:
March8th - Book Orders due Wednesday
17th - Gr. 1 Makerspace time
21st - Constable George Kovacs presentation
22nd - Student Involved Conferences 3:30-7:30
23rd - Student Involved Conferences 8am- 12pm
27th - 31st - SPRING BREAK

In PE today we continued to work on skipping. I hope you have all registered online for your free skipping rope with Jump Rope for Heart. We also started learning how to jump using 1 big long rope with two people turning it. Students will each get a turn by the end of the week. Once they are good at turning the rope they will be able to work in groups of 3 to use the long rope together.

We are continuing to work on our Morning Message mistakes. Having students find mistakes in writing is a great strategy to help their own printing and spelling. Practicing this at home will enhance your child's writing of sentences. 

This afternoon we had a financial presentation. We learned about saving, spending and making money. It was lots of fun. We got to look at fake money, but it looked real. 



Important Dates:
March
6th - Financial Presentation for all Grade 1's
8th - Book Orders due Wednesday
17th - Gr. 1 Makerspace time
21st - Constable George Kovacs presentation
22nd - Student Involved Conferences 3:30-7:30
23rd - Student Involved Conferences 8am- 12pm
27th - 31st - SPRING BREAK

Our Jump Rope for Heart pledge forms came home yesterday. They will be due back on Friday March 17th. We have been showing students some videos from the Jump Rope for Heart website.

If you register on the Jump Rope website your child will earn a FREE skipping rope. Even if you don't raise any money, your child will still get that free skipping rope. AWESOME!!!! We hope you will all register so we can see those skipping ropes flood into our classrooms.

Here is the link:

http://support.heartandstroke.ca/site/PageServer?pagename=jump17_home

Important Dates:
March
6th - Financial Presentation for all Grade 1's
17th - Gr. 1 Makerspace time
21st - Constable George Kovacs presentation
22nd - Student Involved Conferences 3:30-7:30
23rd - Student Involved Conferences 8am- 12pm
27th - 31st - SPRING BREAK