We have had a whirlwind of a week!!!

Monday was Sports Day and we had SO MUCH FUN!!!!

We also said Good-bye to Ms. Hayes at a morning assembly. We will miss her, but wish her well and Penbrooke Meadows School as the new Principal.

Tuesday, we did some writing about Sports Day and that continued into today. We are working really hard at finger spacing and making sure we put periods at the end of each sentence.

Today we had a Cultural Wheel Presentation and we learned 2 new dances. One of the dances we were in a circle with our class and we walked in a circle holding hands. The other dance was a jig! We basically  just hopped around. Boy were our hearts beating fast. Then this afternoon we had a whole school assembly and we watched other classes do European Line Dancing and Square Dancing, then we all did the Jig together. It was super cool. The guy told us an awesome story that involved a medicine wheel, just like the one we made with Mrs. Stables.

Scholastic Orders are due this Friday, June 2nd. If you would like some Summer Reading books it would be a great time to get some.

Practice Addition and Subtraction up to 20. Remember to use Mathletics!!!!

On Monday May 29th from 10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Beddington Heights would like to celebrate Ms. Karon Hayes’ contributions to Beddington.  Come to the school gym to celebrate as students, teachers and parents gather together to say thank you to Mrs. Hayes.

Monday is also Sports Day! If it is fairly nice, we will be going ahead with Sports day after lunch, IF the weather is cold or rainy we will postpone to June 2nd, but we will let you know. Come prepared for it on Monday!

This afternoon we talked about Ramadan. It is a Muslim holiday and lasts for 29 or 30 days. We will be talking with the kids more about it over the next month. We are going to make a Good Deed calendar and talk about the good deed for the day each morning. We hope this will encourage a lot of great kindness and good deeds! 

This afternoon, we practiced braille by cluing on beans to a secret message and then we had to figure out what the message was. Your child should have brought theirs home today. It was so cool!

Spring Concert Tomorrow!!!!

Tomorrow is our Spring Concert. The doors will open at 6pm and the performances will start at 6:30.
You can drop your child off to their class and then go find a seat! We hope to see you all there!

May 29th is our Sports Day! It is also the day we will say Farewell to Ms. Hayes as she moves on to be the Principal at Penbrooke Meadows School. We wish her all the best. The assembly will be at 10:45am.

We hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather over the long weekend! It was so nice to have such nice weather!

Today we finished our book, Charlotte's Web!  We started to watch the movie too. We will watch a little bit of the movie each day until it is over. The kids are loving it so far.

Tomorrow we will have an Apple-A-Day Presentation in our classroom put on by students from the University of Calgary. We are excited to hear what they have to teach us.

Tomorrow we also have a Calgary Public Library Reading Presentation to learn more about their Summer Reading Programs.

Tomorrow evening is the Kindergarten and Div 2 (Gr 4, 5, 6) Spring Concert. We will be watching their dress rehearsal in the afternoon as a whole school. Our Spring Concert dress rehearsal will be on Thursday May 25th. Our evening performance will start that same day at 6:30 and doors will open at 6pm. We hope you will all be able to make it!

June Scholastic Orders are due June 2nd. This will ensure that we are able to order and have your order shipped before school is over. We can hardly believe that it is almost June!

Tomorrow students will be eating outside, so they will be outside the whole lunch time. Students should wear sunscreen, but no one should share sunscreen at school. Thank you!

Happy Long Weekend

We hope you have a fantastic extra long weekend and are able to enjoy some beautiful weather! Fingers crossed the weather stays nice. ☀

This week during Math and Daily 5 Centres the students unfortunately left some areas a mess. Below is a picture of the headphone area. These headphones are owned by students in our classes. We have another bin where previously loved headphones are kept in bags. You can tell by the picture that these headphones are not being taken care of very well. 

Each drawer can easily fit 2 or 3 sets of headphones. 1 pair does live on top of the cart as they are too big. If you could please discuss with your child how important it is to properly put away and care for the headphones and other tools we use in the classroom, that would be fantastic. We have had numerous conversations regarding this, but it still does not seem to help. 

Thank you for your time and understanding in helping this situation.

Reminders - 

22nd - No School - Happy Victoria Day
25th - Spring Concert for Grade 1 - dress rehearsal during the day.

29th - Sports Day and Burger Hot Lunch

Today in Science, we continued to learn about Braille. We shaded in the circles for how our name would be written in braille and then we glued split-peas onto the shaded circles. Now if  someone who was blind touched our paper, they would be able to read our name. We have so more braille activities coming this week.

Tomorrow is the last day to hand in Hot Lunch forms. This hot lunch is on Monday, May 29th. That is our scheduled Sports Day. Students will also be having a freezie that day. Please send back your forms with money so your child can have a burger on Sports day.

We are continuing to work hard for our Spring Concert next week. We hope you all will be able to come and join us for the Div1 Concert on Thursday evening.

Spring Carnival TONIGHT!!!!

Parent Council Carnival tonight from 6-8pm! Hope to see you there!

On Tuesday we had a Calgary Firefighter come in and do a presentation. It was great! We watched a video that we would like to share with you also. It is a great conversation starter about why we should do certain things to keep us safe from a fire. Your child should have brought home a booklet. They can keep it at home and don't need to bring it back to school.

Link to fire video -
https://youtu.be/QbE3tCBzeY0

Yesterday, we used Unifex cubes to work on adding! We showed different ways to add up to the same number. (eg. 1+6=7, 2+5=7, 3+4=7, etc)

We continued to read Charlotte's Web and got through a couple chapters of that.

We worked on an Art Project with our Grade 5 buddies in the afternoon.

In Math Centres most of us have been able to play with Mathletics. We sent home your child's card so that they are able to login on a computer or tablet at home. I believe the app is free to purchase.

Tomorrow we have our Teacher's Pet in-class field trip to build birdhouses. We still have a few students who have yet to bring in their permission form and money. Please do so as soon as possible so your child can participate with us.

We will have another field trip on June 23rd to the Zoo and the cost for that will be $10 as well. If you need to send that in now we will keep track for you. We also need to know if we have enough Volunteers for the Zoo field trip as well. Please let us know as soon as possible. We will be sending permission forms home by the end of May.

Reminders:
May 
ASAP - Teacher's Pet forms due
11th - Carnival 6-8pm
12th - Teacher's Pet Birdhouses
16th - Pillars of Care Assembly at 1pm (sorry I was saying 1:15 before)
18th - Hot Lunch forms due
19th - No School for kids
22nd - No School - Happy Victoria Day
25th - Spring Concert for Grade 1 - dress rehearsal during the day.
29th - Sports Day and Burger Hot Lunch

Today we learned more about the RULER!!! We were able to measure pictures and put their proper measurement beside each picture. We know that a ruler is STANDARD measurement.

We continued our Mental Health World and Writing from Friday. We wrote about what we can do if we or others around us are sad, mad, happy or excited. There were a lot of great sentences. Some students said they could take 10 deep breaths if they were upset, or that they are excited when it is a special day. Great Job Grade 1's!!!

We also did some Blindfold Science!!!! With a partner one of us was blindfolded and had to draw what our partner told us on a whiteboard. After a few turns we would switch so everyone had a turn. Ask your child to show you how this is done at home.

We have decided that our ZOO field trip will be on Friday, June 23rd. If you are able to take the day off of work and have your security clearance and volunteer forms all ready to go we would love to have you come with us. We will need to know by JUNE 9TH if you are able to volunteer. At that point we will make a decision on whether or not we are able to make this field trip happen. Thank you for your understanding!

With the warm weather comes flip flops and sandals. Please ensure your child has runners for outdoor PE. This keeps your child safe and able to participate.

Reminders:
May 
ASAP - Teacher's Pet forms due
12th - Teacher's Pet Birdhouses
16th - Pillars of Care Assembly at 1pm (sorry I was saying 1:15 before)
18th - Hot Lunch forms due
19th - No School for kids
22nd - No School - Happy Victoria Day25th - Spring Concert for Grade 1 - dress rehearsal during the day.
29th - Sports Day and Burger Hot Lunch

Happy Arbour Day & Hats on for Mental Health

Students came home today with a spruce or pine tree. Each Grade 1 student across Alberta was given a sapling to plant at home. All instructions are on the plastic bag that the tree is in. All of our students were fairly excited to plant a tree that will actually grow at home. We hope you find joy in planting this tree with your child. When you plant it, please take a picture and email your child's teacher. We would love to share those pictures in the classroom. Mrs. Nelson - milnelson@cbe.ab.ca and Mrs. Grunert - algrunert@cbe.ab.ca

TOMORROW we are going to wear Hats for Mental Health. Your child can wear any hat they would like, however, if it proves to be a distraction to their learning, they will be asked to leave it in the coatroom during classroom time.
We discussed different feelings in conjunction for Mental Health.

If your child has yet to return their Teacher's Pet in-class field trip form a new one was sent home today. We have yet to receive more volunteers for this activity to happen. 

Volunteers = 1 for both classes

Please continue to bring in used books for the Book Drive

Home Reading- please ensure that your child is reading each night. It provides such rich and successful reading time between you and your child. Have your child read to you, read together as a family, read to your child. Anything, just keep reading! Ask your child questions about what they have read in the story. This helps your child's comprehension flourish.

Reminders:
May 16th - Pillars of Care Assembly at 1:15pm
25th - Spring Concert for Grade 1 - dress rehearsal during the day.

Pizza Lunch tomorrow! Please still send recess snacks for your child. 

Today we exchanged our Library Books for new ones. Some of us received a notice from the Librarian...it is bright orange! Please take a look.

A Spelling Bee is happening on Friday for the Grade 1 students. Some students brought home a permission form. Students do not have to participate in the Spelling Bee, but they are welcome to watch. They must remain quiet while the Spelling Bee is going on. If you would like your child to participate and did not receive a notice please let their teacher know.

algrunert@cbe.ab.ca or milnelson@cbe.ab.ca

We talked a lot about Measurement during Math and then explored our classroom using only our hands and feet as our non-standard unit of measurement. Ask your child what they measured today.

This afternoon we observed our lima or black bean plants. Unfortunately, a lot of our plants are not growing. We discussed how Science can sometimes be tricky (and gardening too). Mrs. Nelson is going to put a black bean in everyone's cub because all of those beans grew. We will continue to observe our plants over the next few weeks.

There was a Teacher's Pet in-class field trip form that was sent home recently. Please return it with $10 for our in-class field trip happening next Friday, May 12th.

We need VOLUNTEERS for this in-class field trip, so please sign up. So far we have only 1 Volunteer signed up and we need at least 2 per class to make it run smoothly.

Fun Lunch this Thursday. Please still send your child with a recess snack even if they have lunch, they still need a healthy snack at recess time.

Reminders:
4th - Scholastic due this Thursday
16th - Pillars of Care Assembly at 1:15pm
25th - Spring Concert for Grade 1