April 29 - May 3

Monday, April 29

• Music
• Math/Writing: Document the Handshake problem - I can communicate clearly how I solved the problem. 
• Planning for Ms. Fortowsky: How do we take a chance and show courage in our community? What is our story of courage?
• Story: Book of Courage by Jessica Renwick - Ask ME! Who are the main characters? What do you think is going to happen in the story? How do you know?
  
• Math: Area Blackout Game
• Gym: Yoshi - Ask me to explain the rules. This is our most requested outside game when we do gym outdoors.

Tuesday, April 30
Artist in Residence: Mrs. Fortowsky is here to continue our work
Buddies
Write: What is important in your Alberta?
Math: Multiplication and Division practice

Healthy Hunger Special Lunch Reminder/Request for Volunteers

Hello Parents/Guardians of Grades 1-6 students at Bridlewood School, Please be reminded that the next special lunch for Grades 1-6 is Little Caesars and will be on Monday, May 6th.  The deadline to have your Healthy Hunger orders in is Wednesday, May 1st at midnight.  Special lunch orders can be made online using the link: https://healthyhunger.ca/ Also, volunteers are needed to help out with the special lunch from 11 am - 12:30 pm.  If you are available to help out and have up-to-date security clearance, please respond to bridlewoodvolunteer@gmail.com.   Thanks!

Wednesday, May 1
Hats on for Mental Health
8:30am Pier 21 Musical: Welcome Home to Canada
Gym
Math
May Calendar

Error analysis is a strategy which supports higher level thinking, helps students develop conceptual understanding, and a great strategy that can be used for tests.  Two Truths, One Lie is an example of looking for errors. Not only do students have to find the error, students are expected to explain why they think that. Can you figure out which statement is false?  Why do you think that?

The Red Tree Message

Our May Challenge...

We are beginning to wonder what our ducks will look like. Ms. Harrison says they are a mixed breed. Here is a picture of the ducks on the farm. What do you think our ducks will look like?

Here is a short video of what our babies looked like today in their shells. Can you see our little duckling moving? He is sure getting big.

Thursday, May 2
Gym

Friday, May 3

Watch carefully and see if you can see the duck moving.  How old do you think the ducks are?  If they hatch at approximately 28 days- are they close?  How do you know?

April 22 - 26

Alien Inline Information: Students are welcome to bring their own skates and encouraged to bring their own helmets for inline skating days.

If you want to review how to get ready and what you should remember from last year, take a peek at the video.

Alien Inline Orientation Video





We are inviting you to our Celebration of Math night, which is taking place on Thursday, April 25^th from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. 

On Math Night you will have an opportunity to:

-learn about the progression of skills and strategies students use in computation from Kindergarten to Grade 6

-see various strategies that your child is learning in class related to computation

-learn about and play math games with your child to reinforce skills and concepts

-be provided with many suggestions to support and enhance your child’s math skills at home

-most importantly have fun and do math!

See you on Thursday, April 25^th between 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm!

Monday, April 22
No School for Students

Tuesday, April 23
9-9:50 Alien Inline
Buddies
Energy Diet Videos (Energy Diet Challenge Public Service Announcements)
Math: Data collection and graphing

Did you know we can represent data in multiple ways? Today we represented our shoe size (we needed to know this for Alien Inline) using a t-chart, a pie chart, and a bar graph (mine might look more like a histogram because I was worried about the space on my page). Ask me how I was able to create each of these graphs using one strip of paper. It is pretty cool and we didn't need a protractor or compass either.

Wednesday, April 24
Music
1:30-2:20pm Alien Inline
Energy Diet Video
Duck Observations
Math
Writing
Reading

Thursday, April 25
9-9:50 Alien Inline
1:30-2:20 Alien Inline

Celebration of Math from 5:30 to 7:00 pm


Friday, April 26

April 15-19

Monday, April 15
Music
Gym
Math
Writing

We have duck eggs...

This weekend Ms. Harrison gave us some duck eggs from her friend's farm.  Grade 3 and Grade 4 are sharing these 10 eggs.  We are sharing fairly, how many eggs will we have?

We don't know much about these eggs.  We will be using light and shadow to learn a little about these eggs.  Did you know using light and shadow we can determine if these eggs are fertilized and how old the duckling inside is?  This is called candling.  Can you tell us how candling works?

We are using an incubator to rotate and keep the eggs warm.  Why do we need to rotate the eggs?  What happens if an egg isn't rotated?

Tuesday, April 16
Special Lunch
Math
Writing
Buddies

Candling Picture

After school today we tried to candle the eggs.  Here are the pictures we took.  Below them is a chart that can help you identify the stage of development.  What do you notice about our eggs?  Are these eggs fertilized- how do you know?  When do you think we should candle again?

Wednesday, April 17
Music
Gym
Math
Writing

Thursday, April 18
Last Day for Ms. Brandt and Ms. Lusk
Gym
Math
Writing

We have been working on creating a sustainable city. We were inspired by the book we have been reading, City of Ember. Would you like to live in one of these cities? Do they have everything a city needs? Is anything missing? Can you see how my city would be powered? Can you see how my city will grow food?

A heartbeat!!! Can you see the heart beat? It looks like a flutter. It is tiny and very fast.

Update (April 18, 2019):

On behalf of Habitat for Humanity Canada I would like to express our sincere gratitude to the teachers and parents who encouraged their students to participate in this year’s Meaning of Home contest. Thanks to your support, students across Canada have become advocates for affordable homeownership and have realized the power they have as young people to bring about positive change in their community.

Thanks to the efforts of your students, more families across Canada in need of a hand up will have improved access to affordable homeownership and the strength, stability and independence that comes with having a safe and decent place to live.

We received over 8,200 entries from across the country and our judges are enjoying reading each and every one. We are currently in the final stages of selecting this year’s contest winners and look forward to sharing the results with you on meaningofhome.ca in mid-May.

On behalf of Habitat for Humanity Canada and the families we serve, thank you for your support.
 Sincerely,
April Gibson

BSFS Family Dance

Friday, April 19
Good Friday No School - See you Tuesday, April 23!

Alien Inline Dates are: 

If you are bringing a helmet, or inline skates then please make sure they are labelled with your name.

Tuesday April 23 - 9:00-9:50am
Wednesday April 24 - 1:30-2:20pm
Thursday April 25 - 9:50-10:40am and 1:30- 2:20pm

April 8 - 12

We are looking for 43 2L pop bottles (empty and clean.) We want to make terrariums with the students to grow plants. If you can send these into us, we will be very grateful. Thank-you in advance.

Ms. Tanya and Ms. Jenn

 

Prodigy is a math website where students can practice their math skills in a game-like format. Please refer to the picture for information on how to self register. The website is: www.prodigygame.com

Monday, April 8
Social: We are Treaty People
- Researching questions and sharing our ideas
Quest Theatre: We Are All Treaty People
City of Ember
Math: Number talk and finishing spirolaterals
Indigenous Games Outside
Writing: Reflection on Quest Theatre

Tuesday, April 9
Energy Diet Writing

Will our sundials work? How will they work?

Science: Making Sundials and observations
Math in the real world (Math Curse, by Jon Scieszka)
Buddies
Music (Ms. Jenn only)

What type of math curse can you find around Bridlewood School? How about your house? Can you write problems to add to the math curse story?

Wednesday, April 10
Math
Science: Sundial observations
Energy Diet Writing
Music
Gym

Thursday, April 11

Jersey Day: Wear your Flames jersey to show your support for the Flames in playoffs
Sundial Observation

Writing
Math
Energy Diet Writing
Gym
Coding
Read
Science: Optical Devices
City of Ember

Coding with the micro:bits is so much fun. We practiced how to write a program and debug the program if it didn't work as expected. Then we had to make a bracelet so we could test our pedometer. Ask me about the accuracy of the pedometer I made. Was it more accurate if I wore it on my wrist or ankle?  Was it accurate for walking? running? jumping?

Friday, April 12
Math
Energy Diet Writing
Introduction to our final Light and Shadows project

We were checking the Meaning of Home website. Did you know they raised over $82 000 and we supported them in getting there :) We will be checking back often as they said they would announce the winners in April 2019.
https://meaningofhome.ca/

Classroom Energy Diet Challenge- 

Check out our Classroom Energy Diet Challenge page for updates.

Upcoming Events
April 18: BWFS Family Dance
April 25: BWS Celebration of Math Night
June 17: JumpingPound Demonstration Forest field trip (volunteers needed)