February 4 - 8

This week...

Monday, February 4
Mission Impossible (tie hair up, no skirts, no dresses, no loose shirts)

February Calendar
Math - division using exploding dots (Division using Exploding Dots Thinking)
Science - levers
Read to Self
Story Writing
Alberta Story using iMovie

Tuesday, February 5
Social ~ Alberta Stories
Math ~ division practice
Writing: What Home Means to Me and story writing
Wishtree Wishes
Art/Math ~ origami pigs

Wednesday, February 6
Number Line Strategies
Music
Book Exchange
Math ~ division
Science ~ gears
Art/Math ~ origami pigs
Gym ~ Mission Impossible
Writing ~ What Home Means to Me (due Tuesday, February 12) and story writing
Meaning of Home

Winter Walk Day
http://www.movingandchoosing.com/register-your-school-for-winter-walk-day-2019

Thursday, February 7
Math ~ number talk
Writing ~ story writing and What Home Means to Me
Gym ~ Mission Impossible
Social ~ Alberta stories
Math ~ Practicing the different order of operations with the use of manipulatives
Science ~ Start planning our devices we will construct using at least 2 simple machines
 (Students can bring in extra materials ie. toilet paper rolls, water bottle lids )

Friday, February 8
Artist in Residence: Ms. Sharon Fortowsky (click here to follow our work)
Writing: What does home mean to me? and Barb Story
Science: Building a Catapult (follow our learning by clicking here)

Exciting News...

Ryan, Omnia, and Chayse found an unexpected surprise in the mail recently...they have been informed that each of their poems has been selected by Polar Expression Publishing to continue to the second round of judging AND each of their poems will be published in the next copy of the book. Did anyone else get mail? Congratulations Ryan and Omnia!!

In the Footsteps of Giants: Nellie McClung and the Famous Five

Students have been reading stories about Alberta to learn more about our past. One of the stories read was, Nellie McClung and the Famous Five. Students practiced the skills of predicting, questioning, and summarizing the key points. Students are in the process of drawing pictures to help illustrate the key points from the story. The final step will be to put the key points and the illustrations together to create an iMovie to share with the class. We are excited to see how the movies turn out.

Wishtree Wishes

Students have listened to the story, Wishtree, by Katherine Applegate. They identified key information including the beginning, characters, problem, middle, message/lesson, and end. They shared that Red took a chance when she spoke to Stephen and Samar; something a tree is not allowed to do. Ms. Jenn painted a beautiful tree for students to share their wishes. The next time you are in the school, pop by the classroom and look for our wishtree in our windows.

Classroom Energy Diet

Welcome to the Classroom Energy Diet.  TAKE HOME CHALLENGE
Below is a challenge for you to complete with your family.  How many plastic bags do you use?  Below you will find the Parent Letter- Please have a read, and the two tracking sheets.

The importance of structure when writing a story:

January 28 - February 1

This week...

Monday, January 28
Number Talk- Benchmark
Character Development- Hello Barb!
Math- Multiplication (2 digit by 1 digit)
Music
Gymnastics
Oral Story Telling
Felted Soap 1.0 (soap, bubble wrap, nylon stocking, labeled towel)

Tuesday, January 29
Accountability Pillar
Felted Soap 2.0 (Teaching our grade 2 buddies)

Wednesday, January 30
Gymnastics
Music
What home means to you writing
Math practice
Scholastic Book Orders Due

Bell Let's Talk day! Please wear any hat to symbolize taking care of your brain and your mental health. You can also wear your Bridlewood blue shirt or any blue shirt in spirit of our Bridlewood community taking care of one another always. Let's keep the conversation going about how important it is to take care of our mental health everyday. 

Thursday, January 31
Gymnastics

Friday, February 1
No School

Upcoming Events

Monday, February 4 - Mission Impossible 
- tie hair up
- no dresses, skirts, or loose shirts

Winter Walk to School Day
Winter walk to school day is approaching next week on Wednesday, Feb. 6th. See the link below for more information.

http://www.movingandchoosing.com/register-your-school-for-winter-walk-day-2019

Bell Let's Talk

Here are a few resources you might find helpful:

https://letstalk.bell.ca/en/bell-lets-talk-day

Some key things to keep in mind:

• Talk openly about mental health. Take the time to talk to family or friends about mental health.
• Educate yourself and others. Ask to hear personal stories of mental illness. Ask questions to understand and learn more.
• Be conscious of language. Don’t use hurtful or derogatory language.
• Show compassion for people with mental illness. Compassion can be shown by saying a kind word or making eye contact with someone.
• Speak out about stigma. If you hear stigmatizing language take a stand and provide feedback to others about this.

This is a great resource about using appropriate language. Words to "use instead of" list is great! Such a good reminder to be mindful at all times about what we say.

https://hogg.utexas.edu/news-resources/publications/language-matters-in-mental-health

Language Matters in Mental Health - Hogg Foundation Personal Preferences. Language is constantly evolving. As times change, the words people prefer also change. To show respect in conversations with others, be mindful of the impact your word choices have. hogg.utexas.edu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=THLOJG8zdR8

Bell Let's Talk 2017: Clara Hughes - Understanding is the Key Clara Hughes believes understanding is key to acceptance. Watch this video to hear her thoughts on why education is a crucial component to breaking the stigm... www.youtube.com

Bell will donate more towards mental health initiatives in Canada by contributing 5¢ for every applicable text, call, tweet, social media video view and use of our Facebook frame or Snapchat filter.  Spread the word to your friends and family all day long! 

Introducing Barb...
We have been working on story telling and character development using Pixar in a Box.  Last week we created a class character.  We considered her internal, and external features as well as traits that motivate her.  We needed to think about her fears, and what she wants versus what she needs and how these things will help us create a story about Barb.

Today we met Barb and were challenged to make our own story plan about Barb knowing that she is 35 years old, scared of water, spiders and small spaces, is at University to become an engineer, is also a singer and is bullied because she is a puppet.


Here is Barb!

Felted Soap

Felted Soap continued

January 29, 2019- We did some hard and worthy work this morning.  Inspired by Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed we took on creating our own Extraordinary Deed- Felted Soap.  We wrapped our soap and then used bubble wrap to agitate and get the fibers of the wool to mesh together.  We had to agitate our soap for 15-20 minutes.  Our arms certainly got tired.  

We talked about how to create a movement the way Mary did.  Do we donate our soap to a charity?  Do we gift it to a friend or family member?  How will they know to pay it forward or do something kind for another?  Do we write a note?

Hats on for Mental Health

Today is Hats on for Mental Health.  We encourage everyone today and everyday to take care of both their physical and mental wellbeing.  Today the focus was on our mental wellbeing and how to talk about our feelings and who to talk to...if we need to.  Hats on for Mental Health- take a little time for yourself today.

Our Alberta Stories

Alberta Stories- The Tale of Napi and the Creation of Land and Man

Our first attempt to retell one of Alberta's Stories using imovie.  Some of the important information you should see in our movies are :

1) The world was water

2) Napi needed clay to make land and people

3) Beaver, Loon and Otter dived but could not get the clay

4) Muskrat was successful and brought the clay to Napi

5) Napi used the clay to shape land and people