Feb 25 - March 1

Reminder: dress warmly and appropriately for the weather. That is, wear a toque, boots, mitts, a winter coat, and snow pants.  If there is a break in the weather we will be sending students outside and it’s important that they are dressed for the weather.

Monday, Feb 25
Social Studies: Alberta Stories iMovie
Writing
Music
Gym
The Wild Robot
Math: Developing more efficient strategies for subtraction
Art: Dry felting on our soap

Tuesday, Feb 26
Energy Diet: Planning a PSA for a school no power hour
Math
Writing: Endings
Alberta Stories iMovie (last work day?)
Buddies: Felted soap messages

When we give our felted soaps away, we want to send a message. We are hoping to take a chance to see if we can start a pay it forward movement. We reviewed Ordinary Mary's, Extraordinary Deed and then watched the following video to remind us of how a small action can have a big impact.

Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang

Wednesday, Feb 27
Pink Shirt Day: Wear a pink shirt to show support and raise awareness to be kind and stop bullying.
Pink Shirt Day Alberta

Health: Choose Kindness
Gym
Music
Math: Addition and Subtraction Check-in
Energy Diet Public Service Announcement
Alberta Story iMovie

Look for Felted Soap today...most students took theirs home.







Thursday, Feb 28

Finish Up Alberta Stories
Finish Up Energy Diet PSA
Number Talk
Math Problem
The Wild Robot
Gym


Friday, March 1
No School for Students
PD Day

Information from the Office:

Dear Parents or Guardians,
We are looking for volunteers to help with special lunch on Monday March 4th from 11am - 12:30pm.  

Please reply to bridlewoodvolunteer@gmail.com if you have up to date security clearance and are available to help out.

Thanks so much for considering!

And...
Dear Parents or Guardians,

We are looking for volunteers to help out with our final book fair of the school year.  Please reply to bridlewoodvolunteer@gmail.com if you have up to date security clearance and are available to help out.

Shifts are as follows...

Thursday March 14 in the afternoon to help with set up

Wednesday March 20 8:30-10:30

Wednesday March 20 1:30-3:15

Thursday March 21 8:00am-12:00pm

Thursday March 21 4:00pm-7:30pm

Friday March 22 8:00am-12:00pm

Thanks so much for your consideration.  This is an important fundraiser for our learning commons with the money earned going directly to the school.

Friendology Notes for Parents:

Pink Shirt Day! 

Today we talked about the importance of Pink Shirt Day and anti bullying! We then created our own pink shirts with powerful kind messages!

Kindness Lasts a Lifetime Video

February 18 - 22

Remember to dress for the weather. If we can go outside for lunch and recess, we will. Make sure you have boots, a toque, mitts, snow pants, and a winter jacket.

Note: Ms. Jenn and Ms. Tanya have submitted student writing to the Meaning of Home contest. If you didn't bring in your form for us to submit, you can still do it at home. The due date is Monday, February 18th. Click on the link to submit... https://meaningofhome.ca/submission-form-2019/

Monday, February 18

• Family Day
• No School

Tuesday, February 19

• Welcome Ms. Brandt and Ms. Lusk
• Microbits Workshop (https://kidscodejeunesse.org/microbit.html)
• Science: How Plants Communicate and Think
• Math: Number Talk on Estimation and Origami Pig
• Literacy: Canadian Reader - The Man Who Walked... And Walked
• Social Studies: Alberta Stories - iMovie

Wednesday, February 20

• Music
• Gym
• Math
• Literacy
• Free Write
• Book Exchange

Thursday, February 21

• Gym
• Microbit Reflection
• Alberta Stories
• Energy Diet Challenge
• Math- Estimation and Exploding Dots

Friday, February 22

• 11:45am dismissal
• 
  

Canadian Energy Diet Challenge
What is a Carbon Foot Print?

Use the link below to calculate your carbon footprint- Think about:
How does your footprint compare to the average Canadian Carbon Footprint?
How does a your carbon footprint compare to that of Amal's?
Share how you could lessen your carbon footprint?
Can a small action have a big impact?

Calculate your carbon footprint

Micro-bits
Check out microbit coding


What things can a microbit do?
What did I like about microbits?
What was challenging about coding a microbit?
How would I like to try and use microbits in the future?





Estimation
Estimation is the ability to use information to make an educated guess where you can explain your reasoning.  When looking at this picture you should be able to make an estimate and explain how you arrived at that estimate.

I see 5 red, 4 white, 4 green, 1 yellow and 1 blue.  That is a total of 15 dice but I know there must be more because this is a 3D object.  So I think there might be 28 dice.

Walk Across Canada
Walking to All Canada's Oceans- Use this article from the Vancouver Sun about Dana Meise to practice your predicting, questioning and summarizing.

We used a Canadian Reader article about Dana Meise walking across Canada to all three oceans to practice our Predicting, Questioning and Summarizing skills.  We discussed as a large group what we thought the non-fiction article might be about.  We used
- titles
- headings (sub titles)
- pictures
- captions
Then we read independently and wrote at least 1 question for each heading.
After that we summarized in our table group using our questions to guide us and then thinking about what was most important and what details from the reading high light those important facts.  Finally we answered some comprehension questions.

The Wild Robot

What predictions can you make using the cover of Peter Brown's The Wild Robot?
- Robot was made in the forest
- Robot is hunted
- Robot meets a boy in the woods
- He could find a boat and go sailing
- Supplies found in a boat
- Maybe there is a small island
- Maybe it is Easter
- The robot is like a chicken
- Maybe he is hungry and eats the egg (cooks it on the sidewalk, fries the egg, lays an egg)
- Finds egg in a nest to raise it
- Sea otters trapped and the robot saves him
- Sea otter lays an egg
- Robot finds the otter in a river or ocean
- Complications with robots and water
- Near a rocky ocean when sailing find the rock
- Sailing the boat found egg, the egg hatched a sea otter
- Gave egg to sea otter

Exploding Dots and the Algorithm

February 11-13

Monday, February 11
Writing Talk
Writing ~ Story Writing & Home Writing // Science ~ Building Catapults
Music ~ Ms. Jenn's Class
Gym
Music ~ Ms. Tanya's Class
Math ~ Practice all Operations
Social ~ Alberta Stories iMovie Trailers
Science ~ Building Catapults // Story Writing & Home Writing

Tuesday, February 12
Special Snack

Number Talk
Science ~ FINISH Building Catapults and Share
Math
Writing Talk
Writing ~ Home Writing and Story Writing
Share Science Projects

Wednesday, February 13
Half Day
Wear Red and White for Flag Day!
Goodbye Ms. Wood & Ms. K!

Card Exchange
Finish Writing ~ Story Writing & Home Writing
Share Science Projects
Math
Say Goodbye to our Student Teachers! Do you have any advice for them becoming teachers?

Note: Ms. Jenn and Ms. Tanya have submitted student writing to the Meaning of Home contest. If you didn't bring in your form for us to submit, you can still do it at home. The due date is Monday, February 18th. Click on the link to submit... https://meaningofhome.ca/submission-form-2019/

Subtraction using Exploding Dots