April 1 - 5

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





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Monday, April 1
Welcome Back!
Guest Speaker - Farming in Alberta
Friendology: How to put out a friendship fire
Writing
Math
City of Ember
April Calendar

Inspector Kesia came from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) as a volunteer with The Classroom Agriculture Program (CAP) to share with us more information about the importance of agriculture in their every day lives. Inspector Kesia taught us about the food they eat and where it comes from as well as opportunities in agriculture. Inspector Kesia also taught us about the economic and environmental impact of agriculture in Alberta. 

















Did you know a dairy cow drinks 80-160L of water each day in order to produce 27L of milk? 


We learned about the different people involved in making sure our food is safe as it goes from the farm to our kitchen table. We even got to dress up as the different inspectors. Aren't they adorable?

Did you know that there are 5.5 million head of cattle in Alberta?

Tuesday, April 2

Buddies
Writing
Math
Getting ready for Telus Spark tomorrow
Science: Refraction Challenge
City of Ember


We were looking at whether a number was divisible by 3 today when doing our number talk. We were using division and skip counting to figure it out. Did you know there is a faster way? If we use the divisibility tests, we can do it without paper and pencil. The divisibility tests seem to work by magic; but there must be an explanation that shows why they aren't magic. They sure are helpful in increasing our automaticity and efficiency when estimating. Why do you think these divisibility tests work?

Wednesday, April 3
Telus Spark Field Trip
- bring a lunch and water bottle

Thursday, April 4

Documentation of our day at Telus Spark
Math: Reviewing what we learned during our Math in Motion session
City of Ember

Science: Refraction Challenges
Writing
Gym x2

How did we do with representing our dance using fractions? Does it make sense?

Friday, April 5
Social: Preparing for Quest Theatre - We Are All Treaty People
Math: spriolaterals
City of Ember
Write

Upcoming Events
April 8: Quest Theatre: We Are All Treaty People
April 18: BWFS Family Dance
April 25: BWS Celebration of Math Night
June 17: JumpingPound Demonstration Forest field trip (volunteers needed)

March 18 - 22

Please return your Telus SPARK field trip permission form as soon as you can. You can pay online using your CBE account.

Students, please remember to return your library books this week.

Monday, March 18
Writing
Micro:bit Coding
Music
Gym
Math
City of Ember
Science

Tuesday, March 19
9-9:30am Book Fair Preview
Writing
Math
Sharing of iMovies (Alberta Stories)
City of Ember
Buddies

Wednesday, March 20
Music
Gym

Thursday, March 21
Gym
11:45am dismissal (Last day of School - See you April 1st)
Conferences 4-7:30pm

Friday, March 22
No School for students
Conferences 8-11:15am

Upcoming Events
March 21: Scholastic Order (order online)
March 25 - 29: Spring Break (No School)
April 1: Students Return
April 3: Telus SPARK field trip (volunteers needed)
April 8: Quest Theatre: We Are All Treaty People
April 18: BWFS Family Dance
April 25: BWS Celebration of Math Night
June 17: JumpingPound Demonstration Forest field trip (volunteers needed)

A note from BWS Parent Council/BWS Fundraising Society:

Hello Bridlewood Parents!

We would like to introduce a new project called, The Sunshine Fund. The Sunshine Fund is a way for all of us to come together and lend a helping hand to families in our community that could use a little extra assistance.

It is a donation box that is available for people who wish to help out by contributing gift cards for various items. These items will be collected and distributed as needed by staff and administration.
The box will be located in the front office and all donations will be anonymous.


Wish List: 
Gas gift cards
Grocery gift cards
Clothing gift cards

Thank you in advance for your help with this new project. Together as a school and a community, we can help to spread a little sunshine and brighten someone’s day.

Sincerely,

BWS Parent Council 
BWS Fundraising Society 

March 11 - 15

Monday, March 11
Math: Document Nine Colour Challenge
Music
Gym
Writing: Stories
Reading Comprehension: Canadian Reader (finish)
Science: Optical Illusions continued
Read Aloud: City of Ember

Tuesday, March 12
Math: addition, subtraction, and multiplication practice
Writing: story
Science: Optical Illusions (hand art)
Buddies: Maud Lewis painting
Social: sharing of Alberta Stories
Gym
City of Ember

Wednesday, March 13
Book Return
Writing
Math: area model for division
Science: Reflection
Gym
Coding: Micro:bits
City of Ember


Thursday, March 14
Writing: Stories due today
City of Ember
Math: division practice
Alberta Stories Sharing
Science: Reflection Challenge
Finish Up Time (Mondrian Art and 9 Colour Problem)

Ask me about Sun Halos! We saw one today during afternoon recess.

Friday, March 15
Math: division practice
Writing: stories
City of Ember
Community Walk to Bridlewood Pond (toque, coat, and boots are needed) - How are the shadows different today from last week? Do I see any other signs of light? Do I see any different reflections?

Remember to book your student-led conference for either Thursday, March 21 or Friday, March 22. If you have any troubles, email or call and we can book you an appointment.


Upcoming Events
March 21: Scholastic Order (order online)
March 21: 11:45am dismissal
March 21 and 22: Student Led Conferences
March 25 - 29: Spring Break (No School)
April 3: Telus SPARK field trip (volunteers needed)
April 8: Quest Theatre: We Are All Treaty People
April 18: BWFS Family Dance
April 25: BWS Celebration of Math Night
June 17: JumpingPound Demonstration Forest field trip (volunteers needed)

March 4 - 8

Monday, March 4
Constable Gemma: Digital Citizenship (1-2pm)
Energy Diet PSA: practice and share out with other classes
Math: Using efficient strategies for multiplying - area model
Art: Finish Mondrian Art Work
Writing: Story Endings

Tuesday, March 5
Math Multiplication Practice (Area Model) mathgames
Writing: endings
Finish Mondrian Art/March Calendar
Number Talk (estimation)
Read Aloud: City of Ember
Science: What can you see in the dark?
Buddies: Folk Art - Maud Lewis

Five Objections to the Area Model

What can you see in the dark?

Ms. Brandt and Ms. Lusk had students explore what they could see in the dark. Students made observations about how what they see changed when the lights were turned off.

Wednesday, March 6
Gym
Music/Learning Commons
Math (problem solving): Nine Colours
Writing: Story
Canadian Reader: Eat Well. Live Well.
Read Aloud: City of Ember
Social: Share Alberta Stories (iMovie)

How will you solve this problem? What will be your beginning strategy? Is it as easy as you thought it would be? What were your challenges? Where did you get stuck? Do you have any tips to share to help others solve this problem?

Reminder: Recycling, Compost, and Garbage

Do you remember where to put things? Should I reuse my plastic fork or recycle it immediately? Do you put your muffin wrappers in the garbage or the compost or recycling? Do you know where to look if you can't remember? Try the City of Calgary website: 
What Goes Where?

What if the recycling is full? What should we do? Do we keep adding recycling or should we ask to go empty it?

Thursday, March 7
Gym
Math
Writing
Canadian Reader: Eat Well. Live Well
Read Aloud: City of Ember
Science

Friday, March 8
What is International Women's Day? Why do we care?
Energy Diet Challenge: One Hour, No Power
Community Walk to Bridlewood Pond: Sketch Journal evidence of shadows, reflection, and plants
Finish up: Mondrian Art, Nine Colours

Some fun making snow angels in a pristine field of snow by Bridlewood Pond. We were headed to sketch and document shadows, reflections, and plants.

Upcoming Events
March 21: Scholastic Order (order online)
March 21: 11:45am dismissal
March 21 and 22: Student Led Conferences
March 25 - 29: Spring Break (No School)
April 3: Telus SPARK field trip (volunteers needed)
June 17: JumpingPound Demonstration Forest field trip (volunteers needed)

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