Calgary Board of Education


Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Day 20

 Sorry for the delay, I had to run out after school today.

Highlights from Today...

It was a busy day, but a good one. 

In the morning our eye opener was a scrabble, the class won today. It was their first win of the year. The challenge was VEGETATION, students used all the letters to make as many little words as possible. 

We worked on adding elaborate details in writing today, the students did a great job turning a boring repetitive sentence into one with description and variety. Tomorrow we will be looking at how to write a topic and closing sentence for a paragraph. 

For Orange Shirt Day, we watched another story about residential school and wrote a short reflection on why Orange Shirt Day is important and how it makes you feel. 




Our Terry Fox run was during our Phys. Ed time, we ran/walked towards the pond and around Dr. Martha Cohen field and back again. Thank you for the donations, the Terry Fox Foundation will be grateful. 

This afternoon for math we practiced a little more expanded form then move into increasing sequences. Luckily almost everyone though it was easy to do, so we can move on to how we can use charts and tables to keep track of increasing and decreasing sequences. 


Reminders...

  • Science homework is due on Monday, please keep track on a regular basis for this week
  • The blog will be posted in Google Classroom beginning tomorrow


Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Day 19

 Highlights from Today...

Well, what a day! The morning was great we continued to work on researching the regions of Alberta and had two rounds of guided reading  

By the afternoon we had a some trouble focusing we attempted an art project but did not get very far in the process  they will be wonderful when they are finished but we have a ways to go. Here are a few photos of rough copies. 







Reminders...

  • Orange Shirt Day tomorrow
  • Terry Fox Run tomorrow during our PE time
  • The blog will be moving to google classroom beginning October 1 

Monday, September 28, 2020

Day 18

 Highlights from Today...

For math this morning we practiced another number of the day, showing the number is a variety of ways such as expanded form, written form, base ten blocks and worked on adding. 

We began our first day of guided reading, I read with two groups while the rest of the class spent 20 mins on word work (short and long i) and 20 mins on Think Tank. I will be working through all the groups this week, reading short books for now before we begin novels. 

In writing, we started a paragraph of the week. Our topic is autumn, day one was a brainstorming day and tomorrow we will be choosing some of our ideas to write more explanation. 






In SuperFudge, Peter's best friend Jimmy Fargo was really mad at him for moving. He said, he would never talk to Peter again. Luckily, Jimmy came around and apologized for getting so upset and realized that it was not Peter's fault. They decided to still be friends in the end and find a way stay in touch. 

For social studies today, we completed our regions of Alberta map. Ask about the 6 different regions, Boreal Forest, Rocky Mountains, Foothills, Grasslands, Parkland and Canadian Shield. Tomorrow we will continue to research specific information. 




I have sent home a tracking sheet for homework this week, students may require some support to add examples and tally marks to their sheet. I have added an example below to show how to fill out the form. It is okay if not all the categories are filled, they are there as a guide. Maybe choose one meal a day or to track what is going in each bin. For example, at dinner we used one metal can, two pasta boxes and put orange peels in the garbage. (one tally in metal cans, two in cardboard and one in the food) 




Reminders...

  • Homework is due on Monday, October 5th
  • I will be moving the blog to Google Classroom beginning October 1 


Thursday, September 24, 2020

Day 17

 Happy Birthday Nate


Highlights from Today...

Our day started with a little cursive practice, we wrote the word Autumn, practicing connecting letters. It is important to be able to read cursive handwriting, therefore understanding what each letter looks like and how they are formed is a skill we will practice each week. 

Using our notes from our Autumn walk and the leaf rubbings as a background each student successfully wrote an autumn poem. 









Most of our morning was used to complete and catch up on any incomplete work and organizing our bins. 


Reminders...

No school on Friday due to conferences 

The blog will be transferring over to the announcement section of Google Classroom, please let me know if you have any difficulties logging in

Coming up next week:

  • September 30 is both the Terry Fox Run and Orange Shirt Day




Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Day 16

Happy Birthday Adam 

Highlights from Today...

This morning we logged onto the computers and began some research on the 6 regions of Alberta. Did you know that the Edmonton is in the parkland region of Alberta and common animals in the are include coyotes, beavers, ducks, geese and burrowing owls. 

In chapter 3 of SuperFudge we learned that the family is moving to Princeton, New Jersey, Peter is NOT happy about another change in his life. We are looking forward to see how he deals with this situation. 

Using our original notes from our autumn walk, we elaborated and adding more details to our work so we will be able to write a poem tomorrow. 





Reminders... 

Early dismissal tomorrow at 11:45 

No classes on Friday due to conferences

Conferences will begin at your designated time using Microsoft Teams. I have emailed out the links, if you did not receive the link please let me know (sldeibert@cbe.ab.ca).

We will moving towards posting updates in Google Classroom vs using the blog. 

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Day 15

 Highlights from Today...

We spent a large portion of the day outside today. Since today is the first day of Autumn, we went for a walk around the pond sketching and taking jot notes along the way.

As we walked, we noticed several signs of autumn such as a squirrel gathering nuts for the winter, leaves blowing off the trees, migrating birds, the cool breeze, etc. The fallen leaves were perfect for us to collect and try out some leaf rubbings back in the classroom. Tomorrow we will write a poem, using our notes from our walk to write over top of our leaf rubbings. 














Reminders...

Today at 4:00 there will be a Google Meet with a quick video of our classroom and some of the work we have been up to. (Code is Grade4D)

The link will be posted in google classroom in case you miss it.