Happy Thursday Dec 20!

1 more sleep till winter break!

The students began their day with their basic facts test...I am very happy to say we bumped up our class average for the test from 74%.............to 82%! Great job everyone!

After recess the students were given a chunk of time to create their storyboards. If they are not finished they should be done so by the time they come back from break.

In the afternoon we had a HUGE room clean up and finished our remaining art projects.

Tomorrow is our Pillars of care assembly at 8:15 followed by some caroling!

We will doing our Secret Santa afterwards so the last few students that need to bring something in please do so tomorrow!

Have a wonderful evening!
Mr Lancee

Happy Wednesday Dec 19!

2 more sleeps till winter break!

Students had a blast today with crazy hair/hat day!

Tomorrow we will be finishing our perspective tree art, writing a basic facts test, finishing story boards, finishing Wonder and of course CAROLING!

Please students, bring in all secret Santa created or purchased gifts tomorrow! This way we can have all the gifts under our class tree before our secret santa giveaway Friday!

Hope everyone has a nice evening!
Mr Lancee

Happy Monday Dec 17
Reminders:
Crazy hair/hat day Dec 19
Carol singing Dec 17-21
Secret Santa gifts due Thursday
Gift Exchange Friday
Pillars of Care assembly Friday at 8:15 am

Today the students began their day by working through their storyboards and mathletics. Students that finished their storyboards were able to continue working on the assignments from the previous weeks.

In the middle block of the day students were given time to watch and answer questions on a properties of air video by Bill Nye.

After lunch, students were given time to enjoy some quiet reading before going off to gym and finally caroling with the entire school!

Tomorrow is the Maverick/Patroller pizza party in room 14/15 at lunch!

Have a nice evening!
Mr Lancee
 

Happy Friday Dec 14!

I just want to give a special thank you to all the students for all the hard work they put into prepping/ helping with concert last night! They have all come so far and put on an amazing show!

Reminders:
Reminders:
Crazy hair/hat day Dec 19
Carol singing Dec 17-21

Secret Santa next week!
Students all chose names today, no spending required! Cannot wait for an awesome week before our break :)
Mr Lancee

Reminders:
Div 2 Winter Concert Dec 13-Doors open at 6:00, Show starts at 6:30
Crazy hair/hat day Dec 19
Carol singing Dec 17-21
Concert Rehearsal Thursday 1:30
Fractions decimals percents unit test Friday
Fun Lunch forms due Dec 14
Please hand back all pizza forms (patrols and mavericks only)


Students have been working hard in LA to generate and plan story boards using storyboardthat.com
These stories will be used to create narrative stories in the coming week!


Below are some examples of the main skills needed for the math exam Friday. We have been covering these concepts for the last 3 weeks.



Cannot wait to see everyone at the concert tomorrow!
Mr Lancee

Reminders:
Div 2 Winter Concert Dec 13-Doors open at 6:00, Show starts at 6:30
Crazy hair/hat day Dec 19
Carol singing Dec 17-21
Concert Rehearsal Thursday 1:30
Fun Lunch forms due Dec 14
Please hand back all pizza forms (patrols and mavericks only)

Concepts this week:
Math: Improper to Mixed Numbers, Percents, Decimals

Social: Provincial Election Process

LA: Story planning

Science: Properties of air

Today the students began their day by creating a booklet to formulate their ideas for a story they will be writing over the next two weeks. We rediscussed the story mountain and explored how the story must have a character, setting, conflict, events, climax and resolution. Students will be using this plan to create a story board and finally a story!

After LA we moved into working with Mixed and improper fractions, relating them to pictures!
Below are some examples of the types of problems you can see!

Convert the following Improper fractions into mixed numbers:

Convert the following mixed numbers into improper fractions


Students were given time after math to continue their presentations that they started researching based off their personal interests within provincial government.

For the last 45 minutes of the day students were given some time to create some winter/holiday decorations for the upcoming winter concert!

Have a great day!
Mr Lancee

Reminders:
Winter Concert Dec 13-Doors open at 6:00, Show starts at 6:30
Crazy hair/hat day Dec 19
Carol singing Dec 17-21
No school Friday

Today the students began their day by practicing for a long block in the music room for our upcoming winter concert. Cannot wait to hear all the amazing songs they will be playing.

In the middle block of the day the students were able to participate in a fantastic inquiry based social studies lessons. Students first brainstormed what they have learned in our provincial government unit. Next, the students were able to create questions about anything they wanted learn more about related to provincial government! Some of the questions included:

• What are the responsibilities of the provincial government?
• Why is the mace important?
• What do governments spend taxes on?
• How many trees does it take to make all the ballots for elections?

Amazing question skills were displayed from the students.

Next students were given time to research their questions and transform their findings into a google doc. This was then used to build a powerpoint to show the class!

In the afternoon students were able to spend some time decorating bags for the SADD (Students against drinking and driving) liquor bag competition. The bags are due Monday and if chosen can win the students cash prizes!

Students finished off the day with a science experiment that analyzed the properties of air!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Mr Lancee

Happy Wednesday Dec 5!

Reminders:
Winter Concert Dec 13-Doors open at 6:00, Show starts at 6:30
Crazy hair/hat day Dec 19
Carol singing Dec 17-21
No school Friday

Today the students began their day by being introduced to improper and mixed fractions!
These two new fractions are one in the same and can be calculated in a few short steps.
Below are some examples!


In the middle block of the day the students continued their exploration of provincial government!
We learned about how MLA's get elected and the steps they must follow.

For the last part of the day students wrote a narrative story based off a fantasy picture!
I am very excited to see all the description and elements of stories students included!

Have a wonderful evening!
Mr Lancee

Happy Monday Dec 3!
Crazy how fast November flew by! Pretty soon we will be on our holiday break!

Reminders:
Winter Concert Dec 13-Doors open at 6:00, Show starts at 6:30
Crazy hair/hat day Dec 19
Carol singing Dec 17-21
No school Friday
Basic facts quiz tomo

This week:

Math: Fractions! Equivalent and improper fraction comparisons
Social: Provincial Government structure
Science: Properties of Air
LA: Descriptive writing

Today the students began their day by doing a quick review of basic facts in morning math. We will be applying these skills tomorrow for our basic facts test. After Morning Math we moved into drawing fractions as percents and decimals! They are all related: 50%=1/2=50/100=0.5=0.50!

After math we explored some descriptive writing specifically related to describing people. You can use your five senses to describe anything about somebody including their emotions.

In the afternoon we did a large catch up block with social as we covered the structure of provincial government. We broke down Alberta into constituencies to compare them to wards in our city. This helps us to understand the political parties in power within the legislative assembly.

In gym, students had the privilege of participating in Aussie rules football! A specialist came in and allowed the students to play several games related to the tough sport. The kids had a blast!

Have a wonderful evening and stay warm!
Mr Lancee

Happy Thursday Nov 29!

Today the students had an amazing BHS loves reading day! So many students and teachers dressed up as their favourite book characters and enjoyed stopping and reading several times throughout the day.

It has been a busy week in science this week working through kahoot quizzes, review and science presentations! All of this work is a huge benefit to studying for the test tomorrow.

Students enjoyed their extra long music today practicing in preparation for their music performance in December!

Tomorrow we have our science test and both Mr Mueller and I cannot wait to see the results!

Congrats to the Pillars of Care winners for November! Hopefully everyone can make it to our assembly tomorrow at 8:15 am :)

Have a great evening!
Mr Lancee

Happy Tuesday Nov 27!

No blog message yesterday as I was in Phoenix!

Reminders:
Pillars of care assembly Friday at 8:15 am
Science test Friday
Science project presentations all week
Dress as your favourite book character Thursday!

BHS Loves Reading Day - November 29
On November 29, 2018, Beddington Heights School will be celebrating all things books on our BHS Loves Reading Day.
Students are welcome and encouraged to come to school dressed as their favorite book character for the day.  They may even want to carry a copy of the book that the character is featured in with them, as we will be having multiple "Drop Everything And Read" times throughout the day.  Classes will also be decorating their doors with book themed artwork, and taking the time to appreciate why reading is so amazing.
We hope to see a good number of students, and teachers, in our school participating in this community spirit event.
We can't wait to see all of our friends and peers dressed up, reading, and showing us what characters mean the most to them.

This week:

In Math this week we will be covering fractions and percents!
The fractions and percents are covering representing them as both pictures and words, then leading into equivalent fractions.

In LA this week we will be doing a combination of descriptive writing and presentations!

In Science we are reviewing for our test Friday! KAHOOT KAHOOT KAHOOT!

In Social we are beginning to learn about provincial government. We begin by exploring how provinces are broken up into constituencies and how the parties are formed.

Have a wonderful evening!

Happy Thursday Nov 22!

Tonight is parent teacher night! Cannot wait to meet everyone!

Today the students presented their social equity and equality skits! I am happy to say I am seeing some huge improvements to confidence and public speaking in our grade sixes!

In math today we began to explore fractions and percents. We worked as a class and independently representing different colors of cubes in fractions, pictures and percents. Below is an example of the chart we used.


Remember, If you cannot come tonight there is still time tomorrow to sign up for parent teacher conferences!

Happy Wednesday Nov 21!

HUGE REMINDER!
Tomorrow is the first evening of student led conferences! I am hoping to see everyone either tomorrow or Friday!

Grade 1 - 6 Student Involved Conferences

November 22nd:3:30 pm - 7:30 pm

November 23rd: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

These conferences are an excellent opportunity for students, along with their parents, to review their achievement and progress.  All families are encouraged to attend.  Parents who are available through the day are encouraged to book their conferences on Friday to help accommodate others whose schedules may not be as flexible.

Reminders:
Dress as your favourite book character Nov 29
Social Equity and equality skits being presented tomorrow!
Long Music practice first thing in the morning!
No school Friday (unless you have interviews)
Science project due Nov 26

Cant wait to see everyone tomorrow night to celebrate learning and your children!
Mr Lancee

Happy Monday Nov 19!

Reminders:

Student led conferences Nov 22-23

Book fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your favourite character from a book NOV 29
Science Trees and Forest project due Nov 26


Student led conferences this week!
Please sign up using your mycbe account. Cannot wait to see everyone Thursday night or Friday!
Yes please your children as they will be reading IRIS goals, celebrations and areas of growth!



Important:
See school messenger for message regarding false fire alarm today

BHS Loves Reading Day - November 29
On November 29, 2018, Beddington Heights School will be celebrating all things books on our BHS Loves Reading Day.
Students are welcome and encouraged to come to school dressed as their favorite book character for the day.  They may even want to carry a copy of the book that the character is featured in with them, as we will be having multiple "Drop Everything And Read" times throughout the day.  Classes will also be decorating their doors with book themed artwork, and taking the time to appreciate why reading is so amazing.
We hope to see a good number of students, and teachers, in our school participating in this community spirit event.  
We can't wait to see all of our friends and peers dressed up, reading, and showing us what characters mean the most to them.

This week:

MATH: 
Tomorrow students will be writing a word problem quiz to measure there application of computation skills they have been learning for the last two months. The test will consist of five questions that grow in difficulty with each problem.
On Wednesday we will be moving onto Fractions! Hooray!

SOCIAL:
In social this week students will be working in groups of four to make Equity and Equality skits! We spent last week learning about this and decision making and its time for the students to show what they have learned.


LA:
Students have begun daily word work in which they are learning to generate creative and descriptive words. Today featured:

The development of their word choice and sentences will greatly assist them as they move into descriptive writing this week!

SCIENCE:
In Science the students are working hard to finish their science projects on tree types, leaves and the impacts of humans on forests!

Have a wonderful evening!
Mr Lancee

Happy Friday Nov 16!

Reminders:

Student led conferences Nov 22-23

Book fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your favourite character from a book NOV 29
Science Trees and Forest project due Nov 26

Beddington Heights School is supporting the city of Calgary Mayor's Food Drive, along with WE Scare Hunger! We are accepting monetary ($$) donations in the office, and non-perishable food donations. The pick up date is Dec 10th, let's fill up those boxes and help those in need! 

Yesterday the students began their day a bit out the norm. From now until the holiday concert students will have extended music in order to give them time to fully practice as a band.

During the middle block of the day students were given time to write a rhyming reflection that explained one thing they learned from poetry but in a rhyme.

Students were given a large chunk today to work on their science projects and mathletics. It was their choice as to which one they wanted to work on first.

As a method of keeping students accountable for their homework I told students that if they did not finish their spelling sentences they had to finish it before they could work on their projects or mathletics.

In Science, we are starting our end of unit project on Tress and Forests.
I have explained the project today in class.
Attached you will find the expectations and task outline and a model slide (level 4).
In class, we will provide about 1hour a day for research and note-taking time this week.
Students are welcome to use our laptops and create a slide-show. 
The due date will be November 26th and determine part of their report card mark in Science.

Example of a slide (level 4)

Science:
Inquiry Research project on Alberta's Trees, leaves and forest issues.
Some popular trees being researched in class are:

Coniferous:  Lodgepole Pine, Black Spruce, Douglas Fir, White Pine, Jack Pine, Larch

Deciduous:  Green Ash, Aspen & Balsam Poplar, Birch, Manitoba Maple, Bur Oak

Students are comparing tree size and growth, type, shape and margin of leaves, structure of bark and as extension: use of wood & fruits.

Useful Links for further research!

Local Tree Species:

http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Parks/Pages/Planning-and-Operations/Tree-Management/Top-Tree-Species-for-Calgary.aspx

Tree Facts:

https://www.kidzone.ws/plants/trees.htm

Tree Loss:

http://www.kidsecologycorps.org/our-environment/natural-cycles/tree-loss

Food Web in a Forest Ecosystem:

http://moodle2.rockyview.ab.ca/mod/book/view.php?id=58698&chapterid=34855

Grade 6 School Conferences: 

This message is to inform you that our School Conference called "Grades 1 - 6 November 2018 Conferences " has been created by our school. Please note that the start date for parent’s booking is 07:00 AM (Nov 19, 2018), and booking ends at 15:00 PM (Nov 22, 2018)

Happy Wednesday Nov 14!

Reminders:

Student led conferences Nov 22-23

Book fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your favourite character from a book NOV 29

We began our day by creating our IRIS goals for our upcoming student led conferences. Students gave an explanation about themselves as a learner then listed one goal for Math, LA and personal.

Students had the amazing opportunity to participate in their government yesterday with doing a student vote for the 2026 Olympic Plebiscite. We spent the morning in Social learning about the plebiscite and sharing news articles, interviews and explanations on the chance of having the Olympics in our city once again. Having a votion station in Beddington gave the students the chance to see the voting process including seeing the process, ballots and watching ballots be counted in the counter. Students were able to vote using a ballot and voting stall saying whether they were for or against the vote. The students in room had a majority saying they would have like to see the Olympics again in Calgary. The results of the bid in Calgary stated that we are not going to be hosting the Olympics in 2026.

Just a reminder that students can bring in 1 dollar for votes for the worst and best mustache in the school in support of Movember (Awareness for male cancer and suicide)

Have a wonderful evening!

Mr Lancee

Happy Monday Nov 12!

Reminders:
Spelling Test Friday
Spelling Sentences due Friday

Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23

Book Fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29

Today the students began their day by being introduced to the story mountain for story writing!

Cool video on the story mountain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWHZJZQDSE



In math this week we will be applying what we have learned in basic facts to word problems. The skill of solving word problems is essential for life problems and PAT's at the end of the year!

In Social, Students worked out of the textbook researching key terms and reading the pages related to our new unit: Decision Making!

The students were fortunate to see a first nations presentation in the gym today that displayed some traditional artifacts and displayed a dance. Students had a blast experiencing this mini presentation.

Below is the spelling words for this week!

Have a nice evening!

Spelling Words Week 5 Science: Trees and Forests

Must

1)                  energy

2)                  oxygen

3)                  glucose

4)                  photosynthesis

5)                  lumber

6)                  sustainable

7)                  recreation

8)                  abiotic

9)                  forestry

10)             conservation

Extra

11)             carbon dioxide

12)             natural resource

13)             environmentalist

14)             xylem

15)             phloem

Use the word in a sentence and underline it!

Happy Thursday Nov 8!

Apologies for the lack of blogs on Tuesday and Wednesday...I was away from school due to illness.

Reminders:

Remembrance Day assembly at 10:30 (Time was adjusted) Nov 9

Social local gov test tomorrow! Friday Nov 9

Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23

Book Fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29

Today the students began their day with music. It is always nice to see the students working together playing their instruments each time I pick them up from music.

After music we completed our bi-weekly basic facts math quiz. I am very happy to report our class average was 75%. Some practice is still needed with multiplication and division of decimals but that is why we practice!

After math we spent some time finishing our poppies for the Remembrance Day assembly tomorrow at 10:30. The remainder of the block was spent practicing Kahoot quizzes for our Social Quiz tomorrow. Remember, its never too late to study! Kahoot.com Search local government.

In the afternoon students were introduced to the first elements of story writing! We focused on the six types of conflict that can be found within stories and made small comic strips to showcase these.

The end of the day was rounded off with some additional Kahoot quizzes for some last minute studying for the quiz tomorrow.

Have a nice evening
Mr Lancee

Happy Monday Nov 5

Reminders:

Remembrance Day assembly at 10:45 Nov 9

Social local gov test Friday Nov 9

Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23

Book Fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Looking forward to reading and marking all of the poetry anthologies this week!

Today the students began their day with creating our documentation of learning boards. This board is outside of our classroom and will be viewable at student led conferences night.

In the middle part of the day the students began to practice decimal division! Believe it or not, it is the same as normal division with a trick to solve using decimals. Below is a sheet we were working through today!

We will be having a basic fact data test this week to see the students progress!

Check out math antics for some helpful videos and tips!

In the afternoon the students were able experience the wonders of Kahoot! This online quiz site is free and accessible from any computer. It is our main and fun way to study for tests in social and science!

Kahoot.com

Special Note:

The majority of our BHS male staff members are participating in our traditional Movember

fundraiser. For a $1 donation students can buy one vote for the teacher with the worst or best mustache this month.

The donations will be going to the Canadian Movember Foundation. Movember is an annual event involving

the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, 

such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men's suicide

Happy Friday Nov 2! I cannot believe it is already November!

Reminders:
Pillars of Care Assembly Friday at 8:15 am
Poetry Anthology due Monday (Extended Date)
Social local gov test next Friday Nov 9
One Journal topic due next Wednesday!
Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23
Remembrance day assembly Nov 9
Book Fair Nov 20-23
Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29

Critical thinking question for Social:

In what way is local government part of a democracy?

Think...FREJ

Freedom Representation Equity Justice

We will be covering this question Monday!


Today...

Congrats to the winners of the Pillars of care awards! Amazing assembly today!

The students in room 14 had their first buddies today! We went down to the kindergarten room and showed the little buddies how to log into mathletics and solve some kindergarten level mathletics problems.


Have a great weekend!
Looking forward to seeing everyones poetry anthologies due Monday!