Friday, April 3, 2020

April 3, 2020

April 3, 2020
Hello Parents and Students, 
With the current Pandemic and the cancellation of classes, an average of five hours per week of at home learning opportunities, as directed by Alberta Education (https://www.alberta.ca/student-learning-during-covid-19.aspx) will now be accessible using Google Classroom. Please refer to the School Messenger emails from April 2 and April 3 for all the details and log in information that you will need.

The blog will not be updated after today.
See you in the virtual Google Classroom!

Philip Richardson
parichardson@cbe.ab.ca

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Ready Theory

I have created an account on a CBE approved resource called ReadTheory    Code is B3KT6JWX.

I will not assign anything concrete on this website just yet but feel free to explore in the meantime.


Friday, March 20, 2020

Please see the attached photo from epic. Rather than spam you all with emails, please let me know if you would like me to email out a link for you.

Thanks

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Home learning resources

Hello,

I am going to be pasting some links to resources in here.

Scholastic has some online learning for the next 20 days:

French stories here and here.

English stories here

English work for Google Drive:

Pick one of the following sentences and write a paragraph that 'shows' what is being described.


  • She was so sad when she lost her puppy.
  • The garden was beautiful.
  • It was a stormy night.
  • The cake was delicious.
  • It was an exciting day.
  • I have a huge secret.
  • I am on a trip around the world.
  • The phone rang, she picked it up and ...
  • Our supply teacher is very unusual
Think about painting a picture with your words ( nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs).  Think about your 5 senses, what can you see, feel, taste, hear and smell?
Describe the character's actions

Illustrate the paragraph you wrote. Make illustrations match the words in the paragraph.

Send me your work on google drive: parichardson@educbe.ca 




Friday, March 13, 2020

March 13

Hello everyone. I wanted to start by saying that you and you family's health is much more important than anything school related. If you feel the need to self-isolate or if you are feeling sick - do not come to school. We miss you, but spend the time with your loved ones!


If you are looking for things to do to help keep up to date at school, here are some of the things you can be doing ( but you don't have to!):

- Use Google drive to carry on your presentation of your family/culture
- Read on Epic! (code is UCU1170)
- Research Peru.
- Practise your times tables and division. Try different strategies if you are not so confident in them, now is a good time to practise.
- Watch something educational on a steaming service like Netflix - my favourite things to watch are animal and nature documentaries. Perhaps you will learn about a really cool animal, and when you are back, you can share with the class.
- Practise your cursive
- Work on a rhyming poem with the ABCB pattern - you can share it with me on google drive. Aim for about 3 verses, but if you want to do more, that is great. Remember that poetry can be silly and fun:

A. The alligator chased his tail
B. Which hit him in the snout
C. He nibbled, gobbled, swallowed it,
B.And turned right inside-out

by Mary Macdonald


 Don't forget that google doc submissions need to be sent to a different email than usual : parichardson@educbe.ca



I had planned to start our new unit on construction with different materials, but due to student absence, I will try and introduce it next week. I did not want people to come back and feel lost.
In the mean time, I would like you to start thinking about construction and building. Here are some guiding questions to think about. If you have your own questions that you have about buildings or bridges, feel free to add them to a google slide presentation and we can look at them as a class.
Try and write your questions and thoughts down, you do not need to know the answers right now. Good scientists start their work by asking questions.

- What are some of the more interesting building designs in the world?
- What makes a building or bridge interesting to you?
- Where could I find the biggest building and/or bridge in the world?
- How is it different to other buildings or bridges?
- What is it made from?
- Would it still work if it was made from different materials like glass, wood, rubber or even paper?
- If we know from rocks and minerals that diamonds are the hardest mineral, why don't we make bridges and buildings from diamonds?
- What shapes do we use when designing a building or bridge? Are some shapes better than others?
- What are some important things that bridges and buildings need?

As the current health situation stands, Spanish will not be taking place next Friday.

We started the day with some cursive practice of e, l and b.  We then watched a video called ' How do germs get inside our bodies? We saw a sneeze in slow motion and we were all pretty grossed out. We saw that washing your hands has to be done properly, covering all areas of our hands and nails and we should sing a song for about 20 seconds while doing so.

We then worked in groups to test each other on our spelling words using whiteboards. It was great to see the difference practising had made and we were able to help our classmates out with tricky words.

Words for next week:

beautiful
light
tough
laugh
across
listen
partout
un sourire
impossible
immense
tellement
l'ouest
prochain
Ils peuvent


If you would like to watch it again, it can be found here:  

How Do Germs Get Inside Our Bodies?

We then learnt some more about Peru, looking at Machu Picchu and the llamas surrounding it. We learnt that the animal on the Peruvian flag is called a vicuña which was bred with llamas to create alpacas. We then started an art project where we drew our own llamas.

During snack time we read some more Greek myths and for indoor recess we watched some mr bean and then described his silly antics in French afterwards.

A message from M Trevor. 

If your child is interested in practicing their dance, I have recorded Ajay doing each dance (except for M. Marshall's class, sorry!). Click on the link below to see the videos.

Dance Moves 2020

Please refer to communications from the school regarding the cancellation of the Monday evening performance and how we are working to share the students' hard work at home.


Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Thursday, March 12, 2020

March 12

We started the day finishing our math work through various stations such as playing tic-tac-toe multiplication, creating small guides explaining the equal grouping strategy for multiplication. Just before music, we read a story called 'Le prince et le chevalier'.

After music, we had a practise session for Sound Kreations. Please be aware that due to COVID-19 concerns, the performance has been cancelled. More information regarding the performance shall be provided in due course.

After PE, we had a GOTD in which we looked at how English sounded 500 years ago. It was really strange to our ears at first, but we were able to pick out Spanish, French and Latin sounding words. We looked at how spelling has shifted since then such as I replacing Y. 

We then worked on a reading comprehension texts on squirrels, butterflies and hummingbirds. In the afternoon we worked on finishing our English poems and as a class we wrote an acrostic poem on the board. Those that had finished their English poems, worked on creating their own acrostic poem in French.

Just a reminder that tomorrow we will have a short quiz on the spelling words posted last Friday on blogger.


Wednesday, March 11, 2020

March 11


We spent the morning working on our maths looking at patterns we can use when working with our 11 and 10 times table. We then special dice that contained a second dice inside to pracist our multiplication. We played around with the fact that we can rearrange the first two numbers in an equation and it means the same thing. So 3x5 is the same as 5x3. We then divided the results to spot patterns. So :

3x5 = 15
5x3 = 15
15/ 3= 5
15/3 = 3

We started to see the pattern emerging!

After PE we had library and we finished the story of Echo and Narcissus. We started to read the trials of Heracles.

In the afternoon, we had a GOTD about the immortal jellyfish, which led us to talk about zombie starfish and wooly mammoths. We then began to share our culture presentations which were fascinating a really well done. We Lexie shared about her baptism, Penny spoke about her family origins, Hannah shared a family recipe which looks yummy, Zac spoke of his family fleeing their home country and Dalila told us about Egyptian culture. We soon realized that Ryan and Arsham use similar words in their culture to share good wishes during a holiday, and Egyptian culture incorporates some similar aspects to Ukrainian culture and how other western countries celebrate Easter by painting eggs and eating fish. Spotted these links between our cultures and languages is helping us to see how we are all unique, but share some really interesting similarities that we didn't know before.








April 3, 2020

April 3, 2020 Hello Parents and Students,  With the current Pandemic and the cancellation of classes, an average of five hours per week...