BLOG TO END ALL BLOGS!

 

So sorry we haven't posted a blog in a while! Mrs. Cose was away, but is happy to be back today :)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

Our Daily blog is moving! Starting tomorrow we will be posting our blog message in our Google Classroom. We will be reviewing how to access this at school this week. If you know your child's password please send it with them tomorrow.

Highlights from today:

- We had science and were trying to make a paperclip, scissors and a nail into magnets. (Owen)

- In PE we were building our lungs by holding our breath and then yelling and running. We tried to beat our goal. (Braelyn)

- Also in PE we played a traffic jam game with red lights, yellow lights and green lights. (Louis)

-  In Music today we hummed O'Canada and we practiced writing notes like whole notes, ta's and titi's (Karis)

- We brainstormed ideas about a picture and then read the book it came from, The Hat by Jan Brett. (Kyle)

-  In Math we blew Mrs. Cose away with everything we know about repeating patterns. We built patterns with blocks and drew different things in our math book.(Garrison)

- We learned about Healthy Habit #2- Begin with the end in mind.  (Ellie) We did a page in our visual journal about it. (Owen)

-  We played in the field and at the baseball diamond today. Tomorrow we get to play at the PARK! (Brix)

- In Junie B. Jones today she was at a sleepover and kept making a mess and making the Nanna mad. (Garrison)

Friday, September 18

Whew! That was a FAST Friday!

Highlights from today: 

-We had PE and did laps around the field and played Rock, Paper, Scissors. (Braelyn)

- We worked on an art project. Some of us were able to finish the rest will finish next week. (Karis)

- We made puzzles out of hundreds charts and then practiced putting it back together. (Garrison)

- We made bookmarks. (Ellie)

PARENTS:

Thank you so much to all families I was able to connect with this week for Conferences. If you missed  signing up please email Mrs. Cose amcose@cbe.ab.ca to set up a time soon.

Please make sure you read Mr.Murphy's Principal's message and any other emails from the school as there are some changes to our routines starting next week.

Link to Mr. Murphy's message: https://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/newbrighton/about-us/school/principal-message/default.aspx

 

Thursday, September 17

 Highlights from today:

- We had a guest teacher and she was SO impressed with how AWESOME our class was :)

- Think outside the box writing (Dru)

- Read some picture books (Braelyn)

- We got to go to the park today (Cohen)

- In math we played Snakes and Ladders, Race to 100,  or a puzzle (Louis)

- We finished our chapter book (Karis)

- We learned the proper way to run in PE and ran for 5 minutes around the posts. Then we a played Rock, Paper, Scissors game. (Owen)

Wednesday, September 16

 What a day! We were so busy all day long!

Highlights: 

- Snuck in a little playground time this afternoon! (Cohen)

- We had a chance to work in the Learning Commons. *Books will not be coming home this year, but we will get to borrow them to use at school.* (Karis)

- We listened to a song about Terry Fox and watched a video.

- In Music, we listened to Cannon D for the last time and wrote on our heart sheets. We also got to do a GoNoodle. (Owen)

- We played in the field a recess time. (Louis)

- For eye opener we did a sort for rhyming words with -an and -at. (Ezekiel)

- We wrote in our journals about what Kevin Henkes books have reminded us of. (Braelyn)

- We did a math challenge trying to fill in pieces of a hundreds chart with missing numbers. (Dru)

- We played Guess my number, Find the number, and Snakes and Ladders. (Garrison)

- In Junie B today she told her class that her baby brother was a monkey! Really her baby was as cute as a little monkey. (Gianna)

Tuesday, September 15

 

Highlights:

- We had outside PE and played at the park at lunch recess! (Louis)

- We added magnets and paper clips to our Me Behind the Mask art. (Karis)

- We talked about magnets and what is attracts magnets and what does not.  (Braelyn)

- We started a Social Studies project and drew My House, and we listened to a story about houses in different places. We also started a new Junie B book. (Kyle)

- In Math, we did a mystery number challenge and made number pattern books.  (Owen)

-  We brainstormed things we know a lot of facts about and then wrote in our Journals. I wrote about kitties. (Garrison)

- We ran around the field in PE for 4 minutes.  (Dru)

- We read a story about tadpoles and lots of kids took a turn reading to the class. (Gianna)

Reminders:

We spend lots of time outside every day please send appropriate clothing for our ever changing Calgary weather.

Monday, September 14

 

Highlights from today:

- PE outside and practicing for our Terry Fox run. (Cohen)

- We did this blog for you. (Dru)

- The fire alarm went off and 5 fire trucks came to the school. It was a false alarm, but we did a great job and knew what to day. (Owen)

- In Music we listened to a song called Cannon in D and did a sheet in our red folders, (Braelyn)

- We finished our chapter book. (Karis)

- We practiced skip counting by 2's 10's and 5's and played BUZZ. (Garrison)

- We played at the park at recess. (Ellie)

- Did some more work with the 7 Health Habits and finished a page in our Visual journals. (Cohen)

- We drew about our weekend and I drew a picture of hello neighbor bird. (Austin)

- We talked a bit about magnets in science before the fire alarm went off! (Owen) 

- We presented our weekend pictures on the smart board. (Owen)

Reminders:

Please return demographic packages ASAP

Any outstanding library books should be returned

Conferences for our class are this week. Please sign up for a time! *These will be phone calls not at school conferences.

Friday, September 11

 Happy Friday!

A warm and sunny end our second week of school :)

Highlights from today:

- This morning we did some work with patterns this morning using shapes and numbers.

- We started talking about The 7 Healthy Habits focussing on Habit 1: Be Proactive. This work will continue next week as we think about what we can control and what we cannot. Click on the image for a link to the story we listened to.

- We are bringing home a sheet to work on over the weekend. This is a launch to our focus in Science on Magnets. If you have time to complete this and return for Monday that would be much appreciated. The intention of this task is to begin learn about the interaction of magnets with common materials.

- In PE we played outside with Ms. Nanavay. Thank you parents for making sure your child has proper footwear and a water bottle everyday!

NEXT WEEK:

- Our first 5 day week of school!

- Conferences for our class. Please sign up for a time using Conference Manager. 

ALWAYS:

- Please contact Mrs. Cose if you have any questions and any other inquiries at amcose@cbe.ab.ca