Mustache Day and more!

We recognized Movember and had fun wearing mustaches, colouring mustaches, and discussing why Movember exists!

 Today, we did composting on Wednesday for the first time! Lots of composting for just half a week! Very exciting to see our haul increasing!

We enjoyed music class today!

During Zones, we talked about processing and how we sometimes need to take time to say something,  do something, or understand what we have been told to do. Sometimes we need to stop and be grateful as well.

During our 7 Habits for Happy Kids reading, we talked about staying organized so that we don't lose things!

We also talked about compliments and what they are and why they are a positive thing. We have a compliment chain that we can add to when we are caught giving each other compliments and when it reaches the ground, we will celebrate with a treat!

Bus Transit Activity, etc.

Today, we really enjoyed meeting Transit Teddy, taking a bus ride,
and learning about bus safety from peace officers.

Tomorrow, we will be wearing mustaches to recognize Movember!

We have been looking at how the feelings of others' matter, how we feel about a new year approaching, and making new friends/being a good friend.

We have also been thinking about what our personal goals are for literacy and numeracy. 

We have continued our 7 Habits for Happy Kids lessons by reading individual books about each of the characters. 

Forecast Friday

On Thursday, we completed our composting and also continued our discussion on what we can be doing to help the environment, and watching The Lorax to build on our discussions about being heroes in our community and heroes for the environment.

We finished our 7 Habits of Happy Kids reading and will be looking at individual books on each of the characters. 

We have been working with Lively Letters to help us polish our letter sounds as well!

 Looking into next week and the newly fallen snow, please ensure that students have their indoor shoes to keep our hallways clean and dry. Please also make sure they are dressed warmly enough for fresh air breaks!

Our rehearsals for Press Start will continue to take place this week, sometimes during music, lunch, and our integration time with the 5/6s.  Look out for costume item requests!

We are looking forward to the Calgary Transit presentation on Tuesday morning and our field trip on the bus! Please make sure the field trip forms are returned!

Next week, we will be looking at things that we see, think, and wonder before we read a book. 

Math groups continue to work towards individual goals, including tallies, skip counting, fact families, regrouping, place value, etc. 

On Wednesday, November 28^th, we will be having our next Spirit Day, Moustache Day!  All are invited to wear a silly, crazy, or funny moustache in support of bringing awareness to men’s cancer. 

The term “Movember” was generated as a hybrid from “Mustache” and “November”. It was coined in Australia at the end of the 90’s as a symbol for raising awareness on men’s health, with a focus on testicular cancer, prostate cancer and mental health issues such as depression. The foundation behind this initiative is Movember.org.

Next week, we will be starting to do our compost pickup twice a week!

Field Trip and Activity

On November 27^th, 2018, Calgary Transit will visit Cambrian Heights School to teach students about transit buses and C-Trains.

Students will participate in activity stations in the gym, including:  a transit presentation; meeting Calgary Transit peace officers and Transit Teddy; touring a transit bus; and meeting a bus driver! Each grade grouping will complete a 30-minute rotation at each station. 

Students will learn more about how to take public transportation, public transportation safety, as well as expected behaviour on transit buses and C-Trains.

To further develop their community navigation skills, the Paced Learning Program will also be taking a bus tour through the neighbourhood to build on this school-wide activity and their transit classroom presentation from earlier in the month.

Please return field trip forms by Monday, November 26, 2018.

This Week So Far

Press Start Rehearsals are in full swing.

We are continuing to discuss being a hero in our classroom and school, as well as the heroes we have in our school and community.

Numeracy and literacy groups continue to work towards individual goals.

We enjoyed the warmer weather on our Fresh Air Break today.

Friday Forecast

Our conversation about being a hero in our classroom has continued!

Next week, we will be working on how we can be heroes in our lives and in the lives of those around us.

We will be continuing with the 7 Habits of Happy Kids and our Emotions booklet, reviewing the Zones.

Our math groups will continue as we estimate, compare, and complete math tasks related to tallies, skip counting, fact families, place value, more than/less than, even/odd and regrouping.

Our literacy groups will continue as we work with reviewing letter sounds, making predictions and connections, and practicing using plurals, capitals, and improving our handwriting.

This week, one group combined their tallying skills with counting vowels in their guided reading.

We will be using some of our gym and music time next week to ramp up our Press Start rehearsals.

Our composting program will continue as we continue to track our collections and try to reduce our ecological footprint and garbage!

Holiday wreath orders are due on Monday, November 19, 2018.

This Week

This week, students have been rehearsing for the Press Start performance in December. Rehearsal continues next week.

We played games this week to help us with impulse control, particularly when we are lining up.  We take turns being in different orders, but are still working on giving each other space and using kind words and hands during lineups.

Games include "What Time Is It Mr. Wolf?", "Red Light/Green Light" and "Simon Says".

We enjoyed getting new library books this week as well as home reading books.

We have been reading The 7 Habits of Happy Kids and learning about each of the different characters and habits that we have been doing.

Our letter for today in our Emotions Booklet was H for Helping Hands.

We also discussed today about how we can be heroes today in different situations today, such as fighting in line, when someone is sad or crying, etc.

Scientist in Schools

Today, we enjoyed our Scientist in Schools' Composting Presentation. We reviewed what we can reuse, reduce, and recycle.  We also learned about two new R's: refuse and rethink!

We currently have some composting worms in our classroom that we created habitats for!

Friday Forecast

Today was a busy Friday as we enjoyed Community Activity Day, set up for the Remembrance Day assembly and completed the Remembrance Day assembly!

The art created by the students was beautiful and the music was very touching!

PLP Art

We also learned about some animals that participated in the wars.

We are so proud of all the students that participated in the assembly! Thank you to the staff that supported the students and the parents that were able to attend.

As a class, we have had some great discussions about what peace is and what peace means to us. Students were very respectful as I shared my family history in the wars and some other students mentioned they have had family members that have fought in different wars and countries as well.

Yesterday, we enjoyed our visit from Calgary Transit about how to ride the bus and C-Train!

Practicing our Math skills!

Our composting program is continuing as we keep track of how much we collect from each class.

Our numeracy groups continue to work towards their goals, including tallies, skip counting  even/odd, ordering, place value,  estimating, comparing, and regrouping. Ask your child what group they are in and what activities they have been doing!

In our literacy groups, we continue to develop our connections to texts, our reading skills with letter sounds,  using punctuation and plurals in our writing as well as using an intentional reading pace and expression.  Ask your child about whether they have been working on capitals, periods, plurals or the long and short A sounds! Check in with them to see where they are in listening to Tuck Everlasting and who is 104 years old!

Next week, we are excited to hone our understanding about composting with another Scientist in Schools visit.

Reminder: Please ensure that indoor shoes are provided as it provides a safety issue to have wet footwear in the school.

Thank you to those that have paid field trip fees. Please pay them if you have not done so!

Remembrance Day

Cambrian Heights School is proud to honour the memory of our veterans, on the 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World War. This year we will be holding our Remembrance Day Assembly on Friday, November 9th. The assembly will begin at 10:30 AM and will run approximately 30 minutes in length. Students in each grade have created art and music to mark this solemn occasion of sacrifice and peace. We are privileged to have Master Corporal William Hannaford, of the Canadian Armed Forces as our guest speaker for this assembly.

The entire Cambrian Heights School community is warmly invited to the assembly. Doors to the gym will open at 10:20 AM for parents and community members to enter.

We will be collecting donations for poppies for those who are interested in making a contribution.

This Week So Far

Yesterday, we started looking at what peace is. We also listened to a book reading of a book on peace and considered what peace tastes like, smells like, looks like, and feels like. 

Student field trip fee invoices are being sent home today. Payments can be made online through your PowerSchool account or you can come into the school during office hours to pay in person. If you are paying cash, please have the exact amount needed.

We are continuing to work on our Remembrance Day colouring assignment. 

Today, we had the privilege of having Constable Rich in to speak to us about kind words and using WITS to problem solve: Walk Away, Ignore, Talk it Out, Seek Help. It connected well with our Size of the Problem and Zones background. 

We will be practicing for the Remembrance Day assembly this Friday. 

We will be switching to notebooks for our home books today! Please make sure they are checked and returned each day. 

Friday Forecast

Next week, we will be continuing to estimate while working towards our math goals.

Our literacy groups are working on activating prior knowledge and making connections. Talk to your child about how they connect with the book, what other books it reminds them of and what events in their life or the world they think of while reading and discussing the book.

Today, we discussed ways we can be kind and what bullying is.

We also started working on Remembrance Day art. We will be focusing on preparing for the Remembrance Day assembly on Friday, November 9th at 10:30am.

Next week, we will also have a Constable visit to discuss the S4 school program with our class and a guest speaker from Calgary Transit to teach us about city bus safety, etiquette, etc.

Next Friday is also Community Activity Day!

A reminder to send in indoor shoes even when the weather is nice to keep our hallways and classrooms clean!

Halloween Fun!

Yesterday, we had a lot of fun with the costume parade and dancing together in the gym. There were some great dance moves and costumes!

As a class, we completed some Halloween math activities, roasted our pumpkin seeds, built pumpkins out of blocks and rice krispie squares!

Just a reminder that we are unable to accept baked goods in our classroom due to allergies.

Today, we completed an exercise figuring out how comfortable we are having someone close to them and how we feel when our personal space is disrupted and how we can make other people feel that way by being close to them. We applied this to lining up, sitting at our desks, being in the hall, and playing outside.