Mr. Berry's Grade 5 Class

Homework: Read for 20 minutes per night. Study for spelling test. Reminder: There is no school Friday. There are parent/teacher interviews tonight and Friday morning. Daily Learning: We have entered into a couple of projects. The students are now working on a social studies poster project where they are researching famous Canadians. In science, the students are working on creating a brochure of animals that can be found in Wetlands. In math, we have started to review for our multiplication and division unit test which will take place on Tuesday. The daily 5 continue as usual. jaberry@cbe.ab.ca

Reminders: Parent/Teacher interviews are this Thursday evening and Friday morning. There will be no school Friday. Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Daily Learning: Today the students worked on questioning, and how good readers ask questions while reading and how this improves their understanding of the text they read. In math, we continued with our division practice, now moving into long division. In science, we have begun creating brochures on wetland plants and in social studies we are starting a poster project on famous Canadians. We continue to work on our Minecraft projects as well, where students are creating spaces for downtown Calgary that will help all.  jaberry@cbe.ab.ca

With the holiday season soon approaching its important to care for others and give back to those who are less fortunate than us.  This holiday season, Beddington Heights School will be a part of 2 programs that the city of Calgary runs for those less fortunate.   The first program is Loonies for Lunches.   Loonies for Lunches would bring students together to collect loonies to donate to the food bank. Each school and/or classroom would create a donation box to collect the loonies and perhaps have some healthy competition to see which class could raise the most. The loonies would then be used   by the Food Bank to   purchase food for our Weekends and More program that makes sure kids get the nutritious food they need on the weekends to stay healthy and learning.   The Mayor's Food Drive is where we collect non-perishable items, i.e. can goods, sealed boxed items, for Calgary's Food Bank.  Both programs start this Monday to Dec 14th.  For more information,

Reminder: Next week is Parent/Teacher conferences. There will be no school Friday. Homework: Read for 20 minutes per night. Daily Learning: The students have started to look at Canadian history in social studies. We will be doing an a poster project and 1 minute presentation about one important Canadian from history. In math, we continue to practice our multiplication and division. Today the students were able to do all the daily 5 for our literacy practice. jaberry@cbe.ab.ca

Reminder: Next week is Parent/Teacher interviews. Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Daily Learning: Today the students learned about literary devices during their practice writing times. We went over some major ones, specifically simile and metaphors. We did independent and shared reading but were unable to do read aloud as we did a make up class for Souperstars. In science we looked at plant life cycles and survival needs and then the students looked up a wetland animal and researched about that animal, finding things like their life cycle, survival needs, etc. In math, we continued to look at division and are working on very basic division and strengthening those skills before moving on the long division. We look at things like number families, known basic facts, drawing pictures, arrays, tallys, using a multiplication table and more. jaberry@cbe.ab.ca

Reminder: No school Thursday or Friday Homework: Read for 20 minutes per night. Daily Learning: Today the students attended our Remembrance Day assembly. The students also continued their community work on Minecraft Education Edition where the students are creating spaces that will be judged by downtown. Many are creating homeless shelters, or swimming areas or libraries. In math, we continue our work on multiplication using the standard algorithm. The daily 5 continue as usual.  jaberry@cbe.ab.ca

Get Your Christmas On.... Beddington Heights Elementary   Parent Council   is happy to announce their first fundraiser of the year, Growing Smiles. They are selling beautiful poinsettias, wreaths, boughs, outdoor greenery and indoor planter. The Campaign will run from November 5th -19th, 2021. Pick up will be December 3rd. Details to follow Thank you for your interest and your continued support of our school     https://beddingtonheightsschool.growingsmilesfundraising.com/home

Reminder: There is no school this Thursday or Friday.  Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Daily Learning: Today the students had our weekly guest Lucy from Souperstars. She spoke to the students about stranger danger. We also did shared and independent reading. In math, we worked on the lattice method of multiplication and we will continue on with this the rest of the week. In science, we discussed the characteristics of a wetland ecosystem. See if your child can remember all 5 types of wetland ecosystems. We also had music and gym today. In gym we have been doing volleyball and the students practiced how to serve. jaberry@cbe.ab.ca

Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Reminder: There is no school next Thursday due to Remembrance Day. Daily Learning: Today the students practiced the window method in multiplication and also finished off their statistics and probability assignment. We also did practice writing where the students continue to practice getting their ideas onto the page and we continued on with our empathy lessons.  jaberry@cbe.ab.ca

Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Daily Learning: Today the students had music with Mr. Wiens. We also began volleyball for physed and we are taking a break from multiplication to do some statistics and probability. We also read a short story and used our visualization tool to help us with answering some comprehension questions based on the text.  jaberry@cbe.ab.ca