Catch Me if You Can, I am the Gingerbread man!

We had a great day today. We started the day with all the grade 1 students listening to the story the Gingerbread Baby.   We went to the gym and learned some lacrosse skills.  Thank you to the Roughnecks for sending two free tickets to a game, they came home in folders.

We arrived back to the classroom afterwards and discovered that the gingerbread baby was missing!
Our grade 6 buddies came to help all the grade 1's look for the gingerbread baby around the school.
The grade 6 students helped us find clues on a scavenger hunt to find the gingerbread baby.  The Gingerbread baby was in the grade 1 class.  We all celebrated by enjoying a gingerbread cookie together and some dancing.

In Math we discovered all of our Power of Ten cards were mixed up so, we had to sort them and organize them by colour and letters.  Tomorrow we will learn a new math game called Making 10 Go Fish with Power of Ten Cards.

After lunch the students made cards to give to their grade 6 buddies when we gather tomorrow afternoon.  We will be making cards to send off to the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).

We ended the day will poem reading with all the grade 1 students.

F.Y.I.

-Thank you for the donations that have been sent in for the Food Bank and also for the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA). We will continue to collect items until Thursday.

Items we will be collecting for the CMHA include:

Toiletries: Soap, shampoo, conditioner, other bath items, toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, feminine hygiene products, shaving cream and razors, manicure and pedicure nail sets, Chapstick, comb, hairbrush, Kleenex, deodorant and hair elastics

Clothing: All sizes men and women. Items do not have to be new, but in good to excellent and clean condition. Winter jackets, winter boots, snow pants, scarves, winter hats, mittens, gloves, thermal socks (must be new), thermal underwear, underwear (must be new), sweatpants, sweatshirts, plain t-shirts, jeans and wallets

-Thursday, December 19th is a half day and there is no school for students on Friday, December 20th.

-Thursday, December 19th is PJ Day at Bridlewood School and a half day.

• Today in gym, we made new friends in grade 2/3.  We practiced throwing and catching with a scoop and ball.  Abby
• We finished creating our mitten and comparing the two authors.  Carson
• We went to music and we traced a gingerbread house. Nathan, Alyaa and Ayden
• We listened to a song called a "Solitary Wish" by Brian Balmages.  Ms. Rinaldi and Ms. Aebli's class came to listen to the song with us.  He wrote a song to remind people to think of homeless people.  All homeless people have a story.  Please ask your child to play the song to you.  Room 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA2BYiBRPcs

https://www.google.com/search?q=solitary+wish+song&oq=solitary+wish&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0j69i57j0l5.3817j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on

• In math, we worked on less than 2.  Nathan and Alyaa
• Thank you to Carl's mom for sending in muffins for the class.  They were delicious!

FYI:

Bridlewood School is collecting items for those who are in need to get through the cold winter. This initiative is in support of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s (CHMA) work to help people in the Calgary community.

We will be collecting items until Dec. 19^th.

Bridlewood is also collecting food for the food bank until December 19th.

PJ Day is on Thursday December 19th.  It is a half day.

• We have been reading different versions of the "The Mitten."  Ask me the difference between them.  Carson
• Ms. Aebli's class came over this morning and we shared a poem called "I am I."  Hannah

          We also talked about belonging to a group.  Ask me what groups I belong to.  Ayden

• In gym we had all three grade 1 classes together.  We did partner sprints and practicing throwing a ball.  Nathan
• This week we have been working on the "ed" family.  Ask me what words I know.  Grayson
• We continued to do literacy centres this morning.  Ask me what centre I was at.  Abraham
• Yesterday, Mr. Cole was our teacher in music.  We watched Frosty The Snowman.  Leif . We were singing Christmas music as well.  Aubree

FYI:

Bridlewood School is collecting items for those who are in need to get through the cold winter. This initiative is in support of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s (CHMA) work to help people in the Calgary community.

We will be collecting items until Dec. 19^th.

Bridlewood is also collecting food for the food bank until December 19th.

PJ Day is on Thursday December 19th.  It is a half day.

Highlights of our Learning:
-Today we explored the "ay Family". Please see how many words your child can spell and read from this family of words.  As a class, we found 21 "ay" words to add to our class list.  Ask your child some of the "ay"words they made.  

-In gym, we did some hula-hoop games with a partner.  We also did the "Get Up" song.  Abraham

-Today we went to music.  We watched Peter and the Wolf.  Nathan

- In math, Mrs. Swanson gave us the equation 5-1=4.  She asked us, "what do we know about this question?"  Ask me what I said?

-We published our "What Animal Group Am I?" 

Friendly Reminders:  
Parent/Teacher interviews are Thursday night and Friday morning.  Thank you to those parents that have booked a time.  If you haven't, please book a time to celebrate your child's work.  Thank you!

There is no school for students Thursday afternoon or all day Friday.  

• This morning in music, we learned a new song.  It was called "Yankee Doodle Went To Town." Abby
• We have new sight words to focus on for the next couple of weeks.  They are: who, what, where, when, why, how, said.   Nikolai
• Our buddies came in and found their binders in our classroom.  Mrs. Swanson, MS. Aebli and Ms. Rinaldi left them a note with clues on it to solve.  Our buddies taught us about "Chromatography."   Thats how they solved the mystery.  Carson     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN5YiY0Wm6o
• In math, we had to guess what didn't belong?  Afterwards, we had to make our own problem.  Hannah, Reese & Ayden

FYI:

Thank you to those families that have booked times to come in for your child's parent/teacher conferences on Thursday evening or Friday morning.

Bridlewood School will be collecting items for those who are in need to get through the cold winter. This initiative is in support of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s (CHMA) work to help people in the Calgary community.

We will be starting our collection of donations at Bridlewood School starting December 5^th at Parent- teacher interviews and will collect items until Dec. 19^th.

Items we will be collecting include:

Toiletries: Soap, shampoo, conditioner, other bath items, toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, feminine hygiene products, shaving cream and razors, manicure and pedicure nail sets, Chapstick, comb, hairbrush, Kleenex, deodorant and hair elastics

Clothing (All sizes men and women. Items do not have to be new, but in good to excellent and clean condition). Winter jackets, winter boots, snow pants, scarves, winter hats, mittens, gloves, thermal socks (must be new), thermal underwear, underwear (must be new), sweatpants, sweatshirts, plain t-shirts, jeans and wallets

Your generous donation will assist CMHA Calgary is supporting others through shared understanding, hope and increase community resiliency. Thank you!