Thank you to the parents that came out to support our kindness celebration this morning.  We learned a lot from the mayor but, the one thing we all are going to try and do is 3 acts of kindness.  Rather than do 3 acts of kindness a year, we want to try and do 3 kind things a day.  We were very proud of Abby, Daniel, Abraham and Reese for speaking for our class.  

-We finished our math assessment this morning.  Some of us were challenged to see which animals were in the pond if there were 16 feet.

-This afternoon, our buddies shared their planet celebration with us.  Ask me what I learned about our planets.  They are going to do a great job tonight sharing with their familes.

-Thank you to Abraham for bringing in some delicious muffins for us.  That was very kind.

Save the Dates!

The grade one students would like you to make note of some upcoming special events. We will require volunteers for these activities. All volunteers MUST have a current CBE police clearance in order to volunteer, and therefore we strongly recommend that you complete the paperwork for this A.S.A.P. Please drop by the school office with picture ID to complete this application. If you already have clearance and would like to volunteer, please let you child’s teacher know.

Please note the following dates. Times have yet to be confirmed.

Wet Felting (In-school activity) – April 8^th and 9^th.

Morning Swimming Lessons (Bus to Canyon Meadows Pool) – May 4^th-8^th.

Happy Pink Shirt Day!

• We had several discussion about why we wear pink shirts on February 26th.  Here is a link for you to share as a family...why we wear pink shirts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYEPQIVb8wc

• Many of us wore pink today.  Please remember to wear purple tomorrow for our kindness celebration.  The celebration time has been moved to 10:30am.

Save the Dates!

The grade one students would like you to make note of some upcoming special events. We will require volunteers for these activities. All volunteers MUST have a current CBE police clearance in order to volunteer, and therefore we strongly recommend that you complete the paperwork for this A.S.A.P. Please drop by the school office with picture ID to complete this application. If you already have clearance and would like to volunteer, please let you child’s teacher know.

Please note the following dates. Times have yet to be confirmed.

Wet Felting (In-school activity) – April 8^th and 9^th.

Morning Swimming Lessons (Bus to Canyon Meadows Pool) – May 4^th-8^th.

Tomorrow is PINK SHIRT DAY! 

Highlights of Our Learning
-We are learning about the __est word family this week. We enjoyed the story The Best Nest and have been working on reading and printing as many ___est words as we can.
-We are continuing to talk, learn and write about kindness. What does kindness look like? How can we show kindness?
-This morning we read a story called, Little Beaver and the Echo.  We were asked if there were 12 feet swimming in the water, who could be swimming in the river?  Ask me the three animals that were in our problem.
-We added five new sight words to our word wall today (way, was, want, went,  will).  Ask me what sentences I can make using these words.  

F.Y.I.
-Please ensure that you have read the recent email that was sent from out school office. The link is posted below incase you missed it.

http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/Bridlewood/about-us/news-centre/_layouts/ci/post.aspx?oaid=d2e62cf7-d862-4255-b1c4-609ba544a584&oact=20001

-We are continuing to look for volunteers for our two upcoming special events, felting and swimming.

Save the Dates!

The grade one students would like you to make note of some upcoming special events. We will require volunteers for these activities. All volunteers MUST have a current CBE police clearance in order to volunteer, and therefore we strongly recommend that you complete the paperwork for this A.S.A.P. Please drop by the school office with picture ID to complete this application. If you already have clearance and would like to volunteer, please let you child’s teacher know.

Please note the following dates. Times have yet to be confirmed.

Wet Felting (In-school activity) – April 8^th and 9^th.

Morning Swimming Lessons (Bus to Canyon Meadows Pool) – May 4^th-8^th.

• Today we learned a new word family, the "est family.  Ask me how many words I can make.  Leif
• Ask me what literacy centre I was at today.  Abby
• In math we played a game with a partner.  It was "Race to 100."  Ask me how to play.  Alyaa
• This morning we wrote a picture prompt about animals in the winter.  Mrs. Swanson shared a writing rubric that showed us how to be good writers.  Reese
• In music, we learned about notes.  We learned a new song about grey cats.  Abraham

FYI-

Wednesday is pink shirt day.
Thursday is purple shirt day.  We are wearing purple for  Mayor Naheed Nenshi's
visit to our school for the kindness assembly.  The assemble will start at 10:00am.


School updates have been posted on our school website.

Here is the link:  http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/Bridlewood/about-us/news-centre/_layouts/ci/post.aspx?oaid=d2e62cf7-d862-4255-b1c4-609ba544a584&oact=20001

Yesterday was our 100th day in grade one!

We celebrated the milestone of 100 days in grade one by:
-Watching the story "Emily's First 100 Days of School".
-Singing songs that focused on counting to 100 in different ways.
-Completing a page in our Visual Journals by printing and illustrating, "I would like to have 100 _____." and "I would not like to have 100 ___."
-Printing all of the numbers from 1-100 on a Hundreds Chart and using it to play "Race to 100".
-Using the numerals 1 and 0 and 0 (100) to create a cool and creative picture. Please ask you child about the picture that they made.

-Today, we continued to talk about kindness and made a banner for the school.

-Rooms 3 and 4 came to our class and we did some breathing exercises to start our day in the green zone.

-Our Friday journals are coming home today.  Please read/sign them and return on Monday.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Parents & Guardians

“How to pay for a Yearbook online”

Because the yearbook is an optional fee, the fee does not automatically appear in your MYCBE/PowerSchool account. 

You will find the fee under the Goods/Services tab, click on the tab and you will see two optional fees

Noon Supervision Drop In

Yearbook

Click on the fee you want, hit ok, the fee will then appear in your school fees, for online payment.

If you have any issues with this, please call the office we can attach the optional fees.

Kindness in Grade one Continues!

Yesterday we started our day with students sharing with a peer what they did over the long 

weekend. Students wrote about their weekend with the following sentence starters:   

On the weekend I _____.

I went ______.
I saw ______.
I liked _____.


This week we are focusing on the _ink family. Students brainstormed words yesterday and today students recorded words in their Word Work book.

We read a story, "How To Fill Your Bucket" this afternoon.  Many of us came up with some kind things we can do to fill someone's bucket.  Here are some of the ideas we came up with:

-use your manners

-ask someone to play

-give a hug

-give someone a compliment

-say I love you

There were many more that we talked about today.  Ask your child, "How They Can Fill Someone's Bucket?" 

Students have been learning and practicing new card games to practice making 10. Ask your child to share the 2 games with you they have been playing individually or with a peer.

We have also started our exploration into how animals survive in the winter. Students shared an "I wonder.." statement about animals in winter. 

Students exchange their learning commons books tomorrow if they return their books.

In gym, students are learning some basic hockey skills.

In music, students are learning songs about friendship.

F.Y.I.

Save the Dates!

The grade one students would like you to make note of some upcoming special events. We will require volunteers for these activities. All volunteers MUST have a current CBE police clearance in order to volunteer, and therefore we strongly recommend that you complete the paperwork for this A.S.A.P. Please drop by the school office with picture ID to complete this application. If you already have clearance and would like to volunteer, please let you child’s teacher know.

Please note the following dates. Times have yet to be confirmed.

Wet Felting (In-school activity) – April 8^th and 9^th.

Morning Swimming Lessons (Bus to Canyon Meadows Pool) – May 4^th-8^th.

Highlights Of Learning:

-This morning, we finished our math centers.  Some of us needed "catch up" time.  Many of us that finished played some math games.

-We were very busy this afternoon delivering our Valentine Cards.  We can't wait to share them with our family.

-During music, we watched Fantasia.  

-In gym, we did three centres with some new grade six friends.

-Many of us are bringing new books home from the Learning Commons today.

-There is no school for students on Thursday, Friday or Monday.

Have a Happy Valentine's Day and enjoy your Family Day together!!

Highlights Of Learning:

-We went on a Winter Walk today, ask me who my walking buddy was and how much fun we had.

-Last week, your child brought home a list of student names to help them if they are choosing to write Valentine's cards. Cards can also be completed with just the card giver's name.

-We made our Valentine's Bags today, they are beautiful!

-Valentine's exchange is on tomorrow.

-Book exchange in the learning commons is tomorrow.

-There is no school for students on Thursday, Friday or Monday.

Have a great evening!

What does it mean to be KIND?

What does it mean to be KIND?

We are focussing on kindness this week!

Highlights Of Our Learning:
-Students explored the "__ind" family today. Please see how many words your child can create and spell from this word family. (ie. kind, wind, mind, behind, rind, rewind, bund etc.)
-We continued practising our addition and subtraction skills during math centre time.
-Students had music and gym this afternoon.
-We read several stories about kindness and love and then brainstormed how we show these qualities through our daily actions. Students finished the sentence "Love is..." by sharing ideas in their visual journal. Some ideas included reading together, giving a hug, taking care of the earth, planting flowers for the bees, helping a friend who is hurt, saying please and thank you, playing a board game with your family etc.

F.Y.I.
-We plan on going on a Winter Walk tomorrow, so please ensure that your child is dressed for the weather.
-Last week, your child brought home a list of student names to help them if they are choosing to write Valentine's cards. Cards can also be completed with just the card giver's name.
-Valentine's exchange is on Wednesday.
-There is no school for students on Thursday, Friday or Monday.

Have a great evening!

Highlights Of Our Learning:

• Today we went to the Learning Commons to get new books.  Abby
• We had our last Mission Impossible in gym today.  Leif
• Today we had new math centres introduced to us.  Ask me what centre I was at.  Nathan
• We had Literacy Centres today.  Abraham's mom volunteered and helped us read a book.  Aaron
• Today was Winter Walk Day.  We didn't have time to go outside, our class is going to do it next week.  Maybe we can go for a walk with our families tonight?  Carter
• We had dress rehearsal during music.  We had a guest teacher because Ms. Fatica was away.  Abraham
• This afternoon we made our Valentine names.  We are exchanging Valentines cards on February 12th, 2020.   Alyaa

Thank you to Abraham's mom for volunteering this morning!

We only have one more sleep until our Celebration Of Learning!

Highlights Of Our Learning:

·    Today we started Mission Impossible.  Our grade 6 buddies had gym with us.  Reese

·    This afternoon, we worked on a new word family, the “ing” family.  Abby

·    Mrs. Swanson surprised us this morning by taking us outside to look at snowflakes.  We made snow angels and a giant class snowflake.  We used magnify glasses to look at the snowflakes.  We wanted to see if snowflakes have six sides, more or less? Ask me what kind of snowflakes we saw.  Grayson

·    In music, we did the rhythms “ti, ti, ta”.  We practiced our snowflakes songs that we have been working on in class.  Alyaa

·    During math, we played “Totally Ten Snake.”  Ask me how to play.  Ayden

·    Thank you, Ms. B for volunteering this afternoon!

Friendly Reminders:

-Thank you for wearing safe clothes and having your hair tied back for Mission Impossible this week.

-Celebration of Leaning is on Thursday February 6^th from 5pm-6pm.  We can’t wait to share our learning and wear blue or white.

-Our Learning Commons Day is Wednesday afternoon this week.

-Thank you, Ms. B for volunteering this afternoon!