Monday November 30

 Monday November 30

Highlights:

1.  During read aloud at the end of the day we read a recently self-published book by our own Katie W!  We enjoyed listening to the adventures of Magic Mice!

2.  Mrs Derksen taught our PE class today!  We had a lot of fun working on our shooting skills for basketball.

3.  We were excited to learn about taking jot notes as a research tool and everyone received a special notebook to collect specific facts about our coulee animal.  

Something to try tonight:

We would love for students to practice using various sites for animal research.  Please have your child spend some time exploring these sites to see how they work and what information is available on each.  They can look up any animal they are curious about!  NO note taking is needed!  Have fun exploring!

https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/kids

 

https://www.kiddle.co

 

https://www.hww.ca/en/educators.html

 

https://www.kidzone.ws/animals/index.html

Reminders

NO School Friday - PD DAY

Fun Snack on Thursday

Crazy Sweater Day on Thursday

Today is the last day to contribute to Families Helping Families - see past blog entries for details.

You can reserve books online from our Learning Commons and they will be delivered to your child in their classroom!

Friday, Nov. 27, 2020

 Highlight of the Day

1. We edited our cinquains for the reader to understand our text better
2. We drew some turtles using polygons!

Ms. Gooch and Mrs. Derksen introduced us to a project we will be working on over the next 2 weeks! We are doing a research project on an animal that lives in the Coulee. It will be individual but their table groups all have the same animal so they can help each other and stay COVID friendly! 

We assigned the students some books on Epic Books for them to read about their animal for research! Your child just needs to read the books for their animal they are doing. 

When they are researching, they are looking for: food, adaptations, habitat features, how the animal takes care of babies, animal class, and characteristics of the class.

Animal Groups 

Mr. Kelly/Ms. Gooch

Moose- Matthew, Xavier and Brody

Frog- Aria, Matea

Garter Snake- Quinn, Oliver, James, Lily C

Bee- Marley M. and Marley G, Lily and Charlotte

Wolf Spider- Liam, Hunter, Elliot, Zephyr, Jacob, Caleb

Coyote- Luna, Ellie, Nika

Hawk- Grayson, Marlowe, Kai, Sean, Ari

Mrs. Zwack/Mrs. Derksen

Moose- Alex, Annika, Cohen, Emily, Katie

Bee- Aarika, Nat, Cara

Frog- Paige, Lucy, Olivia

Wolf Spider- Bradley, Luke, Alina

Hawk- Ayoub, Avva, Addison

Garter Snake- Darius, Kaitlyn, Billie, Julia, Lily H

Coyote- Hennessey, Kenzie, Cliff, Parker, Zach

Other News

Spirit Days are coming to Eric Harvie for December! Each Thursday in December there will be a new theme for everyone!

 

December 3^rd – Crazy sweater day!

December 10^th -  Crazy Hat day!

December 17^th – Pajama day!

 

We are so excited to see what you come up with! Let’s Light Up our Hearts this December!  

Next week is the last week Ms. Gooch will be with us 😭!

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, November 26, 2020

 

Highlights of the day

1. We finished our created animals! Today we added our final touch by including parental care!
2. In math, Ms. Gooch and Mrs. Derksen led a fun activity where we classified, sorted, and created polygons!
3. We finished our power words diagram.. Once.. When.. If.. Sometimes..

Ask me about polygons and have me make one for you!

Here are some important reminders from the office:

1) Families Helping Families - last day for donations is Monday, Nov. 30/20 - thank you so much to all the families who have already sent in their generous donations. If you would like to donate to support the family in need being sponsored by your class, please note:  

Donations can be made via at 

 ehsestreasurer@gmail.com   No password required.  

and are welcomed on or before   

Monday November 30, 2020  

2) The Virtual Scholastic Book Fair ends tomorrow, November 27/20 - please check the website:

https://bookfairs-canada.myshopify.com/pages/5151379 

Click the link to:
• SAVE it to your browser
• WATCH videos of popular new titles • PREVIEW our Featured Books 

3) We are still looking for donations of excess Christmas lights - any colours - to the school. Thanks to families who have already dropped lights in the bins by the front door of the school - we will continue to take donated lights until Thursday, Dec. 3/20

Thanks so much! 

Wednesday November 25, 2020

 

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Highlights of the day!

1. We worked on fact families on math (if we know two things, we can find out the third). 

2. Ms. Gooch and Mrs. Derksen sang a song about the brain in mindfulness!! Ms. Gooch wrote it too! We also talked about our prefrontal cortex and what we can do to exercise our prefrontal cortex. Mr. Kelly's class learned how to draw a bat (which connects to our new read aloud book: Silverwing). 

3. We played adaptation charades and learned about how animals adapt to survive in their habitats. 

Something to Talk About

Show your parents the following fact family: 

6 + 8 = ____

Reminders

1.  Peace Ambassadors will begin on Monday, November 30th. We will call down each class and show you where to sit in the gym.  At 11:40 you will return to your class to eat your lunch.

If you still wish to join, please email Mrs. Zwack by Thursday Nov. 26 at noon.

2.  Families Helping Families please see yesterday's blog post for details for this wonderful project.  We hope that the spirit of the holiday season will be extended to those who need some extra support at this time of year.  

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

 Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Highlights of the day!

1. We learned about Polygons in math through sorting and classifying groups of shapes.

2. Ms. Gooch and Mrs. Derksen sang a song about the brain in mindfulness!! Ms. Gooch wrote it too!

3. We created a survival list if we were trapped on a desert island and learned about needs and wants.

Something to Talk About

Tell your parents what you selected as things you would need to survive on a deserted island. Which things did you think were "needs" and then change to "wants".  Why did you make that change?

Reminders

1.  Peace Ambassadors will begin on Monday, November 30th. We will call down each class and show you where to sit in the gym.  At 11:40 you will return to your class to eat your lunch.

If you still wish to join, please email Mrs. Zwack by Thursday Nov. 26 at noon.

2.  Families Helping Families please see yesterday's blog post for details for this wonderful project.  We hope that the spirit of the holiday season will be extended to those who need some extra support at this time of year.  

Monday November 23, 2020

 Monday Nov. 23, 2020

Thank you parents and students for participating in our Parent-Student-Teacher interview last week.  It was wonderful to meet with you and to share successes and to make plans for moving forward.  Thank you for your patience with the technology early on Thursday.

Celebrations    

1.  Today we started a new read aloud book - Silverwing!  It is a wonderful and exciting book about a young bat named Shade who is the runt of his colony.  He will go on the adventure of a lifetime and will grow and change in many ways throughout the story. 

Something to Talk About

Describe Shade to your parents.  What words could you use to describe what you know about him so far in the story?  What did you hear in the story so far that connects to our animal study in science?

2.  In math we worked on a challenging activity that made us think about basic facts in a new way.  We had to use our number sense and some tricky rectangular boxes to solve basic addition facts.

3.  In PE we had fun working on our basketball skills!

Reminders

If your child is in Grade 4 and would like to join the Peace Ambassadors this year, please respond to the email sent out last week by Thursday, November 26th.  We will begin Monday Nov. 30th at lunch.

Families Helping Families

 

As is our tradition at Eric Harvie School, again this year we are calling on your kindness and generosity to help support a family in need at Christmas.  This year, we will be supporting 10 families at Colonel Fred J. Scott School who may need a little extra help to make Christmas brighter.  While in past years we asked for specific gift donations for individual family members, due to the pandemic, this year will look different.   

 

This year we are asking for monetary donations.  These donations will purchase a variety of gift cards (eg. Walmart, Superstore, Safeway) and small stocking stuffers gifted to each member of the 10 families in a stocking.  Parent Council has generously offered their support by collecting the money via direct deposit and helping purchase the gifts.

 

Donations can be made via at

 ehsestreasurer@gmail.com   (No password required.) 

and are welcomed on or before  

Monday November 30, 2020 

 

In the spirit of giving this holiday season, all staff at Eric Harvie School would like to thank families in advance for their contributions and making a family’s Christmas a little brighter!! Thank you also to our Parent Council for their support with this peace initiative.

 

Mrs. Zwack and Mr. Kelly’s classes are supporting the following 2 families:

Family Name #2	Age
Mom
Dad
Child 1	10
Child 2	5
Child 3	5
Child 4	15

 

 

Family #5	Age
Dad
Mom
Child 1	7
Child 2	10
Child 3	12
Child 4	14