An email was just sent out to all parents with information about Google Classroom and Google Meet. Our first Google Meeting will be on Thursday morning between 8:00 and 10:00 (please check in sometime by 9:30 so we have time to make sure everything is working). Students do not need to be online the whole time; we just want to connect and make sure we're ready to go for online learning next week.
All grade 6 students have been invited to classrooms for the 4 core subjects. The invitations go to their CBE gmail accounts. Please have them join the classes this week.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Updates for this week (March 30 - April 3)
Hi Room 20 Parents and Students,
I connected with many of you today either over phone or email (you all should have received an email - please let me know if you did not) to gather some information about your access to online learning. Our official platform for online learning will be up and running by next week and will likely be mainly through Google Classroom. At the bottom of this post I have included links to some how to guides for the Google platforms we will be using. You should also have received an email from the school with a bit of information about these sites.
All students have Google accounts already - the same username and password that they use for their school email and Google Drive are what they will need for Google Classroom and Meet. Most (possibly all) room 20 students know their Google usernames, and I included them in the email I sent you on Monday, March 16. If you need it resent to you, please email me (siwinston@cbe.ab.ca) and I'll pass it on to you. Students set their own passwords and I do not have access to them. If a student has forgotten their password, let me know, and I can get submit a request for it to be reset. Most of our class was on Google Drive typing their stories in March, so I don't anticipate too many username/password issues.
For this week, while teachers are working on setting up the new online classrooms, please continue using the resources that were sent to you before the break. The expectation set by Alberta Education is 5 hours of work per week, so try to get in that habit this week, and of course feel free to do more. I have been checking in on your Mathletics and CommonLit progress and will continue to check progress and give feedback / assign work throughout the week. I have all your stories marked and am currently considering the best option for sending the feedback to students. If you're one of the six students who didn't hand your story in before outdoor school, the time is now! You will be hearing from me next week if it's still not finished and shared with me Google Drive.
Here are the links to help you get started with Google Classroom and Google Meet.
BHS Parent Info about Google
Using Google Classroom
Using Google Meet (chat and video chat)
Using Google Chrome (web browser)
CBE Google Tech Support
We're still figuring things out, but email me any questions and I will do my best to find you an answer. More info will be coming your way later this week for sure.
I connected with many of you today either over phone or email (you all should have received an email - please let me know if you did not) to gather some information about your access to online learning. Our official platform for online learning will be up and running by next week and will likely be mainly through Google Classroom. At the bottom of this post I have included links to some how to guides for the Google platforms we will be using. You should also have received an email from the school with a bit of information about these sites.
All students have Google accounts already - the same username and password that they use for their school email and Google Drive are what they will need for Google Classroom and Meet. Most (possibly all) room 20 students know their Google usernames, and I included them in the email I sent you on Monday, March 16. If you need it resent to you, please email me (siwinston@cbe.ab.ca) and I'll pass it on to you. Students set their own passwords and I do not have access to them. If a student has forgotten their password, let me know, and I can get submit a request for it to be reset. Most of our class was on Google Drive typing their stories in March, so I don't anticipate too many username/password issues.
For this week, while teachers are working on setting up the new online classrooms, please continue using the resources that were sent to you before the break. The expectation set by Alberta Education is 5 hours of work per week, so try to get in that habit this week, and of course feel free to do more. I have been checking in on your Mathletics and CommonLit progress and will continue to check progress and give feedback / assign work throughout the week. I have all your stories marked and am currently considering the best option for sending the feedback to students. If you're one of the six students who didn't hand your story in before outdoor school, the time is now! You will be hearing from me next week if it's still not finished and shared with me Google Drive.
Here are the links to help you get started with Google Classroom and Google Meet.
BHS Parent Info about Google
Using Google Classroom
Using Google Meet (chat and video chat)
Using Google Chrome (web browser)
CBE Google Tech Support
We're still figuring things out, but email me any questions and I will do my best to find you an answer. More info will be coming your way later this week for sure.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Spring break wishes
Hi Room 20 Students,
Don’t worry, this blog post isn’t about assignments. My only assignment for you right now is to enjoy spring break, even though it will be a bit different this year. I just want you to know that I’m thinking about you. This week was very strange. I don’t like being in our classroom all day without you (I actually spent most of this week downstairs so I didn’t have to be up there alone). Nothing is the same without you there. I’m in the middle of reading your stories right now and it’s nice to be able to hear your voices through your writing.
One thing I’ve thought about many times in the past few days is how grateful I am that we were at outdoor school last week. So many grade six classes will not get that experience now, but we did, and I’m so glad. I hope you made memories that you will carry with you forever; I know I did.
CBE staff have been working hard this week to figure out what school will look like for us while we can’t be together. We’ll all learn more after spring break. It’ll be different and maybe a little scary, but we’ll figure it out together.
I miss you and I hope you’re all healthy and doing okay with all the changes happening right now. I’m just an email away any time you want to chat.
Love, Ms. Winston
Don’t worry, this blog post isn’t about assignments. My only assignment for you right now is to enjoy spring break, even though it will be a bit different this year. I just want you to know that I’m thinking about you. This week was very strange. I don’t like being in our classroom all day without you (I actually spent most of this week downstairs so I didn’t have to be up there alone). Nothing is the same without you there. I’m in the middle of reading your stories right now and it’s nice to be able to hear your voices through your writing.
One thing I’ve thought about many times in the past few days is how grateful I am that we were at outdoor school last week. So many grade six classes will not get that experience now, but we did, and I’m so glad. I hope you made memories that you will carry with you forever; I know I did.
CBE staff have been working hard this week to figure out what school will look like for us while we can’t be together. We’ll all learn more after spring break. It’ll be different and maybe a little scary, but we’ll figure it out together.
I miss you and I hope you’re all healthy and doing okay with all the changes happening right now. I’m just an email away any time you want to chat.
Love, Ms. Winston
Friday, March 13, 2020
Upcoming Event Cancellations
There should be School Messenger emails going out with more details but just a note that March fun lunch, the spring dance, and the Aggie Days field trip have all been cancelled as a safety precaution surrounding corona virus.
Friday, March 13
Messages and Reminders:
All library books are due back by Monday and we will not have library next week. Parent council fundraising forms went home today - order by March 31 if you want cookie, cinnamon bun, or muffin dough. Next Thursday is spring photo day. Thursday is also the last day of school before spring break. School resumes on Monday, March 30.
Morning Recap:
We had a sleepy day today after our busy week at outdoor school. What an amazing experience it was! We started the day with our 5 students combining classes with Mr. Shackelton's 4 students to go help their grade 2 buddies in Ms. Cox's class. They needed help filming videos for language arts. When that was done, we went back up to play some games or watch a bit of a movie before going down to see our buddies. We talked about this month's pillar (responsibility) and watched The Incredibles with them before going to gym with all 20 of the grade sixes.
Have a great weekend - stay warm and healthy!
Upcoming Important Dates:
Thursday, March 19 - spring photo day
Thursday, March 19 - last day of school before spring break
March 20 - March 29 - spring break
Monday, March 30 - back to school
All library books are due back by Monday and we will not have library next week. Parent council fundraising forms went home today - order by March 31 if you want cookie, cinnamon bun, or muffin dough. Next Thursday is spring photo day. Thursday is also the last day of school before spring break. School resumes on Monday, March 30.
Morning Recap:
We had a sleepy day today after our busy week at outdoor school. What an amazing experience it was! We started the day with our 5 students combining classes with Mr. Shackelton's 4 students to go help their grade 2 buddies in Ms. Cox's class. They needed help filming videos for language arts. When that was done, we went back up to play some games or watch a bit of a movie before going down to see our buddies. We talked about this month's pillar (responsibility) and watched The Incredibles with them before going to gym with all 20 of the grade sixes.
Have a great weekend - stay warm and healthy!
Upcoming Important Dates:
Thursday, March 19 - spring photo day
Thursday, March 19 - last day of school before spring break
March 20 - March 29 - spring break
Monday, March 30 - back to school
Friday, March 6, 2020
Friday, March 6
Messages and Reminders:
Outdoor school is next week - we leave on Monday and return on Thursday. Click here if you need a copy of the info booklet with the packing list. Students who are not attending outdoor school have been assigned a classroom and are still expected to be at school each day. Friday is a regular school day (with some tiredness expected from both students and teachers).
Morning Recap:
This morning wrote our order of operations test. As we finished, we worked on unfinished work or did read to self. The test didn't go very well. We've seen our marks but didn't have time to go over the questions, so the tests will stay at school until we can go through them together (next Friday or the following Monday). Our guest teachers, the nursing students, were back for health today. They had us complete another survey on resilience and then explained our buddy activity. When buddies arrived, we made collages with positive things about ourselves. We ended the morning at gym with all the grade sixes.
Have a wonderful weekend! See you at the regular time on Monday to load luggage into the gym.
Outdoor school is next week - we leave on Monday and return on Thursday. Click here if you need a copy of the info booklet with the packing list. Students who are not attending outdoor school have been assigned a classroom and are still expected to be at school each day. Friday is a regular school day (with some tiredness expected from both students and teachers).
Morning Recap:
This morning wrote our order of operations test. As we finished, we worked on unfinished work or did read to self. The test didn't go very well. We've seen our marks but didn't have time to go over the questions, so the tests will stay at school until we can go through them together (next Friday or the following Monday). Our guest teachers, the nursing students, were back for health today. They had us complete another survey on resilience and then explained our buddy activity. When buddies arrived, we made collages with positive things about ourselves. We ended the morning at gym with all the grade sixes.
Have a wonderful weekend! See you at the regular time on Monday to load luggage into the gym.
Upcoming Important Dates:
March 9 - March 12 - outdoor school
March 19 - last day of school before spring break
March 20 - March 29 - spring break
March 30 - back to school
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Thursday, March 5
Messages and Reminders:
Stories are due tomorrow. Our order of operations test is tomorrow. Jump Rope for Heart fundraising is due tomorrow. Outdoor school is next week - we leave on Monday and return on Thursday. Click here if you need a copy of the info booklet with the packing list.
Morning Recap:
This morning after ignite, we wrote our third Edmonton spelling test of the year. When we were done, we peer marked them (Ms. Winston still goes over them after to double check). Everyone did the same or better than they did on the last test, which was great. In math, we wrote an integer order of operations mini quiz and did finish up math work. If all our work was finished, we did Mathletics on the laptops. We ended the morning with gym and library.
Stories are due tomorrow. Our order of operations test is tomorrow. Jump Rope for Heart fundraising is due tomorrow. Outdoor school is next week - we leave on Monday and return on Thursday. Click here if you need a copy of the info booklet with the packing list.
Morning Recap:
This morning after ignite, we wrote our third Edmonton spelling test of the year. When we were done, we peer marked them (Ms. Winston still goes over them after to double check). Everyone did the same or better than they did on the last test, which was great. In math, we wrote an integer order of operations mini quiz and did finish up math work. If all our work was finished, we did Mathletics on the laptops. We ended the morning with gym and library.
Upcoming Important Dates:
Friday, March 6 - stories due
Friday, March 6 - stories due
Friday, March 6 - order of operations test
Friday, March 6 - Jump Rope for Heart fundraising due
March 9 - March 12 - outdoor school
March 9 - March 12 - outdoor school
March 19 - last day of school before spring break
March 20 - March 29 - spring break
March 30 - back to school
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Wednesday, March 4
Messages and Reminders:
Stories are due by Friday and are now homework. Our order of operations test is on Friday. Jump Rope for Heart fundraising is due on Friday. Outdoor school is next week - we leave on Monday and return on Thursday. Click here if you need a copy of the info booklet with the packing list.
Morning Recap:
Our Wednesday schedule has changed a bit (gym and music schedules got switched around due to the gym being used as a lunchroom now), so we got right into story writing this morning instead of going to music first thing. We had a little over an hour to work on our stories for the last time. They can be handed in tomorrow or Friday but we are done working on them in class (they can still be printed at school if you don't have a printer at home - just make sure it is shared on Google Drive with siwinston@educbe.ca). If we were confident that we had done our best work and had completed one final editing checklist, we handed in our good copies and moved onto finish up or read to self before heading to music. During math, we continued working on our integer order of operations booklet. We did a challenge page and a math crossword puzzle if we finished early. After gym, we had a bit more time to work on math before lunch.
Stories are due by Friday and are now homework. Our order of operations test is on Friday. Jump Rope for Heart fundraising is due on Friday. Outdoor school is next week - we leave on Monday and return on Thursday. Click here if you need a copy of the info booklet with the packing list.
Morning Recap:
Our Wednesday schedule has changed a bit (gym and music schedules got switched around due to the gym being used as a lunchroom now), so we got right into story writing this morning instead of going to music first thing. We had a little over an hour to work on our stories for the last time. They can be handed in tomorrow or Friday but we are done working on them in class (they can still be printed at school if you don't have a printer at home - just make sure it is shared on Google Drive with siwinston@educbe.ca). If we were confident that we had done our best work and had completed one final editing checklist, we handed in our good copies and moved onto finish up or read to self before heading to music. During math, we continued working on our integer order of operations booklet. We did a challenge page and a math crossword puzzle if we finished early. After gym, we had a bit more time to work on math before lunch.
Upcoming Important Dates:
Friday, March 6 - stories due
Friday, March 6 - stories due
Friday, March 6 - order of operations test
Friday, March 6 - Jump Rope for Heart fundraising due
March 9 - March 12 - outdoor school
March 9 - March 12 - outdoor school
March 19 - last day of school before spring break
March 20 - March 29 - spring break
March 30 - back to school
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Tuesday, March 3
Messages and Reminders:
This week is club week at BHS. All week at lunch there are a variety of clubs that students can choose to check out during their lunch recess. Stories are due by Friday. We will work on them again tomorrow but then that's it and they will be homework. Our order of operations test is on Friday. Jump Rope for Heart fundraising is due on Friday. Outdoor school is next week - we leave on Monday and return on Thursday. Click here if you need a copy of the info booklet with the packing list. Students who are not attending outdoor school will be told this week what class they will be in while we are away.
Morning Recap:
This morning after music, we talked about the changes surrounding lunch. We will now be eating in the back half of the gym instead of upstairs in the classroom. In math, we reviewed multiplying and dividing integers and did a couple practice integer order of operations questions together before getting time to practice on our own. In language arts, we worked on our stories and reviewed the expectations for when we hand in our final draft. During gym, we started our floor hockey unit. Between gym and lunch, we had some finish up time or did read to self or read to someone if we were caught up on work.
This week is club week at BHS. All week at lunch there are a variety of clubs that students can choose to check out during their lunch recess. Stories are due by Friday. We will work on them again tomorrow but then that's it and they will be homework. Our order of operations test is on Friday. Jump Rope for Heart fundraising is due on Friday. Outdoor school is next week - we leave on Monday and return on Thursday. Click here if you need a copy of the info booklet with the packing list. Students who are not attending outdoor school will be told this week what class they will be in while we are away.
Morning Recap:
This morning after music, we talked about the changes surrounding lunch. We will now be eating in the back half of the gym instead of upstairs in the classroom. In math, we reviewed multiplying and dividing integers and did a couple practice integer order of operations questions together before getting time to practice on our own. In language arts, we worked on our stories and reviewed the expectations for when we hand in our final draft. During gym, we started our floor hockey unit. Between gym and lunch, we had some finish up time or did read to self or read to someone if we were caught up on work.
Upcoming Important Dates:
Friday, March 6 - stories due
Friday, March 6 - stories due
Friday, March 6 - order of operations test
Friday, March 6 - Jump Rope for Heart fundraising due
March 9 - March 12 - outdoor school
March 9 - March 12 - outdoor school
March 19 - last day of school before spring break
March 20 - March 29 - spring break
March 30 - back to school
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