January 20 - 24

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IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES

January 27 – Report Cards for K-5 available online within your MyCBE parent account. (No paper copies are sent home.)

January 30 – Papa Johns Pizza Day (back on) – Orders must be placed by January 25 through healthyhunger.ca)

January 31 – NO SCHOOL for students – Non-Instruction Day

February 6 – Booster Juice Day (orders must be placed by February 1 at healthyhunger.ca)

February 13 and 14 – NO SCHOOL for students – Teachers’ Convention Days

February 17 – NO SCHOOL for staff and students - Family Day

This week we worked on multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit numbers (or more!). Please continue to practice at home to build confidence.

This week in our Health RESTART program, we learned about coping with different emotions.  To illustrate how people have different emotions completing a similar activity, we played a challenging game.  Students reflected extremely different emotions after playing the same game. 

Please see the information at the bottom of the blog for more detailed information.






To help learn more about, and celebrate Lunar New Year, we designed dragon scales to make a school wide collaborative art project.







During Literacy Centres, we focused on making Text to Self, Text, and World connections, identifying parts of a story through watching a short Pixar film, reading non-fiction books to learn more about Space + more.








We chose "One Word" to focus on for the New Year.  We wrote our thoughts, designed an art piece, and made bracelets to represent our ideas.









Here are the bracelets to match our art piece.











We played addition fluency games with our buddies today.














In PE we worked on dribbling and shooting.





We borrowed a giant floor map of Canada from Canadian Geographic for the next week.  We just started to explore familiar names we have read in our research about Canada.



Message from Restart:

Emotions play a significant part in our lives and can impact our relationships, behaviors and decisions daily. Today in RESTART we discussed Emotional Awareness, including the physiological impact certain emotions have on our bodies and how emotions can impact our behavior. We discussed how emotions and vulnerability affect our wellbeing, in both positive and negative ways, and how to find healthy ways to cope with our sometimes, overwhelming emotions. The phrases “I’m fine” and “its ok to not be ok” were openly discussed to introduce the idea of vulnerability to students. We explored what vulnerability and empathy are and the benefits they can have on our well-being and relationships

We also introduced the feelings wheel and discussed the benefits of using descriptive words to describe our emotions including allowing others to understand how they can support. Many youth experience high levels of stress, and it is normal for some people to develop unhealthy coping skills because of it. Teaching youth positive ways to deal with feelings of being overwhelmed will give them the skills necessary to cope with stressful situations in their lives. 

The younger students learn healthy coping skills the less likely they will be to adopt negative stress reduction practices as they get older.



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