AFS Room 8

Welcome to Room 8! Our grade 5/6 class is off to a great start for the 2020-2021 school year.  All parent communication will be delivered through email using School Messenger.  Students will use Google Classroom when needed. Student login information can be found in the agendas. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Hurst.

Please stop by the school, during school hours, if you would like to pick up your personal items. Please call Mrs. Herndier to schedule a time at 403 777 8270. Remaining personal items from Room 8: Lost and Found Items:

Please stay tuned for an email on how you can pick up your ordered t-shirt.

Students, you have been invited to join me in our Google Classroom. The invitation was sent to your CBE Gmail on Tuesday, March 31 at 1:00 pm.  Students, please accept the invitation and read my first post.  Please take a moment to leave your classmates an uplifting comment that will be attached to my first post. You can base it on something that has helped you get by and appreciated over the last two weeks. You can describe how you have been spending your time, share your best highlight and/or even post an uplifting precept (words to live by/quote). At the end of the Google Classroom post, I have written some questions that may help guide your comment.  Looking forward to hearing from you! 

Positive Mental Health Talking to Children About COVID-19 The following information has been provided by Alberta Health Services and the U.S. Centre for Disease Control. https://www.cbe.ab.ca/about-us/school-culture-and-environment/health-and-wellness-in-school/Pages/Positive-Mental-Health.aspx

Children are naturally curious learners and there are opportunities at home to engage their learning. This webpage offers a variety of educational ideas to support literacy, numeracy and wellness at home. The resources are meant as suggestions only. You may choose to use the links and activities as needed over the next few days as more long-term educational programming is considered.  K-6 Parent Supports Grades 6-9 Parent Supports​​​ Grades 10-12 Parent Supp​orts What you can expect the week of March 30, 2020: https://www.cbe.ab.ca/news-centre/Pages/ongoing-learning-for-cbe-students.aspx

Here are some resources and supports that can help your family if food or other supports are needed during the upcoming weeks. It is important that you always check the websites of organizations however, as their locations, hours or procedures may change day to day. Alberta 211   can be accessed via the telephone (dial 211) or by the   website .  The Calgary Food Bank   will be   temporarily  closed for part of the week of March 16-20. Families needing urgent food support are to access help via Alberta 211. Food hampers can be requested from the   Calgary Food Bank   by calling 403-253-2055. Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids   is offering a $20 grocery gift card for any child who has recently received a free lunch at school through Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids. Visit  https://bb4ck.org/help  or  https://bb4ck.org  and click the green "Need Food Support" button at the top.  This will require families to comple...

Dear Families, I hope you are well in these unprecedented times.  Students, you are in my thoughts as important young members of our society and those we all deeply care for. I hope that, at this time, you have trusted adults to turn to with your questions and to address your concerns. Students, if you need support or just want to check in with me, please call me at school (403 777 8270) or email me at sjhurst@cbe.ab.ca. Right now, I am working with administration, Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Jassar to deliver quality programming that is accessible at home and is also consistent for all CBE and Alexander Ferguson students.  Parents, please continue to check your emails, the blog and the school website for further communication in the near future. Until then, as always, students can access learning materials and links that have been previously posted and shared with them on our classroom blog, student Google Drive accounts and in the agenda messages. ...

Just a reminder that Conference Manager will be open for Room 8 student-led conference bookings starting today at 4 pm. Please access Conference Manager through your 'MyCBE/PowerSchool' account. If you are having difficulties booking student-led conferences or have questions about your booking, please contact Mrs. Herndier at 403-777-8270.

Science Homework is due Thursday, March 12 - complete and print Science project write up - complete and print Science project reflection - complete the self-assessment rating scale **use the Google Doc shared document titled, "Three Steps Independent Science Project" sent today to guide what work still needs to be done **please let the teacher know if you would like to come in before school, stay at recess or lunch, or stay after school to work on this 'catch-up' homework if you are unable to do it at home **please let the teacher know if you need any materials or supports in order to complete the work

1) Patrol t-shirt orders due Thursday 2) New Mathletics HW due Thursday morning 3) No school Friday for students

Fraction Task Created By A University for Upper Elementary School Students

The video we used today to support our discussion about fractions: Vocabulary introduced and/or reviewed today to launch our study of fractions: - unit - whole - divide by - shared - equal parts - numerator - denominator - equivalent fractions - mixed numbers and improper fractions

1) Thoroughly complete the news article template in preparation for tomorrow’s lesson, write a possible headline on the back of the sheet, show your parents, and have your parents sign the top near your name. 2) Complete ten more minutes of research on Google Drive about Afghanistan, the setting of our next class novel study. Do not copy and paste the facts.

Upcoming Grade 5/6 Field Trips Wednesday, April 8th - Leighton Art Centre  *3-4 parent volunteers will be needed per class *We'll be traveling by school bus to Leighton Art Centre in Foothills, Alberta http://www.leightoncentre.org/ Thursday, April 23rd- Calgary Public Library (Central Library) *3-4 parent volunteers will be needed per class *We'll be traveling by school bus to the Central Library in downtown Calgary https://calgarylibrary.ca/read-learn-and-explore/central-library/ Alexander Ferguson's Celebration of Learning is the evening of Thursday, April 23rd. Students will be bringing their families to the Central Library to watch their performances that evening.  Thursday, June 4th- Heritage Park for AMA School Patrollers *Many parent volunteers will be needed depending on how student create groupings based on park priorities (ideally, one parent per four students) *We'll be traveling by school bus to Heritage Park located on Herita...

Peer Feedback Homework - Catch up from today's lesson by completing feedback for the three peers in your group. T ell something good A sk a question G ive a suggestion Examples from today's lesson: Great use of a strong adjective in this sentence! Throughout your writing, you were intentional with adjectives.  Your headline really caught my attention because you have two W’s in it.  I like how you poured out the five W’s and I got a great sense of what this article is about based on the first couple paragraphs.  Your quote about ______ is very interesting and unique. It added pizzazz to the article.  **use the inverted triangle for article writing to help with intentional feedback Each peer in your group needs T.A.G.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the grade 5/6 field trip to the Alberta Legislature, in Edmonton, on April 8, 2020, has been cancelled.  The grade 5/6 team will be researching and deciding on a replacement trip. Please stay tuned for more information. Thanks for your understanding.

Google Doc is titled: Cougar Article Homework Use the three articles we read together (already shared with you) about man punching cougar to save dog in order to rewrite the cougar article for a fourth version: your version.  Headline reminders: Adding 1-2 Ws Don’t add articles: ‘an’ ‘a’ ‘the’ Avoide ‘is’ ‘am’ ‘was’ ‘were’ ‘are’ ‘be’ ‘being’ Create curiosity  Replace ‘and’ with a comma Capital at the start and any proper names Present tense When finished rewriting the cougar article using the three provided articles, create a legend at the bottom of your page for the following items: LEGEND Headline Subheading Byline What When Where Who Why/How Quotes Extra info./extra facts/non-essential items *assign a coloured highlighter for each item and highlight your article accordingly