Tuesday March 31

We were so glad to connect with you all yesterday after our break.  It has been great to hear about all the things you have been up to.  

To Do Today:

Make an Office Space

We would like you to take some time today to set up a positive working space for yourself.  Find a good spot in your home free of distractions where you can do your school work. What sort of materials might you need?  Perhaps some pencils, your notebooks, crayons or markers? What other things would help you in your space?

Make yourself an office sign to place in your space.  Use your creativity to make your sign big, bold, bright and beautiful.  

Once your space is set up we would like you to take a photo of your space if you can. 

Using the password information we sent to your families yesterday please log into IRIS and post your workspace photo for your teachers to see.  (Username is your CBE ID).

https://iris.cbe.ab.ca

*This will also give us an idea of who can log into IRIS.  If there are any issues with your passwords please let your teachers know so we can help!

I PICK 

Hi everyone!  We are reviewing the I PICK we have been using to choose good fit books for reading.  We are asking that you look at home to see if you can collect some books and keep them together in a basket or pile to use when we are reading to self or reading to someone (i.e. to a family member, a pet, a stuffy, etc.).  Please let us know if you have any questions.

Read to Someone

Take 10 - 15 minutes today to read to someone in your home today. It can be a parent, sibling, pet or stuffy. Choose a book or two from the basket of books you collected. Remember EEKK (elbow to elbow, knee to knee if you are reading with a person). Use the reading strategies that you know to help you solve new words. Look at the photo below to help you remember your strategies. 

Mrs. Bates has a story to share with you today with many positive wishes! 

https://youtu.be/l7p0YRUick8

MUSIC
A Link from Mrs. Coulson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7yqD69IsOc&feature=youtu.be

PE
Stay connected with Mr. Der and Phys Ed with daily updates on the PE Blog
https://ehsphysicaleducation.blogspot.com/

Links for the day:

Bring a wild animal into your home! Try this link using a mobile device.

3D animals in your home

Learn Alberta has an entire online reference centre that you will love. Some of the sites our students will enjoy include Bookflix, Culturegrams, Powerknowledge (Earth, Space, Science), Scholastic Go and PebbleGo plus many more. Feel free to explore sites as you wish!

You will need to login.

Username: LA06

Password: 4105

http://www.learnalberta.ca/OnlineReferenceCentre.aspx?lang=en

*We have turned off the option of comments today - we would like you to share your office space through IRIS.

Happy Monday Peace Pod!  

We hope you are all doing well and had a restful and fun Spring Break.  Check out our below video to find out what your teachers did for Spring Break.  We would love to hear from you! Please share your spring break activities and stories below in the blog comments or write a journal entry about your Spring Break and send a photo of it to your teacher through email.  

https://youtu.be/CwquFxLngW8

Ms. Disher feels like good Pyjamas are essential right now so she would like to share with you Robert Munsch’s story “Pyjama Day”.  

https://youtu.be/9avikWApGxY

Your Job For Today

We have a word work “Making Words” task for you to undertake today.  This is something we do in class often and you all know how to do. You need to make as many words as you can from the letters and then finally find the mystery word.  Keep track of the words you make in a list either in your writing notebook or another piece of paper in your house.  

Please find a piece of scrap paper and cut it into 6 pieces.  Label each piece with the following letters: n i g r s p 

What words can you make? What is the mystery word?  Are there any other words you can make that rhyme with some of the word families you find?

*parents if your child is struggling to make words - ask them to find the vowel, help them to make some of the word endings and ask them to change the beginning sound to make other words (ie. _ing, what letters can you use from the letter cards to put in front to make words)

If you would like another challenge try these letters: n a i r w o b

Some additional ideas you might like to explore today or throughout the week:

Mrs.Coulson has a song for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaRYBlv1o64&feature=youtu.be

Mr. Der has an activity to get you moving today!

https://ehsphysicaleducation.blogspot.com/

Sheree Fitch visited us last year at EHS. She is an author from Halifax and has begun a podcast where she reads her books/poems aloud. You can listen here:

https://voiced.ca/project/mabel-murples-popping-purple-wordspinning-world/

Maybe you’d like to listen to an Astronaut read to you from space! Yes, from space! Here’s the link:

https://www.spacestationexplorers.org/educational-programs/storytimefromspace/

Calgary Reads offers a daily activity that is fun for the family. Click below to find out today’s “Noodle-Do-a-Day”:

https://calgaryreads.com/noodle-do-a-day/

*Parents: Please watch your email for an important email from your child’s teacher 

Movie on 3 30 20 at 11 39 AM

March 20, 2020

Happy Friday Peace Pod!

Can you believe it is Spring Break? We hope that you enjoy your next week off.  We will be thinking of all of you spending time with your families.  We will be in touch with you in a week with some fun learning!  Get outside and get some fresh air, play games, read stories and if you want to hear some stories there will be some teacher read alouds available on our school youtube channel & blog:

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopomvulWkMrecfLT-mVgzg/ 


Parents - please watch the blog and your emails on Monday March 30.  We plan to provide more direction around next steps in learning by noon on March 30.  Please note our process maybe slow and evolve over the course of the first week back.  We are working together as an EHS team and a school board.

We miss you all!

Love Ms. Disher, Mrs. Campbell & Mrs. Bates

My Many Colored Days

Thursday March 19/20

Hello all from the three of us.  We hope you are doing well and enjoying some family time.

We will be leaving something for you on the windows of our classrooms at the end of the day...next time you walk by the school, check it out!

Please let us know if you weren't able to pick up your child's belongings today:
You will notice some journals we gave you have hardly been used or are just beginning to be used.  We have sent these home as we believe that we may have an opportunity to use those for your assignments coming home.  We are still working out details but would ask that you save the notebooks and your visual journal, to use after spring break for school work.

Below is a link from the CBE on literacy tasks for you:

https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/Documents/Family-Literacy-Brochure.pdf

Love you all!!!
From the Peace Pod

March 18, 2018

Hello Peace Pod Families,

• As you've been informed, personal items can be picked up from school tomorrow. Please sign up for a time slot on the signup genius https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080d49a9ad2ba6fc1-eric
• Please bring a reusable bag from home to collect your child's belongings
• If you placed a book order with Ms. Disher - they have arrived and will be with your child's personal belongings in the gym
• Once you've collected their items, please leave their bin at school for us
• Your child's shoes will be in their bin if they were labeled with their names. If they are not in your child's bin they will be on a table labeled PEACE POD  
• If you have any school library or home reading books, please bring them with you to return. There will be a collection box in the gym. 
• Continue to check our blog daily, and the school website for the most up to date information, as well as emails you may be receiving via school messenger
• CBE LINKS for LEARNING

We miss you! Be Well! 💙

Enjoy the ABCs of life!

March 17, 2020

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We hope you find the time to get outside and go for a walk to enjoy the sunshine. On your walk around the community see if you can find some green rocks with the names of our pods on them - also look out for shamrocks! Happy hunting!!

Monday, March 16, 2020

We just wanted to let you know that we are thinking of you all and will miss you at school.  Please note we will continue to use the blog to stay connected and hope that you will follow along.  More information will follow as to what that will look like. We encourage families to be attentive to CBE Messenger and both the CBE and the EHS school websites:  

• CBE Website 

• School Website 
  
  
  We are missing all of the members of our Peace Pod family.  Sending you all a virtual hug. 
  
  
  Love: Mrs. Campbell, Ms. Disher & Mrs. Bates 
  

March 13, 2020

March 13, 2020

Reminders:

Please continue to check our school website and your email for the most current updates.

Our day:

We celebrated our last day of the read-a-thon with a viewing of some Robert Munsch stories in the gym. We listened to/watched - Seeing Red, Stephanie's Ponytail and Give Me Back My Dad.

During ignite some textiles were put out. Students were finger knitting and hand knotting pieces of felt to make scarves and little blankets so you may see some of those items coming home today.

We played a new math game today, called Make that Number. Ask your child what math skills they needed to use today in order to play.

Reminders:

Up coming dates:

Spring Break - March 23rd - March 29th



Our day:

During our morning meeting we discussed ways to stay healthy. See the poster below to see what we highlighted. You can reinforce these behaviours at home and/or answer questions if they come your way.

Our Read-A-Thon activity today was buddy reading. The grade 1/2s paired up with the Joy pod (grade 3/4) to share some enjoyable reading time together!

In Inquiry today the arctic group was tasked with a challenge to create something that would protect you from  cold, wind and animals. They used loose parts and then were able to define what they built as being shelter. Students were given a chance to share their design with the class. We also watched a video on an Inuit father and son building an igloo. We found out that they can build it in as fast as 30 minutes. We were astonished!!

Wednesday March 11/20

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Math Groups:

Mrs. Bates' Group:  Continued math with string beads- What number sentences can you create? How many ways can you make 20. Ask your child for more information about what they did in this group.

Mrs. Campbell's Group: Ask your child about the double digit addition equations that they have been working on using vertical format.

Ms. Disher's Group: Ask your child about different strategies we have been talking about double and triple digit subtraction. We are working on explaining/showing the strategies we are using. Try the following: 24+14+17+13+10=?, 67-49=?, 438+145=?, 75-42=?

We finished our nursery rhymes to make books to give our Roots of Empathy babies as a thank you.

Some of us continued to work in literacy centers, some worked on comprehension strategies in guided reading groups, some changed book bin books to make sure they had "good fit books" (ask your child what this means: I PICK)

See pictures below of some of us working in literacy centers...

The Peace Pod,
Have a great night!

Tuesday March 11, 2020

All kids should have an Eric Harvie School Reads Across Canada Read-A-Thon handout.  They went home yesterday.  Please let us know if you did not get one.

Ask your child what they did for literacy today (depends on if they worked with Mr. Kai, Ms. Disher, Mrs. Bates or Mrs. Campbell):
-some did literacy centers
-some worked in a guided reading group with a teacher
-some kids read to self or read with someone
-Mr. Kai, Ms. Disher and Mrs. Bates' groups read the Canadian story: Why Ravens and Wolves Hunt Together, as part of our focus on Canadian books
-Ask your child about our new blue writing folders

Tomorrow Ms. Disher's group has their last baby visit for Roots of Empathy.

We will be working on some printing tasks soon.  Stayed tuned.  This may be part of our literacy block and/or our IGNITE time.

Ask your child what they did in their math groups.  Ms. Disher's group worked on an "exit slip"-four questions to see where we are at for double/triple digit addition and subtraction.  Other groups continued to work on double digit addition and subtraction strategies while others read a story and practiced making 20.

Inquiry:  We started a new rotation on Monday so students are now with a different teacher learning about different concepts.  Ask your child if they are part of the Arctic Group or The West Coast Group now.

Have a fantastic night!
The Peace Pod

March 9, 2020

March 9, 2020


We started the day with an assembly to kick off our Reading and Thinking Across Canada - Eric Harvie Read- A- Thon

Check out our website for logging your Canadian books:

EHS Read-A-Thon!

Students brought home brochures and pledge forms today.

Students also enjoyed the book, Moose, by Canadian author, Robert Munsch and shared moose encounters/experiences with the class.

Today was our first day of the new inquiry round. The Arctic group is now working with Mrs.Bowles and Mrs. Campbell in the afternoons, while the Coast group is working with Mrs. Day and Mrs. Nelligan.

The Arctic group watched a video clip of Tuktoyaktuk and also drew a picture of what they think life looked like thousands of years ago in the Arctic. The Coast group discussed what they already knew about the coast and what they would still like to learn.

Friday March 6, 2020

Reminder: return pink notice regarding the Read-A-Thon that went home on Thursday.

Conferences will be March 19th and 20th.  More information to come and check the Monday Connects coming up.

Today we walked through the Hub to see the amazing work from the Kindergarten students from their Learning Walk.

We read the story Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes.  It is a good story to talk about feeling worried and how our bodies feel physically when we are worried and how being worried affects us socially and emotionally.

Today for Wonder Time/Design Thinking, we looked at the following question: What can you build to help someone in our school community?  Students worked with a partner and used lego.  Below are some of our creations...

Have a wonderful weekend!
The Peace Pod