Hello everyone!
I am sure you all got the information about the teacher parade tomorrow but I will attach it here for your information!
I am excited to see you if you are able to make it - here is the link with the information if you need it: http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/CoventryHills/about-us/school/principal-message/Lists/Photos/May%207%20Teacher%20Parade.pdf
Hope to see you tomorrow (even if it's just in passing)!
Ms. Brinson
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Sunday, April 12, 2020
April 13th to 17th, 2020!
Hi everyone,
As you've seen in your email inboxes, we are moving to Google Classroom! Its a really neat way to keep our classroom going online, and I'm excited to get the opportunity to try it out!
Please follow the instructions that I emailed to you, to help your child get set up in the Google Classroom if you have not done so already. If you did not get this email, can't find it, or need any help, please email me and I can help solve whatever may arise!
We will still be using the blog once a week or so to celebrate learning and give important announcements so please check back every couple of days so you don't miss anything important.
Thanks everyone, and see you in the classroom!
Ms. Brinson
As you've seen in your email inboxes, we are moving to Google Classroom! Its a really neat way to keep our classroom going online, and I'm excited to get the opportunity to try it out!
Please follow the instructions that I emailed to you, to help your child get set up in the Google Classroom if you have not done so already. If you did not get this email, can't find it, or need any help, please email me and I can help solve whatever may arise!
We will still be using the blog once a week or so to celebrate learning and give important announcements so please check back every couple of days so you don't miss anything important.
Thanks everyone, and see you in the classroom!
Ms. Brinson
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Epic! - Our online reading resource!
Hi everyone,
In light of the current remote learning situation, Epic!, the reading website we were using for our Literacy Centers has become free for home use until the end of the school year! We already have a class account where each child has a profile - but I would love to give you all the information so you can login from home if you so choose!
*Epic! is a Calgary Board of Education approved resource.*
This is absolutely not mandatory, it's completely optional - it is just a fantastic reading website with videos, read alouds, and simple reading practice books that is easy to use at home! Every time your child reads a book it goes towards our class reading count!
You will be getting an email from me this morning to give you instructions to sign up on your own home device - if you choose not to use it then please just ignore the email.
Thanks so much, and as always if you have any questions please do not hesitate to email me,
Ms. Brinson
In light of the current remote learning situation, Epic!, the reading website we were using for our Literacy Centers has become free for home use until the end of the school year! We already have a class account where each child has a profile - but I would love to give you all the information so you can login from home if you so choose!
*Epic! is a Calgary Board of Education approved resource.*
This is absolutely not mandatory, it's completely optional - it is just a fantastic reading website with videos, read alouds, and simple reading practice books that is easy to use at home! Every time your child reads a book it goes towards our class reading count!
You will be getting an email from me this morning to give you instructions to sign up on your own home device - if you choose not to use it then please just ignore the email.
Thanks so much, and as always if you have any questions please do not hesitate to email me,
Ms. Brinson
Monday, April 6, 2020
April 6th - 9th, 2020!
Home Learning April 6th – 10th, 2020
**Each task is designed to take about 30 minutes – giving you five hours of total work per week (this week will only have four hours, since Friday is a holiday).**
** All of these activities can be done using things you have around your house – should you need anything to help you with your at home learning, please email me and I will see how I can best help you!**
**Here is a Tutorial Video on how to help your child learn and grow: **
Learning Objectives:
· Literacy:
- Students will be able to discuss events of personal significance.
- Students will be able to identify and name colours.
· Math:
- Students will be able to use subitizing skills to recognize numbers 1-10.
- Students will begin learning about measurements – height.
Guiding Questions:
· Literacy:
- What have you been doing since we have not been in in school? What was your favourite part about being at home?
· Math:
- Can you tell me what each number is just by quickly looking at it? (I will upload a video of a game to play to practice subitizing)
- Can you arrange these items in a line by height, shortest to tallest?
Literacy
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Math
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Materials Needed:
- Something to write with (ie. pencil or pen)
- Paper
Task One:
- Please watch this Instruction Video
- Draw (not colour) a picture of what you have been doing since you’ve been at home. Label three things in this picture – try to sound out the words to write them down or have an adult write them down on a separate piece of paper so you can copy it on your own paper. Make sure to use WOW drawing, not Meh drawing!
Helpful questions to guide learning:
- What has been your favourite thing to do at home?
- What is your favourite food to eat at home?
- What is your favourite time of the day?
- What activity makes you feel happy?
- Who has been your favourite person to hang out with? What do you do together?
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Materials Needed:
- Technology
- Miscellaneous items you may have around the house – whatever you have will work! (ie. Lego/small toys/pieces of torn up paper/handful of cereal/cards/puzzle pieces/etc)
- Pencil and paper
Task One:
- Play the game using the video
- Play the game with someone at home – create piles of different numbers of manipulatives (just like in the picture example), the player will point to a pile of their choosing and the student calls out what number it is. When the other player points to the BOOM card the student jumps up and says BOOM!
Helpful questions to guide learning:
- How many are there here?
- Are there _____ here? (if they are unsure, encourage them to count and then try again)
- If I take one away, how many will there be?
- If I add another one, how many will there be?
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Materials Needed:
- Picture you drew yesterday
- Something to colour with (markers/pencil crayons/crayons)
Task Two:
- Please watch this read aloud video.Tell an adult your favourite colours and least favourite colours. What colours were sad in the book we just read? Why were they sad? Pick out your THREE favourite colours and One colour that was sad in the book we read. Colour your picture from yesterday using ONLY these colours – it’s okay that it may not be realistic.
Helpful questions to guide learning:
- What are your favourite colours?
- What colours were happy in the book? What colours were sad in the book?
- How do you think you could make the sad colours feel better?
- How can you use one of the sad colours in your picture?
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Materials Needed:
- Math Scavenger Hunt
Task Two:
- Math Scavenger Hunt – Go around the house and find the things on the scavenger hunt list. As you find each item on your list, make sure you are answering the questions on the scavenger hunt - if you would like to ask an adult to help you write down your answers, you can - but this is not mandatory.
Helpful questions to guide learning:
- How many _____ do you have?
- How many items do you have all together? Count them all.
- If I take away one/add one how many would there be?
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Materials Needed:
- Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
- Household items
- Paper and something to write with
Task Three:
- Look around your house or yard for the things of the scavenger hunt, and when you get to the ones that ask you to “Name _____”, ask someone to help you write down the name of the things you found, then take a picture and send it to Ms. Brinson. Ask someone to help you take a picture of all of the things you found at the end of the scavenger hunt, and send that to Ms. Brinson as well.
Helpful questions to guide learning:
- Can you name these colours for me?
- Do you think that ______ (name an area of the house that may have an item of that colour) might have something that colour?
- Can you find another thing that is that colour in a different room?
- Find something that is the correct colour they are looking for and ask “do you think you can find something that is coloured just like this?”
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Materials Needed:
- Household items
Task Three:
- Please watch this instruction video.
- Go to your room and grab 8 toys/stuffed animals (alternatively go to the kitchen and get out 8 cups or water bottles), then arrange these items from SHORTEST to TALLEST. Double check your arrangement – are they all in the right order?
- Take a picture of your arrangement and send it to Ms. Brinson
Helpful questions to guide learning:
- Is this shorter than or taller than the item that I am holding? (Hold up one of the items they chose)
- If I move this item will they still be in the right order?
- How do you know that is shorter than the thing beside it?
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Materials Needed:
- Paper
- Colouring Supplies (crayons/pencil crayone/whatever you have available at home)
- Pencil
Task Four:
- This week we have learned all about colours and we have talked about the things that are important to us and our experiences! Today I would like you to draw a picture of your own imaginary world (a world where anything you want can be in it, because its all from your creative imagination) and then use all of the colours of the rainbow to colour it. Just like the imaginary world at the end of the book we read for the last activity.
- Then ask an adult to help you write the sentence “My favourite part of my imaginary world is ________!”
Helpful questions to guide learning:
- What type of stores would you like to have in your imaginary world?
- Does your imaginary world have community helpers like police or doctors?
- What do the people eat in your imaginary world?
- What would your house look like in your own world?
- Who would be in your imaginary world with you?
- What would your world be called?
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Materials Needed:
- Household items
Task Four:
- Ask someone to help you by getting 10 items from around the house for you – some big and some small. When they get all these items put them into a big pile all together – then sort the items into a BIG pile, or a SMALL pile. See an example here:
- For an extra challenge, after you’re done making your big and small piles, put all of the items back into a pile and then sort them from TALLEST to SHORTEST kind of like you did before!
Helpful questions to guide learning:
- If I hold up these two items together, does one look smaller than the other or do they look almost the same? If they look they same do you think they are big or small?
- Can you point to something BIG around the house?
- Can you point to something SMALL around the house?
- How do you decide if something is big or small?
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Thanks everyone, and as always if you have anything you need, please let me know!
Ms. Brinson
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Hello!
Hello all,
I am constantly learning new things this week! Today I learned how to use a new video tool that I will be using regularly to help facilitate at home learning - some of the things I can do with this feature are demonstrations of a learning task, reading a story, sending a message to individual students/family members, and just for keeping connected!
Here is my test video that I recorded for all the Kindergarten students to watch:
Hello Everyone!
Finally, I just wanted to give you all some information about what next week will look like (even though I have mentioned a lot of this already to you all, I just wanted to write it down so you could all refer back to this).
Monday, April 6th: I will be making a blog post on Monday morning by 9:00am. This post will have ALL of your learning tasks for the week (4 Literacy and 4 Math this week, given that Friday is a holiday) - please do not feel overwhelmed by this. I am posting them all at once so that you/your child can complete the tasks in your own time throughout the week, and so that you have time to prepare and schedule for the week. The Alberta Education guideline is for students K-6 to be completing one hour of learning a day (equal to five hours in a week), and of course given that this is an unprecedented situation, please do what works best for your family when working through these tasks. Of course if you have any questions or need to talk about anything at all, please email me and I can either email back, phone you, or send a clarifying video (whatever you prefer).
Friday, April 10th: This is Good Friday, and therefore we would not have been in school this day so there will be no tasks to complete.
Thanks everyone,
Ms. Brinson
I am constantly learning new things this week! Today I learned how to use a new video tool that I will be using regularly to help facilitate at home learning - some of the things I can do with this feature are demonstrations of a learning task, reading a story, sending a message to individual students/family members, and just for keeping connected!
Here is my test video that I recorded for all the Kindergarten students to watch:
Hello Everyone!
Finally, I just wanted to give you all some information about what next week will look like (even though I have mentioned a lot of this already to you all, I just wanted to write it down so you could all refer back to this).
Monday, April 6th: I will be making a blog post on Monday morning by 9:00am. This post will have ALL of your learning tasks for the week (4 Literacy and 4 Math this week, given that Friday is a holiday) - please do not feel overwhelmed by this. I am posting them all at once so that you/your child can complete the tasks in your own time throughout the week, and so that you have time to prepare and schedule for the week. The Alberta Education guideline is for students K-6 to be completing one hour of learning a day (equal to five hours in a week), and of course given that this is an unprecedented situation, please do what works best for your family when working through these tasks. Of course if you have any questions or need to talk about anything at all, please email me and I can either email back, phone you, or send a clarifying video (whatever you prefer).
Friday, April 10th: This is Good Friday, and therefore we would not have been in school this day so there will be no tasks to complete.
Thanks everyone,
Ms. Brinson
Friday, March 20, 2020
Home Language Alive
Hi there,
This message is specifically for our ELL families - the Home Language Alive seminar has been cancelled. In light of this, here are some links that the CBE has provided to remedy this:
This message is specifically for our ELL families - the Home Language Alive seminar has been cancelled. In light of this, here are some links that the CBE has provided to remedy this:
Keeping the Home Language Alive Webinar:
Keeping the Home Language Alive Resources Google Drive Folder:
Thanks and have a great Spring Break,
Ms. Brinson
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Resources Link
Hello again families!
Here is a link that contains some wonderful resources surrounding COVID-19:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19Gkj4T-Kz_rBdIW6c95WlnSDjXodljss?usp=sharing
Still thinking of and missing all of you, and can't wait to see what the rest of our year (after spring break of course!) will look like!
Happy first day of Spring, and stay healthy and warm out there!
Ms. Brinson
Here is a link that contains some wonderful resources surrounding COVID-19:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19Gkj4T-Kz_rBdIW6c95WlnSDjXodljss?usp=sharing
Still thinking of and missing all of you, and can't wait to see what the rest of our year (after spring break of course!) will look like!
Happy first day of Spring, and stay healthy and warm out there!
Ms. Brinson
Update #2
Hello everyone,
Over the next two days I may post a few things here on the blog - all will be updates either from myself, our school, or CBE leadership. So please check back between now and Friday for the occasional update - moving forward the blog will be one of my best ways to communicate information to all of you!
Please read the below message, and I will be posting some great resources around COVID-19 (for kids and parents) a bit later.
Over the next two days I may post a few things here on the blog - all will be updates either from myself, our school, or CBE leadership. So please check back between now and Friday for the occasional update - moving forward the blog will be one of my best ways to communicate information to all of you!
Please read the below message, and I will be posting some great resources around COVID-19 (for kids and parents) a bit later.
Please see the Message From CBE Leadership
Class cancellations are unusual and challenging events. During this short period before spring break, we encourage families to maintain a balanced and consistent routine for children; including regular sleeping and eating times, breaks for activity and outdoor time, and healthy boundaries on screen time.
After spring break, additional learning resources and activities will be shared to support students in learning.
Children are naturally curious learners and there are opportunities at home to engage their learning. We have created a webpage (see below) that offers a variety of educational ideas to support literacy, numeracy and wellness at home for this week. 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.
Thanks everyone,
Ms. Brinson
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Update
Hi families!
Thank you so much for your patience and understanding during this unprecedented time!
I am thinking of you all and wishing you well - please pass along to your children that I am sorry we did not get to keep working on all of the things that we started and that I miss them all dearly! It is so quiet in the classroom without them all - who would've thought I would miss the hustle and bustle! There's not a minute of the day that I am not thinking about all of you. One positive is that tomorrow is the first day of Spring - so hopefully we will start getting some warm fresh air!
We are still awaiting guidance from CBE leadership about the possible learning measures that are to come - please just enjoy your family and quality time together at this point! Play games, cook and bake together, go for walks, and just enjoy all of this extra time together.
Thank you all for everything this year, and as always if you have any questions or concerns (not regarding learning at the moment) please feel free to email me as always and I will answer to the best of my ability!
Love Ms. Brinson
Thank you so much for your patience and understanding during this unprecedented time!
I am thinking of you all and wishing you well - please pass along to your children that I am sorry we did not get to keep working on all of the things that we started and that I miss them all dearly! It is so quiet in the classroom without them all - who would've thought I would miss the hustle and bustle! There's not a minute of the day that I am not thinking about all of you. One positive is that tomorrow is the first day of Spring - so hopefully we will start getting some warm fresh air!
We are still awaiting guidance from CBE leadership about the possible learning measures that are to come - please just enjoy your family and quality time together at this point! Play games, cook and bake together, go for walks, and just enjoy all of this extra time together.
Thank you all for everything this year, and as always if you have any questions or concerns (not regarding learning at the moment) please feel free to email me as always and I will answer to the best of my ability!
Love Ms. Brinson
Friday, March 13, 2020
March 13th, 2020!
Hello all,
It's Friday! Keep warm, safe, and germ free this weekend!
Today we did not have Music, but we did have Gym - we got to use the Gymnastics equipment!
We also started a creative literacy activity "If I were a Leprechaun..."! We discussed what Leprechauns might look like, where they might live, and what they eat! The students had some very creative ideas!
We also started some Art that is in the style of Ted Harrison - pictures to come!
Please note that there is no school for Kindergarten students from March 18th to 29th (Spring Break).
**Important: Parent Teacher Conferences have been cancelled for next week - please see the school wide email about this!**
Stay safe out there,
Ms. Brinson
It's Friday! Keep warm, safe, and germ free this weekend!
Today we did not have Music, but we did have Gym - we got to use the Gymnastics equipment!
We also started a creative literacy activity "If I were a Leprechaun..."! We discussed what Leprechauns might look like, where they might live, and what they eat! The students had some very creative ideas!
Please note that there is no school for Kindergarten students from March 18th to 29th (Spring Break).
**Important: Parent Teacher Conferences have been cancelled for next week - please see the school wide email about this!**
Stay safe out there,
Ms. Brinson
March 12th, 2020!
Hi everyone,
Yesterday was a wonderful day! We got to have buddies! We worked together with our buddies, read storied about St. Patricks Day and did our St Patricks Day art with them - here are some pictures!
It was also "Wear Math" Day and we had some lovely math outfits!
Thanks everyone,
Ms. Brinson
Yesterday was a wonderful day! We got to have buddies! We worked together with our buddies, read storied about St. Patricks Day and did our St Patricks Day art with them - here are some pictures!
It was also "Wear Math" Day and we had some lovely math outfits!
Ms. Brinson
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