Thursday, March 19

Hello Grade 6 Students and Families,

We continue to think of you during this time and hope you are well during a change of routine where there are undoubtedly many questions and wonderings.

As we move into what is our regularly scheduled Spring Break, we encourage you to keep a regular routine of sleeping, eating and regular exercise. Remember to have time for fun in there as well.

Please refer to the email that was sent out by CBE with suggestions of activities.  The activities can also be found at https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/curriculum/learning-at-home/Pages/default.aspx

Learning at Home - Learning at Home - CBE 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. cbe.ab.ca

We will be in touch with you again after Spring Break and be discussing learning as we navigate through this unprecedented time.

Take Care,

Ms. Palamar

Ms. Steeves

Mrs. Wagenblast

Also, our tomatoes continue to grow!  Thanks to Miss Mila who will be caring for them next week during Spring Break.

Monday, March 16

Hello Grade Six Students and Families of Bridlewood School,

Please know that we care for you and are thinking of you during this historic time with school being cancelled. We need to think about community and how we can take care of each other.

Throughout grade 6, we have learned the importance of using our voices in positive ways to make a difference.  Last week at Outdoor School, you were all an amazing support for each other and showed that kindness is powerful and can go a long way.  Please remember at this time to take care of each other, love one another, have hope, keep positive, show kindness, be compassionate, spend time with your family, have peace, remember to laugh, have conversations, read, get outside and be active. 

Though many families and friends may be unable to physically get together, let’s try to think of ways that we can continue to spread kindness and cheer at this difficult time.  For example, you could draw and colour some pictures of something that brings happiness to you and your family to post in your front window. We hope this kindness and joy will spread and give strength when it is most needed.

As we are unsure at this time what is next, please stay tuned for updates that will be sent as more information becomes available.

Ms. Steeves

Ms. Palamar

Mrs. Wagenblast

Thursday, March 5

A good part of our day today was spent practicing for our show with Evergreen Theatre tomorrow.  We had a dress rehearsal for the school this afternoon.  WE are bringing home our scripts to practice tonight.  We look forward to sharing with you tomorrow starting at 10:15.

Reminders:

• Practice your lines tonight!
• You are invited to our Evergreen Theatre performance tomorrow from 10:15-11:15.  More information 
• Outdoor School is on Monday!  Please remember that clocks move ahead one hour this weekend for Daylight Savings Time.
• Luggage can be dropped off in the gathering area beginning at 7:30 on Monday, March 9.
• All medication (including Advil and Tylenol) needs to be brought to the school clearly labelled in a Ziploc bag with your child’s name and dosing information on the morning of our departure.  All medication will be given to Ms. Steeves, with the exception of Epipens and puffers) so that it can be appropriately stored and secured. 
• Yearbook order deadline extended to the end of March. 
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Wednesday, March 4

We had time to look at the feedback from Ms. Steeves on our National Forest Week articles.  Then, we had the opportunity to rewrite our articles using the feedback we received as well as where we had marked ourselves on the rubric.  

We had a practice with Aaron.  Our script is complete and we did a run through on the stage in the gym. We are looking forward to sharing with you on Friday at 10:15.

We each wrote a personal goal that we will work on at Outdoor School.  

We worked on our name tags for ODS school to finish the day.

Reminders:

• You are invited to our Evergreen Theatre performance this Friday from 10:15-11:15.  More information 
• Yearbook order deadline extended to the end of March. 
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Tuesday, March 3

Our day started in small groups using the PAT functional writing rubric.  Each group was given four articles written by different students using the information we used yesterday to write our articles.  Students used the rubrics to assign a mark in the areas of Content and Content Management.  We then looked to see how close our marks were to the actual marks that had been given to the students.  We were pretty close!  Later, students marked their own articles using the rubric.  

We had our second session with Evergreen Theatre.  Today we put the majority of our show together. We decided what each of the small groups will be sharing and decided basically what their lines will be.  Aaron will put this all together tonight.

In Science, we began to learn about constellations.

We also did a little more reading about the Iroquois.

Would you like to order a YEARBOOK, the order deadline has now been extended to March 31^st.  You can order and pay online with your MYCBE/PowerSchool account, you will find the fee under. School Based Optional Fees.  Click on the yearbook icon and you will asked to add to your cart,  his will automatically add the $25 fee to your account.  You can call the school office ask for the fee to be attached the fee to your account, please email me directly at catunney@cbe.ab.ca or call 403 777 6259 with your request.

Reminders:

• You are invited to our Evergreen Theatre performance this Friday from 10:15-11:15.  More information 
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Monday, March 2

Our residency with Evergreen Theatre started today.  We had an early music time as we had an assembly as a whole school to learn more about the week.  We had our first session with Aaron.  We did a quick warm-up game to help him get to know us and our names.  From there, we brainstormed ideas for our portion of the show.  It was great to see everyone contributing their ideas.

We reviewed the Provincial Achievement Test (PAT) functional writing rubric.  This is what will be used to mark our newspapers when we write our first PAT in May.  The other tests will be in June.  We did a practice news article using given information, just like we will have when we write in May.   

Our day finished with beginning to paint our ODS name tags.  One side contains our name, and the other side has the nature names that we have chosen.

A letter with more information about ODS is coming home today.  Please read this carefully as it contains information about luggage drop off at the school on Monday as well as information about medication. 

Reminders:

• You are invited to our Evergreen Theatre performance this Friday from 10:15-11:15.  
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.