In P.E., we became Santas and reindeers. When we were the Santa, we were pulled on our 'sleigh' by the reindeers and we pulled the sleigh when we were a reindeer.
We enjoyed the choir performance and the last caroling session!
Happy holidays & see you on January 8th, 2019!
Volunteer Opportunities in January We will be looking for volunteers to help in the new year on Mondays-Thursday mornings. Please use the link below to sign up. All volunteers must have a current Police Clearance on file at the school.
JOY POD Math: In the new year we will be focusing our work on"Numeracy" with a focus on addition and subtraction. In grade 1 students will be working on addition and subtraction to 18. In grade 2 students will be working on addition and subtraction to 100. There are lots of math games using cards that build their numeracy skills. Inquiry: We are coming to a close with our first inquiry of the school year. Beginning in the new year our inquiry focus will be on"Play" and "How Play Connects Us?" This inquiry will lead us to student choice on an upcoming field trip venue with Campus Calgary/ Open MInds. More information to come! We are excited for the possibilities of this inquiry! Literacy: Please continue to encourage your child to read and write over the Winter Break. Students have worked hard since September and we would love to keep the momentum going with our reading and writing growth. Today all students in the Joy Pod are bringing home a reading challenge for over the break. We are encouraging all students to read 12 books (or chapters) over the break and the teachers are taking the challenge themselves. Winter is a wonderful time to spend reading on those colder days. There are many ways to access books in our community such as the many Free Little Libraries, the Calgary Public Library and even online through our school website (link to Tumblebooks through the learning commons) ******************************************************************************************* Tomorrow is Spirit Day"The All Day Pajama Day" We are encouraging students to wear their pajamas to school. We got a glimpse during the"Polar Express Evening" of our pajama attire and encourage students to wear pajamas. Students are NOT expected to wear their pajamas. We are working to continue to build a "Pod Feeling" with our learners and what better way to do that than with pajamas :) Please try to keep stuffed animals at home.
Volunteer Opportunities in January We will be looking for volunteers to help in the new year on Mondays-Thursday mornings. Please use the link below to sign up. All volunteers must have a current Police Clearance on file at the school.
Reminder the Lost and Found will be donated at the end of the school day on Thursday... Please come look for any missing items.
We will be sending indoor shoes home tomorrow for a well deserved cleaning...
Parents of Choir students ONLY are invited to attend the Choir presentation at 2:00 pm tomorrow. This will be a very short, maybe 20 minute presentation to celebrate the work the children have done. We look forward to welcoming parents of Choir students tomorrow!
Upcoming Events:
Tomorrow: Last Day Before Winter Break & Pajama Day
December 21:Professional Development Day (No Classes)
December 22-January 6: Winter Break (School is Closed)
January 7:Professional Development Day (No Classes)
January 8: Classes Resume for Students
Swimming Starts in January, more information coming in the new year
JOY POD Math: We are finished our "Patterns and Relations" focus and beginning in the new year we will be focusing our work on "Numeracy" with a focus on addition and subtraction. This is a great car activity to practice when you are traveling from guest to guest this holiday season. Begin to warm up your child's addition and subtraction understanding as this will be our first focus after the break. Inquiry: We are coming to a close with our first inquiry of the school year. Beginning in the new year our inquiry focus will be on "Play" and "How Play Connects Us?" This inquiry will lead us to student choice on an upcoming field trip venue. More information to come! We are excited for the possibilities of this inquiry! Literacy: Please continue to encourage your child to read and write over the Winter Break. Students have worked hard since September and we would love to keep the momentum going with our reading and writing growth. If you have questions regarding your child's reading and writing, please contact your child's responsibility teacher. ******************************************************************************************* Spirit Day"The All Day Pajama Day" On Thursday, December 20th, we are encouraging students to wear their pajamas to school. We got a glimpse during the "Polar Express Evening" of our pajama attire and encourage students to wear pajamas. Students are NOT expected to wear their pajamas. We are working to continue to build a "Pod Feeling" with our learners and what better way to do that than with pajamas :) ********************************************************************************************** Strategies for Figuring Out Words
Look at the beginning letter. What sound do you hear? Look at the pictures. Do they help? Look through the word to the end. What sound do you hear in the middle? What sound do you hear at the end? ***If you child doesn't know their letter sounds go back to practicing this skill first*** Think of what word would... makes sense... sound right... match the letters... Go back to the beginning of the sentence and read it over. Look at the first letter of the hard word and get your mouth ready to say the word... Skip the word, read to the end of the sentence, and then go back to the word. Think about what you've read and try to figure out what word would make sense. Ask yourself if what you've read makes sense and matches the letters. This is called "self-monitoring." If a word does not make sense, you should try to correct it. This is called "Self-correcting." Look for smaller words within the word Think of where you may have seen the word before ***********************************************************************************************
Volunteer Opportunities in January We will be looking for volunteers to help in the new year on Mondays-Thursday mornings. Please use the link below to sign up. All volunteers must have a current Police Clearance on file at the school. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4EACAF2DA5FA7-volunteer
"Your job as teacher gets a whole lot easier when your students are inspired."
What is Beakerhead?Beakerhead is a Calgary-born smash up of art, science and engineering and uses “design thinking” – a process for identifying problems, generating a prolific realm of possible solutions, testing and experimenting with them, and building things by hand where possible. Others designs are designed to simply inspire – that’s important too. Beakerhead aims to increase the affinity for science and art for all our students.
This year Eric Harvie School was given rolls of tape and the theme "The World in 3018." During our IGNITE time of the morning, students could choose to join Beakerhead designing and construction. As a community of learners we created 5 different designs that brings our thinking and imagination of a world in a 1000 years from now. This is a tricky concept for 6 and 7 year olds to imagine a world 1000 years from now as we are still imagining and understanding the number 100. Students named the 5 different designs:
The Calgary Tower Fall
Ice Age
Tornado Circle
The Future City
Crushed City
These designs are on display in the Hub. It is amazing what you can build with tape. We did use some of our extra bottle cap lids that we had collected for our Recyclable Art project last month. The lids of these structures are to represent ice and the landscape. Below is a Youtube video to help or be inspired with using tape as your medium. Try it! Try making something, anything with tape. It is not that easy and yet the students loved playing and exploring. What a fun experience for us teachers to experience the inventiveness, design and creativity of our amazing Joy Pod learners.
We hope you saw and checked out our designs in the Hub!
******************************************************************************************************** We are very thankful and proud of the Eric Harvie students and families for spreading joy beyond our school and making a difference in our community. Donated items were dropped off at the Mustard Seed on Saturday, December 15, 2018.
Thank you to everyone who donated gifts for our Families Helping Families. All gifts were packed up last week to be delivered to Colonel J. Scott School. There will be some very excited and happy families come Christmas Morning! ******************************************************************************************************* Volunteer Opportunities in January We will be looking for volunteers to help in the new year on Mondays-Thursday mornings. Please use the link below to sign up. All volunteers must have an current Police Clearance on file at the school. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4EACAF2DA5FA7-volunteer
Upcoming Events:
December 19:Book Truck
December 20: Last Day Before Winter Break
December 21:Professional Development Day (No Classes)
December 22-January 6: Winter Break (School is Closed)
January 7:Professional Development Day (No Classes)
The spirit of the season is hitting Joy Pod! The next week will be filled with many different events to help celebrate season. Each day next week all members of Eric Harvie School will be taking some time either in the morning or the afternoon to come together to sing carols. Regular pod learning will also take place each day to ensure some normalcy for the students.
Thank you to the many people who came to the school today to watch our students perform. The students were very excited to share what they have learned over the past couple of weeks during our drumming residency. For those of you who were unable to join us here are a couple of short videos of the student performances.
Thank you to everyone who donated gifts for our Families Helping Families. All gifts were packed up today to be delivered to Colonel J. Scott Scott School. There will be some very excited and happy families come Christmas Morning!
Upcoming Events:
December 20: Last Day Before Winter Break
December 21:Professional Development Day (No Classes)
December 22-January 6: Winter Break (School is Closed)
January 7:Professional Development Day (No Classes)
Drumming: We look forward to sharing on Friday at 10:30am. Please refer to Monday December 10th for the whole schools' performance times.
Joy Pod is looking for empty cereal boxes, cracker boxes or any other boxes made out similar cardboard.If you can help us out, please send to school until the final week of school. Thank you ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Eric Harvie families, if you are interested in helping… all gifts need to be in by Thursday, December 13th
We are calling on your kindness and generosity to help support a family in need at Christmas. We are supporting 7 families from Colonel Fred J. Scott School. Each pod has been assigned a family/families to support this season. A sign up genius has been set up with the family needs and wishes. Please go to the following site to make your contribution(s):
Please remember that our families would love to not have to worry about the purchase of food items and more than one gift card to their chosen grocery store would be welcomed!
Please wrap and label all gifts/donations with whom it is for:
In the spirit of giving this holiday season, all staff at Eric Harvie School would like to thank families in advance for their thoughts and contributions! Thank you for making a family’s Christmas a little brighter!!
Drumming: Today was our last day of learning the different drumming patterns. We look forward to sharing on Friday at 10:30am. Please refer to Monday December 10th for the whole schools' performance times.
Roots of Empathy: All classes have completed or will be completing the post lesson for Theme 3 with a focus on teething and losing our baby teeth. Students have learned different ways to support a baby that is teething.
Joy Pod is looking for empty cereal boxes, cracker boxes or any other boxes made out similar cardboard.If you can help us out, please send to school until the final week of school. Thank you ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Eric Harvie families, if you are interested in helping… all gifts need to be in by Thursday, December 13th
We are calling on your kindness and generosity to help support a family in need at Christmas. We are supporting 7 families from Colonel Fred J. Scott School. Each pod has been assigned a family/families to support this season. A sign up genius has been set up with the family needs and wishes. Please go to the following site to make your contribution(s):
Please remember that our families would love to not have to worry about the purchase of food items and more than one gift card to their chosen grocery store would be welcomed!
Please wrap and label all gifts/donations with whom it is for:
In the spirit of giving this holiday season, all staff at Eric Harvie School would like to thank families in advance for their thoughts and contributions! Thank you for making a family’s Christmas a little brighter!!
Physical Education:All of the Joy Pod students participate in the same physical education activities. Please ask your child to share their favorite activity that they have been playing and/or learning. Ms. Galbraith, one of our U of C student teachers has been teaching the physical education classes on Monday's and Thursday's. Unfortunately, our last day with our student teachers, Joanne and Sarah will be on Friday, December 14th. However, we are fortunate to have them return to work with Joy Pod students again in their final semester in February. If you happen to see them when you come on Friday for the drumming sharing, please take a moment to thank these fine ladies for all their hard work. We are fortunate to have talented future teachers working with our students.
Suggested Writing Activities at Home:All students would benefit over Winter Break from extra time and practice writing. Here are a few suggestions:
Provide writing materials of all kinds, colors, textures and sizes, pens, pencils, felt tip pens, post-its. Whatever will invite your writer to explore writing in original, colorful ways
Encourage revision,add highlighting pens, scissors, and glue or tape to your list of writing materials. These materials encourage adding, deleting, cutting and putting together ideas in different ways
Provide a print-rich environment in your home with magazines, books, maps, cookbooks to name a few
Encourage letter writing or thank-you notes for developing a sense of voice, audience and purpose. Letters to relatives or friends for the gifts received this holiday season
Have your child help write grocery lists
Help your child create a writer's notebook to document observations, quotes, favorite words or future writing ideas
Play an alliteration game:The first person begins a sentence and everyone must continue the sentence using the same beginning letter or sound. For example, "Calgary cats" then the next person could say "Calgary cats can't" and the next person could say "Calgary cats can't count" and so on.
Our students continue to learn songs to share with you on the morning of December 14thin a similar fashion to our performances from Sound Kreations. The performance schedule is provided below:
Drumming Performance Schedule
Friday, December 14 2018
Time
Pod Sharing
Teachers
9:30
AM Kindergarten
Khan/Conley/Watterson
10:00
Kindness Grade 1/2
Cox/Low/Blenkhorne/Disher/Le
10:30
Joy Grade 1/2
Chang/Bowles/Sigurdson/Ross
11:00
Peace Grade 3/4
Campbell/Huebner/Lawson
11:30
Hope Grade 3/4
Danchuk/Campbell/Neily/Kai
*********************************************************************************************************** Joy Pod is looking forempty cereal boxes, cracker boxes or any other boxes made out similar cardboard.If you can help us out, please send to school until the final week of school. Thank you *********************************************************************************************************
Spreading Joy beyond Eric Harvie School Walls: We collected a large amount of items for the Mustard Seed. Thank you very much for your support!!!!!! We will drop off the collected items on Saturday, December 15th at 11:00AM.Please join us in dropping items off at the Mustard Seed if your family is available.
Eric Harvie families, if you are interested in helping…
We are calling on your kindness and generosity to help support a family in need at Christmas. We are supporting 7 families from Colonel Fred J. Scott School. Each pod has been assigned a family/families to support this season. A sign up genius has been set up with the family needs and wishes. Please go to the following site to make your contribution(s):
Please remember that our families would love to not have to worry about the purchase of food items and more than one gift card to their chosen grocery store would be welcomed!
Please wrap and label all gifts/donations with whom it is for:
Wrapped contributions will be due on or before:
Thursday, December 13, 2018
In the spirit of giving this holiday season, all staff at Eric Harvie School would like to thank families in advance for their thoughts and contributions! Thank you for making a family’s Christmas a little brighter!!
