Friday June 26
Happy Friday and Farewell!

We did it! We made it to the end of the year!

Come for a walk/drive by goodbye at 12:00-1:00 on the north end of the field by the fences!

Congratulations grade 2 students and parents!

This year was definitely different then how I would have liked to end the year but we do what we can! We are strong and continue to venture on despite the changes we have been experiencing.

To the parents and families,
Thank you for all your support this year. It was great to get to know everyone and become closer with the BHS community. The help you provided your children this year with reading, writing and math will greatly support them as they move into grade 3. I can imagine being a full time parent, school supporter, chef and day planner was stressful at times. But I thank you
for being strong and supporting your children through it all! I could not have done it without you!

To my class,
Thank you for being such wonderful students this year. It was so great to get to know all of you. I will always remember the laughs we shared and seeing you all grow as learners. You are an amazing group of kids and I will miss you as my students. Have a great summer!

Best of luck in grade 3!
Come and visit me in your old room next year!
All the best and stay safe!

Mr Lancee

Good morning and happy Friday everyone!

This was a busy week with learning a new unit and writing fairy tales.
I cannot wait to read them all!

Next week I will be hosting some word games, kahoot, whole class prodigy, guided drawings, show and share and some other fun activities on the meet.
I will also give kids two blocks a day to have some socialization with their friends. Similar to our lunch breaks and recess!

Hope you all have a great day and enjoy your warm weekend!
Stay safe :)

Mr Lancee

Good morning everyone! 

Happy Thursday May 14

I hope you had a great a week learning about fairy tales, listening to read alouds and learning about 2D shapes!

This upcoming weekend is a long weekend! Enjoy the time off and spend some time with your family!

Long weekend

Good evening Beddington Heights families!  This is just a quick reminder that the upcoming long weekend will last 5 days. 

Friday, May 15 - no classroom meets: This is a system wide non-instruction day.  Led by Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, the staff at Beddington Heights will be joining virtually with staff members of 9 other schools (Sir John A. Macdonald, Diefenbaker, CN Gunn, Thorncliffe, Panorama, Buffalo Rubbing Stone, Buchanan and Cambrian Heights) to participate in our 4th Annual moo’kaaksin Gathering, which means knowledge in Blackfoot. 

Monday, May 18 - no classroom meets: Victoria Day Holiday

Tuesday, May 19 - no classroom meets: This is a BHS organizational day, (originally scheduled for Student Involved Conferences - cancelled due to COVID-19) the staff at Beddington will be in meetings.

Breakfast & Lunch Program Supports

When school buildings are closed, regular breakfast and lunch programs will not be available. 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.

See the attached flyer for a new foodfinderyyc location in Sandstone  Sandstone lunches.pdf 

• Alberta 211 can be accessed via the telephone (dial 211) or by the website.
• The Calgary Food Bank Food hampers can be requested from the Calgary Food Bank by calling 403-253-2055.
• Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids has programs to support families of K-12 students, including grocery gift cards. Visit https://bb4ck.org/help
• Additional food supports can also be found at Meals for Individuals in Need and Food Banks and Hampers.
• Visit foodfinderyyc.com OR text FOOD to 587-318-0232 to find locations providing FREE FOOD near you.

Hey Everyone, Happy Tuesday!

Technical Assistance Now Available for Ongoing Learning

The CBE can now assist parents and students with technical issues that arise while continuing ongoing learning. Parents of kindergarten to Grade 9 students or students in Grades 10-12 can call or email requests for assistance with CBE supported technology.
Visit Technical Support for Students & Parents and choose “Support for G Suite" or “Support for Brightspace" for more information. This service is a temporary service available during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hours of operation will be Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (excluding statutory holidays).

Please have the following information accessible when you call:

• Student ID number
• Student Email address
• Student Password (we will not ask you for your password, but you must be able to enter it)

Contact information:
Phone: 403-817-7996
Email: ParentTechnicalSupport@cbe.ab.ca

Good morning room 5!
Happy May 1!

Hope you all had a great week learning about subtraction and fairy tales.

Also, if parents or students are looking for some one to one time working with an EA practicing skills such as word building, sight words, reading, basic facts or addition/subtraction help please email me directly to let me know and we can book you some time with an EA. I will also post this message to my blog and send it out in a school messenger!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mr Lancee

Good afternoon room 5

I hope you all had a great week and that you learned lots about fairy tales and subtraction!

I uploaded a couple new links to the classroom for everyone to enjoy.

Have a great weekend!

Also,

If you are needing some support I have provided a to help in these difficult times.

Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids is a valued partner of Beddington Heights School.  If your family is in need of support with finding food resources please visit www.bb4ck.org

·         You can go online and request a grocery store gift card. BB4CK is offering $30/kid every 2 weeks. This can be used to purchase groceries to help provide food for your child in the next couple of weeks.  You can learn more and/or sign up to receive updates on the BB4CK website. Please visit www.bb4ck.org/help to learn more. Recipes and grocery tips will soon be uploaded to this site as well.  

·         Please check out our FoodFinderYYC app: foodfinderyyc.com OR text FOOD to 587-318-0232 

·         This is an incredible, free and anonymous texting service that allows families in need to find free food that has been lovingly prepared in their local community. 

·         The bb4ck.org/help page will continue to be updated with information for families, including recipes, grocery shopping tips and more.  

  

Good afternoon room 5!

Hope you all had a great week and learned lots!

Next week we will be continuing with subtraction and focusing on learning how to regroup!

We will also be starting a new unit called Fairy Tales!

Hope everyone has a relaxing weekend and stays safe :)

Mr Lancee

Happy Tuesday April 14!

Good morning room 5!

Hope you all had a wonderful long weekend and Happy Easter!

We are back to it this week working on double digit subtraction in math and writing "How to" stories in LA. 

I have modified my schedule a bit as per the schools requests and I will now be following a routine that looks like this:

I will be available to chat on the google meet chat everyday from 8:30-9:30 and 12:30-1:30. I will be doing a read aloud for all students if they would like to join from 9:30-10:00 every Monday and Wednesday. I am available to answer questions and emails anytime during the day and if a one to one session is needed to support specific student needs I will be available to book those as needed!

Hope everyone has a great week and stays safe!

Happy Thursday April 9th

Hope you all had a great first week of online school and that some challenges were either resolved or are looking better.

As always, I am available through email to support any concerns moving into next week.

Please be safe everyone, enjoy the time with your families, eat healthy, and do some exercise everyday.

There is no school tomorrow (holiday) or Monday (PD day for teachers). 

Still feel free to work on assignments, read or use any of the online sites on the classroom or website.

Have a great long weekend, Happy Easter and see you all Tuesday!

Mr Lancee

Good afternoon room 5!
Happy Monday April 6!

Today was our first day of online learning and I hope everyone had great success!

Tomorrow is a new day and I will be online again from 8-10 and 12:30-2:30!

Assignments today included looking for patterns within your home and journalling about how things have been going at home.

Thank you everyone for sending me pictures of their art and at home science projects!

Have a great day everyone!

Mr Lancee

Good Morning Room 5,

Below is the plan for the week of April 6-9

April 6 - 10 LA

Monday	Journal what you have been doing at home.  What is your favourite activity to do by yourself? What activities or games have you done with your family? Bonus: Feel free to upload any drawings or art work you have done, I will print these and add them to the wall behind the bulletin board in the background of our class videos.
Tuesday	Watch the Berrenstein bears count their blessings read aloud  Please answer the following questions using the google document attached. Turn in your document once complete. How do you think Sister felt when she saw the other cubs had things that she didn’t? How did the cubs feel when the thunderstorm started? What does papa bear do to make the cubs feel better? Make a list of at least 3 things that you are grateful for.
Wednesday	Watch the read aloud of In my Heart How have you been feeling about the changes to school/life?
Thursday	Please complete the reflection document for this week then complete the exit slip question for this week.  What are some challenges you faced beginning online learning this week.  What was an area of success you experienced this week?  How are you feeling about using google classroom?  Green - Great I’m an expert  Yellow - I feel ok but I am still learning Red - Please schedule a google meet for me I need help

April 6 - 10 Math

Monday	Patterns & Pattern Scavenger Hunt Assignment: Look for patterns in your home or neighborhood
Tuesday	Addition  Assignment 1: Basic facts test  Assignment 2: Addition word problem
Wednesday	Subtraction Assignment 1: Basic facts test  Assignment 2: Subtraction word problem
Thursday	Skip counting - Skip counting video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXPW9zu24Xc Assignment:  Pick how you would like to show your understanding: Create and attach an image showing skip counting by 2’s, 5’s or 10’s  Make and attach a video showing yourself skip counting by 2’s, 5’s or 10’s  Create and attach a word problem using skip counting by 2’s, 5’s or 10’s

Happy Friday April 3!

Next week will look like as follows:

Monday to Thursday: Google Meet with Mr Lancee from 8 am - 10 am for help with LA and Math.

The entire weeks assignments will be released on Monday at 8 am so that parents and students can access and complete assignments when they have time.

Due dates: The assignments will all be due the following Monday by 8 am.

Monday to Thursday: 12:30-2:30pm Google Meet again with Mr Lancee for continued support with LA and Math.

No School Friday this week.

My recommendation is:

1. Sign on at 8 am and read the morning message on the stream of our classroom website. 
2. Next, look at the assignment for LA or Math under the classwork tab. Watch any videos, try the questions and attempt the assignment before asking questions. 
3. You can split your day up so that you do Math to start the morning and then LA before or after lunch. It really depends on your schedules. 
4. Do not stress if you cannot get to assignment for one day. You can access all the assignments at any point in the week and I am just an email away if it is outside the meeting hours.

If you have a tech issue I will try my best to solve it but it may not be able to be fixed until the following day.

Thank you for patience and support in these difficult times.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Happy Thursday April 2nd!


I am currently hosting our google Morning MEETing from 8:00-9:30!

Follow the link below to come say hi!

Link


****Thanks for visiting our Morning MEETing everyone! The chat is now closed.
See you all Monday!
Make sure you finish your assignment :)



Have a great day!

Mr Lancee

Happy Wednesday April 1 2020

Just to let everyone know,

Student log ins and passwords have been emailed out!

Let me know if you cannot log in!

See you tomorrow morning!


Also, here is another great resource for everyone to use for reading at home :)

Tumblebooks (K-6)

All CBE students and staff have access to a paid subscription of over 1100 TumbleBookLibrary (K-6) resources through the Calgary Public Library (CPL). Users can access the resources from school, library, home, and on mobile devices. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of children's e-books and includes aninimated talking picture books, read-along chapter books, national Geographic videos, non-fiction books, playlists, graphic novels as well as books in Spanish and French.

https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/auto_login.aspx?u=calgarypl&p=sd19

username: calgarypl

password: sd19

Good afternoon and happy Monday March 30!

I just wanted to write one blog message today thanking everyone for their patience with setting up online schooling and working from home.

If you have any questions, email me at malancee@cbe.ab.ca

I was able to reach out to everyone today with questions about online accessibility and apologies for the Ontario phone number! I will be working from home and the calling system on my computer uses an Ontario number oddly enough. From here on out my main mode of contact will be through email, school messenger and when it is ready, the new online platform! We are gearing up to start next week but I will keep you posted with details as we find them out.

For this week:

-Keep up with daily reading
-Do some journaling about what you have read. (Optional)
-Use online resources such as:
         -Razkids
         -Mathletics
         -Prodigy

Also, visit our website for some extra activities to do as well!

https://sites.google.com/a/educbe.ca/bhs-grade-2/home

Below are some helpful pictures that will help you get connected with our online classroom. This will not be started until next week but feel free to log in :)

The two programs we will be using are google meet and google classroom.










Enjoy this time at home with your families and stay safe!

Miss having you all as my students!

Mr Lancee

Happy Friday and Happy Spring!

Hope everyone is doing well and taking care of themselves!

I just wanted to let you know my family and I are doing well. Make sure you are washing your hands, eating well and doing at least 1 hour of activity a day!

Once again, this is the grade 2 website which you can visit anytime to do some extra work.
https://sites.google.com/a/educbe.ca/bhs-grade-2/home


Take this time to do some fun stuff that builds the family relationship as well!

Such as.....

-Cook a meal together
-Play some board games
-Go for walks
-Go sledding
-Read together
-Go noodle/Just Dance dance party
-Do some coloring!

Be safe and well!

Mr Lancee

Monday March 16, 2020

Dear parents & students,

First of all, I hope your family is safe, healthy and is taking the current situation one step at a time.
Since our school board and province have closed schools for an indefinite amount of time,
I am sending you some resources that I encourage you to do while staying at home.

For web resources available to students for the time being please view the grade 2 website which I have created. I will update this website throughout the day and the time being until we have a plan for moving forward.

https://sites.google.com/a/educbe.ca/bhs-grade-2/home

If you require your login info for Raz kids or Mathletics, please email me so that I can send this to you.

Please check email/blog for updates on scheduled times for students to come pick up personal belongings as well as more information to come.

Thank you for your continued support and please know that each if you, your students and families are in my thoughts during this time.

Max Lancee

Monday March 16

Good morning everyone,

It is with great sadness that I am writing to say that schools are closed.

At this moment we have not been informed of what will be happening in the future but when I know I will inform you all.

Please follow the CBE updates for more information as it is released.

Miss teaching everyone.

All the best.
Mr Lancee

Happy Friday Mar 13, 2020

Reminders:

March 18 Spirit Day- Wear a Hawaiian shirt day-Dress in a anything flowery, colorful, bright etc.

March 19 Spring photo day

March 20-29 Spring break

March 30 classes resume

Some unfortunate news... Due to the concerns from Alberta Health the school has to unfortunately cancel fun lunch and the spring dance next week. We will also be rescheduling our Pillars of Care assembly. Sorry for the inconvenience I am happy to answer questions. 

Today in room 5:

Beddington had many students away today and so we modified our day accordingly.

The students began their day with the usual morning meeting before moving into mathletics. We did several assignments, most of which were related to subtraction as we have been practicing this all week!

After math we had gym before our regular snack flix. 

The students then participated in some visual literacy focusing around the pillar of the month: responsibility!

We cleaned up the room before heading out for the weekend!

Have a great weekend everyone!
Mr Lancee

Happy Wednesday Mar 11!

Reminders:

March 18 Spirit Day- Wear a Hawaiian shirt day-Dress in a anything flowery, colorful, bright etc.

March 19 Spring photo day

March 19 Fun lunch

March 19 spring dance 6:00-8:00

March 20-29 Spring break

March 30 classes resume

With everything that has been going on with the Corona Virus worries I wanted to provide some info on what we in school are doing to care for the students and ourselves.

Caretaking staff in all schools have increased cleaning and disinfecting protocols on high touch points (example: door knobs, light switches, desk tops, etc.) throughout CBE schools.

§  CBE schools will remind students of good hand washing techniques and new posters will be provided to reinforce this.

§  The CBE has a supply contract for all necessary soap, sanitizer, and cleaning/disinfecting supplies. This supply is reliable and readily available.

§  If you are sick, do not come to school Please report your absence.

§  If you have symptoms such as fever, cough and difficulty breathing, have travelled outside Canada or have been exposed to someone who has COVID-19, stay home and call Health Link 811.

Today in room 5!

Students began their day in the classroom with a short class meeting before heading into some quiet reading time. It was nice to switch up our usual reading time from the afternoon to the morning.

After reading we transitioned into math and continued to practice subtraction questions using manipulatives. Today we used the grids again with some square blocks. I noticed a large increase in the students speed and accuracy as they worked to finish 20 questions! They are getting it :)

We then had snack before continuing our writing from the previous day. We are working to add more detail to our Mushroom Kingdom stories before we start to edit them tomorrow!

Our class had gym just before lunch in which they played hockey!

In the afternoon the students had mindfulness doing quiet meditation before moving into science. Today we watched The Magic School Bus, Into the Arctic. We were learning about the concepts of insulation, cold weather and animal adaptations. We are going to explore these concepts more we test a science experiment tomorrow!

We finished off our day with music before packing up for the end of the day.

Hope everyone has a great evening!

Keep up with the mathletics and reading at home :)

Mr Lancee