New Learning Environment

Accessing Google Meet for the First Time

Yesterday, our principal let you know that the Calgary Board of Education’s was activating Google Meet and Google Classroom to enable teachers and students to better connect with each other. This email outlines what to expect as we begin setting up times to connect with our students over the coming days.

Google Meet

Google Meet is a video conferencing application that enables us to host and our students to join organized ‘meetings’ in real-time. We can also record meetings and make the recording available to students to view at a later time. We are able to share their screen and guide students through tasks and/or documents and websites they wish to share.

Students will access Google Meet using their CBE Gmail address (username@educbe.ca). As we begin to use these teaching and learning tools, we will work with our students to help them understand both the benefits and risks in using online tools.

First Google Meet Meeting:

We are planning to have our first Google Meet meeting on Thursday, April 2.  On regular school days starting next week, teachers will be available on Google Meet between 8:00 and 10:00am. The link to meet will be posted on our blogs and will be emailed to students. Please click the link for your teacher. Parents have been emailed their child's Gmail address and password. If you need your child’s email address sent to you, please email us to ask.

This first meeting will be a chance to connect through a video chat and reconnect after being away from the school and classroom. We will also discuss online classroom etiquette.

Accessing Google Classroom for the First Time

We will be using Google Classroom as a learning platform as we continue ongoing learning from home. Below is a brief introduction to Google Classroom and how students at Beddington Heights School will be accessing the tool.

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is an online platform that enables us to communicate with our students as well as assign and distribute tasks. Google Classroom gives us the ability work with our students in safe, manageable, and appropriate way. It will also help students manage their work while learning from home.

Students will access Google Classroom using their CBE G Suite ID (username@educbe.ca). As we begin to use these new teaching and learning tools, we will work with our students and their families to help them understand both the benefits and risks of using online tools.

Accessing Google Meet or Classroom for the First Time

Google provides excellent resources to help with signing into Google Classroom and joining a class, along with other supports.

§  Google Meet Help

§  Google Meet Cheat Sheet [PDF]

§  Learn How to use Google Meet [video]

§  How do I sign in to Classroom?

§  Join a class as a student

§  Troubleshooting for students

Ongoing G Suite Support

Students and Families can find more information and support on the CBE website

Thank you for your support and patience as we all adjust to ongoing learning at a distance. We will keep you informed every step of the way.

Blog miss post

Hi all,
There apparently there was a problem with the blog post this week. Our word work quiz will be postponed until next Friday.

Only three class members brought flashlights. I more come to class we will be able to have Flash light Friday. If not, it will need to be cancelled. Please bring one A.S.A. P.

Thanks!
Mrs Diduch

CBE CORONA VIRUS INFO

https://www.cbe.ab.ca/news-centre/Pages/coronavirus-update-for-cbe-families.aspx

New Science Unit Light and Shadow

By the end of this unit students should be able to:

Students will be able to:
 Recognize that eyes can be damaged by bright lights and that one should not look at the Sun—either directly or with binoculars or telescopes.
  Identify a wide range of sources of light, including the Sun, various forms of electric lights, flames, and materials that glow (luminescent materials).
 Distinguish objects that emit their own light from those that require an external source of light in order to be seen.
 Demonstrate that light travels outward from a source and continues unless blocked by an opaque material.
  Describe changes in the size and location of Sun shadows during the day—early morning, to midday, to late afternoon
 Recognize that opaque materials cast shadows, and predict changes in the size and location of shadows resulting from the movement of a light source or from the movement of a shadecasting object.
 Distinguish transparent materials from opaque materials by determining if light passes through them and by examining their shadows.
 Classify materials as transparent, partly transparent (translucent) or opaque.
 Recognize that light can be reflected and that shiny surfaces, such as polished metals and mirrors, are good reflectors.
 Recognize that light can be bent (refracted) and that such objects as aquaria, prisms and lenses can be used to show that light beams can be bent.
 Recognize that light can be broken into colours and that different colours of light can be combined to form a new colour.
 Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of optical devices, describe how they are used, and describe their general structure. Suggested examples include: hand lens, telescope, microscope, pinhole camera, light-sensitive paper, camera, kaleidoscope.

Vocabulary for the Unit: Colour, concave lens, convex lens, dispersion, emit, kaleidoscope, light, light meter, luminescent, magnify, opaque, prism, rainbow, reflect, refraction, shadow, translucent, transparent, visible spectrum, white light

Word Work List March 3-6

This weeks words focus on the 'er' sound: 'er', 'ir', 'ur' and 'ear"

1. early
2. earth
3. service
4. wonder
5. surface
6. curly
7. shirt
8. thirty
9. another
10. bakery
11. search
12. shower

Family Event

We have been learning about Alberta's Natural Resources in class and this event fits the theme.

Check out this exciting family fun event the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) in Calgary is hosting! Drop in Saturday Feb 29th at SAIT to learn about the science behind oil and gas in an educational environment. There is something for all ages!

This fun family event aims to show off the innovative ways resource workers harvest the energy the world needs. Through hands-on experiments, guests will learn the science behind energy production - everything from fracking to density, porosity, and pressure. Get a chance to tour the SAIT facilities, meet students and professors, and even check out the rig simulator. There is something for everyone, in or out of industry, experience or none, young or old!

The event is open to the public and is for families, professionals, students, and children of all ages. Tickets are $10 per family.

Sign up here! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fracking-with-jello-2020-family-science-day-tickets-90567312269

Fracking With Jello 2020: Family Science Day Tickets, Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite Eventbrite - SPE Young Professionals presents Fracking With Jello 2020: Family Science Day - Saturday, 29 February 2020 at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Johnson-Cobbe Energy Centre, Calgary, AB. Find event and ticket information. www.eventbrite.ca

Items Sent Home

In our backpacks today you will find work from our unit on digit addition and subtraction, mapping from earlier in the year and the Jump rope for heart fundraiser. Our final quiz on multi-digit addition and subtraction will be next week.