Last week of 2016!

Dear Parents and Guardians,
I wish you all a safe and happy holiday. Enjoy this time with family and friends as we share in the spirit of living and giving! May your new year be filled with love, happiness, and good health.

Keep on learning!
If you are looking for some ideas on what to do over the Winter Break, here are some suggestions you can share with your child:


Read - Why not get into a good book that you may have been putting off?  Have your child think about all the elements of a story, remembering to ask questions along the way. Or, just get cozy, relax, and read for pure pleasure.

You can visit the local library or go online to read at: https://www.getepic.com/sign-in

Write - Be creative! Students can use their thinking books, a journal/diary, or a notebook to write a story, their day's events or even their hopes and dreams! Ask them to think about some goals they would like to achieve either for school or in their personal life. Encourage this writing on a daily basis, just as you would for reading!


Create - Think about our past unit on Habitats and Communities or our current Social Studies unit on Canada's Regions. Look up some interesting biomes they would like to visit one day.  Are any located in Canada? See if they can develop their own independent inquiry and become a genius on this topic! 


Math - Have your child visit any of the following websites:

http://www.mathies.ca/
https://prodigygame.com/play/
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/Math5.html
http://www.funbrain.com/
http://www.mathplayground.com/


This week at school...
Here are some of the activities that occurred this week:

Our students created this amazing display for our classroom door. Look at all the symbols included from the diverse faiths in our world!

Our cute snowmen buddies that we made with our grade 2 friends.

Best wishes again for a safe and happy holiday. See you in 2017!

Mrs. McIntosh

Week ending Dec16

Next week, there will be many exciting events happening at school leading up to the Winter Break - December 26- January 6. On Friday, we will end the week with a school wide holiday sing along and movie in the gym. A short Data Management check in quiz is also planned for Thursday.

Fun with our Buddies

We began creating our snowmen craft with our grade 2 buddies this week. We will finish on Tuesday - look out for our finished products next week!

Learning Sign Language

Beckett Farm PS now offers sign language classes to students every Tuesday during morning recess. Many of your children have joined these classes led by Mrs. Leechan. What a wonderful opportunity to learn a new way to communicate with others around us!

Wishing you all a wonderful week!

Mrs. McIntosh

Week ending Dec 9

Reading and learning with our Grade 2 literacy buddies this week

Hour of Code

On Thursday, our grade four students participated in The Hour of Code event. We had grade six students visit our class to guide us. We also used self guided tutorials and videos found on the code.org website. Ask your child what the experience was like!  

Hour of Code

Coding fun and learning

Grade 6 helping us with coding

Holiday Heroes     

Beckett Farm Public School is partnering up with “Holiday Heroes”,  an organization run by the York Regional Police, to help support children in our community. You may help by donating new winter clothing this holiday season. Examples of winter clothing that are in need are:

• mittens / gloves
• hats
• scarves
• wool socks
• coats
• blankets

The drive began on Monday and will run until Friday, December 16. For more information please see the flyer below

Beckett-Farm-Holiday-heroes

The summative assessment for our unit in Measurement is on Monday, December 12th. I have sent home review sheets as well as suggested pages to complete in the Math Makes Sense Workbook as practice for this test. 

Bundle up and enjoy the weekend.

Mrs. McIntosh

Week ending Dec 2

Investigating area in Math...

On Friday, we explored the concept of area as the amount of surface a figure covers in square units.

The students used many ways to find the area of objects in the classroom.  Some students covered the entire surface area with square units and some counted the number of square units across (length) and multiplied it by the number of square units down (width).

On Friday, Dec. 9th, we will be having a summative unit test in Measurement. This will include linear measurement (measuring and conversions), perimeter, and area.







This week we met our new little Buddies in Mrs. Brown's Grade Two class. Together we will be reading, writing, and creating many new learning opportunities together. For our first meeting, our little buddies interviewed us, then we read a book together. We are looking forward to being positive mentors and role models for our younger school mates. 

MATH NIGHT was a great success! For those who were able to, thank you for coming and sharing the evening with your Beckett Farm family.

Warm wishes for the week ahead,

Mrs. McIntosh