Mr. Belliveau's Class

September 15, 2025
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Welcome to Division 1

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I am delighted to have the opportunity to teach your child this school year. We are pleased to welcome Mrs. Sanchez, our Educational Assistant, who will be supporting our classroom community. This blog is intended to provide you with important information about our classroom routines and expectations for the year ahead. I look forward to getting to know your child and working together to make this a successful and rewarding year for everyone.

Planners

I wanted to inform you that we will no longer be using traditional planners in class. In previous years I found that many students were not using them consistently, and I believe we can try a more effective approach. Instead, students are encouraged to use their phones to take pictures of the homework that will be displayed on the board and also listed on the class blog site to help them keep track of their assignments and important dates. To check the blog website for homework please you can save this link: https://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/For those who prefer, I can also provide small notebooks for jotting down notes and reminders.  Thank you for your understanding and support as we explore this new system to better meet the needs of the students.

Physical Education,  Healthy Living & Well-Being

Students will receive physical activity two days per week on Wednesdays and Thursdays; sometimes this will take place in the gym, outside or in the classroom. Please ensure that your child wears comfortable clothing and appropriate running shoes on these days or has a pair of running shoes to change into. Students do not change for Gym.  Also, please provide a labeled water bottle (one that cannot spill easily) so that they can leave it at their desks. It is important to hydrate the body and it helps the brain with learning.

Arriving on Time

It is important that students arrive on time to school. Students should be lined up at the community room doors by 8:50 and instruction begins at 8:55.  It is a valuable lesson to learn early in life and it starts your child’s day off on a positive note. If your child is going to be late or away, please contact the school at 604-296-9036

Library

From Monday to Friday, students will have the opportunity to visit the library to check out new books. They are to keep the books for at least two days before returning it for a new one. Encourage your child to re-read the books to improve accuracy, practice fluency and deepen thinking about the same book. Please ensure your child takes good care of these books and remembers to return them on time so that they can make a new selection.

Please email, call or drop by if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to working with you this year as partners in your child’s education.

December 21, 2023
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Have a Fantastic Winter Break!

Wishing everyone a restful winter break and holiday.  I hope you are able to enjoy some fun family time and create some lasting memories.  I also wanted to thank you for the support you have given to your child and to me this term.

See you in 2024!

Mr. Belliveau

 

September 29, 2023
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Orange Shirt Day

This week Division 1 has been learning about Orange Shirt Day and the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Truth and reconciliation is an ongoing process that requires reflection and action. In an interview, Phyllis Webstad, the person whose experience inspired Orange Shirt Day, noted that there will come a time when the people who lived through the experience of residential school will be gone, and we are dependent on our youth to carry forward the knowledge of Canada’s history.

Many students already have some background knowledge about residential schools and are continuing to learn challenging truths of Canada’s past. Reconciliation starts with a willingness to listen and learn in order to restore positive relationships for affected communities.

Below are some links to support you in your truth and reconciliation journey:

  • Orange Shirt Day – the story behind why we wear orange

  • Native Land – learn about whose land you live on

  • 94 Calls to Action – a child-friendly document to learn about important steps still needed to be taken towards reconciliation (did you know that this Day of T&R is #80 of the 94 calls to action?)

September 26, 2023
by belliveauc
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Welcome To Division 1

A belated welcome to the division 1 blog site.  I am so excited to be your child’s teacher this year! Joining our classroom community is Mx Hunt, an Educational Assistant. This blog will give you some general information about our class routines for the coming year.  I am looking forward to getting to know your child better and to having a great year with them… and you!

Planners

The delivery of the student’s planners have been delayed, but I will be providing them with temporary pages to help them organize their daily activities, to write down necessary information to help them remember what they need and to keep you informed.  Any upcoming assignments and longer term projects will also be written in there.  Also, writing a note in the Planner is a great way to communicate with me and I can do the same.

Physical Education,  Healthy Living & Well-Being

Students will receive physical activity twice days per week on Monday and Wednesdays; sometimes this will take place in the gym, outside or in the classroom. Please ensure that your child wears comfortable clothing and appropriate running shoes on these days or has a pair of running shoes to change into. Students do not change for Gym.  Also, please provide a labeled water bottle (one that cannot spill easily) so that they can leave it at their desks. It is important to hydrate the body and it helps the brain with learning. Similarly, it is just as important to pack a healthy lunch and snack; please avoid sending food or drinks with little nutritional value like pop and candy. Let’s try to bring a no litter lunch too by using reusable containers!

Arriving on Time

It is important that students arrive on time to school. Students should be lined up at the community room doors by 8:50 and instruction begins at 8:55.  It is a valuable lesson to learn early in life and it starts your child’s day off on a positive note. If your child is going to be late or away, please contact the school at 604-296-9036

Library

From Monday to Thursday, students will have the opportunity to visit the library to check out new books. They are to keep the books for at least two days before returning it for a new one. Encourage your child to re-read the books to improve accuracy, practice fluency and deepen thinking about the same book. Please ensure your child takes good care of these books and remembers to return them on time so that they can make a new selection.

Please call or drop by if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to working with you this year as partners in your child’s education.

May 19, 2020
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Weekly Learning Plan May 19-22

Monday Victoria Day Holiday
Tuesday

Literacy

Writing: Look out your window and see if you can spot a living thing. Write or tell someone a few sentences about what you predict that living thing might be thinking or saying to itself.

Reading: Read for 15 minutes
Weekly Class Meeting 11:00 on Zoom (Ms. Su will discuss our Force and Motion Challenges.)

Science: Force and Motion Challenge: See if you can solve Ms. Su’s question from our science discussion today.

Math

Choose a number: 8, 18, 20, or 36 Find that quantity of items (rocks, seeds, books, blocks, toys, etc) What different ways can you decompose (break into parts) that quantity into equal groups (eg. 10 can be decomposed into 5 and 5 or 2 and 2 and 2 and 2 and 2) ? How will you show your thinking?
Wedenesday

Literacy

Writing: X Marks the Spot: Find a rock and draw an ‘X’ or a face onto it. Hide the rock either in your room, home or yard, then create and label a map of that space. Mark an ‘X’ where you have hidden the rock! Add enough detail so someone in your family could follow your map to the hidden rock!

  • Reading: Reading Everyday!
  • Read with your child daily. Books, magazines, newspapers, or websites create interesting reading experiences.
  • Encourage young readers to choose books or materials that are interesting to them.
  • Read aloud to your child and ask comprehension questions:
    • What are you picturing in your mind?
    • What are you wondering about?
    • What has happened so far? What have you learned so far?
    • What does the book remind you of?
    • Does this book remind you of another book?
    • How would you feel if this happened to you?

Math: Go to the Khan Academy website and try the questions I’ve assigned to you or try some different activities that look interesting to you!  Or go to ABC ya Math https://www.abcya.com/ and do some of the math activities on the website.  

DPA: Got to Go Noodle or Youtube and teach someone in your house how to dance to do the Water Cycle Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-59ljA4Bs
Thursday

Literacy

Writing

Expert: Is there something you can teach me about? Is it a sport, a story, a dance, a skill or a show you are an expert on? Create a book to teach me all about it!

Math: Go to Khan Academy or ABC ya math and try an activity of your choosing or try to do some questions about division.  Or try to figure out this problem:  An array is a quantity of items organized into rows and columns. Choose 12 items. What different ways can you organize them into arrays? Draw the arrays and label them with numbers.

For example 3X4 =12
Friday

Literacy

Reading: Stick It! As they read, encourage your children to bookmark important ideas, events, characters, words, phrases with sticky notes.

Ask them about what they bookmarked and what makes it important to them?

Art: Do a guided drawing activity! Click here: Draw Everyday with JJK:

TWAH: Please don’t forget to submit a piece of work that you did this week that you feel proud of. It can be a picture or a piece of writing or some math or science that you did, or anything else that you learned about.

 

May 19, 2020
by belliveauc
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Week 7 Literacy and Mathematics Activities

Literacy
Look out your window and see if you can spot a living thing. Write or tell someone a few sentences about what you predict that living thing might be thinking or saying to itself.
Have someone in your house think of an object. Ask them yes or no questions until you can guess what the object is. Example; Is it alive? Is it bigger than I am? Does it swim? Does it have 4 legs? Is it the cat?
Media, either print or digital, is used to inform (provide information), persuade (try to convince you to do, try, or purchase something), or entertain (for fun and enjoyment). As you encounter an example of media (e.g. commercial, advertisement, movie, website, magazine, TV show, etc.) today, try to decide if it was made to inform, persuade, or entertain you.
Create a list of other words you could use instead of “said”, “looked”, “nice”, “ate”. Try to use some of these alternative words when talking with friends and family members.
Math
Choose a number: 50, 80, 100 or 150 What different ways can count up to and down from that number? Consider counting by 2s, 5s or 10s or try 3s or 4s. How will you share one way you counted?
Choose a number: 8, 18, 20, or 36 Find that quantity of items (rocks, seeds, books, blocks, toys, etc) What different ways can you decompose (break into parts) that quantity into equal groups (eg. 10 can be decomposed into 5 and 5 or 2 and 2 and 2 and 2 and 2) ? How will you show your thinking?
Choose a number: 16, 20, 24 or 36 Think of a story where you share that number of something between two or three people in your family. It could be cookies, toys, or pennies or anything you want to write your math story about. Record your math story using pictures, numbers and words.

An array is a quantity of items organized into rows and columns. Choose 12 items. What different ways can you organize them into arrays? Draw the arrays and label them with numbers.

For example 3X4 =12
Numeracy Task: Look around your home or neighbourhood. Where can you find quantities of things that are organized into groups? Can you find any arrays?

 

May 11, 2020
by belliveauc
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Week 6 Learning Plan May 11-15

 

Monday Literacy

Writing: Pretend you are on a “reading vacation” at the beach. Set up a towel to lay on, put on a bathing suit, or other beach attire, grab some water, maybe a snack, and lay on the “beach” reading your book, magazine, anything you have in your home to read. Do you need your sunglasses?

Reading: Read: Read about your animal on the Epic Books website or read for twenty minutes with a family member of a book of your choice.

Science: Mystery Science: How is Glass Made? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/glass?loc=mini-lesson-button#slide-id-5489
Tuesday

Literacy

Writing:

Write a name (child, family member, pet, friend, etc.) across a piece of paper. For each letter, find an item in your home that begins with that letter. For example,

S T A N L E Y – Spinach, Tea, Apple, Necklace, Larabar, Earring, Yves ground round

Alternatively, write a name vertically. Use each of the letters in a describing word or sentence about them to create a name poem. For example,

Silly
Adventurous
huMorous

Read: Read one of the books that Mr. Belliveau assigned to you on Epic Books or Read a book of your choice for 20 minutes
Weekly Class Meeting 11:00 on Zoom (Ms. Su will discuss our  next Force and Motion Challenges.)

Science: Force and Motion Challenge: See if you can solve Ms. Su’s question from our science discussion today.

Math

Ask your child to describe the members living in your house using fractions.

For examples,  ½ of the people are adults, or ¼ have four legs
Wedneday

Literacy

Writing: BE YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHOR

Our favourite books, characters or authors can inspire our stories! You might try writing a book the way your favourite author writes. Is it with speech bubbles, silly adventures or without words? Or possibly an information book. Or you might think of a favourite character from a book you have read or heard. Could you imagine that character in another story? What adventures might they have? Create a book that stars this character!

Reading: IN 20 WORDS OR LESS

After reading, ask your children to tell you, in 20 words or less, what was important.

Write down what they say or count the words.

How close to 20 did you get?

Math: Go to the Khan Academy website and try the questions I’ve assigned to you on this week.

 DPA: Heartbeat Excercise

This activity is designed to get your child up and moving and also begin to develop focusing skills needed for mindfulness. Ask your child to jump up and down or do jumping jacks for one-minute. After one-minute, have your child place their hand on their heart and focus on how their heartbeat and breathing feel.
Thursday

OPTIONAL CLASS MEETING ON ZOOM AT 11:00

Literacy: Create a commercial or advertisement to sell a product from a favourite story. For example: Pig’s brick house, a house made of gingerbread, a knight’s horse, Cinderella’s glass slipper. Include a picture and reasons why someone would want to buy it.

Reading:

While reading, encourage your children to visualize what they’re reading.

Ask them:

  • What do they see?
  • What details do they notice (colours, sounds, tastes, smells, textures)?

Keep a “picture journal” and draw pictures of the images they see in their mind.

Math: Go to Khan Academy or ABC ya math and try an activity of your choosing.  Or Choose five things at home to measure. What attributes could you measure – length, height, width, depth? Record your findings using pictures, numbers and words. Remember to include the “unit” you are measuring with. How long is two metres? How many centimetres are in two metres?
Friday

Reading:   Visit Ms. Su’s website and listen to this week’s Read Aloud. Or try the WWWWWH activity, carefully look at the pictures and writing on the cover of the book.  Help your child to ask a question about the book that begins with who, what, when, when, where or how.

 Art: Show your creativity and upload a piece of art that you’ve done to our Teams website.  Do a guided drawing activity! Click here: Draw Everyday with JJK

Daily Physical Activity (DPA): How do you feel today? Make a list of activities that make you feel good. Choose one of those activities (keeping social distancing in mind), do the activity. How do you feel now? What activity might you do next time?

TWAH: Please don’t forget to submit a piece of work that you did this week that you feel proud of. It can be a picture or a piece of writing or some math or science that you did, or anything else that you learned about.  You can also upload an example of how you tried to tackle Ms. Su’s latest Force and Motion Challenge.