Mr. Belliveau's Class

Hello Parents and Students,

We will begin using our classes’ Microsoft Teams site next week.  This will be a place where we can video chat, ask questions and check in with one another.  In the future, assignment may be posted on the site as well.  For now, students can practice using their usernames and passwords and can do a scavenger hunt and try to find the assignment called COVID Journal on the division 11 Teams site. 

RAZ KIDS SITE

RAZ KIDS is an online resource where students can practice reading books at their reading level.  They can also complete quizzes to check their reading comprehension.  It is an award-winning resource that provides a library of differentiated books at 29 levels of difficulty students use to practice reading in school, at home, or on the go.

Visit: https://www.raz-kids.com/

To Login: 

You might be prompted with “Who’s your teacher.”  If so put in: belliveau0

Enter the RAZ-Kids username and password that I sent you in your personal email.  

These instructions will also be on the class website.  Please bookmark the class website and check it daily: http://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/

Hello All,

Below is a list of literacy activities that you can choose from to work on with your child through the week.  These are not mandatory activities that must be completed, but are meant to be another option to supplement their literacy learning at home.  

IMPORTANT: Please also keep an eye out for my email tomorrow.  I will be sending out your child’s username and password to you so that they can practice logging onto Microsoft Teams this week.  We will start using Microsoft Teams next week.  I am also looking into setting up RAZ Kids accounts for your child and will provide you with ussernames and passwords for that as w

Also, please bookmark and check the class website daily for updates and new activities for students.  Here is the link: http://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.  I have heard from some of you already and I have really appreciated your feedback.  

Mathematics & Numeracy Week One and Khan Academy Link

Hello All,

Below are a list of problems or a sort of menu that you can choose from to work on with your child through the week.  These are not mandatory problems that must be completed, but are meant to be another option to supplement their math learning at home.  

Big Idea: Number represents and describes quantity.    

Curricular Content: number concepts to 100 and 1 000

Curricular Competencies: communicate mathematical thinking in many ways, represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms, connect mathematical concepts to each other and to other areas and personal interests

Core Competencies focus: Communication

Families: The following are five problems/tasks to choose from for this week, based on the above curricular areas of focus.

These questions can also be found on our class website at: http://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/.  Please bookmark the class website and chekc in with it for daily updates.  

Another optional online resource for math and other subjects is the Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/  Khan Academy’s website aims to provide a personalized learning experience, mainly built on the videos which are hosted on YouTube. The website is meant to be used as a supplement to its videos, because it includes other features such as progress tracking, practice exercises,and teaching tools.The material can also be accessed through mobile applications.

Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Best regards,

Mr. Belliveau

Good morning Families,

Here is a link to last week’s Mystery Science question “How Does Handsanitizer Kill Germs”.  The students can view the mini lesson and then answer the questions posed by the host Doug Peltz on a separate piece of paper.  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/germs-sanitizer?loc=mini-lesson-link

Here is a Science Learning opportunity for Tuesday from the Mystery Science Team:  Tomorrow, Doug Peltz (the Mystery Science Host) is inviting students into his home for a LIVE, 20-minute science show. He’ll answer real kids’ questions about the current situation we’re all dealing with, as well as share a few fun surprises.

Mystery Doug Livestream
Tuesday, April 7, 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern
mysteryscience.com/live

I have also posted this information to our class website at: http://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/.  You can bookmark this site to check for updates on what’s happening in the class.  

Hello All, 

It was good catching up with many of you yesterday.  Those of you who I wasn’t able to contact yesterday, I will be trying to call you today and Friday as well.  

In the meantime, I have listed below a few links that may help you with your remote learning.  

Here is the Ministry of Education’s website to help parents and students start establishing their Learning at Home routines and schedules.  It also has some good activities to help students stay engaged for awhile: https://www.openschool.bc.ca/keeplearning/

Here is the newly launched Burnaby School District’s website to help support learning at home: https://learning.burnabyschools.ca/students/ It has some good grade specific activities for students.  

Some of you also requested a link to some free online worksheets.  K5 Learning has a lot of free worksheets that can be sorted by grade, subject and skill: https://www.k5learning.com/

I appreciate your patience during these unusual times.  Please don’t hesitate to email me if you have any questions. 

Welcome back everyone,

I just wanted to provide an update for those of you who are linked to the class website.  At this point we still don’t know exactly what the next couple of weeks are going to look like, but the staff will be having a virtual meeting this week and I am hoping to be able to provide you with more details soon. 

In the meantime, the ministry of education has provided a good online resource called Keep Learning that you may want to have a look at over the next few days. 

Here is the link: https://www.openschool.bc.ca/keeplearning/

I hope you are all staying healthy and safe.  

This Wednesday Division 11 went for our second Nature Walk to Robert Burnaby Park and conducted the first part of our Indigenous Plant Scavenger Hunt.  Students learned how to identify some indigenous and non-indigenous plants as well as what they were used for in First Nations culture.

Mrs. Dhir, who is a Burnaby science teacher and a ver y active parent volunteer with our school worked with several classes and taught them how to winterize our school garden.   She explained to the students that winterization involved fall planting and that living things needs proper nutrition to thrive. She told them that we can eat our food but plants must absorb most of what they need from the soil (they get carbon from the air as carbon dioxide CO2). Nutrients in soil get washed away every time we water the garden or it rains so we need to make the soil more nutritious again before we plant in the spring. Decomposing plant matter is the best source of nutrition for plants rather than chemical fertilizers. Some plants need to experience cold/freezing temperatures to know to grow so they need to be planted in the fall before the first deep frost. When we plant bulbs we can put some extra nutrition under the bulbs (bonemeal, fertilizer) to help them grow big and strong.  Thanks again Mrs. Dhir the students of division 11 learned a lot from you.

Students in division 11 have been learning about how seeds travel and have made their own seed models out of paper.  They have also been learning about the indigenous and non-indigenous plants that are found in Burnaby.  If you have the time be sure to ask your child to explain to you the different ways that seeds travel from place to place.

Hello Parents, some of you have asked me for an overview for the school year, so that you can better support your child at home.  Please follow the links below for grade two and three.  I have colour coded the learning outcomes based on the term we will be covering them.  Please let me know if you have any questions or if the links don’t work.

Grade 2 link: 20191025121814808_0001

Grade 3 link: 20191025121814808_0002