Tuesday January 14


BWS Yearbooks
Bridlewood School is very fortunate this year as one of our parents, who is a photographer and graphic artist/web designer,
has generously volunteered her talent and time to create our yearbook. So many thanks to Melinda Gombert for this.
Melinda has just finished designing the cover for the yearbook. 

If you haven’t purchased a yearbook yet and would like to do so, you can do through accessing your fees online
(MyCBE/PowerSchool account).  You will need to go to the Goods/Services tab to locate the optional fees,
double click the yearbook line, the fee will then attach to your account, or return this invoice indicating
that you wish to purchase the year book and the fee will be added to your account from the school office.
Deadline for purchase is February 28, 2020.



 This morning the class solved and proved true or false math equations to warm up the brains. Here is an example: 78 + 439 + 11 = 7 x 36. Students had to solve each side of the equal symbol to prove if this was true or false. The class went to music and then worked on finding as many rectangles as possible for given areas. They could use blocks to help them make rectangles and then draw them on graph paper and label with the multiplication equation that makes it true. Most students were able to complete and find all the necessary facts for a particular area. 

 The class had gym in the morning as well and then we discussed what meteorologists measure when they tell us about the weather. The class as able to identify that measuring temperature, amount of rain or precipitation, wind speed and wind direction is also important when describing the weather. Other measurements that are important when describing weather are the amount of moisture in the air (humidity) and the air pressure. 

 Some light homework is to find out what instruments are used to measure each of these weather related terms. We know the thermometer is used to measure temperature, and a rain gauge is used to measure the amount of precipitation. 

 It was an indoor lunch as suspected and then we learned and practiced the literature circle role of predictor when we read from Refugee. Students made their own predictions about what might happen next to Isabel and her family. After this practice, we engaged in group work to help narrow down what the class can create for our design challenge using elastics. The big idea is an invention of some kind that could have helped either the First Nations or the Settlers during their eras. It is challenging to think how elastic power could have helped these people in creative ways other than inventions that have already been used. The big question was how could elastics make Natives or Settlers have a better quality of life? More work will be done around deciding what project to create.

 Reminders:
- stay warm and safe with clothing

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