No School Tomorrow

 Reminder:

There is no school tomorrow for Truth and Reconciliation Day. 

There is school on Friday. 

Orange Shirt Day

 Reminder tomorrow is Orange Shirt Day!

Week 4

 Wow! That month flew by! 

On Wednesday we ran the Marathon of Hope for Terry Fox. 

In math, we have been working with graphs and working with different intervals on the graphs scale to more efficiently display our data. We will continue working with bar graphs and double bar graphs. 

We building our understanding of geographic features before diving into research for different natural regions within Alberta and Canada.

In gym, we have been working on our frisbee throwing and catching skills. It is amazing to see the growth in just a couple weeks. Our goal is to eventually be able to play ultimate frisbee. 

 

Important Dates:

Sept 28 - Picture Day

Sept 29 - Orange shirt day

Sept 30 - No School 

Friday and "Open House"

What an amazing school year start-up we have been having at LBS! Typically, at this time of year, we host Parent Teacher Conferences in an Open House format. With restrictions due to Covid-19, our format has been adjusted. This year, each class has created a video to introduce families to our school, answer commonly asked questions and show details of how our class works. These videos will be released on Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 4:00 pm. If you have questions after viewing the video, please reach out. We are certainly missing seeing families in our school building and look forward to future opportunities where this may be possible.  

Terry Fox Run Tomorrow

 Hello Families!

This is a reminder that we will be participating in the Terry Fox Run tomorrow afternoon. Please make sure to send a water bottle to school as it is supposed to be warm tomorrow.

Thanks!

Week 3

 Hello Families,

Our community walk was a success! It was so nice to leave the school grounds and explore other public spaces within the Lake Bonavista community. We explored Wapta Park, where we did a sit spot examining the strengths and areas of improvement of this public space. We also looked at the connection to the environment and the community.

We completed our Alberta and Canada Maps. We have been discussing Capital Cities, Provinces, and Territories. Next, we will be exploring different regions within Alberta and Canada, their geographic features, and how they contribute to our identity.

Students have been using our Montessori Pin Maps as a responsible work choice and an extension of our work in Social Studies.

We have began our class read aloud, The One and Only Ivan. 

In Math, we continue or work with graphing. 

Reminder

If you haven't brought back your blue forms or your demographic forms please bring them to school as soon as possible.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, September 22 - Terry Fox Run

Friday, September 24 - No School for Students/Meet the Teacher

Wednesday, September 29 - Orange Shirt Day

Thursday, September 30 - National Truth and Reconciliation Day - No School

REMINDER: Community Walk

 Hi Families,

This is a reminder that we are going on our class community walk tomorrow. Please dress for accordingly. We will be outside for approximately an hour. The mornings have been chilly so a jacket or a sweater is recommended.

Thanks!

ADmazing Savings

 ADmazing Savings Fundraiser has begun! The proceeds from this fundraising activity will be used directly in your child’s classroom. Books are available for $25.00 each, of which Lake Bonavista will use $11.50 for the benefit of our students.

 

If you wish to take advantage of these discounts, please complete the order form printed on the back on the ADmazing envelope, and enclose the correct amount of money - $25.00 per book ordered. - directly to your child’s classroom teacher by Thursday, October 7^th, 2021 or earlier.

 

Please ensure if you are returning the book that you have not scratched off the code area for the app, as the book will not be returnable if the code is visible. 

 

Additional books for Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer or Southern Alberta may be ordered at $25.00 each for family, friends and relatives.  If you wish to order additional books, please send your order as soon as possible to your child’s teacher so that the order can be filled.  As a school, we discourage door-to-door solicitation.

LBS School Council

We have many open positions for our School Council, including Chair. If you are interested in learning more about these volunteer opportunities, please contact Jennifer Rooke, jlrooke@cbe.ab.ca. We will be having our first meeting on Tuesday, September 21st at 6:30pm. Council will share updates as well as describe some of the opportunities to get involved. 

Terry Fox Run

 Terry Fox Run 2021 

We will be having our Annual Terry Fox Run on Wednesday, September 22, 2021. Teachers will be discussing with students the life of Terry Fox and the contributions he has made to cancer research as well as coming together in the afternoon for a virtual wrap up assembly.  Students are encouraged to wear blue/white/ or their school t-shirt on this day. 

Students can dedicate their run to someone who they know has been affected by cancer. Please speak to your child prior to our run and if they choose to dedicate their run to someone, they can share this in their class sharing circle prior to or after their run. 

Should you wish to make a donation online, please use the following link to donate through the Terry Fox website: 

http://www.terryfox.ca/LakeBonavista 

Let’s keep Terry’s dream to find a cure for cancer alive!

Week 2

Hello Room 16 Families,

We have had another great week! 

This week we began exploring maps. We looked at maps of Canada and Alberta, and created our own maps of the school. Next week we will begin looking at provinces, capital cities, and cities within Alberta. 

In math, we began using bar graphs and collected data within the class to better get to know everyone one. We are creating a bar graph with out table groups and will present our findings next week. We are focusing on incorporating all the part of a a bar graph including labels, categories, titles, and properly spaced integers. 

We read the book The Truth about my Unbelievable Summer and used it as an inspiration to write our own stories about our unbelievable summer. We were able to be super creative and lots of us did a mixture of fiction and nonfiction writing. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Reminders:

September 20th - Blue Forms are due

September 27  - October 1 Truth and Reconciliation Week 

September 29 – LBS Orange Shirt day 

September 30 – Non-operational day 

First Week of School

 Dear Room 16 Families,

We have had an amazing first week together in the portables. We spent a lot of time getting to know our new space and building classroom community. 

On Wednesday, we Saving Sam STEM challenge, responded to the letter we received from Ms. Carroll, and of course went outside for kickball. 

On Thursday, Ms. Rooke and Ms. Durnford had a Welcome Back assembly, introducing us to all the LBS Staff, and sharing the book "The Peace Train" and building on the idea of peace and bring peace to our school, self, and lives. We also, worked with our table groups as detectives to solve the math mystery of the Superbad Super Hero. We applied our math skills to solve clues that let us to the villian. 

Today, we went to music for the first time with Ms. Kawchuk. For gym, we went outside and played Capture the Pig with Room 17 and had a great conversation about good sportsmanship. We worked on a can we make it?, math problem that got us thinking about different operations that we know and applying them to different numbers. This math problem took some creativity but there we a lot of great answers! We also got a clock today, it was the highlight for sure! 

We're looking forward to another great week! 

Reminder:

There is no school on Monday, September 6th. 

Here's some of the things the kids had to say about this week:

We played some games that helped us get to know each other. JS

Our groups got to be detectives during a math mystery. NB

This week was awesome! LR

In gym we played some pretty fun games like capture the pig, kickball and dodgeball. AC

We survived! TR 

We made our own cubby tags. NB 

We worked on Who I Am?. AH

We did gym. EE

We did work in work period. TS