Have a wonderful break

Wishing all families a fun & safe winter break. I look forward to seeing all students back at school on Monday, January 6, 2020!

Whether you are enjoying the holidays in Calgary or traveling someplace new- students are asked to keep their eyes open for bridges. Take a photo or make a quick sketch to share with our class when we return to school! 

Mrs. Morden 

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Hello Families,

Lake Bonavista School is looking for donations of board games, card games, puzzles and coloring books. If you have any gently used games that your family has outgrown, would you consider donating them to the school?

We are particularly interested in ‘classic’ games, as well as any additional games or puzzles that are appropriate for approximately ages 5-12, multi-player, and support turn taking and collaboration.

Please only send games complete with all pieces, and that do not require batteries, plugging in, or access to computers/tablets or other technology.

Our wish-list includes, but is not limited to:

Puzzles under 100 pieces

Battleship

Checkers

Connect 4

Jenga

Variations of Memory

Chutes and Ladders

Guess Who?

Eye Found It! Games

Quirkle

Sorry

Spot It

Blokus

Santorini

Animal Upon Animal

Outfoxed

With gratitude,

Lake Bonavista School    

Last week of School Updates

The school will enjoy caroling this week on Tuesday @ 12:45 – 1:15 pm, Wednesday  8:30 – 9:00 am, and Thursday 12:45 – 1:15 pm.

Thursday is our last day of the 2019 school year, we will see everyone back on Monday, January 6th, 2020.

Thursday is school wide "Festive Sweater Day"! 

We will also be having a small celebration in the classroom Thursday afternoon. Students are welcome to bring snacks to enjoy with their classmates, we have 22 students and are a peanut free classroom. 


⛄ Have a wonderful holiday! 

AARCS Fundraiser

AARCS Fundraiser

Rooms 12, 16, 13 and 4 are doing another fundraiser this year to raise money for the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS). During the daytime and evening winter concert shows on Thursday, December 12th, we will be selling homemade Crunchy Tuna Cat Treats and Wowbutter Banana Dog Bites. Each bag will cost $3 and all proceeds will go towards AARCS to help ensure the animals in their care have their basic necessities this holiday season. Please bring cash if you are interested in purchasing treats for your own pets or as a holiday gift! Thank you for your support!

If you have any questions please email Ms. Midgley (lemidgley@cbe.ab.ca) or Mrs. Ireland (hlireland@cbe.ab.ca)

A few notes...

Our Winter Concert will be held on Thursday, December 12th at 6:00pm. Please see schedule below. Students will soon be sent home with 2 tickets, please return any tickets that you will not be using. If you are hoping for more than 2 tickets, please sign up for the waitlist in the office at the beginning of next week. Families are welcome to come to our daytime dress rehearsal on Thursday, December 12th at 9:30am.  No tickets are required for the daytime rehearsal.

6:00 (9:30 am daytime rehearsal)	7:30 (12:45pm daytime rehearsal)
1/ 2 Snow Snow Snow, Snowman Joe, Jingle Bell Rock, We Wish You a Merry Christmas	1/ 2 Snow Snow Snow, Snowman Joe, Jingle Bell Rock, We Wish You a Merry Christmas
6 - Link	8 - Thomas
10 - Green	9 - Carroll
11 - Brown	13 - Midgley
12 - Ireland
3/4 Jingle All the Way Chorus	3/4 Jingle All the Way Chorus
3- Arnold	2-Nielsen
5 - Morden	4 - Pereira
	7 - Bouchard
5/6 Jingle All the Way Cast, Chorus	5/6 Jingle All the Way Cast, Chorus
16- Burnham	17 - Mumford

We are looking for a few donations of the following items in order to create some of the set for the Winter Concert:

• Wrapping paper – sufficient to wrap large and medium sized boxes
• Scrapbook paper appropriate to make snowflakes

Our school is participating in the 31^st Annual Mayor’s Food Drive. We will be accepting non-perishable food items for donation to the Calgary Food Bank at all of the performances and throughout December until December 19.

Thank you for your generous donations.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

Good evening families,

This morning was a very exciting time for Room 5 as we participated in the Mobile Escape Room Experience's: The Sunken Submarine, Tomb of the Pharaoh and Time Machine. We developed collaboration, leadership, communication and problem solving skills while students worked together to find and solve a variety of puzzles connected to wheels and levers, magnetism, and pulleys.

 



In preparation for a special presentation on Thursday, December 5th students are asked to collect and bring in toilet paper and paper towel rolls. We are also continuing to collect loose parts for our Engineer's Treasure Box. 

Please note that Friday, December 6th is Blue and White School Colours Day. 

Mrs. Morden

Winter Concert

Hello parents!

Our Winter Concert is just over a week away!

*** Students performing in the 6:00 show (rooms 3,5,6,10,11,12 and 16) need to arrive at school at 5:40 pm on Thursday Dec. 12. 

Students performing in the 7:30 show (rooms 2.4.7.8.9.13.17) need to arrive at school at 7:10 pm on Thursday Dec. 12.

Students in Grades 1-4 can wear what they like to the concert.  No hats/novelty headbands please so we can see everyone’s smiling faces when they are on the stage! 

Thank you for your support, the students are excited.

Julie Kawchuk

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Hello Room 5 families,

Today we started inquirying into The Design Process, with help from the story "The Most Magnificent Thing" written by Ashley Spires. The story is about a little girl who sets out to make The Most Magnificent Thing for her pet dog. She goes through steps such as brainstorming, evaluating, designing, testing, and feedback to create a final design. We are going to engage in a similar design challenge as we set out to make The Most Magnificent Thing for a student in Room 7. Tomorrow we will begin with the Discovery & Empathy step as we interview our partner to determine their likes, dislikes, needs and wants. Students are asked to start an Engineer's Treasure Collection by filling a shoebox with a variety of loose part materials. Please have the shoebox to the school by Monday, December 2nd. Students can always add more materials to their shoeboxes as time passes. Tonight you will find that your child came home with a list that they generated at school of possible items for their Engineer's Treasure Collection box. See below for some additional ideas! 




Have a nice evening,

Mrs. Morden

Wednesday, November 20th

I look forward to meeting with all families during our November Learning Conferences on Thursday evening or Friday morning. 

Students had an opportunity to visit the Scholastic Book Fair today for a viewing. The Book Fair will be open during conferences. Please note the Scholastic Book Orders sent home last week will be the last ones before the new year, a great way to get some Holiday shopping in! 


Please note that there was a mistake in the amount being charged for the upcoming Mobile Escape Room in school field trip. The actual amount for this experience is $11.00. If you plan to pay online this amount will be reflected once it has posted online. If you have already paid cash, I will return the change. If you have paid with a cheque I will ask the office to support in returning the difference- you may also send a new updated cheque and I will return the old one to you. Thanks for your flexibility! 


Please note that Pokemon cards, toys, or electronics are not to be brought to school. If your child participates in Card Club on Thursdays, they must bring their cards to Mr. Link or myself in the morning for safe keeping. Thank you for your support.


Take care,

Mrs. Morden 

Friday, November 15th, 2019

Dearest Room 5 Families,

I had fallen ill at the beginning of the school week, and unfortunately had to take the past three days away from the students.

In hopes to keep the experiences that students had at Museum School alive I am sharing some photographs of our memorable moments at Museum School. It would be appreciated for you to look at these photographs with your child, asking them questions to spark their ideas and the learning that was connected to these experiences. On Monday, we look forward to collaborating with Ms Bouchard's Room 7 class who had a similar experience this week at Museum School.

Have an enjoyable weekend with family

Mrs. Morden

Reminders

Volunteers Needed for Book Fair

We are still in need of volunteers for our upcoming book fair.

We are pleased to be offering a book fair again this year over Parent Teacher Conferences. We are looking for parent volunteers who would be interested in helping set up the book fair, as well as some parents to help with the book fair while it is running.

If you are able to volunteer during any of the time slots below we would greatly appreciate it! Please email Pam Green with the time and day you are available to help at pngreen@cbe.ab.ca. 

Tuesday, November 19th – (set up)

• 9:00 a.m. (2 more needed)

  

Wednesday, November 20th (previewing)

12:30pm - 2:35pm (1 volunteers needed)

Thursday, November 21st (previewing and evening purchasing)

8:15- 11:30am (1 volunteers needed for previewing)

12:30pm - 2:35pm (1 volunteers needed)

Friday, November 22nd (purchasing)

8:00am-1:00pm (3 volunteers needed)

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Veterans Food Drive

The current food drive organized by the Grade 6 Students In Action Club has already been a great success so far.  The LBS community has showing how generous they are and have brought in a large amount of items to be donated and that will surely make a big difference in peoples' lives.  We are continuing to collect items until this Friday, November 15th, so please do your best to help the Students In Action Club reach their goal of collecting 500 items!