A few reminders

One World Drumming Sharing 

There will be a sharing celebration for all students who have been participating in One World Drumming this week on Thursday February 27 at 1:00 pm:

• PM Kindergarten
• Rooms 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 16

Parents and Guardians are welcome to attend. There will be limited seating available.  Each classes performance will be approximately 5 minutes long.

Thank you to the Lake Bonavista School Council for making this possible!

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Grade 4 parents  please note that the Accountability Pillar Survey Completion Deadline is Thursday, February 27th.

Wednesday, February 12th, 2020

It has been a productive few weeks in Room 5. Students have begun exploring multiplication and division concepts. Through creating concrete models with the Montessori materials, students have been demonstrating success in their understanding of what multiplication and division means and looks like. They have been encouraged to demonstrate their thinking in models, strategies, numbers, symbols and words when solving problems. The other day, we spoke about the relationships between the four operations. 






Since returning from Winter Break, Room 5 & 7 have been engaged in the Design Process in order to build a bridge for a specific purpose or design a simple machine to solve a problem. We are currently wrapping up the building and testing of our prototypes.
















We love when we can find practical math problems connected to our everyday experiences. We worked on the following math problem to help Mrs Morden and Ms Bouchard organize the cityscape artwork. Ask your child how they solved it! 

Ms Bouchard and Mrs Morden would like to organize the hallway cityscape art in an array. Based on how they have started, calculate how many cityscapes will fit on the 3 hallway panels.

How many will fit as an array on the 3 hallway panels? How many student artworks need to be displayed? Will they all fit in the panels between Room 6 & 7? If not, propose another place to display the rest of the art.

Show your thinking with materials, models, numbers, symbols and words.

We began looking at different sketchbook techniques that we have used in the past, and started to create a reference pages in our visual art journals. Mrs Morden will be attending a session on Sketchbook Techniques at Teachers Convention this weekend, and is eager to learn new ideas and share them with the students next week! 







Have a great Family Day long weekend! See you next Tuesday! 

Family Literacy Day & Dance

Save the Date! 

On Wednesday, February 12^th, 2020, students at Lake Bonavista School will be celebrating Family Literacy Day!

The theme for Family Literacy Day 2020 is “Let’s Read Together”. Students will gather together to participate in a whole-school literacy assembly in the afternoon, followed by an opportunity for families to come and read together in our school environment.  

Please join us on February 12^th, 2020 starting at 2:00pm and “Let’s Read Together”!

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Family Dance Wednesday, February 12 @ 6:30 pm

Have you got your tickets to the Lake Bonavista School Family Dance? Purchase tickets online at: lakebonavista.yapsody.com  Tickets are available until February 11. Contactlbstreasurer1@gmail.com if you would like to buy tickets with cash or cheque.

Everyone loves the Cake Walk! Add a donation of a cake, cupcakes or cookies online, too.

Recorders

Recorders

A reminder that recorders will start for all students in grades 3-6 beginning Monday February 3 and Tuesday February 4.  This unit will be ongoing and is expected to wrap up the week before Spring Break (week of March 16).  It is expected that students will have their recorder at school for every Music class.  

-Rooms 2, 3,7, and 17 have Music on Monday and Wednesday

-Rooms 4,5, and 16 have Music on Tuesday and Thursday

If your child ordered a recorder, they will receive it on Monday or Tuesday.  If your child is bringing a recorder from home they need to have it here for their first recorder class as listed above.

Thank you for your support of this very important music activity.

Julie Kawchuk

jrhayneskawc@cbe.ab.ca

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