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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A few notes

Netball Blog

Lake Bonavista School is participating in Netball from February 3-7^h in our gymnasium. This sport involves foundational movement skills such as jumping, running, throwing, and catching. As described on the Netball Alberta website (www.netballalberta.com): “Netball is an exciting, fast and skillful game of fair contest: It is a game in which two teams of seven players each strive to keep or gain possession of the ball. Players have specified areas in which they can move.” 

Parent Council has graciously provided the funding to bring this event into our school.

Consent forms will be sent home in your child’s communication folder. Please sign and return the forms so your child is able to participate in this fun LBS event!

Thanks, 

Active Living

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IN-KIND-DONATIONS

Thank you to everyone who has made a generous contribution to Lake Bonavista Improvement Society’s IN-KIND-DONATIONS. We have raised just over $3000 this year! You can make a donation at any time throughout the school year. If you would like to donate, please click on the link below for a copy of the donation form.

Donations over $25.00 are eligible for a charitable tax receipt.

In order to reach our fundraising goal, we need to raise an additional $40 per student to provide the same ongoing support as in previous years.

Please make cheques payable to LBIS (Lake Bonavista Improvement Society)

Link: http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/lakebonavista/get-involved/fundraisers-donation/pages/default.aspx

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Hello! 

Students have been working diligently on their stories inspired by the book "The Night I followed the Dog." In this writing process we have learned about the elements of a story, looking at the exposition/introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. We have also had lessons on story beginnings and transitioning sentence starters. We co-created a rubric based on the elements of this story as well as the lessons that we have received. Students are beginning the stage of Peer Feedback, while some have already made revisions and are publishing their story by typing it on Microsoft Word. 




In our exploration of bridges (grade 3) and simple machines (grade 4), students have worked on creating concept maps to share information that they have learned. We have been collaborating with the students in Room 7, as the grade four students have been working closely with Ms Bouchard and the grade three students are working with Mrs Morden. This is a great way for students to learn from and make relationships with additional teachers in our school, other than their main teacher- Ms Bouchard and I see many benefits from this! 

To help us in building a collaborative concept map in our classroom. Students are asked to collect photographs of bridges & simple machines in their world. They may email the photo to me, or bring a paper copy in! 


Friday January 24 is TWIN DAY. Students can choose to coordinate with a friend to dress alike! 

Please note that Scholastic Book Orders are due on January 30th. You may order online by searching up Lake Bonavista School- Mrs. Morden.

Have a great rest of your week! 

Mrs. Morden

Welcome Back

What a wonderful start to our 2020 school year!

Students jumped back into their work, completing their Most Magnificent Thing as well as their Animal Sweater Art.
We worked with our little buddies to co create Animal Sweater Artwork, please stop by to see some completed examples in the frames at the front entrance of the school.

Students worked through the Design Process in order to create "The Most Magnificent Thing" for a peer in Room 7. They have spent time reflecting on how their ideas have evolved throughout the process. From defining the problem, to brainstorming ideas, designing a prototype and building a prototype.

This week we began looking at the relationships between numbers through t-charts that demonstrate increasing and decreasing patterns. In order to compare the charts students had to explore how the given numbers were related in order to determine the pattern rule. We spoke a lot this week about showing our thinking in our math books as we problem solve. We will continue this focus next week.



Please continue to look for and document bridges that you may see in our world! 


Enjoy your weekend & stay warm! 

Mrs. Morden