September 13-17

  • 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. 



ADmazing Savings Coupon Books

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 7th, 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.


 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!


Hello families, 

We had another great week in room 11! We have been focusing on kindness towards ourselves and others and this week we focused on appropriate voice levels for each activity in the classroom. We had a good talk about treating each other with kindness and created a classroom contract where students signed and agreed to be kind, be safe, and try their best. We've been using this language a lot this week - is what your doing kind? Is it safe? What could you try next time that would be safer? Did you try your best on this activity or did you rush? etc. 


Literacy

This week we focused on the letter 'U' with the character Uncle Upton. Students practiced building and writing the letter 'U.' With the letters P and U students can now spell 'up' and 'pup.' We watched some videos and read some stories about the letter U. We also continued to practice "Read to Self" and "Buddy Reading." Next week we will start all of our Daily 5 Literacy activities in small groups (read to self, buddy reading, listen to reading, word work, and work on writing). Please send headphones labelled with your child's name to keep at school for Listen to Reading!








For International Dot Day, we listened to the story "Not Just a Dot" and students wrote, using the sentence starter - "it's not just a dot, it's a _______" and used their imaginations to turn a dot sticker into something new. 


Math

In math we have been continuing to talk about patterns! We have learned about colour, size and shapes patterns and using pattern rules to describe our patterns (AB, ABC, ABB, etc) Students had to draw their own size, shape and colour patterns. They also worked with a partner taking turns to create patterns and determining the pattern rule and extending the pattern. 






Social Studies

In social studies we are continuing to learn about ourselves and our identities with our "All About Me" backpacks. We just have a few activities left and then we will be done! Next week we will be discussing International Day of Peace and Terry Fox. 


Science

This week we had a lot of fun with mixing colours! We used a colour wheel and paint to make secondary colours. We also talked about warm and cool colours with the idea of "hot dog and cool cat." We did step by step drawings as a class and students used water colour paints to paint their dog warm colours, and their cat cool colours. Ms. Gierl and Ms. Mumford's grade 4/5 classes were kind enough to make us some playdoh in the primary colours. We then used this for colour mixing and students brought it home on Friday. 






For International Dot Day, we created dot art with warm and cool colours. Mrs. Proctor and Mrs. Melindy's class did the same! 




Next Wednesday is the first day of Autumn and we will be talking about seasonal changes! 



This week we did our first Birthday Walk Around the Sun! Check the last blog entry for more information! 


In gym we learned a new game called Not in my Yard where students can practice their underhand throws using the dodgeballs. It is similar to Dodge Ball but students are just trying to get the balls out of their side of the gym (or off their yards) rather than throwing the balls at each other. 



Upcoming Dates
  • Monday, September 20th - Beginning of the year forms due (brown envelope)
  • Tuesday, September 21st - International Day of Peace
  • Wednesday, September 22nd - Terry Fox Run
  • Thursday, September 23rd - Virtual Open House (video will be sent)
  • Friday, September 24th - PD Day - No school
  • September 27th-October 2nd - Truth and Reconciliation Week - students are invited to wear orange all week
  • Tuesday, September 28th - Picture Day
  • Wednesday, September 29th - LBS Orange Shirt Day
  • Thursday, September 30th - Non-Operational Day - no school (not listed on LBS calendar)
  • Thursday, October 7th - ADmazing Savings Fundraiser due

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