Friday, December 16th, 2022

Hello Families,

Here are a few of the interesting things that we did this week were:

- finishing up our work of learning about evidence and investigation by looking in to human and animal footprints, and made strong connections to how they can provide with evidence of a crime, as well as track animals.

- beginning our work with step-by-step multiplication.  Students have begun their journey with 2 by 1 and have moved up to 4 by 1 questions.  They will soon be moving in to 2 by 2 multiplication in both algorithm and word problem form.  The class has also been playing a variety of math games, so that they can build their fact fluency skills.

- performing in our winter concert was a lot of hard work for the students, but it resulted in a fantastic event that all students should be very proud of.  Students practiced reading their lines with expression, projecting their voice, adding actions, and giving and receiving feedback.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

Hello Families!

Calling All Volunteers - URGENT!

The Lake Bonavista School Improvement Society has been allocated a Casino Fundraiser December 17th and 18th at the Deerfoot Casino. We are in urgent need of voluteers to fill all of the positions. If you are able to help we would appreciate your support. We have 5 open positions and would also love to have some back up volunteers ready to go. The Signup Genius link is below: 2022-2023 Parent Volunteers: Deerfoot Casino - Lake Bonavista School (signupgenius.com)  You can also contact Crystal at lbsvolunteercoordinator@gmail.com for more information. Thank you! MITTEN TREE We are collecting gently used and/or new children's mittens to donate to another CBE school who has many students arriving to school without mittens. We are hoping to pack up our donations and deliver them before the winter break so the students can play in the snow over the break.  Please note that we are only able to accept cash for this fundraiser. Thank you for your understanding! LBS Winter Concert December 15 2022   6:00 Concert      7:30 Concert   16 - Scherer      7 - Burnham   17 - Adamson      3 - Kassam   4 - Link      5 - Bouchard   2 - Brown      6 - Cooper   12 - Gierl    10 - Green      13- Romanko      11 - Midgley      8 - Greenhall        Many grade 5 and 6 students have been assigned a role in the musical.  Students who do not have a role will be in the chorus.      If you know that your child will not be at school on the day or evening of December 15, please let me know as soon as possible so we have time to reassign your child’s role.  Thank you for your consideration.    Concert is for Grade 1-6.  Kindergarten will have their own event in the Spring    Dress Rehearsals 9:30 am (6:00 show) and 12:45pm (7:30 show) will be on Dec. 15     Each LBS family will receive 2 tickets to the concert.  We will also have a sign-up sheet in the office for up to 2 more tickets should they become available.      Guests are able to attend Dress Rehearsals for their designated show without a ticket.     Some families have a child in each concert.  These families will be contacted to ask which concert they would like all of their children to be in and they will receive 2 tickets to that concert.     Students in Grades 1-4 can wear what they like to the concert.  No hats please so we can see everyone’s smiling faces when they are on the stage!    Grade 5 and 6 students with acting parts have been told what they can wear for the show.  Family ideas, - toque, light jacket, light mitts.  Dogs can decide what kind of dog they would like to be.  For example, all white, brown, black, clothing.  I have a costume for Santa.       Thank you,    Julie Kawchuk  jrhayneskawc@cbe.ab.ca  blog:  https://musiclbs.blogspot.com/

Monday, December 12th, 2022

 

Calling All Volunteers - URGENT!

The Lake Bonavista School Improvement Society has been allocated a Casino Fundraiser December 17th and 18th at the Deerfoot Casino. We are in urgent need of voluteers to fill all of the positions. If you are able to help we would appreciate your support. We have 5 open positions and would also love to have some back up volunteers ready to go. The Signup Genius link is below: 2022-2023 Parent Volunteers: Deerfoot Casino - Lake Bonavista School (signupgenius.com)  You can also contact Crystal at lbsvolunteercoordinator@gmail.com for more information. Thank you! LBS Winter Concert December 15 2022   6:00 Concert      7:30 Concert   16 - Scherer      7 - Burnham   17 - Adamson      3 - Kassam   4 - Link      5 - Bouchard   2 - Brown      6 - Cooper   12 - Gierl    10 - Green      13- Romanko      11 - Midgley      8 - Greenhall        Many grade 5 and 6 students have been assigned a role in the musical.  Students who do not have a role will be in the chorus.      If you know that your child will not be at school on the day or evening of December 15, please let me know as soon as possible so we have time to reassign your child’s role.  Thank you for your consideration.    Concert is for Grade 1-6.  Kindergarten will have their own event in the Spring    Dress Rehearsals 9:30 am (6:00 show) and 12:45pm (7:30 show) will be on Dec. 15     Each LBS family will receive 2 tickets to the concert.  We will also have a sign-up sheet in the office for up to 2 more tickets should they become available.      Guests are able to attend Dress Rehearsals for their designated show without a ticket.     Some families have a child in each concert.  These families will be contacted to ask which concert they would like all of their children to be in and they will receive 2 tickets to that concert.     Students in Grades 1-4 can wear what they like to the concert.  No hats please so we can see everyone’s smiling faces when they are on the stage!    Grade 5 and 6 students with acting parts have been told what they can wear for the show.  Family ideas, - toque, light jacket, light mitts.  Dogs can decide what kind of dog they would like to be.  For example, all white, brown, black, clothing.  I have a costume for Santa.       Thank you,    Julie Kawchuk  jrhayneskawc@cbe.ab.ca  blog:  https://musiclbs.blogspot.com/

Friday, December 9th, 2022

 Hello Families,

Some of the exciting things that we did this week were:

- Exploring the Box Strategy to solve multiplication questions.  We have been practicing our multiplication fact fluency by playing various math games.

- Continued to work on writing a story based on a picture prompt.  Students used a picture that features dragons flying in the sky to inspire their writing.  Focus was also placed on conventions, spelling, sentence structure and organizations.  Students completed a self-evaluation rubric and set goals for their next writing piece.

- Began learning the cursive alphabet, both upper and lowercase, in order to practice fine motor skills, improve or learn how to write in and read cursive and also connect it to our investigation of how forensic scientists analyze handwriting samples to identify a match.

- Started our learning about the elements of art and focused on the element of line.  Students looked at examples of line, explored using some of them, practiced creating multiple different examples of lines within a template and then created their own piece based on a mountain landscape.

UPCOMING DATES AND INFORMATION:

- Mitten Tree:  We are collecting gently used and/or new children's mittens to donate to another CBE school who has many students arriving to school without mittens. We are hoping to pack up our donations and deliver them before the winter break so the students can play in the snow over the break.

- Our Winter Concert is almost here!   

  

• Students in the 6:00 show need to be here at 5:40 pm Dec. 15 - doors will open at 5:40 pm 
• Students in the 7:30 show need to be here at 7:10 pm Dec. 15 - doors will open at 7:10 pm 

  

Winter Concert Tickets are being sent home with your oldest or only student today.  You need to bring the tickets to the concert with you, due to fire code capacity requirements of our gym we will be checking and collecting all tickets.  Every person attending the concert requires a ticket including babies and small children.  If you receive tickets and are not able to attend, please send back to school with your child.  If you are successful in securing tickets from the waitlist, they will be sent home at a later date.