November 19, 2021

 Hello Families, 

We are getting lots of literacy and numeracy work done in preparation for conferences. Each student will be taking home a multi-step math problem and a mini book based on the book they brought to share with the class. These are both assessment tasks from Alberta Education and will provide information about the next steps of learning for your child. I will be sharing the assessments with you during conference time! :)

Here are a bunch of photos from our ongoing learning, including our hearing and sound labs on the iPads!

Take care, 

Ms. Brown

Food Drive

 Hello Families! 

 

Wow!  The students In Action Club are blown away by your donations.  When we add up all of the items brought in, we ended up with a grand total of 1,152 food items!  Way to show care and generosity LBS!  By donating these items, you have helped make a huge positive change in the lives of Veterans that needed our help.   

 

The Students in Action Club would like to thank you for helping make this food drive such a success. Please check out the stop motion clip that we made to track our growing donations table.

The Students in Action Club  

https://youtu.be/yc00HiG6kQU 

Book Fair

 SAVE THE DATE!

Dear families,

Our school’s Scholastic Virtual Book Fair will begin next week! Our very own shopping site will be open from Monday, November 22nd – Sunday, November 28th

Experience the joy of a Book Fair online by joining us at our Virtual Family Event! Make your favourite snacks, and come together as a family to view the fun, exciting and inspiring titles. A link will be sent out on Monday the 22^nd.

Share this link with Grandparents, too! Extended family can participate in the Virtual Book Fair from the comfort of home.

Remember, all purchases benefit our school and earn Rewards that can be redeemed for books and Education Resources for our school’s classrooms and library.

Thank you for participating in our

Scholastic Virtual Book Fair!

Happy reading! 

 

November 5, 2021

 Hello Families, 

It's been a busy and very high energy week in the classroom. I don't think having Halloween on a Sunday has done us many favours, haha! Unfortunately, we have had to have several conversations about expected behaviour in the classroom. We have been learning a lot about how to control impulses and be kind and compassionate to one other. I am hoping for improvement next week but if you could continue these conversations at home that would be appreciated.

To support this work, we created kindness pockets in our visual journals. Inside the pocket are specific strategies for how we can be kind at school and at home. We also discussed how kindness sometimes presents itself in unusual ways, such as being patient with others, or letting someone back into the line up after they had to go back and push in their chair. We can revisit our kindness pockets throughout the year when we are struggling to find ways to be supportive of others. 

We continue to learn about place value through games and representing number activities. Many students are still struggling to grasp the concept of expanded form, so we will continue working on this throughout next week. Then we will begin some summative tasks on skip counting and graphing that I will share with you at conferences. 

For science, we are learning about hearing and sound! Student's have loved learning about the parts of the ear and how sound waves are actually vibrations. Did you know that the anatomy of the ear has two different kinds of canals and something that looks like a snail? See if your child can explain these parts to you! :) Next week, we have a few hearing and sound experiments to conduct. 

Thanks to everyone who has sent a book from home for our next Language Arts work! 

I look forward to connecting with you all during November conferences!

Upcoming 

• November 10 – Remembrance Day Assembly 

• November 11 – Fundraising Freezer Feastival Orders due 

• November 12 – Non-instructional Day 

• November 15 – National Metis Week 

• November 18 – Pattern Day 

• November 22 – Virtual Book Fair Begins 

• November 25-26 Conferences 

Take care, 

Ms. Brown

Our Favorite Books

 

Here's the email that was send home on Monday: 

Our Favourite Books   Hello Families,  I hope you are doing well and made it through Halloween weekend! We are going to start looking at our favourite books, and teaching the class about why they are so awesome! Please spend some time with your child this week to select a favourite book from your home library that you can send to school. Here are some things to consider while selecting a book: 1. Make sure your child's name is on the book 2. Make sure it is a book with a beginning, middle, and ending 3. Choose a picture book, chapter books/comic books will take too long to summarize during the shortened presentation 4. Choose a story your child knows very well, something they have heard many times 5. Make sure is it a book that is okay to live at school for about 4-6 weeks. We can send it home for weekends if needed so long as it gets returned again. 6. Please send the book before the end of the week (Friday, November 5) Thanks so much for your help with this project! I will be sharing this information with you at November Learning Conferences! Take care,  Ms. Brown P.S. - have your child challenge you to the "dizzy test" tonight and explain why we get dizzy :)

Food Drive

 Hello Families! 

 

So far, our food drive to support the Veterans Food Bank is off to a great start!  As of today we have collected 112 food items!  Our goal is to collect 500 items and we hope that you will continue to help us not only reach that goal, but make a positive difference in the lives of veterans.  Keep up the generosity LBS Community! 

 

Did you know that the food items that food banks are in need of are: 

 

• Canned Beans, Vegetables, and Meats (Fish or Chicken) 
• Cooking Oil 
• Crackers 
• Nuts 
• Spices 
• Granola Bars 
• Peanut Butter 
• Cereal 
• Soup, Chili and Stew 

Thank you! 

The Students in Action Club 

Food Drive

Dear Parents and Guardians, 

The Grade 6 Students in Action Club have organized and will be running a food drive starting on November 1st and ending on November 16th. The collected food will be going to the Veterans Food Bank, as Remembrance Day is coming up and we would like to show our appreciation for our Veterans.  This also connects to our learning in preparing for the upcoming Remembrance Day assembly that Room 7 and Room 8 will be hosting. 

Please bring non-perishable food items such as: soup, pasta, baby food, cereal, peanut butter, protein or granola bars, trail mix and canned goods like fish or vegetables. Any other non-perishable items that you think of are welcomed to be donated. Don’t forget to try and bring some gluten free or nut free items in case of anyone with allergies.

Sharing Assembly

 Hello Families, 

Our sharing assembly today was a tremendous success! Students were so proud of their hard work and effort and are really enjoying the descriptive writing guessing game we created for the whole school!

The video is accessible for you to watch on Google Classroom, please use your child's login that was provided a few weeks ago. There are links for the presentation and the videos that were shared with the school today!

 

Enjoy!

Ms. Brown

Bottle Cap Collection

 Hello Families, 

We are gathering bottle caps for an upcoming "major interdisciplinary project". If and when you have any can you please clean them and send them to school for us to use. Caps for milk jugs, gatorades, pop bottles, salad dressings, etc. will all be suitable. 

This collection will be ongoing for several months. Thanks for your help!

Ms. Brown

November Movement Challenge

 November is movement month at LBS! We are encouraging students to be active throughout the winter with a movement challenge for move-ember :).

 

Students are encouraged to keep track of their movement minutes outside of school time from November 1-30. The class that earns the most movement minutes at the end of the month will earn a special reward! Please support your child in tracking their movement minutes either on Google Classroom or hardcopy (this will be specified by your child's teacher). 

*Room 2 - I will send a hard copy home on November 1st. Additional copies will be available on Google Classroom if needed!

 

Let’s encourage each other to be active and healthy! See the video for more information about our at school and at home challenges for the month.

https://youtu.be/bvVI4kMnXG4

October 14, 2021

 Hello Families, 

Passing Practice

I hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving weekend! Sounds like there were lots of fun festivities happening!

Crazy Hair Day

This week we have been working hard getting prepared for the October learning assembly where we are sharing the work we have been doing around descriptive writing with the whole school! We have been learning about and creating our own similes to assist in descriptions and today we talked about the importance of being as specific as possible. Here are some of our classroom thoughts about descriptive writing:

What is descriptive writing?

- Words that explain 

- Writing about something really descriptive, the writing has a lot of detail

- Using specific words

- Going beyond the obvious and looking for the unique features 

- Thinking outside the box 

- Using sight, smell, hearing, taste, feeling/touching 

- Helps people understand what you’re talking or writing about 

- Uses similes

- Follows a theme!!!!!

 **Paints a picture in your head about what is being described!**

  

During our October assembly, we will be creating and sharing our descriptive paragraphs about our Halloween costumes. We are hoping they will be descriptive enough for the audience to be able to guess. We will also be creating an interactive board in the hallway for guesses to be ongoing in hopes of engaging the whole school community.

We are also going to be creating artwork around our simile learning to share in the school display case near the office. I will be sure to post pictures as we complete the work, however, here is the exemplar I created showing the combination of 2 ideas into one piece of art. 

This week for outdoor learning, we learned about, sketched, and labeled the cedar tree. We also used cedar to smudge and learned it is another sacred medicine that is used for clarity of mind. We were able to spot many cedar trees in and around the school.

Tomorrow, we will learn more about building structures and towers and revisit a challenge from a few weeks ago that paired with one of my favourite classroom books, Iggy Peck, Architect!

We have also been learning lots about place value and playing some place value games. The game we learn next week will be easy to play at home. Next Tuesday, ask your child to share the place value game with you. 

Thanks so much to everyone who purchased or returned their ADmazing Savings Books! Today, student passwords for RazKids and computer logins are going home. Please keep these somewhere safe so they can be referenced over the years at LBS!

If you would like to order from the online Scholastic catalog for October, please place your orders online! :) Classroom code: RC134162

Scholastic Flyer

Upcoming Dates:

October 18 - PD Day

October 21 - PJ Day

October 27 - our assembly (will be recorded and distributed for families)

October 29 - costume day at school - no full face masks (covid masks only), no weapons, no blood/gore, no shared snacks

Take care, 

Ms. Brown

Descriptive Writing in Room 2 and 3!

 Hello Families, 

We have been slowly working on developing our skills for descriptive writing! Ms. Kassam and I shared this information through a teacher and school lens at the LBS parent council meeting last night. I have attached images from the slides we shared to give you some insight about what we are doing in the classroom and to understand some of the things we will be looking for in grade 2 and 3 writing. 

Enjoy!

Ms. Brown

October 1, 2021

 Hello Families, 

This week, we focused on exploring Truth and Reconciliation to honour Indigenous people. We had a class discussion about what it means to wear orange and why this is significant. Students demonstrated varying levels of understanding around this topic, however, students were all able to think critically and demonstrate empathy. We did some activities about what makes school a safe place to be and completed reflections on the stories we listened to. This learning was also supported through an assembly hosted by two of the grade 4/5 classes.  Through our weekly outdoor learning times, smudges, and connections to storytelling about the land, we will continue to explore Indigenous ways of knowing and being throughout the school year. 

We also achieved our goal of 25 minutes of silent reading during our Daily 5 time, horay! This means we can slowly being to integrate different types of reading practice into our daily routines, including buddy reading, reading on Raz Kids, etc. 

We are continuing to investigate probability and data collection in math and refresh our basic addition and subtraction skills through games. Next week, we will begin assembling our 3D graphs, pictures to come!

A couple of reminders:

1. Students do not have a microwave available for their use at lunch. Lunch and snack are "pack in, pack out" meaning students will take everything from their lunch back home again for disposal. Additionally, students require their own cutlery, if required. 

2. Due to covid restrictions, we are still not allowed to access water fountains in the school for drinking. Please send a water bottle daily. 

3. Personal items such as cards, stuffed animals, toys, etc. must stay at home. They become very distracting for students. Please ensure your child is leaving all personal items at home.

Thanks for your support!

Ms. Brown