LBS Winter Concert

 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

 

 

 

• 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! 

 

Thank you, 

 

Julie Kawchuk 

jrhayneskawc@cbe.ab.ca 

Book Fair

 Our Book Fair has started. The link below is active. 

 

We are pleased to be hosting a hybrid (In-School and Virtual) Scholastic Book.   

Each class will get an opportunity to visit the Book Fair on either Monday, November 21st or Tuesday, November 22^nd.  

 

Attached is your child’s wish list. If you would like to purchase anything from your child’s wish list you can choose to do so using any of the three methods listed below.  

 

Purchase Options:  

·         Cash sent in with your child and initialed wish list  

o    Initial next to the items you would like to purchase and send in exact cash  

o    Please note, that in-school purchases already include GST 

o    Cash orders need to be sent in by Thursday, November 24^th 

·         Online using the link posted on your child’s teachers blog or below  

o    Virtual Book Fair Link: https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5163641  

o    Link is active from Monday, November 21^st till Sunday, November 27^th  

o    Online orders will be shipped to the school and sent home with your child when they arrive 

·         In-Person during your parent teacher conference time   

 

*Dear Parents: You are under no obligation to purchase the products listed.*  

 

November 10, 2022

  

This weeks blog is by Vida and Sloane :)

Hello Families,

This week room two has been learning about the life cycles of pumpkins and oak trees!

Once room two is finished their life cycles in their visual journal's they made a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the pumpkin and oak tree.

During math we have been learning about WODB (which one doesn't belong), subtraction vocabulary, and how to tell what time it is on an analog clock.

Last week on Friday students brought there favourite snacks, then we introduced a writing guessing game and used water colour to paint there favourite snack!Then we noticed that students were having trouble with descriptive words, so room 2 & 3 made mind maps about  5 senses for their favourite snacks!

Thank you room 2 you have done an awesome job this week! 😎

Important Dates:

November 11 - Remembrance Day - no school

November 14 at 7:00AM - Conference Booker is live to book November Conferences 

November 24 and 25 - Conferences (in person at LBS)

November 21-27 Book Fair

December 1 - Movement Minutes Due! Keep tracking :)

November 4, 2022

 Hello Families, 

We had a fun filled week of hands on learning between our pumpkin exploration and our sensory snack time. Thanks again for everything you continue to do to support our school learning. 

Through research and documentation, we continue to learn about celebrations and food in India (grade 3 Social Studies). We have also started some research on pumpkins, their uses, and stages of the lifecycle (grade 4 Science). Students are demonstrating increased confidence with recording key information in jot note form, and accessing various online sources to synthesize information and demonstrate comprehension.  

We continue to work towards showing, and communicating our understanding of mental math strategies through opening tasks and math conferences. This week we also introduced Which One Doesn't Belong tasks in connection to our School Development Plan for increasing students mathematical vocabulary to build awareness of their metacognition. 

Having the opportunity to drink sage tea was a huge interest point for students this week.  We made a class rule that we will continue with tea drinking on Tuesday's only... Tea Time Tuesday! All tea provided will be herbal and caffeine free. If you'd like your child to particpate, please send a mug with them each Tuesday. From experience, a mug with a lid is preferred (ie. travel mug), however, a regular mug will also suffice. Here's a blog link to the importance of tea service in the Montessori classroom if you're interested: http://www.montessori-blog.org/2017/12/04/grace-courtesy-making-tea/

Overall, it was a wonderful, exciting, and busy week! Here are some photos....

Poppy Fund Donations

 

Students will be given a poppy on November 10th while honoring Remembrance Day at school.  If you would like to send in a monetary donation to support the Poppy Fund that day, it would be greatly appreciated.  You can also show your support by donating online through following the link: https://legion.ca/donations 

 

MOMMS Pet Food Drive

 

To support Veterans and their dogs, our community pet store is collecting donations. These items will help support the pets that bring so much comfort and happiness to those who have served our country. Please send any donations to school with your child, on or before November 10th. They will be dropped off by Room 7 and 8. See the information below for donation details.

Friendly Reminders: 

• Monday, November 7 - Photo Retake Day 

• Friday, November 11 - No School - Remembrance Day

• Monday, November 21 - Sunday, November 27 - Hybrid Book Fair (more info to come) 

• Thursday, November 24 & Friday, November 25 - Conferences (more info to come)

Move-ember

 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 the paper sent home on November 1, 2022. If you require additional tracking sheets please visit the Google Classroom. 

 

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

Halloween Info

 Halloween is Monday, October 31st. Students are invited to wear Halloween costumes if they would like. We remind all students that there is no gore, no masks and no weapons.  Students should come with their costumes on. Please ensure that costumes are comfortable to be worn throughout the day and will be safe and suitable for all daily activities such as gym, recess and learning time. Inflatable costumes are challenging for students to work in throughout the day.  In keeping with nutrition and health protocols, we ask for no additional treats or snacks to be sent in.  

The parade is BACK!  We are so happy to welcome families back to the school for our Halloween parade. The gym will be set up for costume viewing. Our parade will start at 1:00 and students will wander through the gym to showcase their costumes. If you would like to join us, please come to the front door and join us in the gym for 1:00.  Please connect with your child’s teacher if you do not want your child participating in Halloween activities, such as the parade, during the day. 

November 1st will be the Spirit Day. We will be having a pajama day. All staff and students are invited to wear their comfy pjs for the day. 

October 21, 2022

 Hello Families, 

 

We had an amazing walking field trip on Monday which kicked off our learning about poetry through descriptions and explorations with leaves. We did some journalling and some playing in the leaves and came back to the school to start working on our poems. We will share the good copies of this work with our school community through a hallway documentation board. 

 

Here are some of the descriptions we came up with while on the field trip:

The leaf swished through the sky like a sword - AP

It swirled around like a lollipop - VJ

It swirled down like the shape of a candy cane - SL

It fell like a raindrop from the sky - L

The leaf fell like a floating wave - LB

The leaf swirled in the air like a cotton candy maker - IG

Gently drifted like a feather - SD

Drifting like the wind on a calm day - FO

Falling softly like a feather - SH

It flew through the sky like an airplane - BS

It swayed side to side to the ground like a swing - HC

It gracefully fell danced like a ballerina - MM

The leaf fell like a piece of light parchment paper - A

It swiftly fell to the ground like an airplane landing - RM

The leaf fluttered to the ground like a feather - BY

The leaf fell swiftly like paper - MP

It falls gracefully and swiftly like a hawk soaring through the vast open sky - AF

We are still learning about place value and have added in data collection. This week we were learning about rounding to the nearest ten. This was tricky for many students and might be worth a review over the weekend. We also looked at our individual and shared celebrations and traditions, this will connect to learning about India as Diwali is taking place on Monday. We collected data about what our class celebrates through surveying and tallying and then represented this data in bar graphs.

  

The art cards are turning out beautifully, I think you'll be very impressed with the finished products!

Please remember we go outside for our phys ed time daily so please ensure students are dressed for the weather. Also, as we have been learning about various plants we are accepting pumpkin donations to our classroom for an exploration on October 31. If you have a pumpkin of any size (uncut/unused) that you would like to provide for our classroom please send it with your child any day next week. We are also looking for duct tape for our classroom Wishtree (See the current construction below)! :) Thanks SO much for all of your help and support!

  

Upcoming Dates

• October 28 Non-instructional day  

• October 31 Halloween 

• November 7 Photo Retakes 

• November 10 Remembrance Day Assembly  

• November 11 Remembrance Day, No School

Take Care, 

Ms. Brown