Merry Christmas to all the friends and families of room 11!! I wish you all the best holiday season filled with joy and laughter. I look forward to seeing everyone again in the new year. :)
Take care and best wishes!
Ms. Brown
Friday, December 21, 2018
Monday, December 17, 2018
December 17, 2018
Hello Families,
We have a busy final week ahead! Everyone is getting excited for the break, teachers included :)!
Here are some important things happening this week:
Library
All books were due back to the library today as our school librarian has to count all of the books over the break. If you have a book at home please send it back with your child as soon as possible to avoid charges.
Food Bank
Tomorrow will be our final day to accept food bank donations for our tower. Currently it is standing at just over 3 feet tall. If you would like to contribute please send your items tomorrow.
Christmas Carols
On Thursday, December 20th at 12:30pm and Friday, December 21st at 11:20pm the whole school will be getting together to sing Christmas carols. Parents, guests, and siblings are welcome to attend the caroling events. The singing will be for approximately 30 minutes.
December 21st
On December 21st, everyone is invited to wear festive sweaters! Also, a reminder that it is early dismissal at 12:15pm. We will be having an in class celebration that morning before the carols.
Take care!
Lindsay Brown
We have a busy final week ahead! Everyone is getting excited for the break, teachers included :)!
Here are some important things happening this week:
Library
All books were due back to the library today as our school librarian has to count all of the books over the break. If you have a book at home please send it back with your child as soon as possible to avoid charges.
Food Bank
Tomorrow will be our final day to accept food bank donations for our tower. Currently it is standing at just over 3 feet tall. If you would like to contribute please send your items tomorrow.
Christmas Carols
On Thursday, December 20th at 12:30pm and Friday, December 21st at 11:20pm the whole school will be getting together to sing Christmas carols. Parents, guests, and siblings are welcome to attend the caroling events. The singing will be for approximately 30 minutes.
December 21st
On December 21st, everyone is invited to wear festive sweaters! Also, a reminder that it is early dismissal at 12:15pm. We will be having an in class celebration that morning before the carols.
Take care!
Lindsay Brown
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Concert Tonight!
Hello Families,
Please send your children down to our classroom (room 11) as you arrive for the concert tonight. All children in the performance should arrive at the school at 5:45pm. The concert begins at 6:00pm. We look forward to sharing our LBS Winter Concert with all of you!
Tomorrow is a school wide PJ day! All students are welcome to wear their PJ's for some festive celebrations!
Take care,
Lindsay Brown
Please send your children down to our classroom (room 11) as you arrive for the concert tonight. All children in the performance should arrive at the school at 5:45pm. The concert begins at 6:00pm. We look forward to sharing our LBS Winter Concert with all of you!
Tomorrow is a school wide PJ day! All students are welcome to wear their PJ's for some festive celebrations!
Take care,
Lindsay Brown
Monday, December 10, 2018
December 10, 2018
Hello Families,
Today we started to look at different ways to count. We used chart paper and big markers instead of our Montessori mats today to count objects in our classroom, using different strategies such as counting all, counting on from a number we know, and skip counting.We also thought about the most efficient ways to count big groups of objects, and made estimates before counting.
We also shared about the weekend, and completed our journal entries. It is awesome to see how much the writing is improving since the beginning of the year. Students are being challenged to add more content to their text, as well as considering things like capital and lowercase letters, and appropriate punctuation placements.
The LBS Concert Tickets will be sent home today with the oldest child in your family at our school. If you are not attending the evening show, please send your tickets back as soon as possible so they can be given to another family. If you require more than 2 tickets please contact the office.
Recently, we have had an increase in the amount of toys, cards, stuffed animals, etc. coming with students to school. They can be distracting for learning, and can easily be lost or taken. Please ensure your child is not bringing any toys to school unless it is an earned reward, in which case I will communicate with all students and post in my blog.
Also, we are still hoping for food bank donations!! If you have any please send them in so we can start building and measuring our tower! :)
I hope you enjoyed the weekend!
Lindsay Brown
Today we started to look at different ways to count. We used chart paper and big markers instead of our Montessori mats today to count objects in our classroom, using different strategies such as counting all, counting on from a number we know, and skip counting.We also thought about the most efficient ways to count big groups of objects, and made estimates before counting.
We also shared about the weekend, and completed our journal entries. It is awesome to see how much the writing is improving since the beginning of the year. Students are being challenged to add more content to their text, as well as considering things like capital and lowercase letters, and appropriate punctuation placements.
The LBS Concert Tickets will be sent home today with the oldest child in your family at our school. If you are not attending the evening show, please send your tickets back as soon as possible so they can be given to another family. If you require more than 2 tickets please contact the office.
Recently, we have had an increase in the amount of toys, cards, stuffed animals, etc. coming with students to school. They can be distracting for learning, and can easily be lost or taken. Please ensure your child is not bringing any toys to school unless it is an earned reward, in which case I will communicate with all students and post in my blog.
Also, we are still hoping for food bank donations!! If you have any please send them in so we can start building and measuring our tower! :)
I hope you enjoyed the weekend!
Lindsay Brown
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Stuffy/Toy Day
Hello Families,
We earned a reward for all of our Dojo Points last week. Today, the students decided they would like to have a stuffy/toy day tomorrow. Each student can bring one favorite stuffed animal or toy with them to have in the classroom. Please remember that weapon toys and electronics are not welcome at school.
Thanks!
Lindsay Brown
We earned a reward for all of our Dojo Points last week. Today, the students decided they would like to have a stuffy/toy day tomorrow. Each student can bring one favorite stuffed animal or toy with them to have in the classroom. Please remember that weapon toys and electronics are not welcome at school.
Thanks!
Lindsay Brown
December 5, 2018
Hello Families,
We had a fantastic experience at Nickle Junior High School on Monday morning! The walk was long and a little tiring trekking through all of the deep, fresh snow, but the learning opportunities made it worth the walk, even for the little legs!
First, our grade 8 buddies took us on a tour of their school. This was really interesting, as we noticed many things in their environment that are very different from ours at Lake Bonavista School. Some of the most notable things included a foods and fashions room, staircases, lockers, a huge gym where the students were running a beep test, and a woodworking shop! We also noticed some things that were the same or only slightly different, such as the staff room, learning commons, and recycling bins. This allowed us to build on our understanding of a school community!
After the tour, our buddies had books written for us about our interests. The big buddies read us their stories and gave us the chance to make changes, revisions and edits where they were needed. We also helped them with the illustrations to go with the stories. On our next visit, in January, they will have the good copies of our stories ready for us to keep!
This week we also started our exploration of number. Yesterday, we introduced number lines, and worked with putting numbers on the lines, then building them with the Montessori colored beads. For students that were successful, additional challenges were added such as skip counting by 2's and 5's using the number line as a reference. We also played the fun and simple game of "silent bunny", ask your child to teach you this one at home (bunny is optional, any soft ball shaped object would work well). We also got a brand new bead cabinet for our classroom, which is perfect timing to assist in our skip counting learning.
We also started a writing task about problem sizes, following the sentence structure, "A small problem is when I ..." . Students were encouraged to think of small, medium, and big problems that could actually happen at school. The next step will be building personalized, effective strategies for how to solve these problems. Tomorrow, our school Occupational Therapist is coming to give us a lesson on social stories, and eventually we will write our own social stories about problems we face.
As a whole school we are collecting donations for the Food Bank. Donations will be accepted until December 19th. As a fun inquiry, I thought it would be fun to build a tower with the donations in our class and then find different ways to measure (math curriculum) the donation tower! If you are able to support this cause, please send donations with your child so we can begin this work!
Take care,
Lindsay Brown
We had a fantastic experience at Nickle Junior High School on Monday morning! The walk was long and a little tiring trekking through all of the deep, fresh snow, but the learning opportunities made it worth the walk, even for the little legs!
First, our grade 8 buddies took us on a tour of their school. This was really interesting, as we noticed many things in their environment that are very different from ours at Lake Bonavista School. Some of the most notable things included a foods and fashions room, staircases, lockers, a huge gym where the students were running a beep test, and a woodworking shop! We also noticed some things that were the same or only slightly different, such as the staff room, learning commons, and recycling bins. This allowed us to build on our understanding of a school community!
After the tour, our buddies had books written for us about our interests. The big buddies read us their stories and gave us the chance to make changes, revisions and edits where they were needed. We also helped them with the illustrations to go with the stories. On our next visit, in January, they will have the good copies of our stories ready for us to keep!
This week we also started our exploration of number. Yesterday, we introduced number lines, and worked with putting numbers on the lines, then building them with the Montessori colored beads. For students that were successful, additional challenges were added such as skip counting by 2's and 5's using the number line as a reference. We also played the fun and simple game of "silent bunny", ask your child to teach you this one at home (bunny is optional, any soft ball shaped object would work well). We also got a brand new bead cabinet for our classroom, which is perfect timing to assist in our skip counting learning.
We also started a writing task about problem sizes, following the sentence structure, "A small problem is when I ..." . Students were encouraged to think of small, medium, and big problems that could actually happen at school. The next step will be building personalized, effective strategies for how to solve these problems. Tomorrow, our school Occupational Therapist is coming to give us a lesson on social stories, and eventually we will write our own social stories about problems we face.
As a whole school we are collecting donations for the Food Bank. Donations will be accepted until December 19th. As a fun inquiry, I thought it would be fun to build a tower with the donations in our class and then find different ways to measure (math curriculum) the donation tower! If you are able to support this cause, please send donations with your child so we can begin this work!
Take care,
Lindsay Brown
Monday, December 3, 2018
Winter Concert
Our Winter Concert is just over a week away!
Students performing in the 6:00 show (Mumford, Pereira, Nielsen, Bouchard/Carroll, Green, Brown, Thomas,)need to arrive at school at 5:40 pm on Thursday Dec. 13.
Students performing in the 7:30 show (Ross, Grant, Arnold, Link, Gierl, Ireland, Midgley) need to arrive at school at 7:10 pm on Thursday Dec. 13.
Students in all classrooms (except for room 16, and 17) 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 for your support, the student’s are very excited!
Julie Kawchuk
Friday, November 30, 2018
November 30, 2018
Hello Families,
We had a great week! We finally started constructing the landforms for our community. Since collecting data about which landforms are most important in our community, we determined our community would have a river, a lake, and a mountain range. Then, students worked in groups to design blueprints for where the landforms should be within our community to provide the best possible quality of life. They considered factors such as access to transportation, safety (ie. landslides, floods), and wild animal habitats. Here are the blueprints made by each group:
We had a great week! We finally started constructing the landforms for our community. Since collecting data about which landforms are most important in our community, we determined our community would have a river, a lake, and a mountain range. Then, students worked in groups to design blueprints for where the landforms should be within our community to provide the best possible quality of life. They considered factors such as access to transportation, safety (ie. landslides, floods), and wild animal habitats. Here are the blueprints made by each group:
Each group had the opportunity to present their ideas to the class about the location of their landforms. Next, we had a whole group discussion and decided on a layout for our community. We voted on all decisions that were made and decided to make it look like this:
You can see the mountains we built and added in the above picture! We also took turns painting the cardboard base. We decided to put our landforms on the outside, so we have lots of space when we are ready to start building our community, and to keep our community safe from potential natural disasters. To help with your understanding, our cardboard community is almost 6 feet tall, so this was a huge job that took most of the day yesterday!
We also had some students create some really tricky patterns today to quiz you at home! Here are some pattern cores, and they want to see if you can figure our what ATTRIBUTE is changing in the pattern? Hint: attributes that may be changing include: color, size, shape, direction, number of holes, etc.
A reminder that we are going on a walking field trip to Nickle Junior High School on Monday, December 3rd. The walk is about 60 minutes (30 mins each way) so please ensure your child is dressed appropriately for the long walk. We will only be going to Nickle for part of the morning and then it will be a regular day after we return.
Enjoy your weekend!
Lindsay Brown
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Updates
Hello All,
Here is some information from LBS:
- T-Shirt Sales have been EXTENDED to December 5! Order your T-shirt on the order form sent home or linked here:https://tinyurl.com/yd5o5vve Look on the bottom right under ‘Resources’
- School Council request: Donations of Halloween Candy! Send to school office or bring to Winter Concert.
Don't forget - Scholastic orders for November and December are DUE on Friday, November 30th.
THANKS!
Monday, November 26, 2018
November 26, 2018
Hello Everyone,
A Note Regarding Scholastic Orders:
I sent home the December 2018 Scholastic Flyer today. Both the November and December orders will be due on Friday, November 30th. This way we can ensure all parcels have arrived at LBS before winter break. Again, if you'd like any orders to be kept secret please inform me via email and I'll let you know when the parcel has arrived instead of sending it home with your child!
Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to attend our November Learning Conferences. It is always a great opportunity to connect with families and share current learning. I hope everyone found their conference experience informative and it provided opportunities to continue your learning at home.
Last week we started to think about the blueprint for our communities. Students worked in small groups to draft where they thought the landforms should be in our communities. This prompted lots of inspiring conversation about the impact of these landforms. Some students decided they should put their community inside our mountain range, in order to keep it protected. Other students were wary about having the river too close to our community, incase of a flood (which would compromise our quality of life). After the blueprints were made, each group had an opportunity to share to the class their design and reasoning, and we will work together to determine the best design for our whole class community. I am hoping we will be able to begin our construction of landforms this week :).
We have also been learning about a strategy for spelling, syllable spelling. Each syllable of a word must contain a vowel! This has been tricky to learn, but we will keep practicing. On the other hand, students have really grasped onto the understanding of long and short vowel sounds! I am hoping to start a more formalized spelling program in the new year for those students who are ready.
Today we began to extend our understanding of growing patterns with some small group lessons on the bead chains. These are a great tool for students to build skills of counting on and skip counting. We have to borrow from the bead cabinet in Ms. Green's room but they will be a responsible work choice for the remainder of the week. In addition, we will be moving on to targeting skip counting in the math curriculum!
Enjoy your evening,
Lindsay Brown
A Note Regarding Scholastic Orders:
I sent home the December 2018 Scholastic Flyer today. Both the November and December orders will be due on Friday, November 30th. This way we can ensure all parcels have arrived at LBS before winter break. Again, if you'd like any orders to be kept secret please inform me via email and I'll let you know when the parcel has arrived instead of sending it home with your child!
Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to attend our November Learning Conferences. It is always a great opportunity to connect with families and share current learning. I hope everyone found their conference experience informative and it provided opportunities to continue your learning at home.
Last week we started to think about the blueprint for our communities. Students worked in small groups to draft where they thought the landforms should be in our communities. This prompted lots of inspiring conversation about the impact of these landforms. Some students decided they should put their community inside our mountain range, in order to keep it protected. Other students were wary about having the river too close to our community, incase of a flood (which would compromise our quality of life). After the blueprints were made, each group had an opportunity to share to the class their design and reasoning, and we will work together to determine the best design for our whole class community. I am hoping we will be able to begin our construction of landforms this week :).
We have also been learning about a strategy for spelling, syllable spelling. Each syllable of a word must contain a vowel! This has been tricky to learn, but we will keep practicing. On the other hand, students have really grasped onto the understanding of long and short vowel sounds! I am hoping to start a more formalized spelling program in the new year for those students who are ready.
Today we began to extend our understanding of growing patterns with some small group lessons on the bead chains. These are a great tool for students to build skills of counting on and skip counting. We have to borrow from the bead cabinet in Ms. Green's room but they will be a responsible work choice for the remainder of the week. In addition, we will be moving on to targeting skip counting in the math curriculum!
Enjoy your evening,
Lindsay Brown
Shut the Box!
We play a really fun math game at school called Shut the Box!
It is a really easy game to play at home, and your child should be able to teach you how to play. This is a great game for targeting numerous mathematical skills, such as recognizing numbers at a glance and addition and subtraction. Here's an overview of how to play:
To play "Shut the Box", you need 2 dice, and cards 1-12 (they do not need to be the same suit).
Start by laying out the cards in order, face up.
First player rolls both dice.
First player can turn over the card that matches either the sum (+) or difference (-) of the dice.
Most of the grade 1's are just working towards identifying the sum right now, but feel free to gauge the readiness level and include the difference as well!
We are working towards automaticity of basic facts, but our entry strategy for developing these skills is being able to count on (start with the largest number and count on the other dice amount) and count back (start with the largest number and count back the other dice amount).
For example: if 4 and 5 are rolled, the player can turn over 9 (5...6,7,8,9) or 1 (5...4,3,2,1).
The first player continues to roll the dice, turning over cards until they can't turn over any more cards.
The cards that are left showing are the added together and that is the first players score.
The cards are turned back to face up, the dice are now passed to the second player for their turn, following the same process.
The winner is the person with the LOWEST score.
I hope you enjoy this game at home!
Ms. Brown
It is a really easy game to play at home, and your child should be able to teach you how to play. This is a great game for targeting numerous mathematical skills, such as recognizing numbers at a glance and addition and subtraction. Here's an overview of how to play:
To play "Shut the Box", you need 2 dice, and cards 1-12 (they do not need to be the same suit).
Start by laying out the cards in order, face up.
First player rolls both dice.
First player can turn over the card that matches either the sum (+) or difference (-) of the dice.
Most of the grade 1's are just working towards identifying the sum right now, but feel free to gauge the readiness level and include the difference as well!
We are working towards automaticity of basic facts, but our entry strategy for developing these skills is being able to count on (start with the largest number and count on the other dice amount) and count back (start with the largest number and count back the other dice amount).
For example: if 4 and 5 are rolled, the player can turn over 9 (5...6,7,8,9) or 1 (5...4,3,2,1).
The first player continues to roll the dice, turning over cards until they can't turn over any more cards.
The cards that are left showing are the added together and that is the first players score.
The cards are turned back to face up, the dice are now passed to the second player for their turn, following the same process.
The winner is the person with the LOWEST score.
I hope you enjoy this game at home!
Ms. Brown
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
LBS Clothing
SHOW YOUR LBS PRIDE!!!
Great for school spirit days, fun lunches, special events, assemblies or just everyday wear!
Sample t-shirts are in the front hallway to try on for size and style.
T-shirts = $10.00 (youth) $12.00 (adult)
Baseball style = $20.00
Parents and Teachers can show their spirit with an LBS Polo = $25.00
***Orders due by Friday November 23rd,2018***
Monday, November 19, 2018
Growing Smiles Fundraiser - orders due soon!
Dear Parents,
Growing Smiles is the Lake Bonavista Improvement Society's current fundraiser and the order deadline is approaching quickly. You can order a variety of Poinsettias, Holiday Planters, a beautiful Wreath and an Outdoor Planter.
To order visit: https://lakebonavistaschool.growingsmilesfundraising.com or return the paper order form to the school by November 22nd. Orders will be ready for pickup on December 3rd between 2:45 and 6:00 pm.
The funds raised by LBIS in previous years have gone to items such as Robotic Kits, Gym Equipment and Field Trips that enrich all our students’ experiences. Thank you for supporting our school.
LBIS
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