Friday, January 22, 2022

 Hello Room 6 Families,

This week we began a conversation around what we know about food chains. When brainstorming concepts connected to food chains students generated ideas such as  predator, prey, connection, energy transfer, overpopulation, and diagrams. We finished our Friday by looking at these two diagrams, and had partner pair and share time to talk about what noticings we have when comparing a food chain and a food web. This learning will continue next week! 

In math, we began exploring the Montessori Stamp Game as a material to support multi-digit addition problem solving. The Stamp Game supports the development of place value, and is one of Mrs. Morden's FAVOURITE Montessori material! 

 

Today, students worked with Ms. Durnford and Ms. Thomas on coding! 

 

When first asked about coding, students identified that coding involved computers, typing, the internet and games. But then, Ms. Durnford asked us to code her to get ready for outside! Students quickly learned that coding isn’t just computers, and that breaking down skills, being specific and debugging are all part of being successful.  

 

Ms. Thomas then introduced students to the Dash robots. Students worked in a small teams to explore the robot and foundational programming. There was lots of laughter and gasps of excitement and surprise as robots moved, lit up and made sounds. As comfort grew, codes become increasingly complex, and rich conversations were overheard celebrating each teams success and making plans for next steps. Ask your child the name of their robot and what discoveries they had during coding today.  

 

At the end of our session, students were once again asked to reflect on what coding was. This time, student identified that coding is working in a team, communication, learning, teaching, being specific, and most importantly…FUN!   

 

We look forward to coding next time!  

Friday, January 14th, 2022

Welcome Back!

Students in Room 6 had a very productive week of learning. The high level of engagement proved that they were eager to be back in the classroom! 

We started to explore temperature, animal adaptations, and the Northern communities of Canada. By engaging in listening and viewing experiences, students learned how various animals have special features that help them survive the cold temperatures. We practiced taking notes of key ideas through words and pictures, as well as asking questions to further our learning. We will continue this work next week.

This week we began a new math thinking routine called "Which One Doesn't Belong". WODB requires students to share their mathematical thinking. There is not one right answer, and you must find at least one reason why which one doesn't belong. Students share their reasoning using mathematical vocabulary! After students problem solve independently, we often come together as a class to have a math discussion sharing our ideas and strategies. Below is our collaborative answers for this weeks' WODB.

Please be sure to have your child log in to Google Classroom at home. There are links to different learning videos posted, dance mat typing practice, and such! 

Have a nice weekend! 

Fun Lunch is Back!

 

FUN Lunch is back! First order deadline is January 15th

www.healthyhunger.ca

Fun Lunch is back! Starting Thursday, January 20th Lake Bonavista School Council will be organizing a Fun Lunch every other week on Thursdays. Fun Lunch is run through a program called Healthy Hunger at www.healthyhunger.ca. Kids enjoy having a fun lunch to eat at school and parents enjoy a break from making lunch! Fun lunch is an optional event. You can begin ordering this Monday, January 10th.

Booster Juice - January 20
Subway - February 3
Little Caesars - Wednesday February 16 (Due to Teachers convention)

Account Set up

For parents who have previously had a Healthy Hunger account your login will be the same, however you will need to log in and then add your student to the correct school and class from the drop-down menus.

For parents new to Healthy Hunger, you will need to create an account on the Healthy Hunger website and then add your student to the correct school and class from the drop-down menus.

Ordering Lunches

Once vendors are confirmed they will be added to the calendar for your selection. You can order for as few or many days as you like. You can place and pay for orders for multiple days and multiple children all at once. Payment is done online through Healthy Hunger. No payments are made to school.

Deadline for ordering is 5 days in advance.
For Thursday meals, orders must be placed by 11:59 pm on Saturday in order to give the vendors time to order and prep. You will receive confirmation of your order, if you do not get a confirmation email it is possible your order didn’t go through. Log back in to double check and avoid the confusion.

Cancelling an order

If you need to cancel a lunch you can do that until the cut-off period which is 5 days before each lunch and get a refund. With more absences due to symptoms cancelling in advance may not always be an option.

Lunch Delivery

On the specified day lunch is delivered to the school for the students. We will require a few volunteers to help distribute to the classes, so please ensure you are on our volunteer contact list if you are available to help.

Please remember to pack a snack and water in addition to the fun lunch order. Please pack a complete lunch if you did not order that day.

Missed Fun Lunches

For those times you miss the option to cancel, and your child won’t be there due to sickness or any other reason, we ask that you please contact the school by 11:30am on the day of Fun Lunch to choose an option.
Your options are:

• -  Pick the lunch up by the end of the day.

• -  Send it home with a sibling.

• -  Donate it to the staff room.

  We are unable to give these lunches to another child without their guardian’s consent. Any lunches that are not claimed by the end of the day will be composted.

  Online schooling

  In the event your class or the whole school is moved to online learning before the cut-off date, we can cancel the orders and receive refunds. If the move online occurs within the 5 days leading up to the lunch, the process is different. If the restaurant has not begun making the orders, the orders will be cancelled and a credit for that amount will be kept in your account for another order.

  Questions

  Please contact the funlunchlbs@gmail.com for any questions regarding Fun Lunch or lbsvolunteercoordinator@gmail.com regarding your volunteer status.

December 14th Weekly Updates

Please enjoy our Zoo School Sharing Assembly. It has been posted in Google Classroom.

Here is a message from Ms. Brown:

 https://youtu.be/Q3d-OlQuu0w

 

Important Dates: 

• Ugly Holiday Sweater Day - Thursday, December 16th

• PJ Day & Last Day of School (Winter Break)- Friday, December 17th 

• First Day of Winter - Tuesday, December 21st 

• Back to School - Tuesday, January 4th 

• No School - PD Day -  Monday, January 31st 

  

Friday, December 10th, 2021

Happy Friyay Families,

Students have been busy preparing for our Room 6 and 9 Zoo School sharing assembly that will take place on Tuesday afternoon. We will share the assembly with families Tuesday on Google Classroom. 

Mrs. Morden and Ms. Bouchard introduced a sculpturing task by sharing an Example and non Example of a beaver sculpture. Students co created success criteria, which they referred to while creating their own Animal Sculpture. 

Success criteria:

• I can use clay modeling techniques to create an real to life animal representation
• I can add details, patterns or textures to the surface

 

Real to life: colour, shape, physical features, texture

 

Clay modeling techniques: rolling, pinching, adding, pressing, making coils

Example & Non Example:

 This week we explored a new math warm up routine called "Magic Squares". Students were to use the known numbers to find the unknown numbers where the sum of each row, column and diagonal are the same. Here is an example of our math talk, after all students attempted the magic squares puzzle independently we came together to share our mathematical thinking and strategies used. This is documentation of students sharing their problem solving strategies. 

Have a great weekend! 

Mrs. Morden

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Hello Families, 

 

Thank you so much to everyone who participated by tracking their movement minutes in Move-ember! The active living am happy to announce the winning class is ROOM 16!!!!

 

Way to go to all the students’ in Ms. Carroll’s class who earned 27, 729 minutes in November!

 

The list of honorable mentions includes:

Room 10 with 19, 321 minutes

Room 17 with 17, 751 minutes

Room 13 with 15 440 minutes

 

Lake Bonavista School earned a grand total of 153, 782 movement minutes in the month of November, this is equivalent to 2, 563 hours or 106.8 days spent moving. Outstanding work LBS! Do your best to keep the movement up all through December and stay tuned for new challenges in 2022!

 

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season!

 

From the Active Living Committee

 

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

Happy FriYAY families, 

We worked on publishing our Penguin Four Room Poetry this week. Students colour coded each room.  image- blue, facts- green, sounds- pink, repeating words- orange

This week in math, we began looking at the relationship between addition and subtraction. Students practiced showing how these two operations are related by working with fact family triangles. 

We finished our week with a new Esti- mystery. As a class we wrote the following learning intentions that are connected this math exercise:  I can make an estimate (guess) that is based on clues. I can justify (give a reason) my thinking. 

 

We began a new art piece, with inspiration by the Indigenous artist Aaron Paquette. Grade 4 and 5 students in Room 13 also worked on this art project, and were able to help support Room 6 in identifying the features of Paquette's artwork, providing steps in how to complete the work, as well as providing feedback on our drafts. 

The last day to bring in move-ember minutes is Monday! 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Friday, November 26th, 2021

Thank you to all families who met with me during Parent Teacher Conferences this week, there is lots to celebrate in Room 6! 

Our Zoo School week was a success, and the learning that developed over the course of the week does not just end there- it serves as a catalyst for many other learning opportunities. Here are some work samples from our Zoo School experience:

Event Map

Classroom Map of the Calgary Zoo with all the animals we encountered

Penguin Observation

Canadian Wilds Artifacts courtesy of the Calgary Zoo

Now time to reveal how many cherries were in the bowl...

Please return your Movement Minutes to school by Tues. November 30! Other upcoming dates at LBS:

• December 2 Holiday Character Day

• December 16 Ugly Sweater Day 

• December 17 PJ Day 

• December 20-Jan 3- Winter Break