Conferences

 

What an amazing school year start-up we have been having at LBS! Typically, at this time of year, we host Parent Teacher Conferences in an Open House format. With restrictions due to Covid-19, our format has been adjusted. This year, each class has created a video to introduce families to our school, answer commonly asked questions and show details of how our class works. These videos will be released on Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 4:00 pm. If you have questions after viewing the video, please reach out. We are certainly missing seeing families in our school building and look forward to future opportunities where this may be possible.  

SEPT 13-17

A busy & full week of school,  indeed! We are getting more into our routines and continue to practice classroom expectations and procedures. Read about our highlights below!

Chemistry Experiment: 

We made Play Dough for the Grade 1s! See the recipe above!

Social Studies:

• We mapped the school with accurate details and a legend to follow. As an extension, some of us gathered data about the student population to graph. We learned a lot about Lake Bonavista School during this project! 
  

• Our class is working with Ms. Mumford's class to lead the September Assembly. We will be honouring Orange Shirt Day at our assembly and will share the work and learning we do over the next few weeks at the assembly. We will be learning through story - starting with the story titled "Fatty Legs" written by Margaret Jordan-Fenton. Ask me about the beginning of the true story! 
  
  

Writing:

• If Kids Ran the World Writer's Workshop: What would happen if YOU ran the world? Ask me what I wrote about :) 

Walking Field Trip:

• Walking Field Trip! We are exploring connection with the land through Design Thinking. To start our learning by sketching in a sit spot at a near by open space and park. We considered what we already know, what we wonder, the existing strengths and the areas of improvement. Then we played outside on the park and in the field. 

UPCOMING DATES:

September 21: International Day of Peace 

September 22: Terry Fox Run Day – more information to come 

September 24: 8:00-1:00 Non-instructional day for Conferences 

September 28: Photo Day @ LBS 

September 29: Orange Shirt Day & Assembly 

September 30: Non-Operational Day; school is closed 

Walking Field Trip: Friday, September 17

Terry Fox Run

 

Terry Fox Run 2021 

We will be having our Annual Terry Fox Run on Wednesday, September 22, 2021. Teachers will be discussing with students the life of Terry Fox and the contributions he has made to cancer research as well as coming together in the afternoon for a virtual wrap up assembly.  Students are encouraged to wear blue/white/ or their school t-shirt on this day. 

Students can dedicate their run to someone who they know has been affected by cancer. Please speak to your child prior to our run and if they choose to dedicate their run to someone, they can share this in their class sharing circle prior to or after their run. 

Should you wish to make a donation online, please use the following link to donate through the Terry Fox website: 

http://www.terryfox.ca/LakeBonavista 

Let’s keep Terry’s dream to find a cure for cancer alive! 

COVID Daily Checklist

 

Lake Bonavista School would like to kindly remind all families to ensure they are completing the Daily Checklist with their student every morning before school.

 Thank you in advance! 

September 7-10

 

We all agree that this week was awesome! We worked together to establish some expectations and routines in our class community as well as completed plenty of collaborative group work with our home tables. 

TASK HIGHLIGHTS:

MAPPING

We started learning about mapping and geography! We completed scavenger hunts with a buddy at our home tables. The Grade 5s worked with maps of Canada & the Grade 4s worked with maps of Alberta. Take a look below! 

Writers Workshop: 

1) Planning Stage: brainstorming ideas about your writing & planning the sequence 

2) Drafting Stage: writing your ideas fully for the first time (rough draft) 

3) Revising Stage: improving your writing with different strategies 

4) Publishing Stage: presenting a final copy of our work that we can share :) 

 STRATEGIES WE'RE USING:             

Check out our practice with revising paragraphs!