Parent Pipeline: Nonfiction Text Features

 Our class is reading Informational, Nonfiction texts in our literacy groups. We are exploring Nonfiction text features & examining how they help us understand the content and summarize it. Read the Parent Pipeline to see how you can support your child at home with this strategy! 

Book Fair Link!

 

Time to Shop! 

Dear families,

It’s here! Our school’s Scholastic Virtual Book Fair has begun! 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 by clicking the link below:

https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5163640

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 15 - 19

 UPCOMING DATES: 

• Thursday, November 24th: Parent Conferences in the evening 
• Friday, November 25th: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS - Parent Conferences 
• Nov 22 - 28th LBS Virtual Book Fair! 

WRITING: Summarizing 

• Noah: a summary is retelling information that you learned in a shorter way. 
• Rhea: summaries need a main idea. You can find the main idea by reading, annotating and thinking about why the author wrote their book/article/script/poster/etc. 

INQUIRY: Grade 4/5 Fundraiser!!!

• Avarie: Grade 4/5's are fundraising money to donate to #TEAMSEAS! We will be collecting refundable items in blue bins at our school to bring to the bottle depot and donate to Mr. Beast and Mark Rober's #TEAMSEAS campaign. 
• Quincy: we made summaries about the campaign that we will post around the school to get all of the other kids attention to donate to our cause. 

MATH: Patterns 

• Mulan: Early this week we did a pattern pre-assessment to show how much we already know about patterns. 
• Mia: we did a Frayer Model to learn about patterns. We found out the definition, characteristics of patterns, and gave examples and non-examples of patterns. Look at the poster below! 

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 ourScholastic Virtual Book Fair!

Happy Reading! :) 

Announcements

 

Upcoming Dates:

• November 11th: Freezer Feastival orders are due 
• November 11th: Remembrance Day - NO SCHOOL 
• November 12th: PD Day - NO SCHOOL
• November 18th: Pattern Day
• November 19th: Freezer Feastival Pickup Day 

Yearbooks 

Lake Bonavista School Council is pleased to announce the production of the 12th annual school yearbook! Purchase your yearbook today to take part of the early bird pricing of $22 a yearbook. 

The yearbook is put together by parent volunteers and captures all the events that take place throughout the school year.  Each student is also featured on their home room page. 

Go to: ybpay.lifetouch.ca    Enter school code: 11352722 

Poppy Fund Donations

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

Thank you kindly in advance!

Parent Pipeline: Summarizing Strategy!

Practice reading comprehension strategies at home with your student! Parent Pipeline messages will be posted on our Blog and Google Classroom as we build our toolbox in Grade 4/5 this year! 

 

November 1-5

 UPCOMING DATES: 

• November 11: Remembrance Day (NO SCHOOL) 
• November 12: PD Day (NO SCHOOL) 
• November 25: Evening Conferences 
• November 26: Conferences (NO SCHOOL) 

Reading: Annotating & Article Reading 

Rhea: we read an article about zero-waste restaurants which means restaurants that do not have garbage cans and they use recycled materials to decorate the spaces! 

Preston: some restaurants we read about are Rhadora in New York and Frea in Germany. 

Avery: These restaurants use composting machines to break down foods and give back to local farms to use. 

Sophie: We used Annotating Symbols to help us understand what we were reading. For example, we use the checkmark symbol to show we understand and circles to show words that were unfamiliar. 

Quincy: We are making a glossary on the back page of the article so that we can learn about what the different, important words meant. 

Rhea: On the glossary, we had to list the words, find the definition and then practice using the word in a sentence so we can show that we really know what the word means. 

Ask me more about my reading comprehension and glossary! 

Math: Area Model & Jersey Problem 

Hector: We got a new problem in math that said the school was getting a Kickball Team and we needed to order jerseys. The Grade 4s and Grade 5s got different numbers to work with and also were challenged to make different graphs. The Grade 5s made double bar graphs and the Grade 4s made Pictographs! 

Ask us about our multiplication for this problem! Also - ask me to show you how to solve a 1x2 digit or 2x2 multiplication question using the area model. 

Veterans Food Drive Update

 

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