Fun Lunch

 

Fun Lunch

Fun Lunch is back!  Starting Thursday, November 3rd 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! You may begin ordering today (October 24). The following Fun Lunches have been booked:

November 3 - McDonalds

November 17 - Booster Juice

December 1 - Coming Soon (check back this week!)

December 15 - Waffles and Chix

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 createan 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 as little or many days as you like. You can place orders for multiple days and multiple children all at once and pay at the end.  Or you can place orders weekly.  Payment is done online through Healthy Hunger, no payments are made to school.

 

Deadline for ordering is 5 days in advance.  So all orders must be placed by that time. So for Thursday meals, orders must be placed by 11:59pm on Saturday. In order to give the vendors time to order and prep.

 

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. However 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 class, so please make sure you are on our volunteer contact list if you would like to help.This is only for the lunch orders so please remember to pack a snack and water with them for the rest of the day.  Or 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 to:

• Pick the lunch up by the end of the day.
• Send it home with a sibling.
• Donate it to the staff room.

 

Unfortunately due to allergies etc. we can’t give to another child without their guardian’s consent. Any lunches that aren’t claimed by the end of the day will be composted.

Questions

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

October 24-28

 

Upcoming Dates

• October 31 Halloween – family parade at 1:00 

• November 1 Pajama Day 

• November 7 Photo Retake Day  

• November 10 Remembrance Day Assembly 

• November 11 Remembrance Day: No School

• November 21-27 Book Fair

• November 24-25 Conferences

Artist in Residence

We completed our Artist in Residence program this week! Sharon highlighted line work through the stories of Peter H. Reynolds by contrasting calm and chaotic lines and quiet and loud lines. Students travelled around the room creating the lines with their bodies and then applied their learning with different sized sharpies. This is how our art looks all together! We can't wait for you to see it during our Conferences in November!

Math

In math, we are exploring quantities to 100 in Grade 1 and quantities to 1000 in Grade 2. Students are investigating different ways of representing numbers. Some ways that we have practiced so far are base 10, ten frames, tallies and numerals. This week, we went on a tally hunt throughout our classroom - check it out below!

Language Arts

We have completed our daily word work with a focus on the alphabet! Students have continued to generate words that start with the sound of each letter in the alphabet. In grade 1, we are focussing on applying initial sounds and ending sounds while in Grade 2 we are working on segmenting all sounds we can hear in each word.

We also explored some new montessori materials during Opening Task time and our Daily LA routine. Ask your child how they have used the following materials:

Science

We began discussing colour in Science this week and continued our work with seasons (focusing on Autumn). For colour, students explored and discussed the colour wheel, primary and secondary colours and how colour can related to emotions. Our work with this will continue next week as we dive deeper into emotions when we watch the film Inside Out & examine how colour can represent a variety of emotions.

We also tried a new thinking routine called "PLUSSING!" Plussing is a practice where students add an idea to someone else's work to enhance and share their learning and understanding. Ask your child about how plussing works in our classroom!

Social Studies

Thank you to all of the families who sent in special artifacts with their Family Questionnaires. It was AMAZING to have such rich and exciting discussions around each student and their ancestry. We will continue our artifact sharing next week!

Halloween

 

Halloween 👻
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. We are asking that grade 1/2 students do not wear inflatable costumes. 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 chosen by rooms 10 and 12. We will be having a Pajama Day. All staff and students are invited to wear their comfy pjs for the day. 

                  

October 17-21

 Upcoming Dates

• Every Tuesdy - Library Book Exchange

• October 24: Family Questionnaire Due 

• October 28 Non-Instructional day  

• October 31 Halloween at School! 
  - Please avoid gore and ensure no masks, weapons or whole class treats

• November 1 PJ Day! 
  

• November 7 Photo Retakes 

• November 11 Remembrance Day: No School 

• Thursday, November 24th (PM) & Friday, November 25th (AM) - Conferences (more info coming

Headphones 

As part of our Daily LA, we listen to reading on Epic Books. Having a pair of headphones can reduce the noise and help us all focus. If you have a spare pair of headphones or earbuds, please send it (with a label) to school with your child and we will keep them safe in their cubby. 

Math 

We have begun exploring quantities in a variety of ways including numerals, pictures, base 10 and 10 frames. Grade 1s are working within numbers to 100 and Grade 2s are working within numbers to 1000. Our learning will continue over the next couple of weeks, challenging us to represent numbers in even more ways - number lines, expanded form, number bonds and more! These are some of the Montessori Materials we have explored so far - more pictures to come :) 

 

Language Arts 

We are almost done learning all of the letters in the alphabet! This week we focused on letters U, V, X, and J. In our journals, we practiced brainstorming words, drawing pictures and fearless spelling! We also started using some new Montessori materials, focusing on language, that we can use during Daily LA and as a Responsible Work Choices. Ask your child about the materials they like to use and/or the actions we have learned for each of the letters so far! Here are some photos of our work: 

Science 

Oh, happy Fall! We have been SO lucky for this amazing, sunny and warm start of the school year. To enjoy the weather and the beauty of our natural surroundings, the students went on a leaf hunt in our school yard - focusing on finding a variety of types, shapes, sizes, and colours so that we could build some leaf creatures. The creativity and joy was so exciting :) 

 

Social Studies

As part of our Social Studies curriculum, students will be exploring their sense of identity within their different communities. To start this work, we will be sharing about ourselves and our ancestors. Thank you for taking the time to fill out the Questionnaire with your child. We are all so excited to learn more about ourselves and each other in Room 12. 

Family Questionnaire

 

Family Questionnaire 

One of the ways we can learn about ourselves is to learn about our ancestry. Thank you for taking the time to go through these questions and fill them out with your child. Students will be sharing about their ancestry with the class to gain an understanding of their “self”. Along with this questionnaire, please send an artifact to school for your child to share with the class. Artifacts will be for “eyes only” unless it is given permission to be passed around.

Please read the example questionnaire below to help guide you to completion.

Thank you!

Family Questionnaire 

Name: Pamela Nadine Green

1. What is your full name? Why did your parents select this name for you? Does it mean something?

Pamela - meaning sweet as honey 

Nadine - Hope

2. Where were you born? Your parents? Your grandparents? Your ancestors?

I was born in Portage La Prairie Mb. My Mom was born in Roblin MB and my Dad was born in Churchbridge Saskatchewan. My Grandma was born in Churchbridge and my Grandpa was born in Poland. My Baba was born in Roblin and my Geido was born in the Ukraine. My ancestors came from Ukraine and Poland.

3. What language(s) do you speak? Your parents? Your grandparents? Your ancestors?
   I speak english. My Mom speaks Ukrainian. My Dad speaks english. My ancestors spoke Ukrainian. 

4. How did your family/ancestors come to live here?

My Geido and Grandpa both came to Canada by boat. They came to work on the railroad and because of this were given a plot of land to live on.

5. Do you have any special holidays you celebrate? Can you describe them?

Christmas and Ukrainian Christmas

6. What kind of games did your parents play growing up? Your grandparents?

We played lots of board games, card games as well as baseball, badminton, 

7. Is there a special or favorite food your family eats?

We love to eat perogies, Kielbasa(Ukrainian sausage) meat pies, 

8. Does your family have any traditions? (holidays/religious)

We celebrate Christmas and Ukrainian Christmas

9. Are there any special clothing or garments your family wear? What are they?

When I was young I would wear a Ukrainian dancing costume. Now as I am married I wear traditional Maori bone carvings from NZ 

10. Anything else you would like to share?

 Information about your artifact:

My artifact is a bone carving with a paua shell for an eye. My husband is from NZ. The bone carvings are very sacred and meaningful to the people of NZ. It was given to me by one of the elders when I left the school I was teaching at in New Zealand. It was blessed by a Maori Elder. The shape has specific meanings - It is an ancient mythical being with a birds head and a human form. Mania - It is a holder of great spiritual energy and guardian against evil.

October 11-14

UPCOMING DATES:

• Every Tuesday afternoon - Library book exchange
• October 11th-24th: Artist in Residence 
• Friday, October 28th - PD Day - No school for students
• Monday, October 31st - Halloween at school! (more info to come)

Epic Books App

In literacy this week, we learned about listen to reading on Epic. If you are able, please send headphones (aux jack is acceptable) for your child to use at school. They will be kept in their cubby to use during listen to reading time. This year we will be using Epic as our levelled reading app at school! We do have a class code (I believe it only works between 7am-3pm) but feel free to try it at home! lbe3277

Library Books

This week we had our first visit to the library! Each student can take out 2 library books for the duration of 2 weeks. Students can leave their books at school or bring them home. We have library time every Tuesday afternoon so if your child wants to exchange their books please ensure if they brought one home that it is sent back to school for library time. If a library book becomes overdue, a notice will be sent home.

 

Looking to shop for books online through Scholastic year-round? I have set up a scholastic account for our class. By using our class code you can help our class earn points to put towards new books! I will be sending home Scholastic flyers each month. Happy reading! 

Birthday Walk

Is your child's birthday coming up? At LBS we like to celebrate with the Montessori Birthday Walk Around the Sun. A Google Slide template has been created for families to fill out for their child's birthday. I will also email it out each month to those who have a child with a birthday that month. Please carefully review the instructions and let me know if you have any questions. Please make a copy and do not edit the template. When it is complete, please share the link with me through email so I can share it with the class on your child's special day!

Holiday Cards 

Artist in Residence 

This week we began our sessions with artist and educator, Sharon Fortowsky our Artist in Residence! She has led the K-2 students in exploring artwork found in books written by Peter Reynolds. Students have learned about how we can use pigment derived from flowers and vegetables to paint with and how mixing with water can change the tones and shades of the colours.

This week, we used marigold and beet juice on both a wet and dry canvas to create bleeding and/or oozing effects. Ask me about it at home! 

Math 

We began working with numbers this week! Using 100 Boards, 1000s Squares, and Montessori Golden Beads - students began counting and ordering numbers as well as exploring the patterns we can find within our number system. Next week we will be representing numbers in different ways including base 10 charts, tallies, ten frames, and more! 

Holiday Cards