Calling all Volunteers!

 

Book Fair – Volunteers Needed  

  

Volunteers Needed for Book Fair!!  

 

We are pleased to be offering our second book fair this year. We are looking for parent volunteers who would be able to help run the fair during the dates and timeslots below.   

 

If you are able to volunteer during any of the time slots below, we would greatly appreciate it! Please email Ms. Kassam (shkassam@cbe.ab.ca) with the time and day you are available to help. If you are able to volunteer but for a shorter time slot, please email Ms. Kassam with your preferred time.  

 

In order to volunteer, you will need your volunteer clearance completed and up to date.  

  

Thursday, March 9^th  

1.     3:30pm – 5:30pm 

2.     5:30pm – 7:30pm  

 

Friday, March 10^th    

1.     8:00am – 10:00am 

2.     10:00am – 12:00pm  

 

 * All volunteers are asked to arrive a couple of minutes early to learn the systems and procedures. * 

Next Year @ LBS

 

It is that time of year again, when we begin planning for our upcoming school year. In order for us to make the most accurate and informed plans possible, please take a moment to fill out the following form indicating your plans for your child(ren) for the 2023/2024 school year. T

his is the same form sent out earlier in the Friday School Messenger so if you have already completed it, please disregard.  Plans for 2023-2024 School Year. 

February 21-24

Upcoming Important Dates:

• March 9/10: Student Led Conferences (no school 10th)
• March 24-April 3: Spring Break 
• April 7: Good Friday (no school)
• April 13: Easter Monday (no school)

Opening Task: Literacy & Math Routines

We have been practicing a new morning routine that challenges us to complete literacy and numeracy tasks such as word scrambles or addition problems. This week we unscrambled words with the ai vowel combination and solved greater than/less than math problems. Here are some photos of our work! We are excited to show you more at Student Led Conferences. 

Writer's Workshop: Weekend Writing & Reflection in Me Writing

We have been learning about sentence structure and applying what we've learned to simple writing tasks such as weekend writing. Students are challenged to include capitalization, punctuation, subjects, nouns and verbs (as needed) throughout their sentences. Grade 2s have an additional challenge to add interesting detail to their writing by asking WHAT, WHO, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, HOW questions throughout their sentence writing. Check our some of our writing samples and the exemplar/non-exemplar below!

                 

               

We read the story "Reflection in Me" by Peter H. Reynolds and took some time to reflect about what we love in ourselves. We brainstormed things that we love that we CAN do, things that we ARE, and things that we HAVE. The kids shared and wrote some BEAUTIFUL ideas!

Math: Word Problems & CUBES

Students have been practicing applying addition strategies to word problems! Using the CUBES strategy as a guide to comprehending and completing word problems, we have learned that not all numbers are important in some word problems and it is important to use two strategies to solve for the right answer! Check out some of our work below! 

Pink Shirt Day

 

Hello Families! I hope you've all stayed safe and warm in this winter wonderland. I wanted to remind you all that tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day! Pink Shirt Day honours an anti-bullying initiative created by 2 young students in Nova Scotia (2007) who were supporting a peer that was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. Students at LBS will participate in a variety of activities surrounding themes of Kindness and Friendship while learning more about this important day. Please feel free to send your student wearing pink if you have it and if you don't, that is okay too! :)

       

February 1-10

 

Upcoming Important Dates:

• February 14: Valentine's Day 
• Our class will not be handing out class wide Valentine's in an effort to reduce our ecological footprint and paper use. We are instead doing a Secret Valentine Project which we are all super excited for! This will be organized in class. :) 
• February 15: 100th Day of School 
• Join us in celebration for the 100th Day of School by dressing up on theme! 
• February 15: Family Dance 
• Please see notice sent home with details. 
• February 16-17: Teacher's Convention (no school) 
• February 20: Family Day (no school)

Writing & Wellness: Colour Monster Writing 

As a way to explore and discuss our emotions, we completed another Writer's Workshop based off the mentor text titled The Colour Monster! Students then chose an emotion and a correlating colour to write about. We were challenged to use similes and write about a memory to enhance the interest of our writing. Finally, we designed our own monsters and got to paint them with water colour paint! Check out some of our work below: 

Math: Addition & Word Problems 

Room 12 can use addition strategies! We've been investigating and practicing a variety of strategies to add numbers together. Grade 1s are focussing primarily on number combinations to 20 while Grade 2s are focussing on number combinations to 100. Some even beyond 100! 

Learning new math games makes adding fun and also teaches us really cool math concepts like commutative property and inverse relationships between operations! 

Word Work: Digraphs Continued

We've continued learning about digraphs and have started to challenge ourselves to apply them to our spelling when we are building words or writing in our journals! Some new digraphs we have learned in February are: PH, NG, and GH. We explored these new digraphs specifically mostly as readers and will continue to learn about them in Grades 1-2 before we are expected to include them in our writing/spelling.