Fitness BINGO!

 

FITNESS BINGO AT LBS!

 

All of the classes at Lake Bonavista School are participating in a fitness bingo challenge from February 23-April 8! We wanted to share the bingo card with you so you can continue the fun at home! At school, each time a class completes a ‘blackout’ bingo card, they will be added to a draw and entered to win bonus recess time! If your family complete all of the exercises on a bingo card at your house, please notify your classroom teacher and your child’s class will receive an additional entry in the draw.

 

Each exercise on the bingo card is to be completed in an interval style - 20 seconds of the exercise, followed by 10 seconds of rest. In order to cross the activity off of your bingo card you must complete a minimum of 4 interval sets. If some of the exercises are unfamiliar, please ask your child to teach you the movement.

 

Feel free to check out the video below for a further explanation of the bingo challenge.

https://youtu.be/ejIjfWUBwpY

 

Happy sweating!

 

Active Living Committee

January 10 - February 4

 IMPORTANT NOTES: 

• Healthy Hunger is back! Order at www.healthyhunger.ca at least 5 days in advance 
• Google Classroom has assignments for students to work on both IN CLASS and AT HOME in the event that they are required to isolate. Please do not feel pressured to complete At Home Learning. 
• Valentines Day: please do not send valentines to school this year - we will celebrate in class with a day of kindness and fun! 
• February 17-18: NO SCHOOL (Teacher's Convention) 
• February 21: NO SCHOOL (Family Day) 

Writing: New Years Resolutions & Biographies 

Welcome back & Happy New Year! Our class began this week setting intentions for 2022 with One Word Resolutions. We will be completing some art and writing to go alongside this project. Ask your child what word they've chosen to focus on in 2022 and WHY! 

Biography Writing: 

During Writer's Workshop, we have been exploring Autobiographies and Biography writing. We all wrote an autobiography on ourselves focusing on our family, school, hobbies, interests, and hopes/dreams for the future. We then got to interview each other in class and write a biography about that classmate! It was super fun to learn about each other and we can't wait to read about each other in the published copies (coming soon!!) 

Math: Shape & Space 

Students have been learning about the attributes of 2D and 3D shapes. Grade 4 and 5s have explored a variety of math concepts such as parallel lines, perpendicular lines, symmetry, Venn diagrams,  Carroll diagrams, protractor and angles. See some pictures below of different activities completed by both the 4s and 5s! 

Students have also been exploring Elapsed Time through new strategies. Ask your student about the different strategies we have practiced and give them some time problems to solve at home! 

French: Project Time! 

Our class is exploring different topics in French and completing projects that we will present to the class. Grade 4s: Ma Famille and Grade 5s: Le Zoo. Ask your child about what they've included in their project! If you want to check out IRIS - you could hear your Grade 4's Famille script! 

Science: Weather Watch + Light & Shadow 

To build our research skills, reading comprehension abilities and independence in work period - students are completing self-directed and paced research on grade level science topics. Grade 5s are learning about Weather phenomena and Grade 4s are exploring concepts involving Light & Shadow. We've watched some amazing videos during snack and inquiry time, created mind-maps and had some great discussions. 

LBS Learning Commons Donations

 

Loose Part Donations are ongoing, and meant for future use. All donations will be quarantined or cleaned in alignment with current CBE COVID protocols. We thank you for any donations you can contribute to our Montessori learning environment. 

Valentines Day

 

Hello families, 

In order to keep up with covid protocols, we are asking that you please not send treats or valentines cards to school. We will be celebrating Valentines Day at school with a day of kindness and fun! 

Thank you!

Merry Christmas!

 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Room 12 Families! 

I hope you have the most wonderful holiday filled with rest, relaxation, and huge hugs with family and friends. Our class enjoyed a week filled with Christmas activities - math, literacy and science galore! Read about our week below :) 

To complete the Rock Candy Crystal experiment, please watch the video below! I hope it works! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpOU0Fo7QfU 

Holiday Light Drive

 

Grade 4/5 students are teaming up with Barewire Recycling's Holiday Light Drive! 

If you've got a drawer full of old cords that aren't being used, or Christmas lights that aren't working this holiday, please send them to school in the new year with your child to be recycled. 

December 6-10

UPCOMING DATES: 

• Thursday, December 16th: Ugly Christmas Sweater Day 
• Friday, December 17th: PJ Day & Last Day of School 
• Monday - Thursday: Grade 4 & 5 Bottle Drive 
• Bring bags of bottles to school for us to donate to #TEAMSEAS. 
• Bottles must be cleaned out 
• Bottles must be school appropriate
• Pop, juice, milk, yogurt, water, etc. 
• Our class goal is to bring more than 240 refundable items (10 or more each) 

WRITING 

• Our class began Persuasive Writing - focusing on having a solid opinion that we can defend with 3 reasons and related examples. 
• We discussed Point of View and how understanding the opposite opinion and point of view can help us strengthen our evidence and examples. See what we did below! 

ART!

• Sophie: This week we started some new art where we made Ugly Christmas Sweaters! 
• Emma: We talked about what all ugly Christmas sweaters must have. Our success criteria is: 
• 3 or more colours 
• A winter/holiday theme 
• A middle focus like a drawing of something (deer, tree, hot chocolate) 
• Pattern somewhere on the sweater 
• Something special like bells, lights, tinsel 
• Optional: a Christmas joke or pun! 
  
  
• Rhea: We also made a step by step drawing of a Christmas Tree! 

SCIENCE: 

• Preston: we learned about Physical and Chemical changes/reactions. A physical reaction is when it can usually be undone and chemical is when it is hard to undo it. 
• Rhea: we tested the solubility of different things like: m&ms, toothpaste, vinegar, pepper, toilet paper, tissues, honey, syrup, rocks, and hot chocolate mix! 

MATH:

• Avery Mo: we did word problems all week in math. Some kids worked on Grinch problems that were very challenging and other kids worked on other Christmas related word problems. 
• Raahil: We listened to the story "The Elves and the Shoemakers" and then solved some story problems in charts that were about the story. We also had a Christmas word search at the end of the math problems.