Ms. Kassam's blog

Hello Families,  We have had a great last few weeks despite the cold weather! I hope you enjoyed the winter concert last week, everyone did a wonderful job.  The students worked really hard on their Christmas ornaments. Planning their design, creating an order form, calculating the cost and then creating their ornament. We hope you enjoy them as much as I did, each one was as unique as each child!  We have officially finished the read aloud Wishtree. Each child choose to summarize and retell the story either by creating a new cover and back summary or a comic strip. They turned out great! Also thank you so much to all the families for your generosity and kind words this Holiday season! I will really miss all the students while on the holiday break! I look forward to our return to school on January 9th, 2023.  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! Wishing you and your family all the best in the new year!    Friendly Reminders:  Friday, December 23 - January 8 - Winter Break  Mond

 

 

  Calling All Volunteers - URGENT!   The Lake Bonavista School Improvement Society has been allocated a Casino Fundraiser December 17th and 18th at the Deerfoot Casino. We are in   urgent need of voluteers   to fill all of the positions. If you are able to help we would appreciate your support. We have 5 open positions and would also love to have some back up volunteers ready to go. The Signup Genius link is below: 2022-2023 Parent Volunteers: Deerfoot Casino - Lake Bonavista School (signupgenius.com)   You can also contact Crystal at   lbsvolunteercoordinator@gmail.com   for more information. Thank you!

 

It was a great week of exploring the characters in Wishtree and learning various multiplication strategies. Our class pet was also revealed... in the new year we are getting Vampire Crabs.  We used our planning from last week to write 2 sentences about each of the main Wishtree characters (Bongo, Red, Samar, Stephen) using only their character traits. Then, we went through the feedback cycles to improve the quality of language and descriptions. We used the final drafts of this work to make fortune tellers with a description of the characters inside. Students can now play against one another to see if they can guess the character based on the description. We spent the entire week working on developing and improving multiplication strategies through the use of arrays, skip counting and repeated addition. We then applied this understanding through practice questions and word problems and learning the more advanced versions of multiplication squares (math game). To asses students understan

Wishing you all well as we enter the final month of the year, wow! Thank you so much to everyone that took the time to connect and discuss student learning last week during our November conference time. It was wonderful to have families back in the school again and the ability to meet face to face.  Our learning have been incredible this week! Students have been extremely successful in our work looking at computation with money (grade 3) and decimal numbers to the hundredth (grade 4). Students are highly motivated as they know that as we move through this mathematical work our end goal is to be designing and constructing our own ornaments to take home for the holidays! This will be our gift from teacher to student this year. Next week, we will be looking at multiplication strategies and the following week (Dec. 12 to Dec. 16) we will be working on our ornament task design and problem solving.  We have also been looking closely at the elements of stories and applying summarizing skills

  LBS Winter Concert December 15 2022     6:00 Concert        7:30 Concert    16 - Scherer        7 - Burnham    17 - Adamson        3 - Kassam    4 - Link        5 - Bouchard    2 - Brown        6 - Cooper    12 - Gierl     10 - Green        13- Romanko        11 - Midgley        8 - Greenhall           Concert is for Grade 1-6.  Kindergarten will have their own event in the Spring   Dress Rehearsals 9:30 am (6:00 show) and 12:45pm (7:30 show) will be on Dec. 15      Each LBS family will receive 2 tickets to the concert.   We will also have a sign-up sheet in the office for up to 2 more tickets should they become available.     Guests are able to attend Dress Rehearsals for their designated show without a ticket.    Some families have a child in each concert.  These families will be contacted to ask which concert they would like all of their children to be in and they will receive 2 tickets to that concert.      Students in Grades 1-4 can wear what they like to the concert.     No hat

Mabel’s Label’s is offering Lake Bonavista School up to 50% off their products for Black Friday/Cyber Monday, and will donate proceeds on top of that to our school! This is one of the best promos available from Mabel’s Labels. Head over to  https://mabelslabels.ca/en_CA/fundraising/support/  and select the Lake Bonavista School Council fundraiser before shopping. The Holiday flower fundraiser ends tomorrow night at 11:59 pm. Unfortunately, there is not the option to extend this order past tomorrow night due to shipping requirements. Please place your orders today at  https://lakebonavistaschool.growingsmilesfundraising.com/home  and mark your calendars for pick up on Friday, December 2nd from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm in the staff parking lot!

  Our Book Fair has started. The link below is active.     We are pleased to be hosting a hybrid  ( In-School and Virtual)  Scholastic Book.     Each class will get an opportunity to visit the Book Fair on either Monday, November 21st or Tuesday, November 22 nd .      Attached is your child’s wish list. If you would like to purchase anything from your child’s wish list you can choose to do so using any of the three methods listed below.      Purchase Options:    ·            Cash   sent in with your child and initialed wish list    o       Initial next to the items you would like to purchase and send in exact cash    o       Please note, that in-school purchases already include GST   o       Cash orders need to be sent in by Thursday, November 24 th   ·            Online   using the link posted on your child’s teachers blog or below    o       Virtual Book Fair Link:  https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5184682 o       Link is active from Monday, November 21 st   till Sunday,

Reminder:  Students go outside 2 - 3 times a day (lunch recess, afternoon recess, gym on Monday and Friday) please ensure your child comes prepared for the weather. Unless it is a blue day (colder than -22).  Friendly Reminders:  Monday, November 21 - Sunday, November 27 - Hybrid Book Fair (more info to come)  Thursday, November 24 & Friday, November 25 - Conferences (online book system will open on Monday - book a 15 minute time slot online)  Friday, November 25 - No School - Conferences  Thursday, December 22 - Last Day of School  Friday, December 23 - January 8 - Winter Break  Monday, January 9 - Classes Resume 

Hello Families,  It has been a short week that flew by. We introduced many new concepts this week and will continue to work with them next week.  Opening Task  This weeks opening task consisted of the thinking routine,  Which One Doesn't Belong?   Challenge yourself to figure out why each box does not belong!  Math Vocabulary Wall  Each time we learn a new concept in math, we will be adding the concept and associated vocab to our word wall. This is to help students remember concepts as well as monitor their own spelling.  Ask your child what the terminology we have learned for addition and subtraction.  Buddies On Wednesday, we had time with our younger Kinder buddies. Students helped their buddy with the math concepts of subitizing, counting on, identifying numbers and writing numbers. It was great to see room 3 take on the leadership role.  Ask your child their buddies name.  Favourite Treat Writing Brainstorming We continue our work on our favourite treat writing, students wor

 Hello Families, Your child's art card will be coming home today. There is only one copy which has instructions on how to order inside. I have watched each child put it into their backpacks and zip them up, I hope they come home safely!  Let me know if you have any questions.  Ms. Kassam 

  Save The Date!   Dear families,     Mark your calendars! The fun and excitement of a Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school! To adapt to our changing needs, Scholastic has developed a Hybrid Book Fair (in-school with a virtual link) to provide an opportunity for our students and families to experience the joy of reading together.     So, save the date! Our   Scholastic Virtual Book Fair   will take place on:      Monday, November 21 st   till Sunday, November 27 th     Virtual Book Fair Link:   https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5163641                           (link will go live on Monday, November 21 st )   When it’s time to shop, you can choose to visit the virtual link and purchase online or send in cash for your child to purchase books in person. We will be sending home a letter with more information soon!    Volunteers are needed! If you would like to volunteer for the book fair, please let me know and I will forward you the sign up website.     Happy reading!

Hello Families,  We had a fun filled week of hands on learning between our pumpkin exploration and our sensory snack time. Thanks again for everything you continue to do to support our school learning.  Through research and documentation, we continue to learn about celebrations and food in India (grade 3 Social Studies). We have also started some research on pumpkins, their uses, and stages of the lifecycle (grade 4 Science). Students are demonstrating increased confidence with recording key information in jot note form, and accessing various online sources to synthesize information and demonstrate comprehension.   We continue to work towards showing, and communicating our understanding of mental math strategies through opening tasks and math conferences. This week we also introduced Which One Doesn't Belong tasks in connection to our School Development Plan for increasing students mathematical vocabulary to build awareness of their metacognition.  Ms. Browns class participated in