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