Ms. Kassam's blog

  Yearbook Don't forget to order your 2022/2023 yearbook before the end of the year! Yearbooks feature portrait pages of all grades, photos of classroom highlights and memories as well as images from the special events and spirit days throughout the year! The yearbook is created by parent volunteers for your children to enjoy, and proceeds from sales support school council in offering great opportunities for our students. Pre-order yearbooks will be distributed in September of 2023. PAY ONLINE: Go to  ybpay.lifetouch.ca  and enter our school code:  11352723.    If you have any questions regarding yearbook, please email Holly Gray, our yearbook coordinator at  lbsyearbooks@gmail.com .  The school does not have a list of who has ordered. Thank you!

Hello Families,  Next week will be theme days, both Room 2 and 3 voting on our favourite theme days, below are the days that won. Thursday will be dress nice day or formal day due to us singing in the year end assembly.  After learning about flags during Indigenous People Day, we took time to create our own flags that represent our family and history. After our whole school assembly we went outside to do a whole school sit spot sketch. - B.S, I.M, A.H & R.R    We created replicas of an animal or plant using plasticine. These will be coming home next week, they are fabulous. - M.M, W.D & L.M We started to present our Limericks this week. We used student created success criteria that included memorization, voice, volume & body language. - W.D, R.M, K.K &  L.B    Friendly Reminders:    Wednesday, June 28 - Report Cards Available Online Thursday, June 29 - Last Day of School Friday, June 30 - Non-Instruction Day Thursday, August 31 - First Day of School

This month we had the opportunity to participate in a Rugby residency supported by Rugby Alberta. It helped expose students to a new sport they might not ordinarily participate in. Here is information from Rugby Alberta if your child is interesting in participating further.  

Hello Families,  We have been enjoying the exciting opportunity to learn rugby this week with Breanne from Rugby Alberta. We learned that scoring a point in rugby is called a tri, and each tri is worth 5 points. We have been playing various games to practice passing sideways and backwards to move the ball around the field.  We have also been thinking and talking a lot about rhyme, rhythm, flow and fluency when creating and reciting poetry. We have been learning about limericks, which follow patterns for both syllables and rhymes. Ask your child about the rules of limericks to see what they can remember. We will have an opportunity to read these aloud within the classroom as well! Within science and math we have been busy looking at our designs for the animal habitats (grade 3) and gardens (grade 4) we are creating to meet the needs of our species. Students have been given specific criteria to revise their designs and include various perimeters and areas of the polygons in their spaces.

  Hello Parents/Guardians,    We are seeking volunteers for our LBS 2023 Sports Day! We are looking for parents who would be comfortable co-leading (with support from a teacher) a sports day activity. This year, sports day is happening on Friday, June 16th, 2023 from 9:00am – 11:50am. If you’re available to join us please email your childs teacher or email Lindsay Brown at librown@cbe.ab.ca . Please note that a valid police clearance is required to volunteer.   Thanks!   Active Living Committee  

We are so excited to be able to host a Lake Bonavista School Sports Day in 2023! Sports Day will be taking place on Frida y, June 16 th from 9:00am – 11:50am , the end of day dismissal time will stay the same (12:15pm). O n this day, students will begin in the gymnasium for a pep rally and then travel with their class outside to p articipate in group activities and games. P arent Council has generously p rovided a small snack for all students to enjoy during their outdoor time. P lease pack an additional snack for your child to eat prior to heading outside for the day.   Here are some things to keep in mind:   Wear athletic clothing and shoes   Pack a water bottle and snack (we will have two snacks this day)   P lease apply sunscreen and bug spray before arriving to school W e will be moving forward with Sports Day unless there are thunderstorms, please dress accordingly   Thanks for your support!   Active Living  

KiDoodlED Thank you to the MacRaild family for nominating our school to win $10,000 in the KiDoodlED contest. We appreciate you creating a video to submit our entry! We could be one of 50 schools to win $10,000. We can vote every day!  https://school-giveaway.kidoodle.tv/vote/ . Voting is from now until June 15. We encourage you to share and vote daily to increase our chances.    HAWCS Visit We are very excited for an opportunity that has been provided to us by Mr. Conlin, Chief Engineer for the Calgary Police Service, Air Support Unit. On the morning of  Monday, June 5 one of the HAWCS helicopters will be visiting our school and doing a 45 minute presentation in our field. This is a unique opportunity for all students, in particular grade 6, who study air and aerodynamics as part of their science curriculum. The helicopter will land in the school field as classes watch with their teachers, from a safe distance. Once the helicopter has landed and shut down, the students will be brought

 

Lake Bonavista School is participating in rugby from June 5 th until June 8 th in our school field. This sport involves foundational movement skills such as jumping, running, throwing, and catching. The goal of this experience is to learn the skills of rugby and will not involve any bodily contact.           Rugby Alberta has generously agreed to provide this residency free of charge.       Consent forms will be sent home with your child soon.  Please sign and return the forms so your child is able to participate in this fun LBS event! Forms are DUE WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2023.     Thanks,          Active Living    

Ms. Green and Ms. Greenhall are happy to be starting up gardening club at LBS! This club will take place on Thursdays for the whole lunch period.   If your child is interested in joining, they are committing to attend  every Thursday   until the end of the year. The first information session is on   Thursday May 25 th .   We look forward to making our LBS garden a beautiful place to be!    - Ms. Green and Ms. Greenhall

Plant Growth  Don't get upset if your plant hasn't grown yet - W.D  There are many different parts of a plant - L.B  Some seeds grow faster than others - A.H    Ann & Sandy Cross Field Trip  We learned that you can find natural water sources, one can be morning dew - I.G  We learned that the First Nations made their Tipi facing East, the mothers would sleep at the front and the children would sleep at the back - L.B  Inside the tipi there was a woodpecker - B.Y  We learned that the tipi had a hole in the roof so that the smoke of the fire could get out - G.W  We learned that you had to wake up really early in the morning during the settler time - S.B  We got to see eight deers - R.R  The First Nations people are called nomadic because they followed their food and moved a lot - M.P & L.B  Free Verse Poems  We used success criteria to make our own poems - S.B  We learned that Free Verse poems don't really have any rules - R.M  Perimeter and Area Image    Friendly Remi

                                                                                  The Marker Mystery  We continued our learning in connection to the markers being recycled at LBS.  This week we learned about line graphs and dot plots.  Ask your child to identify a difference between the two and which they find easier to read. We also  finally got to count out the markers that were initially collected by LBS. Groups were given large amounts of markers and were asked to create a plan on how they would most efficiently and accurately count their amounts.  Poetry   This week we reviewed what a free verse poem is and reread the poems from last week. Students have started to plan out their own free verse poem using success criteria which was created by the whole class.  Plants Each student was given a mini pot and had the choice to pick the seed of a bean, pea, marigold and zinnia. We will be caring for and learning about these plants in the next coming weeks. Ask your child what plant they