Ms. Kassam's blog

It was an exciting week of hands-on learning! We pulled apart the main ideas, supporting details, and themes for the stories we have been creating and acting everything out using loose parts! If you want to check them out from home they exist within an app called FlipGrid on Google Classroom. We also worked to finalize all of our story planning and put all of the puzzles pieces together into a "One Page Master Plan", which will support use with writing our stories. We have been encouraging students to think carefully about the process of writing, which includes planning, revising, editing, and feedback, and valuing the process over the finished product.  Within the story work, we have also been looking closely at various different kinds of cartooning and developing our own skills as cartoon illustrators. This work will come in handy when we are ready to finalize our stories. The ideas have been excellent, for example, the cute cheerio, the grouchy brownie, the silly strawberr

Hello Families,  Family Literacy Day is this Friday! Click the link to access some Literacy games that you can play at home with your child!  Link:  Literacy Games     

The LBS Improvement Society’s Grocery Store Fundraiser is now open! Our newest fundraiser can be found at  Lake Bonavista School Fundraiser (shopmyfundraising.com)  and is live NOW! There are many options to help fill your kitchen, proceeds go straight back to our school, and we're able to support an awesome local business.   Fundraiser  closes on February 13th at 12:00 pm. Your food will be available for pick up on February 24th, between 11:30 am - 1:30 pm in the staff parking lot.   

 

Mystery Tank The whole school has the opportunity to study organisms that will hatch over the next couple weeks. Students are excited to make predictions and see the process unfold.  We continued our work on our "seed" stories, this week students started to plan out their own stories. We are working on them one step at a time, it has been incredible to see what the students are coming up with.  Buddies! Students got to spend time with their buddies on Thursday, they played snakes and ladders to help their younger buddies with some math skills.  Friendly Reminders:  Friday, January 27 - Family Literacy Day (see blog post)  Monday, January 30 - Report Cards (online)  Friday, February 3 - No School - Non-Instructional Day Thursday, February 16 & Friday, February 17 - No School - Teachers Convention  Monday, February 20 - No School - Family Day 

It has been a great week back to school! The kiddos have gotten back into the routine like they never left.  In Math, we took the week to review what we had learned before the break, including addition and subtraction with regrouping, decimals, and multiplication. In Language Arts and Literacy, we started our inquiry about story writing. We will be using the guiding questions, What makes a story engaging?  We took the time to read and take apart The Bad Seed book series. Students got the opportunity to identify and act out different components of the stories such as the hook, problem, solution, setting, etc. We will be building on story writing over the next couple weeks.  Link to Dustin Short Film In Social Studies, we are learning about physical geography of specific places. Grade 3's are looking at India and Grade 4's are looking at Alberta.  In Science, we started to explore light and shadow. Looking at the different forms of light as well as beginning to understand energy.

 Hello Families, I will be participating in the Scholastic Reading Club program this year. It's a great way to build your home library, while also supporting your child's classroom library! Instead of sending home paper flyers I will be adding in a link to the digital flyer each month. Don't forget to add in the classroom code to help build Room 3's classroom library!  Class Code:  RC139758 Link:  Digital Link Additional Link:  Digital Link Teen Flyer:  Digital Link Place orders at:  scholastic.ca/readingclub Our in school Book Fair will be taking place this month November 21st - November 27th.  Thanks for all your support!