Holiday shirt day/message from the office

ROOM 10,

JUST .A REMINDER THAT TOMORROW IS HOLIDAY SHIRT DAY AND THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL BEFORE BREAK. CLASSES RESUME JAN. 6, 2020.

HAVE A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY EVERYONE.

LOVE,

ROOM 10

SEE BELOW FOR A MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE...

Hello Families,

Lake Bonavista School is looking for donations of board games, card games, puzzles and coloring books. If you have any gently used games that your family has outgrown, would you consider donating them to the school?

We are particularly interested in ‘classic’ games, as well as any additional games or puzzles that are appropriate for approximately ages 5-12, multi-player, and support turn taking and collaboration.

Please only send games complete with all pieces, and that do not require batteries, plugging in, or access to computers/tablets or other technology.

Our wish-list includes, but is not limited to:

Puzzles under 100 pieces

Battleship

Checkers

Connect 4

Jenga

Variations of Memory

Chutes and Ladders

Guess Who?

Eye Found It! Games

Quirkle

Sorry

Spot It

Blokus

Santorini

Animal Upon Animal

Outfoxed

With gratitude,

Lake Bonavista School    

P.J Day

PJ Day

Hi Families, 

This Friday, December 13th, our classroom will be having a PJ and board game day!
Students are welcome to wear their pyjamas and slippers, as well as bring either a stuffy or a blanket and a board game. Please help your child chose one of these items that is the size of their backpack or smaller. 

Other dates....

December 17 Caroling @ 12:45 pm 

December 18 Caroling @ 8:30 am 

December 19 Holiday Sweater Day and Caroling @ 12:45 pm 

December 20 – Non Instructional -  Happy Holidays!!

Room 10

Winter Concert

Hi Families, 

Winter Concert tickets went home yesterday with oldest or only children. 

Please note that each family is given 2 tickets to the Winter Concert. If you are wanting more tickets, you may add your name to the wait list by contacting the office: 403-777-6871.

Due to the size of our gym, we need to be careful to stay under the maximum capacity for safety regulations. Babies/toddlers that sit in laps/strollers/arms all count as bodies towards capacity - they require a ticket. 

This is also why we have two separate shows! If you have additional family members that would like to come to the concert, the daytime shows are another option. 

Students performing in the 6:00pm evening show, also perform in the 9:30am daytime show. 
Students performing in the 7:30pm evening show, also perform in the 12:45pm daytime show. 

On the evening of the concert, please have your child remove their outdoor footwear and place them on their regular boot racks. They can wear their indoor shoes, or have another pair of shoes brought with them to wear for the concert. Jackets can be hung at their coat-hooks or brought to the classroom. Families are also welcome to leave their jackets at coat-hooks or classrooms, as the gym does get quite warm. 

Students performing in the 6:00pm show are asked to arrive at 5:40pm. 
Students performing in the 7:30pm show are asked to arrive at 7:10pm. 

After the concert is over, please pick your child up in our classroom and leave by either the East Garden door, or West Parking Lot door. South doors will be closed for entry/exit. 

Looking forward to the performance!
Mrs. Green

AARCS Fundraiser

AARCS Fundraiser

Rooms 12, 16, 13 and 4 are doing another fundraiser this year to raise money for the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS). During the daytime and evening winter concert shows on Thursday, December 12th, we will be selling homemade Crunchy Tuna Cat Treats and Wowbutter Banana Dog Bites. Each bag will cost $3 and all proceeds will go towards AARCS to help ensure the animals in their care have their basic necessities this holiday season. Please bring cash if you are interested in purchasing treats for your own pets or as a holiday gift! Thank you for your support!

If you have any questions please email Ms. Midgley (lemidgley@cbe.ab.ca) or Mrs. Ireland (hlireland@cbe.ab.ca)

Winter concert

Hello parents!

Our Winter Concert is just over a week away!

Students performing in the 6:00 show (rooms 3,5,6,10,11,12 and 16) need to arrive at school at 5:40 pm on Thursday Dec. 12. 

Students performing in the 7:30 show (rooms 2.4.7.8.9.13.17) need to arrive at school at 7:10 pm on Thursday Dec. 12.

Students in Grades 1-4 can wear what they like to the concert.  No hats/novelty headbands please so we can see everyone’s smiling faces when they are on the stage! 

Thank you for your support, the students are excited.

Julie Kawchuk

Jrhayneskawc@cbe.ab.ca

Donations

Hi everyone,

We are looking for a few donations of the following items in order to create some of the sets for the Winter Concert. 

• Wrapping paper – sufficient to wrap large and medium sized boxes
• Scrapbook paper appropriate to make snowflakes

Thank you,

LBS

November 2,2019

Dear Families,

WELCOME TO DECEMBER!!

We began our day in circle today. As part of our morning routine we talk about what helps us to be ready to learn and work together.  Today a parent joined our circle. We listened to her play the pan flute music and then a student in our class accompanied her with beautiful drum sounds. The students shared that the music was beautiful and they felt, clam, relaxed, happy, love, and peaceful. We spoke about using a dry smudge -  an indigenous way of knowing - as a way for students to feel that it will help to stay calm, focused and relaxed. These are very important feelings we need to have while we are in a learning environment like at school.

Sometimes we feel other emotions like frustrated, mad, sad, annoyed. These feelings are ok. We can help us get to our calm, focused and relaxed feelings by visiting the space in our classroom such as the peace corner.

We always start a smudge by smudging our hands, so we have clean hands to smudge the rest of ourselves. From this point, you can smudge however you feel like in that moment. Here are some ideas:

After smudging our hands, we can smudge:

-       Around our head to clear our mind and keep our thoughts kind about others

-       Around our ears, so we hear kind things about others

-       Around our eyes, to make sure we see kind things in others

-       Around our mouth, to keep our words kind when we speak to others

Anyone can smudge, as long as we stay respectful to the medicine from Mother Earth.

Thank you to our parent volunteer who came in today and gifted us with the beautiful music abalone shell, and message.

 We read the story, What Does It Mean to Be Kind - Ask me what it was about.

We also…

Looked at writing rubrics for when we write about our weekends.  We talked about assessing our own work to see where we are at and where we will go next.

Our new weekly words are….

We created a new calendar for December and discussed important dates.  Below is a calendar for guest reader until the end of 2019!!

There will be a blog coming home tomorrow regarding the winter concert.

Have a great evening.