Hi Families,
We have been busy this week preparing for our upcoming Student-Led Conferences on Thursday, March 21st and Friday, March 22nd. Students are very excited to share their learning with you from a variety of tasks including Social Stories, Our Community, Insulators and more!
Remember to book a time using your MyCBE Account: https://sis.cbe.ab.ca/public/
Please contact the office if you have any questions regarding your account or booking a conference: 403-777-6871, extension 0
We thoroughly enjoyed our experience with Alien Inline skating this week! Thank you to School Council for sponsoring this opportunity!
Today we met with our Colour Groups to explore line and movement in art by painting large murals to music played over the PA system. It was exciting to see the end results, and how everyone interprets music differently!
Some reminder for next week:
- Insulator materials needed for Monday. Please see email sent yesterday for details.
- Library exchange on Wednesday.
- Wednesday, March 20th, First Day of Spring! Wear Green!
- Student-Led Conferences Thursday, March 21st in the evening.
- Student- Led Conferences Friday, March 22nd during the day. No school for students.
Thank you! Enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend!
Ms Thomas
Friday 15 March 2019
Thursday 14 March 2019
School Council Spring Fundraiser
Announcing LBS School Council’s Spring Fundraiser!
(last one for this school year)
You are invited to shop from Purdy's Chocolatier, just in time for Easter
to support our school through your purchases.
You will find sweet Easter/Spring gifts for friends, family
and yourself in their online catalogue.
Please click the link below:
After you’ve signed in, you can buy amazing chocolates
and invite others to support our LBS Spring Fundraising Campaign.
Shopping open until Friday March 29.
Delivery on Thursday April 11.
Thank you so much!
LBS School Council
Sunday 10 March 2019
Friday, March 8th, 2019
Hi Families,
Please see the additional blog note regarding SchoolMessenger. On Friday, important information about upcoming Student-Led Conferences was sent out to all families through SchoolMessenger. If you are not signed up with SchoolMessenger, please read the blog note to do so, or contact the office for support. Our school typically does not send out newsletters or notices with the exception of field trip forms, so SchoolMessenger and your child's classroom blog are the best ways to stay informed.
A reminder that our Alien Inline sessions are Monday, Wednesday and Friday of this upcoming week. Students are welcome to bring their own helmet and keep it at school for the duration of our sessions. Alien Inline will provide helmets to those who do not have one.
With the warmer weather approaching, students will be spending more time outdoors - before school, at lunch, at recess, and the occasional Phys. Ed. time. Please continue sending your child dressed in layers so they are comfortable through the range of temperatures we experience in a Calgary day. Snowpants or rain pants are still ideal as they help keep kids dry as the snow turns slushy.
Last week, we had a visit from Code Mobile where students had the opportunity to do guided exploration of the program Scratch for coding. The students had an amazing time, and where excellent in their role as leaders to the kindergarten buddies we were paired up with. Scratch is available as on online program, an offline version available here, or as a Scratch Jr. app. if your child has expressed an interest at home.
We have been developing Social Stories for small school problems, and we are in the end stages. Students helped developed a bullseye rubric to assess their work, and understand how to be "on target". Students assessed where they were, where they wanted to be, and what they needed to do in their writing to get there. In the upcoming week, students will add small pictures to their work, and then we will be in the publishing stage!
With Ms Brown's class, we have begun exploring liquids, hot and cold temperatures and health. We started talking about water and why it is important - this was a great refresher from our landform and bodies of water work. We taste tested water at various temperatures, and many students demonstrated a preference for the cool "ice water". As a follow up, we used thermometers and tested water temperatures out of all the taps and water fountains in the school. We talked about letting water "acclimate: by waiting one minute to get an accurate temperature reading. This week, we did a S'Well challenge, and measured the change in temperature for two identical S'Well bottles to see how well they insulated hot and cold water over the course of a day.
We have also been learning about hot and cold with animals, using the book, "Over and Under in the Snow" to develop a wall story. In our wall story, we are identifying animals that hibernate or stay active, as well as adaptations these animals have.
In math, we have been having discussions about tools versus strategies. As we work towards developing a variety of number strategies, we often need to communicate or reason our solutions. Number lines are one of the tools we can use to do so, and students have been using them to demonstrate counting on/back, skip counting, more than, less than, and solve story problems. Through these story problems, we are also developing a list of key words that indicate what we should be doing on our number line, counting up or counting back (less/more, adding/subtracting) such as: spent, lost, flew away, eaten, broke, difference, left, came, gave, hatched, etc.
Students have noticed that number lines comes in a variety of forms in the real world: Montessori bead chains, rulers and thermometers. If you happen to see other places where numbers are used in a "number line" representation, please point them out and have a discussion about it with your child. Some of the examples I noticed over the weekend so far: a jug with measurement lines on the outside, and yard lines on a football field.
Our Sound Study for the next little while is based on developing students' understanding of long vowels sounds. Although they should already be familiar with "flipping the sound" rule in reading, we are exploring the different combinations that long vowels can take. Currently we've explored "ai" as the long a sound, through the word families "ail" and "ain". During a Making Words activity on Friday, students were able to show how they can apply this vowel pair within syllable spelling for accuracy.
This week, you would have received a letter home from your child sharing what they learned and enjoyed in the months since winter break. Students have been working on guided, step by step lessons on editing their work for capitals, periods and spelling. This looks different for every child depending on their level of readiness, and I can talk to you about it at conference if you have questions about how to support your child with these skills at home. Please continue to focus on the growth and personal successes of your child by reflecting back on their letters home from the Fall.
As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Hope you're enjoying the amazing weather this weekend.
Ms Thomas
Please see the additional blog note regarding SchoolMessenger. On Friday, important information about upcoming Student-Led Conferences was sent out to all families through SchoolMessenger. If you are not signed up with SchoolMessenger, please read the blog note to do so, or contact the office for support. Our school typically does not send out newsletters or notices with the exception of field trip forms, so SchoolMessenger and your child's classroom blog are the best ways to stay informed.
A reminder that our Alien Inline sessions are Monday, Wednesday and Friday of this upcoming week. Students are welcome to bring their own helmet and keep it at school for the duration of our sessions. Alien Inline will provide helmets to those who do not have one.
With the warmer weather approaching, students will be spending more time outdoors - before school, at lunch, at recess, and the occasional Phys. Ed. time. Please continue sending your child dressed in layers so they are comfortable through the range of temperatures we experience in a Calgary day. Snowpants or rain pants are still ideal as they help keep kids dry as the snow turns slushy.
Last week, we had a visit from Code Mobile where students had the opportunity to do guided exploration of the program Scratch for coding. The students had an amazing time, and where excellent in their role as leaders to the kindergarten buddies we were paired up with. Scratch is available as on online program, an offline version available here, or as a Scratch Jr. app. if your child has expressed an interest at home.
We have been developing Social Stories for small school problems, and we are in the end stages. Students helped developed a bullseye rubric to assess their work, and understand how to be "on target". Students assessed where they were, where they wanted to be, and what they needed to do in their writing to get there. In the upcoming week, students will add small pictures to their work, and then we will be in the publishing stage!
We have also been learning about hot and cold with animals, using the book, "Over and Under in the Snow" to develop a wall story. In our wall story, we are identifying animals that hibernate or stay active, as well as adaptations these animals have.
In math, we have been having discussions about tools versus strategies. As we work towards developing a variety of number strategies, we often need to communicate or reason our solutions. Number lines are one of the tools we can use to do so, and students have been using them to demonstrate counting on/back, skip counting, more than, less than, and solve story problems. Through these story problems, we are also developing a list of key words that indicate what we should be doing on our number line, counting up or counting back (less/more, adding/subtracting) such as: spent, lost, flew away, eaten, broke, difference, left, came, gave, hatched, etc.
Students have noticed that number lines comes in a variety of forms in the real world: Montessori bead chains, rulers and thermometers. If you happen to see other places where numbers are used in a "number line" representation, please point them out and have a discussion about it with your child. Some of the examples I noticed over the weekend so far: a jug with measurement lines on the outside, and yard lines on a football field.
Our Sound Study for the next little while is based on developing students' understanding of long vowels sounds. Although they should already be familiar with "flipping the sound" rule in reading, we are exploring the different combinations that long vowels can take. Currently we've explored "ai" as the long a sound, through the word families "ail" and "ain". During a Making Words activity on Friday, students were able to show how they can apply this vowel pair within syllable spelling for accuracy.
This week, you would have received a letter home from your child sharing what they learned and enjoyed in the months since winter break. Students have been working on guided, step by step lessons on editing their work for capitals, periods and spelling. This looks different for every child depending on their level of readiness, and I can talk to you about it at conference if you have questions about how to support your child with these skills at home. Please continue to focus on the growth and personal successes of your child by reflecting back on their letters home from the Fall.
As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Hope you're enjoying the amazing weather this weekend.
Ms Thomas
Thursday 7 March 2019
Don't Miss Out on School Messages!
Most school messages are sent to parents through SchoolMessenger. It’s a mass communication tool that allows us to easily and securely send email, phone and text messages to families of students in a particular grade, class, or area. Messages are sent to the parent email contacts on file at the school.
To ensure you receive important information from our school and the Calgary Board of Education, we ask that you please Subscribe online (if you have not done so already). This will allow us to send electronic messages on school topics such as student fees, picture days, field trips and fun lunches.
Visit the CBE website at www.cbe.ab.ca , click on the section called ‘Subscribe’, and subscribe today.
Wednesday 6 March 2019
Fun Family Event
Hi Families,
I saw this posting recently and thought it might interest some of the families in our classroom. Sounds like a fun event for a good cause!
Ms Thomas
I saw this posting recently and thought it might interest some of the families in our classroom. Sounds like a fun event for a good cause!
Ms Thomas
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