Hello Room 8 families,

Can you believe it is already the end of January! Those first couple of weeks back to school went by really quickly!

What have we been up to? Well, this week the students in Room 8...

- discussed some differences and similarities between urban and rural communities

-  practiced our mild, medium, or spicy addition 

- had fun with some subitizing challenges (recognizing and name familiar arrangements of 1 to 10 objects)

- worked on informational writing about animals

- learned new watercolour painting techniques 

Check out our work below!

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  Report Cards
  
  
  Student report cards will be available to view online through your My CBE PowerSchool portal on Feb. 1st.
  
  
  Here is a guide to looking at report cards online: GUIDE
  
  
  Family Literacy Day
  
  Today is Family Literacy Day! A GREAT day to remember the importance of reading and engaging in literacy as a family.
  
  To celebrate this day, staff came together to read a special book. We invite you to gather as a family and enjoy this story together. CLICK HERE
  
  You can also contribute to our LBS Community of Writers Padlet.
  
  You will find it at this link in your inbox as it was emailed yesterday. We would love for you to share with our community, the ways that your family WRITES at home. As a school, we have been exploring the purpose of writing. We look forward to seeing the ways that our LBS families write, what tools hey use and why it is important. You can share a photo and a description.
  
   Valentine’s Day
  In keeping with protocols – we will be asking families to not send in treats or Valentines for other students. Mrs. Melindy will be planning a class activity that promotes kindness and community as well as a fun “celebration” for Valentine’s Day!
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• Upcoming Dates:
• January 31st - No School (Non-instructional Day)
• February 1st - Chinese New Year
• February 2nd - Groundhog Day
• February 3rd - Subway Fun Lunch (if ordered)
• February 14th - Valentine's Day
• February 16th - Little Caesar's Fun Lunch (if ordered)
• February 17th and 18th - No School (Teacher's Convention)
• February 21st - No School (Family Day)
• February 23rd - Pink Shirt Day
• February 25th - 100th Day of School

Fun Lunch!

The Lake Bonavista School Council will be organizing a Fun Lunch every other week. Fun Lunch is run through a program called Healthy Hunger at www.healthyhunger.ca. Kids enjoy having a fun lunch to eat at school and parents enjoy a break from making lunch! Fun lunch is an optional event. You can begin ordering now!

Subway - Thursday February 3
Little Caesars - Wednesday February 16 (Due to Teachers convention)

Account Set up

For parents who have previously had a Healthy Hunger account your login will be the same, however you will need to log in and then add your student to the correct school and class from the drop-down menus.

For parents new to Healthy Hunger, you will need to create an account on the Healthy Hunger website and then add your student to the correct school and class from the drop-down menus.

Ordering Lunches

Once vendors are confirmed they will be added to the calendar for your selection. You can order for as few or many days as you like. You can place and pay for orders for multiple days and multiple children all at once. Payment is done online through Healthy Hunger. No payments are made to school.

Deadline for ordering is 5 days in advance.
For Thursday meals, orders must be placed by 11:59 pm on Saturday in order to give the vendors time to order and prep. You will receive confirmation of your order, if you do not get a confirmation email it is possible your order didn’t go through. Log back in to double check and avoid the confusion.

  

Cancelling an order

If you need to cancel a lunch you can do that until the cut-off period which is 5 days before each lunch and get a refund. With more absences due to symptoms cancelling in advance may not always be an option.

Lunch Delivery

On the specified day lunch is delivered to the school for the students. We will require a few volunteers to help distribute to the classes, so please ensure you are on our volunteer contact list if you are available to help.

Please remember to pack a snack and water in addition to the fun lunch order. Please pack a complete lunch if you did not order that day.

Missed Fun Lunches

For those times you miss the option to cancel, and your child won’t be there due to sickness or any other reason, we ask that you please contact the school by 11:30am on the day of Fun Lunch to choose an option.
Your options are:

• -  Pick the lunch up by the end of the day.

• -  Send it home with a sibling.

• -  Donate it to the staff room.

  We are unable to give these lunches to another child without their guardian’s consent. Any lunches that are not claimed by the end of the day will be composted.

  Online schooling

  In the event your class or the whole school is moved to online learning before the cut-off date, we can cancel the orders and receive refunds. If the move online occurs within the 5 days leading up to the lunch, the process is different. If the restaurant has not begun making the orders, the orders will be cancelled and a credit for that amount will be kept in your account for another order.

  Questions

  Please contact the funlunchlbs@gmail.com for any questions regarding Fun Lunch orlbsvolunteercoordinator@gmail.com regarding your volunteer status.

Masks and Rapid Test Kits

We have received our delivery of rapid tests and medical grade masks from Alberta Education.

Today we will be distributing these items to students. We will be helping each student to put these in their backpacks ​to ensure they find their way home at the end of the day. Each student will be receiving a personally labelled Ziploc bag with 10 disposable masks and 1 box of rapid tests (each box contains 5 tests). We received masks for each student to have a 10 day supply. The masks going home are for students to wear to school in the morning. Teachers will have additional masks in the classroom so students can change their mask after lunch. ​All K-6 masks are identical. Students can continue to wear masks provided from home if they prefer. 

If your child was not at school today to get their package, they will be kept in the office and sent home when your child returns to school. Please contact the office if you would like to pick up the package – which will be available Wednesday morning. We cannot accommodate pick ups today.

Thank you.

Hello families,

I hope everyone had a relaxing (extended) winter break!

It is so nice to see smiling faces at school again! I sure missed these Grade 1 students.

What have we been up to this week?

We....

- visited classroom expectations and routines

- worked on words that have Vv and Yy letters and sounds

- reviewed animals that hibernate and learned about animals that migrate to survive the winter

- discussed our rights and responsibilities as children

- practiced addition with numbers to 20 using tally marks and addition sentences

It was a busy week back at school!