We are so excited to be able to host a Lake Bonavista School Sports Day in 2022! Sports Day will be taking place on Friday, June 24 from 8:30am-12:15pm. On this day, students will begin in the gymnasium for a pep rally and then travel with their class and their neighbouring class outside to participate in group activities and games. Parent Council has generously provided healthy snacks all students to enjoy for the end of 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)
- Please apply sunscreen and bug spray prior to coming to school
- Despite the forecasted rain, we will be moving forward with Sports Day unless there are thunderstorms, please dress accordingly

Thanks for your support!
Active Living

Our trip to the Calgary Zoo on June 9th was fantastic! We saw lots of different animals and did lots of thinking routines to represent our learning. 

We practiced doing a scientific sketch and added labels to an animal in the Canadian Wilds. We did a 'zooming in' sketch of an animal in Destination Africa. And lastly we did 'Wonder Mapping' of an animal in Exploration Asia.

We are continuing to explore more animal adaptations! This week we've focused on how camouflage helps an animal adapt to its environment. When we were at the Calgary Zoo we visited the chameleon habitat and then we created our own art to represent how they camouflage into the trees. Can you spot the real chameleon in the picture below?

 

 Hello Room 8 families,

We are continuing our exploration of animal adaptations. The physical adaptation we discussed this week was animal fur. We were lucky to have some real samples of Alberta wildlife fur in our classroom. Students investigated each same of fur and used their sketching techniques to record these artifacts of learning. 

        

This week we had an in-class field trip where we explored why bees are so important, what we can do to protect them, and we even built our very own bee house to take home!

This program gave the Grade 1 students an opportunity to learn ways in which animals depend on plants and way in which plants depend on animals, for example, how animals may help spread pollen.

Our completed bee houses will be next home next week after students are finished painting!

We've also been working on lots of subtraction practice lately! This is one of the games we've played with a partner to practice strategies to figure out the answer.

We've also began a writer's workshop where we are creating our own legends. We are following a similar format to the Ojibwe legend How the Beaver got it's Tail. 

So far we have chosen a Canadian animal from the selection here:

Then we created a Character Development page, where we thought about our animal inside and out.

Then we did a planning page for our legend. Our next step is to share our thoughts and ideas with a partner and get some helpful feedback and then begin writing a draft copy!

Ask your child about what animal they chose!

Upcoming Dates:

June 9th - Field Trip

June 10th - School Shirt Day

June 19th - Father's Day

June 21st - National Indigenous Peoples Day

June 23rd - Fun Lunch Extreme Pits (order through https://healthyhunger.ca)

June 24th - Sports Day

June 28th - Last day of School

Kind regards,

Mrs. Amber Melindy

admelindy@cbe.ab.ca