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Bonjour families!
We hope you enjoy a great weekend!
Save your recyclables! Please start saving your thin cardboard boxes (such as cereal boxes, or granola bar boxes) as we will be creating a huge 3D map of Airdrie based on the landmarks visited during our walking tour. Students will each create a landmark to add to the grade 2 collaborative map project on December 9th. Students can bring in recyclables on Thursday December 8th and Friday December 9th.
Updates and Reminders:
Updates and Reminders:
Adopt-a-Family: A.E. Bowers Elementary School is once again sponsoring a family in need for Christmas
time this year. We look forward to sharing details about our sponsored family very soon.
We are collecting gift cards again this year for our hampers.
Denominations of $10, $15, $20 & $25 are easiest for us to distribute.
Some suggestions include toy stores, grocery stores, malls, theatres, fast food, hardware
stores, gas cards, Walmart, restaurants, hair and nail salons.
Examples:
Fast Food – Subway $10 and A&W $ 15 are great for students who may not get the
opportunity to go for lunch with peers.
A gas card may allow a family to go visit someone over Christmas. Otherwise, they
may not have funds for the gas for their vehicle.
A toy store card will allow a parent to go and choose the toy a child is hoping for.
Walmart cards may allow a senior to buy groceries and some clothing.
The deadline to donate to our school's Adopt-a-Family is December 9th, 2022.
Farm-to-School Fundraiser:
A.E. Bowers School Council is holding a fundraiser and would love your
help raising $1000.00.
The school receives 50% from every order of fresh vegetables!
All orders are due Monday, December 5.
Orders are made online only at www.farmtoschool.ca.
Orders will be ready for pick up at the school starting December 14th.
Click this link for more information on how to order!
Christmas concert update:
From Mrs. McCaffrey(music teacher):
Your child is going to be a SNIRT (snow mixed with dirt) for the upcoming Christmas concert. The school will provide the students with the dirty snowflake to hang around their necks. To finish off our costumes, we would like each student to wear brown, black or grey clothing. The SNIRTS also have a rap song so they could wear baseball caps, sunglasses or any kind of bling you can find. Use your imagination. We hope that you can find what you need in your closet or borrow from a friend so that you don't have to buy anything new. Please have your child wear their special clothes on Tues. Dec. 20th for the dress rehersal and again on Wed. Dec. 21st for the actual concert. Thank you for your help! Mrs. McCaffrey (music teacher)
KINDERGARTEN CONCERT
Tuesday, December 20th @ 5:00 PM - doors will open promptly at 4:30
PM
GRADES ONE THROUGH FIVE CONCERTS
Wednesday, December 21st at four different times:
Grades One and Two Concerts
Matinee @12:30 PM
Evening Performance @ 5:00 PM - doors will open promptly at 4:30
PM
Grades Three, Four, and Five Concerts
Matinee @ 1:30 PM
Evening Performance @ 6:00 PM - doors will open promptly at 4:30
PM
The concert will once again be live streamed on our YouTube
channel for families from afar to enjoy!
TICKET SALES INFORMATION
Christmas concert tickets go on sale online Monday, December 5.
Tickets are sold online only at this time.
Cash sales will not be available until after December 18.
Dec. 5-9, students in grades one through five are guaranteed to be able to purchase two tickets for the matinee, and two tickets for the evening performances at $1.00 per ticket(this gives everyone time to be able to purchase at least two tickets per show).
Any unsold tickets will be available for sale online only December 12-18.
Here is the SchoolCash Link
PARKING
Parking is limited in and around A.E. Bowers Elementary School.
Kingdom City Church has graciously offered their parking lot to our
families for parking for these evenings.
Please plan to utilize this gift of space.
Learning Commons (Library)! Please send your students' library books back to school on their designated Learning Commons day.
Tuesday- Mme Cornell
Thursday- Mme McCaffrey
The Absence Choice Board is available for students that are away and still able to complete work at home. Follow this link for the instructions: Absence Choice Board
Boom Cards: This literacy tool can be used at home. Here is the link to login: https://wow.boomlearning.com/
Please check if you are able to login to myBlueprint as well: https://app.myblueprint.ca/
Airdrie Community Links is offering several Parent supports for a variety of topics such as anxiety, ADHD, big feelings, and social thinking. If you would like further information on any of these supports, and others, here is a link: Community Links Ressources
This week in:
This week in:
Literacy:
The sound of the week is: "t". The words of the week are: ton, trop, trente, treize, tout à coup
We have launched our Home Literacy page of the website. Please visit this page for details out our Home Reading Challenge.
We have now started our new routine for our literacy block! Students across all grade 2 FI classes will be organized into literacy small groups that will receive targeted instruction on their individual literacy goals through targeted small group instruction, and specific literacy centers. Targeted skills will include phonological awareness skills, phonemic awareness instruction, listening to French, speaking French, writing, and reading instruction.
Writer's Workshop: We will also be beginning a writing workshop going forward with a focus on writing about small moments, while focusing on using subjects and verbs.
If you are not sure about pronunciations, Wordreference (english-french dictionary) has a listen button for the words: https://www.wordreference.com/
You can work on these words at home by: reading the words out loud with your child (have them translate to verify their comprehension), have them spell the words (practice daily in the agenda), or have them use the word in a French sentence. You can also have the student practice identifying each letter in french and the letter sounds (phonemes).
For more ideas on how to practice sight words at home, see the attached below:
Numeracy: Students are exploring money.We are looking at coins as an introduction to fractions. We are building the concept of parts and wholes as we look at dollars and cents. We have also begun to look at wholes (including sets of items) and how we can break them into equal pieces.
Science: Students have wrapped up their insect projects - look out for videos on My Blueprint! We are moving on to temperature: hot and cold, examining how changes in temperature affect us.
Social Studies: Students have finished their study of the geography, economy, and culture of a prairie community: Airdrie. We will begin exploring how our community has grown and changed over the years as we begin to explore Airdrie of the past, building off of what we learned at the Nose Creek Valley Museum!
December dates:
December dates:
December 5 - No School for Students (Professional Learning Day)
December 21 - Christmas Concert (Grades 1/2 - 12:30 & 5:00 PM)
December 22 - Pyjama day & last day before winter break
Have a great weekend!
Thank you,
Mme Cornell & Mme McCaffrey
Numeracy update
Students enjoyed some hands on-learning this week with the 100s chart learning carpet and using coins to buy hot chocolate at our hot chocolate café!
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