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Bonjour families!
We hope you enjoy a great weekend! This is our last week of school before the winter break!
Thank you for all your support so far this year!
Updates and Reminders:
Updates and Reminders:
Pancakes & Pyjama Day: On December 22nd students are invited to wear their pyjamas to school! Please note there will be no breakfast club on this day as volunteers will be hard at work preparing pancakes.
**Christmas concert:
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 rehearsal and again on Wed. Dec. 21st for the actual concert. Thank you for your help!
KINDERGARTEN CONCERT
Tuesday, December 20th @ 5:00 PM - doors will open promptly at 4:30PM
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 4:30PM
Grades Three, Four, and Five Concerts
Matinee @ 1:30 PM
Evening Performance @ 6:00 PM - doors will open promptly at 4:30PM
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: " f ". The words of the week are: fin, fini, froid, faire, famille.
We have launched our Home Literacy page of the website. Please visit this page for details out our Home Reading Challenge.
We have 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 have been working on our writing workshop. Our focus is on writing about small moments, while focusing on using subjects and verbs. We think of an idea, touch each page and retell our ideas (make a plan verbally), draw and label (subject/verb), then write!
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 have examined how we can break wholes into equal parts. We are now comparing different unit fractions of the same whole, and comparing the same unit fractions of different wholes limited to 10 parts or less.
Social Studies: This week grade 2 students create holiday cards to send to the Airdrie Food Bank. These cards will be sent out with food packages this holiday season to spread some love & cheer among our community! We are proud of our students for caring about others! We are also finishing building our 3D map of Airdrie. See below for some photos. We are now exploring how our community has grown and changed over the years as we explore Airdrie of the past, building off of what we learned at the Nose Creek Valley Museum! We have been learning about the blackfoot people here before us in Airdrie.
December dates:
December dates:
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
3D Map of Airdrie
Students put their mapping skills to use by creating 3D models of landmarks viewed on our walking tour of Airdrie (and in students' daily lives). This collaborative project was a wonderful opportunity for all of our grade 2 students to work together.
Writer's Workshop
Here's a glimpse of our enthusiastic authors hard at work on their narrative stories! We can't wait to share our finished stories with you.
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