Bonjour les familles!

We enjoyed another great week of learning. 

Updates and Reminders:

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities:

• May 25 - BCHS (Bert Church High School) - Alice in Wonderland Play (9:00am - 12:00pm)

• May 30 - Gr. 2 - Telus Spark field trip (All day)

• June 7 - Gr. 2 - Bowling field trip 

• June 13 - Gr. 2 field trip - Granary Road (All day)

• June 21 - Gr. 2 field trip - Heritage Park (All day)

Please email us directly if you would like to volunteer for any of the upcoming Field Trips! Thank you so much!

Administrative Reminders: 

ARRIVAL/DISMISSAL

We ask all parents to please time their child's arrival at school as close to 8:00 as possible. This is when the first bell rings for student entry. Prior to this time, there is no supervision. 

Also, a reminder that there is no supervision of school playgrounds and playfields after school. Children that wish to stay after school to play on school grounds must be actively supervised by an adult. 

Thanks for helping to keep our kids' play safe!

2023-2024 School Year Attendance

It is that time of year again… Rocky View schools are preparing for next year’s students! Please inform our team as soon as possible at aebowers@rockyview.ab.ca if you:

· have moved or are moving,

· are considering switching from French Immersion to English program, or

· will not be attending AE Bowers Elementary School in September 2023.

Thank you very much for your kind attention!

Learning Commons (Library): Please send your students' library books back to school on their designated Learning Commons day.

Tuesday- Mme Cornell

Thursday- Mme McCaffrey

Helpful Clickable Links:

Absence Choice Board 

Je lis (home reading): https://jelis.rkpublishing.com/student 

Mathletics (Math practice at home): https://login.mathletics.com/

Boom Cards (Phoneme practice) : https://wow.boomlearning.com/

myBlueprint (Student Portfolio): https://app.myblueprint.ca/ 

Parents Guide to Sight Words

Video for practicing the alphabet letters (practice this out of order, for example: in reverse)

Video for practicing sound blends and alphabet sounds (Phonemes)

Wordreference (english-french dictionary)

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:

Literacy:

The sound of the week is: "an/am/en/em"

The words of the week are: mange, grand, temps, quand, jambe, vent

Sight words: We have also been reviewing sight words (common words/high frequency words) with students since the beginning of the year, as we approach the end of the year, students are expected to know at least 250 sight words.  We have sent home some rings with words to practice at home. For some ideas on how to practice, please see this resource: Parents Guide to Sight Words

Here is the sight word list to practice with your child at home if you would like to print and cut more out: 

Grade 2 Sight Words

Literacy Routine: Students have been organized into literacy small groups that will continue to receive targeted instruction on their individual literacy goals through targeted small group instruction, and specific literacy centers. Targeted skills include phonological awareness skills, phonemic awareness instruction, listening to French, speaking French, writing, and reading instruction. 

Writer's Workshop: Students have been working on stories and we will be looking to publish them after the break!

Home Literacy: Please visit this page for details about our Home Reading Challenge. 

Numeracy: We will be exploring how duration is described and quantified by time. Students will be using comparative language to describe the time between or duration of significant events. They will also practice writing significant events as dates. We will be exploring the concept of winter counts used by first nations people to measure time in non-standard units. Students will make their own version of a winter count to symbolize their years at school. 

Social Studies: Students will be diving deeper into the geography and daily life of Iqaluit as they select landmarks in Iqaluit to represent digitally. We look forward to beginning a collaborative MineCraft map of Iqaluit to illustrate our learning about the geography of this arctic community. 

Science: Students will continue to study liquids. This week we looked at the transformations water undergoes when changing from solid, to liquid, to gas. We will continue to expand our scope to compare other liquids next.  

Phys. Ed.: Students have been so excited to begin gymnastics. Students will continue to apply a variety of gross motor and locomotor skills on a variety of obstacle courses set up in the gym. See below for some snapshots from this week. 

May Dates:

• May 4 - Theme Day: Zany hair and clothes day

• May 5 - Red Dress Day - Moosehide Campaign

• May 25 - BCHS (Bert Church High School) - Alice in Wonderland Play (9:00am - 12:00pm)

• May 30 - Gr. 2 - Telus Spark field trip (All day)

• May 23 to June 1 - Sound Kreation Residency

June Dates:

• June 1- Theme Day: Dress backwards

• June 7 - Gr. 2 - Bowling field trip 

• June 13 - Gr. 2 field trip - Granary Road (All day)

• June 21 - Gr. 2 field trip - Heritage Park (All day)

Thank you, 

Mme Cornell & Mme McCaffrey

Library Field Trip

Students enjoyed our outing to the Airdrie Public Library. The library offers lots of fun programming and has French children's book that you can sign out!

Community Clean Up Challenge

Students at A. E. Bowers participated in a Community Clean Up Challenge against Nose Creek Elementary to see who could fill the most garbage bags with litter, who could find the most valuable item, and who could find the most interesting item. this challenge was in honour of Earth Day but also ties directly into our study of the importance of keeping water clean in science!