Happy Monday:
Gym: Students started game play within their volleyball unit. They are taking their skills around setting, bumping and serving to work as a team within a game setting. Library: Students renewed or returned their books during library today. As a reminder library is EVERY Monday. Be sure to bring books back weekly for exchanged or renewal! Math: Students continued working on their Federal Election Problem Solving Problem. Students are working to compare results of North Haven and CN Gunn around the recently Federal Election. Students are comparing the student result votes to create a double bar graph or double line graph. Science: Grade 5: Got an introduction to their next project Weather Stations. Students started researching the different weather instruments. Grade 6: Student finished researching the planets within our solar system. Humanties: Grade 5: Started their PITSTOPS for the Great Lakes Region. Grade 6: Started looking into the Iroquois Confederacy and how this is a form of Democracy. Second Camp Meeting: Those parents who missed the meeting will be required to attend a meeting to go through the booklet and expectations next week, Tuesday, October 29 from 4pm-5pm in the Learning Commons. Camp will run from November 25-28, 2019 - 3nights, 4 days at Camp Chief Hector in Kananaskis. The fee is $284 to be paid online, by cheque or with cash. Please contact your child's teacher if you would like to apply for a subsidy.
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For those parents who missed the meeting will be required to attend a meeting to go through the booklet and expectations next week, Tuesday, October 29 from 4pm-5pm in the Learning Commons. Camp will run from November 25-28, 2019 - 3nights, 4 days at Camp Chief Hector in Kananaskis. The fee is $284 to be paid online, by cheque or with cash. Please contact your child's teacher if you would like to apply for a subsidy.
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Parent Camp Meeting: Today Wednesday, October 23 from 6-7 pm there will be a mandatory parent meeting around Camp Chief Hector. At least one parent or guardian must attend this meeting as important information will be shared and forms will be distributed. If you have any questions regarding this meeting please contact your homeroom teacher. Gym: Students continued working on their routines with SoundKreations. We are excited to welcome Zam from SoundKreations to our school from October 21-25 to teach us about the performing art of hip hop dance. Physical Literacy is the motivation, confidence, competence, and understanding to value AND take responsibility for your engagement in physical activities. SoundKreations is an in-school program provider that breathes life and relevance into dance and poetry curriculum. Facilitated by the top professional dancers and artists in Western Canada, they offer an engaging method of developing student's physical literacy and appreciation for the creative process. They are dancers, teachers, mentors, big brothers, and big sisters who have been trained specifically for the school environment, and share a responsibility to support today's youth and provide opportunities for success. Through dance and poetry instruction, they encourage students to explore possibilities in a safe environment with people who believe in them. Please join us for an informal performance on Friday from 10:45-11:45. French: Students worked to finish up their weather broadcast. Most students finished filming their presentations today. Math: Students worked on a study guide for their patterns test tomorrow: Grade 5 students need to know: patterns using pictures, input/ output tables, pattern rules, types of patterns, how to extend a pattern, how to write an expression using a variable and patterns with work problems. Grade 6 students need to know: input/ output tables, pattern rules, preservation of equality, equivalent equations, how to write and solve an expression using a variable, and patterns with work problems. Ask to see your students study guide and have them create some problems for you - this is an excellent way of studying! Humanities - Social: Grade 5: student started researching information around the Great Lake Region. If student did not finish their Road Block in class the need to complete this for homework. Grade 6: Students started gathering information around the results of the Federal Election. Students compared information from the Student Vote and the Nation-wide vote. Science: Grade 5: Student finished researching different severe weather types - hurricane. tornados, thunderstorms and a severe weather type of their choice. Students will be moving onto their Weather Station Project tomorrow. Grade 6: Students started preparing for their Apparent Motion of the Sun Lab. Students will be building a Shadow Stick to determine How do shadows cast from the sun, change throughout the day? Can we determine the time of day based on the sun’s position in the sky? Wednesday, October 23 from 6-7 pm there will be a mandatory parent meeting around Camp Chief Hector. At least one parent or guardian must attend this meeting as important information will be shared and forms will be distributed. If you have any questions regarding this meeting please contact your homeroom teacher.
IMPORTANT REMINDER:
TELUS SPARK field study tomorrow. We will be leaving at 8:30 am and returning to school at 2:30. Please pack a big snack as we will be eating an early snack. Dress for the weather as a period of our day will be outside. Ensure you have comfortable walking shoes as there will be lots of movement throughout our day! If you have not yet paid or brought in your forms please do so by tomorrow. If your forms have not been returned by tomorrow morning your child will not be attending our field trip. TELUS SPARK Field Study Forms and payment (cash or cheque) for our trip to TELUS SPARK this tomorrow, Thursday October 17, are due on TOMORROW. Good afternoon,
I hope everyone had a fantastic long weekend. IMPORTANT REMINDER: TELUS SPARK Field Study Forms and payment (cash or cheque) for our trip to TELUS SPARK this week, Thursday October 17, are due on TOMORROW. We will need 1 volunteer for this trip. Please contact your child's homeroom teacher if you are able to help with this field study. Gym: Students continued working on their volleyball skills around setting, bumping and serving. Math: Students worked on their weekly mad minutes. As a reminder students are to complete and unanswered questions and make corrects for homework due the following Monday. Students also worked on continuing to extend patterns focusing on repeating, increasing and decreasing patterns. Tomorrow we will continue looking at patterns using a letter variable. Science: Grade 5: Students worked on researching facts on different types of server weather, thunderstorms, tornados, hurricanes and one of their choice. Students will continue researching these weather types tomorrow. Grade 6: Students starting looking at the 8 planets within out solar system. Students will be researching each planet to compare their similarities and differences. Humanties - Social: Grade 5: Students worked on their PITSTOP for the Atlantic region. They have a choice between a journal entry, travel brochure or pirate map to display their knowledge. Grade 6: Students watched some of the Leaders Debate to determine what makes a good debater and how this impacted the Leaders Debate. Students also had to determine the skills needed to be a successful and strong debater. Healthy Hunger Fun Lunches/Snacks are back! Your Parent Association is pleased to once again offer parents the opportunity to purchase a lunch or snack for their students once or twice per month. The funds raised go to supporting you school through Parent Association initiatives. Please log into www.healthyhunger.ca If you do not already have an account, please register. ff you do, log in and add your students again and attached them to their teacher. Payment is required at time of ordering. Any questions, please use the help button on the healthy hunger website. Friday snacks are available to all students in the school. The lunch option is only available to those students at school over the lunch hour, including kindergarten students at Topp Kids. Friday October 18th JUGO JUICE snack at recess time Thursday October 24th SUBWAY lunch Friday November 15th KERNELS popcorn snack at recess Thursday November 21st EDO JAPAN lunch Good afternoon,
Gym: We continued working on our volleyball skills, bumping, setting and serving. French: Students are creating a weather broadcast. Humanities: Students looked at the process of voting for our upcoming Student Vote next Friday. Math: Today was our last day to work on "Were you born on a Monday?" Students are to take their work home to be completed. Their POW is due on Tuesday. Science: Grade 5: Students complete a Venn Diagram around Weather and Climate, students used a variety of books to identify similarities and differences. Grade 6: Students complete a Venn Diagram around how objects can either Emit or Reflect light, students used a variety of books to identify similarities and differences. Humanties: All students worked on preparing for our upcoming student vote. The grade 6 students taught the grade 5 students about the 6 key political parties. They shared their platforms and viewpoints on different areas. Students then completed a questionnaire to see which parties they most align with! It was interesting to see how the students personal opinions aligned or didn't align with the questioner. Ask your child how if their personal opinion and questionnaire aligned. Homework: Everything is due Tuesday October 15! - Any cloud (grade 5) or moon (grade 6) journals need to be finished. Gluing, printing, and finishing any poems and/or art. - Atlantic Region (grade 5) - Problem of Week: Are you born on a Monday. TELUS SPARK Field Study Forms and payment for our trip to TELUS SPARK next week, October 17, are due on Tuesday. We will need 2 volunteers for this trip per class, per day. Please contact your child's homeroom teacher if you are able to help with this field study. Healthy Hunger Fun Lunches/Snacks are back! Your Parent Association is pleased to once again offer parents the opportunity to purchase a lunch or snack for their students once or twice per month. The funds raised go to supporting you school through Parent Association initiatives. Please log into www.healthyhunger.ca If you do not already have an account, please register. ff you do, log in and add your students again and attached them to their teacher. Payment is required at time of ordering. Any questions, please use the help button on the healthy hunger website. Friday snacks are available to all students in the school. The lunch option is only available to those students at school over the lunch hour, including kindergarten students at Topp Kids. Friday October 18th JUGO JUICE snack at recess time Thursday October 24th SUBWAY lunch Friday November 15th KERNELS popcorn snack at recess Thursday November 21st EDO JAPAN lunch Field Study Fees Thanks for those of you who have already sent back field study forms and payment. If you have not returned them yet, please do so as soon as possible. We are still in need of many volunteers for the trip next week to TELUS Spark. If you have not yet paid for our Beakerhead field study. please send $12.85 for that trip. Unfortunately our online payment system is still not working. Science: Students are getting close to completing their Moon and Cloud Journals- they are due on Thursday, October 10. They will have class time to complete the final art piece but students should be finishing their poems and paragraphs from home if they have not already done so. The work they have done so far can be accessed through their Google drive. Grade 6- We watched a 5 minute video to consolidate understanding on the phases of the moon and then had a discussion around it. It was challenging and some students requested the link so they could watch it at home and spend some more time on it. It is: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/earth-history-topic/moon-phases-and-eclipses/v/intro-to-moon-phases Math: Students spent another class working on figuring out the day of the week they were born and applying the pattern to other dates as well. This was the last class that will be spent on it and students are expected to finish it at home- due Tuesday, October 15. If students are finding it very challenging to complete at home, they will be supported in class; however, please encourage your child to attempt it at home. Social Studies: Grade 5's are working on the Amazing Race. Grade 6's are working on getting ready for the student vote on Oct. 15. They have been exploring the different political parties and comparing their election platforms. Please spend some time at home talking about the election issues that matter to you as a family. Resources to learn more can be found at the links below. https://pollenize.org/en/elections/canada-2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RKzzoLK-g#action=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgBBfM8SY PT CONFERENCES
Thanks so much to all of the parents who joined us for PT Conferences last week. These conferences are essential in helping us to work with you and your child as a team to support their learning. If you have not yet met with one of us, please email us some times and dates when you may be able to meet after school. PICTURE DAY! Picture Day at North Haven is tomorrow, October 8th. Please come dressed to impress :) Healthy Hunger Fun Lunches/Snacks are back! Your Parent Association is pleased to once again offer parents the opportunity to purchase a lunch or snack for their students once or twice per month. The funds raised go to supporting you school through Parent Association initiatives. Please log into www.healthyhunger.ca If you do not already have an account, please register. ff you do, log in and add your students again and attached them to their teacher. Payment is required at time of ordering. Any questions, please use the help button on the healthy hunger website. Friday snacks are available to all students in the school. The lunch option is only available to those students at school over the lunch hour, including kindergarten students at Topp Kids. Friday October 18th JUGO JUICE snack at recess time Thursday October 24th SUBWAY lunch Friday November 15th KERNELS popcorn snack at recess Thursday November 21st EDO JAPAN lunch TELUS SPARK Field Study Forms for our trip to TELUS SPARK next week, October 17, are coming home today. Please fill these out and return them ASAP so we can organize for this field study. We will need 4 volunteers for this trip per class, per day. Please contact your child's homeroom teacher if you are able to help with this field study. Social Studies - Grade 6 only: Please talk as a family about the federal election. What do you know about the the different parties' platforms? What issues are important to you? PT CONFERENCES:
The students of Grade 5/6 have been working so hard this month and we are excited that parents will be able to come in and admire some of our work in progress this week. Conferences start tomorrow at 4 pm and end at 7 pm. We are fully booked for times on Thursday night. We do have more openings on Friday so if you have not booked a time yet, please get in touch tomorrow and we will let you know when we are available. Friday's conferences are from 8-1pm - THERE IS NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS ON FRIDAY. SPELLING: Spelling lists have been distributed this week and students were asked to take their individual list home to review. Students have made a commitment to improving the clarity of their written communication by trying to boost their spelling skills. This week we are working on review lists, and next week we will be creating new lists together. You can help your child at home by reviewing the lists of no excuse words and commonly misspelled words that they will be bringing home. There are lots of ideas on the spelling menu that can be practiced both at home and in school. Please contact Mrs. Robb with any questions you may have. Federal Election Polling Station and School Council Meetings North Haven School is designated as a polling station for the upcoming federal election on October 21st. As a result we’ve moved our School Council and Association meetings to Tuesday October 22nd at 6pm in the school Learning Commons. We will be discussing past and upcoming events, fundraisers and have a chance to ask questions of our Principal and guest teacher presenters. Hope you can join us! For September’s meeting minutes please see our home page (Get Involved / School Council http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/northhaven/get-involved/school-council/pages/default.aspx School Council - CBE North Haven School Council and the North Haven Parent Association both consist of volunteer parents, school administration and teacher representatives. These groups assist in making school at North Haven an enjoyable experience for all students. The purpose of the School Council is to assist the school and staff in programs and activities meeting the needs of all students. They help establish ... school.cbe.ab.ca |