Upcoming Field Study:
Tuesday January 14, 2020, room 14 will be attending the Police Interpretive Center. We are looking for volunteers to join us on our field study. If you are available to volunteer please contact Mrs. O'Brien ([email protected]) ASAP. More information will be provided in the new year. Today we were gifted a bus for this field trip, meaning that there is no payment for this field trip. Please disregard the payment on the parent letter. Healthy Hunger Your friendly Parent Association would like to remind everyone of the upcoming Healthy Hunger options. In January, we will have two snack days. Friday January 17th will be TEXAS DONUTS. A favourite returns! Friday, January 24th will be Kernels popcorn. Please consider purchasing a snack for your child and subsequently, supporting the Parent Association's fundraising efforts. February will have both a snack and a lunch so please watch the blogs for updates! Visit healthyhunger.ca to sign up and order food! Reminders:
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This week we are looking forward to some holiday caroling but also continuing to cover curriculum until into final days of 2019! Gym: Students played bench ball and reverse bench ball! We are looking forward to starting snowshoeing in the new year! Literacy: Students are working on creating dialogue for comics and doing some reading comprehension focusing on inferring meaning from hints in the text, and by synthesizing information with what they already know. Mrs. Robb has strongly encouraged all students to access Raz kids over the holidays as often as possible to help refine reading comprehension skills. This is a great resource for home reading for all ages and skill levels. Students should additionally be reading chapter books for a minimum of 20 mins a day to build spelling, vocabulary and comprehension skills, as well as meeting our collective goal of reducing excessive screen time. Math: Students continuing working through their measurement unit focusing the metric system, area, perimeter and volume! Humanities: Grade 5: Students have wrapped up their Regions of Canada unit and are preparing for a unit test this week. Students are completing a study guide to help them prepare for their unit test Wednesday Dec. 18th. Grade 6: Students have wrapped up their Iroquois Confederacy unit and we preparing for a unit test this week. Students are completing a study guide to help them prepare for their unit test Wednesday Dec. 18th. Science: Grade 5: Students are finishing up testing their weather instruments this week. They are also working on mind maps to bring together their learning around Weather Watch. This will act as a study guide for students in the new year. Grade 6: Students are their unit focusing on Evidence and Investigation. They will being by looking at different types of evidence in preparation for our field trip to the Police Interpretive Center in the new year. Upcoming Field Study: Tuesday January 14, 2020, room 14 will be attending the Police Interpretive Center. We are looking for volunteers to join us on our field study. If you are available to volunteer please contact Mrs. O'Brien ([email protected]) ASAP. More information will be provided in the new year. Reminders:
Healthy Hunger Your friendly Parent Association would like to remind everyone of the upcoming Healthy Hunger options. In January, we will have two snack days. Friday January 17th will be TEXAS DONUTS. A favourite returns! Friday, January 24th will be Kernels popcorn. Please consider purchasing a snack for your child and subsequently, supporting the Parent Association's fundraising efforts. February will have both a snack and a lunch so please watch the blogs for updates! Visit healthyhunger.ca to sign up and order food! Blog: Please ensure that you are checking the blog nightly for important updates as there will be various due dates and quizzes, happening before the end of this term. North Haven Update: North Haven’s Parent Council is doing a cheque writing campaign! Last year’s campaign funded new MacBook Airs to support technology in the classroom. The goal this year is to reach $5000. Currently, parent council has raised $1800 of donations! Please help support the cause! This could potentially fund new robotics, a soccer residency, and karate. Cheques can be made out to the Calgary Board of Education. Donations over $25.00 with the student’s name in the memo will be given a tax receipt. Thank you for supporting new learning opportunities at North Haven. MyCBE / PowerSchool will be unavailable from Dec. 20, 2019, at 5 p.m., to Dec. 27, 2019, at 11:59 p.m., for an important upgrade. This includes student fees and service registrations (i.e., transportation and noon supervision) In the spirit of giving, the staff, students, families, and community members of North Haven came together on Dec. 13th for our annual Community Family Outreach. The turnout and support for this special night was truly remarkable. It was a heartwarming evening. Thank you to everyone! It brought all members of our community together while incorporating the gift of giving. Happy Holidays from all the staff at North Haven! We look forward to having all students return from your holidays on January 6th. Celebration of Learning - Important Clarification
Our Celebration of Learning on Friday, December 13 will be taking place in our gym at 10:30am. You may have received information of a 10:00 am start time, and we apologize for the confusion. Our students are very proud of the work they have been doing before, during and after our wonderful week at Camp Chief Hector, and they are excited to share their learning and experiences with you. It will be a packed hour of sharing and we hope to see you all there. This week in our classes we are busy getting ready to showcase our work, as well as getting ready for the community outreach night on Thursday and wrapping up various remaining projects before we head out for winter holidays in less than two weeks. Please ensure that you are checking the blog nightly for important updates as there will be various due dates and quizzes, happening before the end of this term. Today we were thrilled to see all 3 grade 5 / 6 classes with perfect attendance! This has been a rare event over the past weeks as we have been battling illnesses, and we are hoping we can finish the year strong with everyone attending every day. Please know that we plan to be covering curriculum at our usual pace to the end of the year, so if your child is absent, it is critical for them to be checking in to see what they have missed. Hoping to see you all Thursday evening at community outreach night, and Friday at our Celebration of Learning. Reminders:
Please return the following items related to camp for our learning assembly:
10:30 Friday December 13. Math: CCH Problem-solving will be due on Wednesday. Students will work over the next two days to graph their measurements from camp and around the school. Students have the assignment sheets and can access a digital copy of the problem-solving in the shared Math file in the NH Math file in Google Drive. Humanities: Social Studies Grade 5: Students are to be completing their final pitstop for homework, this assignment is due tomorrow. Students will then begin studying for their unit test next week. Grade 6: Students will be finishing up presentations this week and begin studying for their unit test next week. Science Grade 5: Students continued building their instruments today. One student from each group will be needing to bring in a large plastic container to store their instruments during the duration of this project. Students are needing to bring clear plastic water bottles and 2L pop bottles for tomorrows building. Please ensure these bottles are well rinsed before bringing them to school. Grade 6: Sky Science study notes were handed out Tuesday. The Sky Science unit test will be tomorrow! Remember to study your vocabulary as well. Important Dates: Grade 5/6 Learning Assembly * Please see time correction In addition to our Outreach Evening, the Grade 5/6 team we will also be hosting a Celebration of Learning Assembly, Friday December 13 at 10:30 am. This assembly will be highlighting our recent visit to Camp Chief Hector, as well as highlights of our year thus far. Please contact your child’s teacher for more information. Community Outreach Family Evening We are excited to announce that we are having our fourth annual Community Outreach Family Evening on December 12 from 5:30-7:30. Each grade team has come up with a holiday activity inspired by their inquiry to support a valued cause. The night will begin with a performance by our grade ¾ and grade 5/6s, followed by community outreach activities, and refreshments. Please see the attached images for further details. If you are able to volunteer to help organize the evening, please contact your child’s teacher. North Haven’s Parent Council will also have a table set up at the entry way of our building as their Christmas fundraiser to enhance educational opportunities at our school. Also stop by to hear about further events and upcoming fundraising initiative. Thank you for supporting our efforts to consider others during this season of giving! If you have questions please feel free to call the school. Here is a list of the request items… Kindergarten - wild bird seeds, lard, string or twine, natural pinecones Grade 1/2 – old Christmas cards to be cut up as decals and designs Grade 3/4 –white liquid glue, grey felt, black felt, white felt, brown Felt, black sharpies, and green cardstock Grade 5/6 –Pom Poms (small or medium), large candy canes, googly eyes (small or medium), brown paper bags, pipe cleaners, old holiday cards and felt Bridges & PLP –food bank donations, Chupa Chup lollipops (or other round lollipops), googly eyes, brown paper EDC –large print puzzle books (word Search), teas/hot chocolate, colouring books, pencil crayons/felts/crayons, bath/body bash, shampoo (2in1), oral care items, Polident, unscented Lotions/glaxal base, calendars, nail care/polish, playing cards, gift bags and tissue paper Reminders:
Please return the following items related to camp for our learning assembly:
December 3-6, 2019 French All assignments are posted in the NH French file in Google Drive "Projet Vêtements, Activités et Sentiments Français" (French Clothing, Activities and Feelings Project) - good copies must be handed Wednesday December 4 - fully colored and all words gone over with Sharpie. "Paragraphe Hector du chef de camp" (Camp Chief Hector paragraph assignment) - due Monday December 9. This paragraph can be done on the computer. Gym Students have been working on curling this week. They have been learning about the key elements of curling such as the house, rocks and hammer. Students have been working to count their points, build strategies and control their direction and speed of the rock. Health Resilience Superhero and strategies pages in your Best Life Journal are due Friday. Math CCH Problem-solving will be due on Friday. You will have class time on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to finish up all of the measurement tasks in your journal and complete the expected graphing. You all have the assignment sheets and can access a digital copy of the problem-solving in the shared Math file in the NH Math file in Google Drive. Humanities: Literacy Grade 5 and 6 - Camp/nature poetry is due Friday, Dec. 6. See pink assignment sheet or check on Drive if you need to access a digital copy. Social Studies Thursday/ Friday will be last class times to work on Iroquois projects (Grade 6) or final pitstops projects for the regions of Canada (Grade 5) . Presentations of these projects will be begin early next for those groups who are ready. Both grades will be wrapping up these units before holidays with a unit test. Science Gr. 5 - Weather station instruction manuals should now be complete. Student will begin building their instruments this weeks. One student from each group will be needing to bring in a large plastic container to store their instruments during the duration of this project. Students might need to bring supplies from home depending on how they are building their instruments. Gr. 6 - Sky Science Mind Maps are due on Friday December 6. You will have class time on Wednesday and Thursday. Sky Science study notes were handed out Tuesday.The Sky Science unit test will be early next week. Remember to study your vocabulary as well. Important Dates: Grade 5/6 Learning Assembly In addition to our Outreach Evening, the Grade 5/6 team we will also be hosting a Celebration of Learning Assembly, Friday December 13 at 10:00 am. This assembly will be highlighting our recent visit to Camp Chief Hector, as well as highlights of our year thus far. Please contact your child’s teacher for more information. Litter-less Lunches: At North Haven we have been working on ways to positively impact our school community. We noticed that many of the lunchroom bins for recycling are full of items that cannot be recycled. What ends up happening is that the recycling and the recycling bag have to be thrown in the regular garbage -every single day! This uses an expensive recycling bag. The same thing happens with compost and compost bags. That's a lot of bags being wasted! All students can help by taking home all of their lunch containers and peels to try to have garbage-less lunches at North Haven. Thank you for working to positively impact our school community! Thank you for continuing to contribute to our litter-less lunches. This is allowing North Haven to save on expensive bags in the school and to save the environment on a larger scale. Healthy Hunger: Don't miss out on your child's Healthy Hunger Fun Lunches/Snacks! Your Parent Association is pleased to offer parents the opportunity to purchase a lunch or snack for their students.. The funds raised go to supporting your 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 a lunch or snack. 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, including kindergarten. The lunch option is only available to those students at school over the lunch hour, including kindergarten students at Topp Kids. Friday December 13th KERNELS popcorn snack at recess Thursday December 19th SUBWAY lunch Community Outreach Family Evening We are excited to announce that we are having our fourth annual Community Outreach Family Evening on December 12 from 5:30-7:30. Each grade team has come up with a holiday activity inspired by their inquiry to support a valued cause. The night will begin with a performance by our grade ¾ and grade 5/6s, followed by community outreach activities, and refreshments. Please see the attached images for further details. If you are able to volunteer to help organize the evening, please contact your child’s teacher. North Haven’s Parent Council will also have a table set up at the entry way of our building as their Christmas fundraiser to enhance educational opportunities at our school. Also stop by to hear about further events and upcoming fundraising initiative. Thank you for supporting our efforts to consider others during this season of giving! If you have questions please feel free to call the school. Here is a list of the request items… Kindergarten - wild bird seeds, lard, string or twine, natural pinecones Grade 1/2 – old Christmas cards to be cut up as decals and designs Grade 3/4 –white liquid glue, grey felt, black felt, white felt, brown Felt, black sharpies, and green cardstock Grade 5/6 –Pom Poms (small or medium), large candy canes, googly eyes (small or medium), brown paper bags, pipe cleaners, old holiday cards and felt Bridges & PLP –food bank donations, Chupa Chup lollipops (or other round lollipops), googly eyes, brown paper EDC –large print puzzle books (word Search), teas/hot chocolate, colouring books, pencil crayons/felts/crayons, bath/body bash, shampoo (2in1), oral care items, Polident, unscented Lotions/glaxal base, calendars, nail care/polish, playing cards, gift bags and tissue paper French - all assignments are posted in the NH French file in Google Drive
Projet Vêtements, Activités et Sentiments Français (French Clothing, Activities and Feelings Project) - good copies must be handed Wednesday December 4 - fully colored and all words gone over with Sharpie. Paragraphe Hector du chef de camp (Camp Chief Hector paragraph assignment) - due Monday December 9. This paragraph can be done on the computer. We are excited to announce that we are having our fourth annual Community Outreach Family Evening on December 12 from 5:30-7:30. Each grade team has come up with a holiday activity inspired by their inquiry to support a valued cause. The night will begin with a performance by our grade ¾ and grade 5/6s, followed by community outreach activities, and refreshments. Please see the attached images for further details. If you are able to volunteer to help organize the evening, please contact your child’s teacher. North Haven’s Parent Council will also have a table set up at the entry way of our building as their Christmas fundraiser to enhance educational opportunities at our school. Also stop by the hear about further events and upcoming fundraising initiative.
Thank you for supporting our efforts to consider others during this season of giving! If you have questions please feel free to call the school. Here is a list of the request items… Kindergarten - wild bird seeds, lard, string or twine, natural pinecones Grade 1/2 – old Christmas cards to be cut up as decals and designs Grade 3/4 –white liquid glue, grey felt, black felt, white felt, brown Felt, black sharpies, and green cardstock Grade 5/6 –Pom Poms (small or medium), large candy canes, googly eyes (small or medium), brown paper bags, pipe cleaners, old holiday cards and felt Bridges & PLP –food bank donations, Chupa Chup lollipops (or other round lollipops), goggly eyes, brown paper EDC –large print puzzle books (word Search), teas/hot chocolate, colouring books, pencil crayons/felts/crayons, bath/body bash, shampoo (2in1), oral care items, Polident, unscented Lotions/glaxal base, calendars, nail care/polish, playing cards, gift bags and issue paper |