Thursday, October 20th/Friday, October 21st, 2022

Yesterday we:

• Learned about techniques to create entertaining beginnings of identified some of these techniques in our own reading books
• Completed a Text Graffiti activity using quotes from our Global Read-Aloud book "Thirst" and made predictions about what we thought the book would be about
• Read the book "Not a Box" and created some plans for what we would each like to propose as the creation we build with the huge cardboard boxes that were donated

Today we:

• Took part in a tobacco offering at our second Field Study Friday location and selected the object we wanted to use to learn from on the and this year
• Wrote our Letter to Miss Gadbois after reading the response from our last entry
• Learned about the difference between Conflict/Rude/Mean/Bullying behaviour

Literacy Week:

Dear Families,

 

Next week is Literacy Week! There are a few spirit days next week to help us celebrate and get in the literacy spirit.

• Read my Shirt Day – October 24th

Your student can wear a shirt that has words on it for others to read!

• Teacher Swap Book Reading – October 25th

Teachers will travel to a different classroom to read a story to a different class.

• Whole School Read Out – October 26^th

Everyone in the whole school will go out to the field, pick a spot and read outside.

• Stop Drop and Read Day – October 27^th

Several times during this day the students will hear an announcement to stop, drop and read.  

We hope these spirit days will get everyone get even more excited about Literacy at Northern Lights School!

 

The Literacy Week Committee

Reminders:

DO YOU GET MRS. BRINSON'S WEEKLY NORTHERN LIGHTS NEWS EMAILS?

Every Friday, Mrs. Brinson sends out important information and updates through a Northern Lights News email.  Today, she sent out the eighth one for this school year.  If you don't receive them, it is because you have not subscribed with the email that the school has on file.  These communications are SUPER important so we would like ALL families to receive them. Please visit https://calgary.schoolmessenger.com/cbe_subscribe

NORTHERN LIGHTS SCHOOL'SVIRTUAL PUMPKIN PATCH / FALL FAMILY FUN VIDEO   

Please send a photo from your family to be included in our NLS Virtual Pumpkin Patch / Fall Family Fun video to mlbrinson@cbe.ab.ca.

 

Pictures can include any fall or Halloween activities.  Ideas include things like:  

• Designing, carving or dressing up a pumpkin and taking a photo of your family with it 
• Dressing up in a costume 
• Trick or treating (from last year since the deadline is before Halloween this year) 
• Sitting by a fire 
• Camping or hiking 
• Raking leaves 
• Baking or cooking fall favourite recipes 
• Drinking hot chocolate 
• Going for a fall walk 
• Picking apples 
• Visiting a petting zoo 
• Visiting Harvest Days or a Harvest Pumpkin Fest 
• Attending a football or hockey game 

Click HERE to see last year’s video. Once we create the new video for this year, we will send out a link to our families.