June 25, 2015

Below is the link to see the Bee movie made by the grade1-4 bee inquiry group.
https://youtu.be/8BHZsFzk_oE

Tomorrow is our last day of school and report cards went home today.  Most of the students' work went home today as well.  We will have a celebration tomorrow morning and the class would love to enjoy a few class treats for any parents willing to help out with this.

It's been an amazing year with an amazing group of students and both Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Cooper are sad that the year is over already.  We look forward to seeing the grade 3 students back in the school next year.  We wish the grade 4 students all the best as the leave to begin grade 5 in the fall.  We also wish all the best to any grade 3 students who are moving.

DISMISSAL IS AT 12:03 tomorrow

June 22, 2015

This is the last week of school with our students and it's very hard to believe the year has gone by so quickly.  Students will be starting to bring home their work throughout the week.

Tomorrow is Sports Day in the afternoon so please help your child to remember to dress in layers for the weather.  We also recommend that students wear sunscreen and bug spray.  A hat and comfortable shoes are also recommended.  It will be a fun afternoon for everyone!

As a part of our school’s Right to Play initiative this year, we are asking students to bring a loonie or a toonie any day next week as a donation for the program.  This fund-raiser will support play, cooperation, peace and sport in many countries around the world.  Students will have the chance to play our Change for Change Plinko game when they bring their loonies and toonies!  Our fundraising goal is $680, which is $1.00 per Cranston staff and student.  Thank you for your help to give all kids the RIGHT TO PLAY!

We have a few exciting activities throughout the week including a dance performance on Thursday and a magician on Friday.

Report cards will go home on Thursday.

On Friday we will have a celebration and would appreciate some class treats being sent in.  Please email your teacher if you are able to help out with snacks.

We had our final Health lesson today.  Please talk to your child about what they learned and questions that they might still have.

We made sandwiches this morning to help prepare lunches that will be taken to the Mustard Seed.  Thank you to all the families who donated money to help purchase the food for this service project.

We also had a practice evacuation to the Church this afternoon.

June 19th, 2015

Tuesday is our Annual Sports Day!  As a part of our school’s Right to Play initiative this year, we are asking students to bring a loonie or a toonie any day next week as a donation for the program.  This fund-raiser will support play, cooperation, peace and sport in many countries around the world.  Students will have the chance to play our Change for Change Plinko game when they bring their loonies and toonies!  Our fundraising goal is $680, which is $1.00 per Cranston staff and student.  Thank you for your help to give all kids the RIGHT TO PLAY!

Thank you to all the parents that came for our Celebration of Learning last night.  It was great to have the students proudly share their work.  Congratulations to Grace and Vanessa for raising $115 with their delicious muffin sale.  This money will be donated to WWF to support the work being done to save the Northern White Rhino.

The students will be starting to take home some of their work today and during next week.  It's hard to believe that this year is already coming to an end.

We will plan to have a final class celebration on Friday June 26.  If parents would like to send in some class snacks for our celebration that would be great!  Please email your child's teacher if you are able to help out with this.

Happy Father's Day to all the dads!  Have a great weekend:)

Upcoming Dates

• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 16, 2015

ZOO FIELD TRIP

Tomorrow is our field trip to the zoo.  The forecast is calling for rain but we will still plan to go.  Most of the day will be outside so we are asking students to please dress for the weather.  Rain jackets and umbrellas are a really good idea!  Please have your child wear comfortable shoes for walking.  Students will need a water bottle, snack and lunch for the field trip.  For our parent volunteers, please meet in your child's classroom at 8:25 am to get your group and information needed for the day.  Volunteers will need to drive to the zoo but might want to plan to carpool with some of the other parents.  We do not have room on the bus for all the parent volunteers since three classes will be fitting onto one bus.  Parents can organize to carpool when we meet in the morning.  

Upcoming Dates 

• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 15, 2015

Wednesday is our field trip to the zoo.  The forecast is calling for rain but we will still plan to go.  Most of the day will be outside so we are asking students to please dress for the weather.  Rain jackets and umbrellas are a really good idea!  Please have your child wear comfortable shoes for walking.  Students will need a water bottle, snack and lunch for the field trip.  For our parent volunteers, please meet in your child's classroom at 8:25 am to get your group and information needed for the day.  Volunteers will need to drive to the zoo but might want to plan to carpool with some of the other parents.  We do not have room on the bus for all the parent volunteers since three classes will be fitting onto one bus.  Parents can organize to carpool when we meet in the morning.  

Reminder that our Celebration of Learning is on Thursday evening.  The students are very excited to share their inquiry work at the Celebration of Leaning.  

Upcoming Dates 

• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 12, 2015

Grade 4 students, please remember to return your health forms signed by Monday so that you can participate in the lessons beginning on Monday morning.  

Next week is a busy week with our field trip to the zoo on Wednesday and our Celebration of Learning on Thursday.  It will be a fun week!!

We worked on our art journals today to add our Africa letters and our writing samples.  We used different techniques for creating a background page. It was a quick day beginning with Daily 5, gym, art, and then we finally had time for a read aloud.  Our book is almost done and it is getting very interesting!

Upcoming Dates 

• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 11, 2015

The grade 4 students received a Health note in their folder.  Please complete the bottom of the note and return it to school by no later than Monday.  We will begin the lessons on Monday so students will require the signed notes to participate.

Our field trip to the zoo is on Wednesday.  Thank you for all the parents that have volunteered to help out.  For Mrs. Cooper's parent volunteers, the Acknowledgement of Risk forms for you will be in your child's folder today.  Please complete this form and return by Tuesday.

Today was our last day of swimming - the students will receive their swimming report card before the end of the year.  A big thank you to our awesome parent volunteers for helping with the change rooms.  We all really enjoyed the swimming lessons at this time of year! No lost mittens, hats, and boots!

Upcoming Dates 

• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 10, 2015

We only have one more day left to of swimming.  Our students have been excellent on the bus and at the pool.  A big thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped out with swimming.

Please remember to hand in your zoo field trip forms and money so that we can order the tickets for our field trip next Wednesday. 

We had our last day today for finishing up our inquiry projects and the students are excited to begin sharing them.  Students will share them with the class tomorrow as a practice to prepare for our Celebration of Learning.

We have also completed our Bee project with the grade 1/2 students and will be sharing these at the Celebration as well..

Miss Jackson's class have all returned their library books but there are still a few students from Mrs. Cooper's class that are needing to return their books.  The learning commons is now closed and doing inventory so it is very important that all library books are returned.  Thank you

The public library is an excellent place to get reading materials for the summer so students are encouraged to take part in their summer reading program.

Upcoming Dates 

• June 10 - Zoo field trip and money due
• June 8-11 - Swimming
• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 5, 2015

SWIMMING

Next week we have swimming lessons.  Our lessons start at 9 am so we are asking students to meet at the FRONT of the school by 8:10am.  The bus will leave the school at 8:20am.  Please remind your child to bring their swimsuit, towel, extra underwear and socks.  Those students with long hair should wear it up.  For those students that take the bus in the morning to school, they will arrive on time to get off their bus and then load on the bus for swimming.

For our Celebration of Learning on June 18th, we are asking students to wear either black, yellow or white if they have.

To the students who are involved with Miss Jackson's Bee Mash-up Song:

Please bring in to school before Monday, June 8th, a yellow, orange or black shirt. Please have the shirt in a bag with the student's name clearly marked on the bag. Shirts will be returned home by the end of next week.

From the OFFICE

Register Online 

Beginning June 1, registration for transportation and noon supervision for September 2015 can be done online through your My CBE Account. You can access your account from our website www.cbe.ab.ca/fees and register using the same email address the school has on file for your family. Fees do not need to be paid until September 2015.  Information Package Fees 2015-2016 has been emailed to all parents.

Upcoming Dates 

• June 8 - Scholastic Book orders due
• June 9 - Picture order forms due
• June 10 - Zoo field trip and money due
• June 8-11 - Swimming
• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 4, 2015

Students in Miss Jackson’s and Mrs. Cooper's math groups should be continuing to review their multiplication facts at home. They can be practicing changing their facts into division equations as well. Practice in both of these areas needs to be continued as we venture into fractions, geometry and other areas in math as they are an incremental part of their learning. Students can practice their facts using multiplication war that was demonstrated at the student learning conferences in March, putting multiplication facts to popular songs and by using Mathletics at home. 

All library books need to be returned to the Learning Commons by tomorrow.  We are still expecting students to continue reading at home every night for at least 15 minutes. 


We are getting close to being done our Inquiry projects.  We have only a few more days booked with the computers for students to complete their work.  Some students will need to take home their work for the weekend in order to be down by next week.  We will begin sharing our projects with our classes starting next Thursday.  Our projects will also be set up to share during the Celebration of Learning.

For our Celebration of Learning on June 18th, we are asking students to wear either black, yellow or white if they have.

To the students who are involved with Miss Jackson's Bee Mash-up Song:

Please bring in to school before Monday, June 8th, a yellow, orange or black shirt. Please have the shirt in a bag with the student's name clearly marked on the bag. Shirts will be returned home by the end of next week.

SWIMMING

Next week we have swimming lessons.  Our lessons start at 9 am so we are asking students to meet at the FRONT of the school by 8:10am.  The bus will leave the school at 8:20am.  Please remind your child to bring their swimsuit, towel, extra underwear and socks.  Those students with long hair should wear it up.  For those students that take the bus in the morning to school, they will arrive on time to get off their bus and then load on the bus for swimming.

From the OFFICE

Register Online 

Beginning June 1, registration for transportation and noon supervision for September 2015 can be done online through your My CBE Account. You can access your account from our website www.cbe.ab.ca/fees and register using the same email address the school has on file for your family. Fees do not need to be paid until September 2015.  Information Package Fees 2015-2016 has been emailed to all parents.

Upcoming Dates 

• June 8 - Scholastic Book orders due
• June 9 - Picture order forms due
• June 10 - Zoo field trip and money due
• June 8-11 - Swimming
• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 3, 2015

SWIMMING

Next week we have swimming lessons.  Our lessons start at 9 am so we are asking students to meet at the FRONT of the school by 8:10am.  The bus will leave the school at 8:20am.  Please remind your child to bring their swimsuit, towel, extra underwear and socks.  Those students with long hair should wear it up.  

To the students who are involved with Miss Jackson's Bee Mash-up Song:

Please bring in to school before Monday, June 8th, a yellow, orange or black shirt. Please have the shirt in a bag with the student's name clearly marked on the bag. Shirts will be returned home by the end of next week.

From the OFFICE

Register Online 

Beginning June 1, registration for transportation and noon supervision for September 2015 can be done online through your My CBE Account. You can access your account from our website www.cbe.ab.ca/fees and register using the same email address the school has on file for your family. Fees do not need to be paid until September 2015.  Information Package Fees 2015-2016 has been emailed to all parents.

Upcoming Dates 

• June 4- Yearbook order forms due
• June 8 - Scholastic Book orders due
• June 9 - Picture order forms due
• June 10 - Zoo field trip and money due
• June 8-11 - Swimming
• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

June 1, 2015

It's hard to believe that we are already on our last month of school for this year.  June is a bust month and we have many fun activities and projects on the go.  As hard as it can be in June, we still want our students reading at home every night and doing Mathletics to keep practicing those skills.  A lot can be still learned in the last month of school.

Mrs. Cooper's math class worked on a math assessment including a self-assesment to measure their growth and understanding of multiplication and division.  Miss Jackson's math class started working on fractions today.

We have the computers booked for an hour everyday this week for the students to work on and finish their inquiry projects by Friday.  Check with your child to see what they have done so far and what they still need to do to complete their project.

In the afternoon, we met with our grade 1/2 buddies to continue with our bee work.

Student's pictures went home today in their folder.  Order forms and explanation of the process are in the envelope.  These need to be completed by June 9, 2015

We also sent home permission forms for the zoo field trip to be completed and returned by June 10.  There will be a cost of $11 for this field trip so please enclose the money with the form.  For those students that informed us that they have a zoo pass, they are not required to pay the $11 as long as they are able to bring the pass for June 17.

All library books need to be returned by Friday, June 5.

Information – bike to school day

By: Praveen

Dear students of Rm 79 and 80,

Just a reminder that tomorrow is June 2 so that means it is BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY!

Everybody is encouraged to ride his or her bikes, scooters, skateboards etc. to school. If you don’t have something with wheels you can also walk or jog or run! This event was started by Kyle Stewart, a teacher within the CBE at Simon Fraser School, to promote physical activity in our Calgary communities. It would also reduce your carbon footprint for the day, which could help the earth and the problem of global warming.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on their bikes tomorrow!

Praveen

Upcoming Dates 

• June 6 - Scholastic Book orders due
• June 9 - Picture order forms due
• June 10 - Zoo field trip and money due
• June 8-11 - Swimming
• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

May 29, 2015

We enjoyed a very nice assembly put on by rooms 3 and 4, and 71,72,70, 75.  Some great messages where given about remembering to not litter and to take care of our environment.  The grade 3/4 team also gave us some valuable information about safety and reminded us of the importance of using the cross walk and to never jaywalk.

We did both Daily 5 and math this morning.  Mrs. Cooper's math class will be doing a math assessment on Monday to show what they now know about multiplication and division.  Miss Jackson's math class have been working on a very challenging problem over the last few days and today they shared some of their strategies that have use to some it.

Have a great weekend!

May 27, 2015

BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY

Hi boys and girls Cranston is participating in “Ride your bike to school day.” 

Bike to School Day 2015 is coming up, and is taking place on June 2, 2015! Over 8,000 kids are expected to be riding their bikes to school year with a growing number of schools joining the initiative. 

On June 2nd, over 50 school and an estimated 8000 students, if not more will be biking to their schools, participating in Calgary Bike to School Day. The mission of this event is to promote healthy active lifestyles in youth and that it can also be fun!  So get on your bikes

 and ride to school!

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Tomorrow is the Gregg Le Rock concert and we will be leaving the school to take the bus at 12:05pm.  All students will eat their lunch at school and we will then meet back in the classroom at 12:00 for attendance and then line up for the bus. 

Please remember to be doing your home reading every night for at least 20 minutes.  Also take some time every week to use Mathletics!  

Upcoming Dates 

• May 28 - Gregg Le Rock concert
• June 6 - Scholastic Book orders due
• June 8-11 - Swimming
• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly

May 25, 2015

SANDWICH MAKING

For those families who were at Cranston last year, you will remember our Sandwich Making Community Project (donations went to the Mustard Seed) that we were involved in and what a HUGE success it was!  For those new to us, throughout the year, we have been working very hard with our students to recognize the importance of giving back to their community.  We would like to participate in this project again this year.  If we could have each student bring in $2 for this project, it will be used to purchase the sandwich items (bread, ham, mustard, butter, cheese slices, Ziploc bags).  Thank you for your support, it is greatly appreciated. 

Just a reminder to please return swim forms and yearbook forms if you are interested in ordering one. 

We met with our grade 1/2 buddies to begin our projects for Bees.  Ask your child what project group they are in and what they started with today.

Upcoming Dates 

• May 28 - Gregg Le Rock concert
• June 6 - Scholastic Book orders due
• June 8-11 - Swimming
• June 17 - Zoo field Trip
• June 18 - Celebration of Learning
• June 23 - Sports Day
• June 25 - Report Cards go home
• June 26 - Last day/Farewell Peace Assembly