Newsletter/Calendar
Coming home today is the December Newsletter. Please review Mrs. Traquair's message on the main page as she has included some very important information regarding changes to the report cards. Mrs. Traquair will also be holding an information session during interviews (December 4 and 5) to answer any questions you may have. If you have any questions regarding the new reporting system, please email your child's teacher or Mrs. Traquair (sjtraquair@cbe.ab.ca)

Please note the important dates for December

December 4 (430-8) and December 5 (8-1230) - Parent Teacher Interviews 

December 18 - Evening Performance with our Artists in Residence (SoundKreations)

December 19 - Free Pizza Lunch and last day of school before winter break

December 22 to January 4 - Winter Break

Conferences
Please log onto the Vista Heights website http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b239/ and click on Parent Teacher Conference Link to set up an appointment to meet with your child's teacher.   Please read the notice if you need to go through the registration process.

REGISTRATION OPENS:    SATURDAY, NOV 29  at 8:00am 

CLOSES:    THURSDAY, DEC. 4  at 12:00pm

Mrs. Traquair will be holding two 30 minute sessions in the Learning Commons to share our new report card with interested parents/guardians. The sessions will be held at 5:30pm-6:00pm and 7:00pm-7:30pm.

Great Opportunity for Family Fun! 3rd Annual CBE Night with the Hitmen 

Click the link below to view the details: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/new/news2014-15/pdfs/20141112-night-with-the-hitmen.pdf

Thank you to those who brought in their own riddles from yesterday! We had a blast creating our own in class today. Here are some riddles you can figure out with your family at home! Bring your answers to school tomorrow!

A notice to book time for the Parent Teacher conferences is being sent home. The conferences are scheduled on Thursday, Dec. 4  from 4:15pm-8:00pm and Friday, Dec. 5 from 8:00am-12:30pm. This conference is organized so the teacher can meet with each parent/guardian for a scheduled 15 minutes. 

To book a conference please log into Vista Heights website http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b239/

                                      and click on Parent Teacher Conference Link.   Please read the notice if you 

                                      need to go through the registration process. 

                   REGISTRATION OPENS:    SATURDAY, NOV 29  at 8:00am 
                                               CLOSES:    THURSDAY, DEC. 4  at 12:00pm


Mrs. Traquair will be holding two 30 minute sessions in the Learning Commons to share our new report card with interested parents/guardians. The sessions will be held at 5:30pm-6:00pm and 7:00pm-7:30pm.

What am I?
I have hands
I have a face
I'm non-living
and I have numbers
What am I?

I have four legs
I am smooth to touch
I am non-living
What am I?

Students have been using sensory words to help them create and solve the 'what am I' riddles like the ones above. Please work with your child to solve the riddles above and bring your answers to school tomorrow. If you would like, students can create their own 'what am I' riddles to share with the class tomorrow.

Turtle Diary

Vista Heights has created an account for www.turtlediary.com. Students can log in learn about a variety of language arts, math, and science topics. To log into turtle diary, please visit
www.turtlediary.com
username: vistaheights
password: vistaheights

Reminders

- Hot soup tomorrow

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Today the students learned more about their sense of sight. We learned that our sense of sight is very important to us because:

• Our sense of sight is the most used of the five senses.
• The sense of sight protects us! We can see to move around without being hurt. 
• Without light there is no sight! 

We also learned how optical illusions can use light and patterns to create images that can confuse our brains. Ask me about some of the images I saw.

To further explore optical illusions with your child visit  http://www.optics4kids.org/home/content/illusions/

The students in room 1 also explored the art of zentangles. Tomorrow we will be creating our own optical illusions using zentangles.

Tickets for Calgary Hitmen Fundraiser

All CBE students and their families are invited to come and cheer on the 

Calgary Hitmen hockey team.

Friday, January 30, 2015

7:00 p.m.

iPad Club Tomorrow

If you are a member of the I-pad club, 

please remember to bring a lunch and meet at 12 noon 

in Ms. Toor's room

Lockdown Practice 

Today our students were able to remain quiet

 the entire time of the practice 'lockdown".

The constable from the Calgary Police Department

 was very pleased with their effort.

Tickets for Calgary Hitmen Fundraiser

All CBE students and their families are invited to come and cheer on the 

Calgary Hitmen hockey team.

Friday, January 30, 2015

7:00 p.m.

Some Glimpses of Student Learning in Mathematics 

Students are learning to count by fives as they build with cubes to 100.

With a 100  chart, students are practicing sequencing number to one hundred.

 

The boys have sequenced the numbers to 20 and are creating the matching amounts with manipulatives

Please ask your child to practice counting and sequencing numbers.

Parent Council would like to remind you…

-Thank you for participating in the Purdy’s Fundraiser

-no orders will be taken after Tuesday, November 24^th

-orders can be picked-up during conferences on Thursday, December 4^th and Friday, December 5^th