Calgary Public Library Cards!

Coming home today are FREE Calgary Public Library Cards! 

Free custom cards are being distributed to all students and school staff within the Calgary Board of Education as part of the Calgary Public Library’s pledge to remove barriers to literacy.

“The path to literacy begins before a child reaches five years of age,” said Bill Ptacek, Calgary Public Library CEO, “and sets the stage for a strong future. By making Library cards free to all Calgarians, we’re challenging parents to model the reading habit to their children by picking up their own free Library cards and getting families reading together.” 

Visit calgarylibrary.ca to register your card today! Or visit any Calgary Public Library locations near you.

Here are list of locations near our school:

Village Square Library

2623 56 St N.E.
Calgary AB T1Y 6E7

Forest Lawn Library

4807 8 Ave S.E.
Calgary AB T2A 4M1

Skipping

We are amazing skippers! We have wrapped up our skipping unit today. We learned the basics of skipping and then learned some tricks! We even did some partner tricks. Enjoy the pictures of us having fun, learning to skip!

Reminders for next week

Valentines day card exchange on Wednesday February 11th in the afternoon

No school for Thursday and Friday (February 12&13) due to Teachers Convention

No school on Monday February 16 due to Family Day

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching.  We don’t have school on Feb. 14^th, so we will do a few friendship activities on Feb. 11^th instead.   As a writing activity, your child may wish to give a card to classmates, whether store bought or homemade. As always, participation is completely optional. If your child does participate we ask that he/she provide a card for EVERY student in the class. Please have your child print all text independently.  Though we appreciate your kindness, please do not send any other treats or snacks.

Have you filled a bucket today?

Please visit the following link to listen to the have you filled a bucket today story. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIftjwDkztw

Please ask your child:  How can you fill a bucket? How have you filled a bucket today?

February Newsletters went home yesterday. Please click the following link to view the entire newsletter: http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b239/publications/newsletters/2014-2015/February%20Newsletter.pdf

Please note the important dates below:

February 12 & 13 - No School due to Teachers Convention

February 16 - No School due to Family Day

February 26 - Grade 1/2 Assembly in the afternoon - All parents are welcome!

February 27 - Pizza Fun Lunch (order forms will come home later this month)

Thank you to those who have returned their report card envelopes! If you have not sent them yet, please do so as soon as possible :)

A message from School Council

Casino Needs Your Help!

Hello Parents - The School Council has a Casino to help supply the school with all the programs and equipment our children have grown accustom to using at Vista Heights Elementary. The Casino is this Friday and Saturday at Deerfoot Casino. There have regrettably been few parents volunteers for this necessary event that benefits your children directly. Your parent council has found quite a number of volunteer from outside the school, but we still need people for a number of positions. Please come in to the school and sign up, or call Chad Hande at 403-291-5272. Thank you so much for your help.

February 6th (Friday)

11:00am - 7:30pm - ALT GM and Banker

1:00pm - 8:00pm Cashier and Chip Runner (no one signed for this shift at all)

7:00pm - 4:00am - ALT GM

February 7th (Saturday)

7:00pm- 4am - 2 Cashiers

11:00pm - 4:00am - recorder, amalgamtor, verifier, sorter and some spares.

And spares for each night on each shift...

February, Tuesday3, 2015
Swimming certificates were sent home. If you have any questions regarding your child's level please contact Village Square pool Staff at 403-366-3900

 Understanding   

We read the book,

                                  

                                                 What did Mooch want to buy for his friend?

                                                       Ask me to explain "nothing"

We discussed that a present is not the only gift that you can give a friend...

                    The most important thing is understanding what your friend needs....

                                       Ask me what Earl wanted for a present?

                            Spending time with a friend and taking care of a friend

                                            He just needed love

We read the book,

                          

                  Ask me what I learnt about compassion and caring.......?

   Ask me to tell you a few things that we can do to show that we understand....?

   Ask me how I can show I understand how he feels...

We are going to the gymAsk me what we need to do?

                          CHANGE OUR PLAN...... give a helping hand and UNDERSTAND

                                        our friend needs us more....

How can we be understanding to other people? 

           
         ...help our friends                               ..cheer up our friends if they are sad

    Little Green Thumbs 



Today students of our Grade1/2 classes created various scientific experiments and growing projects under the guidance of Little Green Thumbs coordinator Ms. Jaclyn Angotti of the Calgary Zoo. 






Pea Germination Experiment

Students have placed a seed of a pea in a wet paper towel..
Then each seed and wet towel was placed in a paper bag
and put in area of the classroom 
that was selected by the student.

                                                     Which will germinate faster?
                                                     In an area of the room that is warm, cool, cold or hot?




  What does water do to a 
  hard dry seed?

A small clear plastic bottle has been filled with tiny round pea seeds. Water has been added, filling in all the empty spaces between the seeds.
Finally, the top has been secured on the plastic bottle.


These students are checking out the changes in the seeds.
What do you think will happen to the seeds and bottle?

Please return the Report Card envelope to our class. 

Thank you