Important Dates

• November 13th and 14th Fall Break – no school for students
• November 15th Students and staff return from fall break
• November 21st Fun Lunch
• November 22nd Grade 3 Field Trip to the Calgary Zoo (more to come)
• November 23rd Grades 1-6 Parent Teacher Conferences (4:00 – 7:00 p.m.)
• November 23rd Scholastic Book Fair
• November 24th K-6 Parent Teacher Conferences (8:00 – 1:00 p.m.)
• November 24th Scholastic Book Fair

Warm Feet, Warm Heart Campaign
Leading up to the holiday season, we welcome you to join us in supporting the Calgary Drop-In Centre’s ‘Warm Feet, Warm Hearts’ program. With Parkland Cares and Bonavista Cares, we want to begin collecting socks, which students will later fill with various toiletries. The filled socks will be delivered to the Calgary Drop-In Centre, where they will be given to their clients, thereby helping to provide them with the little necessities that we all need daily.

From November 15th to 30th, we are looking for help in collecting:

• New pairs of warm socks
• Gloves, mitts, and hats
• Packaged bars of soap
• Lip balm
• Toothbrushes
• Toothpaste
• Floss
• Travel-sized shampoo
• Travel-sized conditioner
• Travel-sized body wash
• Travel-sized lotion/hand cream
• Coffee/food vouchers
• Gift cards
• Chocolate/candies

In early December, students will be invited to fill the socks with the collected toiletries. These socks will then be brought to the Calgary Drop-In Centre, where they will be handed out to clients. We believe this is a wonderful way to give back during the holiday season and allow our Andrew Sibbald students the opportunity to highlight their empathy, kindness, and wellness outside of our building.

Remembrance Day
This past week, students were actively engaged in reading, writing, math and art invitations to further construct knowledge about Remembrance Day. Please be sure to ask your child about the beautiful and meaningful Remembrance Day Assembly that they hosted alongside the Grade 6 team.

Learning Opportunities

• Students used ‘Loose Parts’ to build their story of peace. Students then used their MakerSpace reflection exit slips to write and reflect on what their story of peace is and why.
• Students listened to the story, ‘Finding Winnie’ and learned about the connection Canada has to the famous bear known around the world as ‘Winnie the Pooh’. Please ask your child what the connection is between our country and Winnie the Pooh.
• Students constructed gorgeous oil pastel drawings of poppies. We used some of the poppies painted by the famous artist Georgia O’Keeffe for inspiration!
• Students used the book, ‘A Little Peace’ to help them generate ideas about what it might look like to spread a little bit of peace in our school community. Some of our Grade 3 students shared this reflections orally at our assembly.

A Few Snapshots...