Friday, May 1, 2026

 Hello families,

IMPORTANT note from Mrs. Brinson: 

As we begin planning for the upcoming school year, we kindly ask that you complete the Enrolment Intentions Form in your MyCBE Parent Account within SchoolEngage. This form will show the school your child is designated to attend next year. See Mrs. Brinson's email for more details. To fill in the form, please go here: https://northernlights.cbe.ab.ca/news/complete-your-enrolment-intentions-form-20260416181648

Important Reminders:

May 4 - 15: Food Drive:  Students can bring in non-perishable food items such as canned goods, pasta, rice, cereal, and other pantry staples

May 6 - Hats on for Mental Health Day (Students can wear a hat at school on this day)

May 7 - Grade One Nutrition Program (please send regular lunch and snacks on this day)

May 14 - Family Dance - 6:00 to 8:00 (See below for ticket information)

ARE YOU ATTENDING THE MAY 14 FAMILY DANCE?

If you haven’t purchased your family ticket yet but plan to attend the Family Dance, please click HERE. (Please note, there is a service change associated with Sign Up Genius.)  Baggies with your family ticket and any coupons purchased will be sent home with your oldest child by Thursday, May 14.

Children cannot be at the dance without their parents or adult guardians. They cannot attend alone and cannot attend only with brothers or sisters. Thanks for your understanding!

This event is a fundraising event so all money over and above the costs associated with the event will be used to purchase new recess equipment. Thank you for your support!

Skills to practice at home:

• counting backwards from 20 to 0 

           20, 19, 18,  17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0

• skip counting by 2s to 20. Many students have mastered this skill! If your our child cannot yet skip count by 2s, please practice this skill at home. 

Goose Egg Update:

On day 16 of our candling, we saw veins in all of our eggs!  This is a good thing as it tells us that the embryo is alive and developing properly!

This week we:

• learned how to read a 2-syllable word with 'y' at the end! (The 'y' says the long 'e' sound!) This happens in words like 'puppy' or 'rusty'!

See if your child can read the following sentences:

• learned about Canada Geese babies, also known as 'Goslings'! We read non-fiction books and watched videos to help us learn about how they hatch, what they look like, what they need to survive and what they can do. Through out the year we have talked about different cycles. This week we learned about a new cycle - the life cycle of a Canada goose. We used this information to fill out our TIDE planner and then write multiple sentences about what we know about goslings.

• began exploring what subtraction is and learned the subtraction strategies: 'Make a Model' and 'Use a Number Bond'. Ask you child to tell you what our new important words mean: subtract, minus, difference.

• explored what animals and people do in the spring that is different from other seasons. We also sorted clothing into two groups: spring clothes and not spring clothes and then filled out our comparison of clothing over the seasons.

        Ask your child to tell you some things that animals do in the spring! Here's a few picture hints to help         them if they get stuck!

• reviewed what identity is and brainstormed the important parts of our own identities (food, clothing, art, language, celebrations). We shared these with partners. We focused on celebrations and made a list of all the different celebrations that families celebrate in our grade one class.
• began learning about and practicing badminton skills in gym.