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Guru Nanak Dev Ji Celebration

Khalsa School Calgary Division 1 Newsletter

Important Dates

November 2– No Classes (Guru Nanak Celebration)

November 3– Day in Lieu (SCHOOL CLOSED)

November 9– Picture Retakes

November 9– Remembrance Day Ceremony

November 10– Day in Lieu(SCHOOL CLOSED)

November 17– PD Day (No Classes)

November 23– Parent Teacher Conferences (No Classes)

November 24– Parent Teacher Conferences (No Classes)

Inside this issue:

Grade 3 Seva Project Remembrance Day

2

Parent Information 3

Teachers’ Corner 4-5

Habit of the Month 6

November Calendar 7

In honour of the Parkash Utsav of Guru Nanak Dev ji, our school will be holding a special Guru Nanak Dev ji Gurpurab celebration on Thurs-day, November 2, 2017 at 5:30-8:00 pm. On this day, there will be no classes and we ask that the students attend the celebration with their families that evening. This celebration in-cludes Kirtan and student performances, fol-lowed by Lungar. In order to make this cele-bration a success, we kindly request volunteers to assist with preparation and transportation of Lungar from the Gurdwara Sahib to the KSC. Please contact the school office if you are available to volunteer at the Gurdwara. Note- If your child is participating in Kirtan performances on Guru Nanak Dev ji’s Gurpu-rab celebration or Gurdwara performances, please make sure that your child is wearing white bana, navy blue head covering/dastaar/patka and navy blue chunni for girls. Alter-native clothing is not appropriate when per-forming. Please contact the office if you have any questions. See you at the Celebration!

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Grade 3 Seva project

This year the grade 3 classes have decided to work with Youth Unlimited again.

Youth Unlimited is an organization that has designed a program called Operation

Backpack. Youth Unlimited provides services to those young individuals that are

homeless in Calgary.

Operation Backpack is a program that runs every December.

It is a program that allows Calgary residents to become more involved in creating

a memorable Christmas for a street kid, as well as assisting in meeting some of

their basic needs.

The backpacks are filled with encouraging notes or cards, pair of warm socks,

warm gloves, shampoo and soap, toothbrush and toothpaste, brush or comb, deo-

dorant stick, chocolate or treat, small first aid kit, 5 adult Calgary transit tickets,

$5 fast food gift certificate, $5 donation (covers their Christmas dinner). Optional

gifts-sewing kit, small blanket, movie pass, grocery gift certifi-

cate, etc.

This is how you can help! On November 20th each grade level

will be given a backpack. The teachers will help create a list

and assign items to bring in. The backpacks will be collected on

Thursday, December 8th. They will then be handed out to the

youth ages 12-24 before Christmas. We appreciate any help we

can get!

On Remembrance Day, we recognize the millions of people who

lost their lives in war fighting for freedom. Remembrance Day is

observed by countries all over the world on November 11th each

year. This year Khalsa School will have their annual

Remembrance Day Ceremony on November 9,

2017 at 10:30am. We welcome our parents to par-

ticipate in this ceremony.

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Parent Teacher Conferences The Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on

November 23rd and 24th. Please make sure to con-

tact the office in order to make an appointment

with your child’s teacher. More information will fol-

low later this month.

Student Absences

If your child is sick or will be away from school

for any reason, please call the school office and let

the secretary know. The school phone number is

403-293-7712.

Bana Day

On Fridays, students are permit-

ted to wear Bana instead of their

school uniform. This is optional;

however, if students choose not

to wear Bana, they must wear

their uniform. Fridays are not

casual dress days!! Only

the last Friday of the

month is a Causal Day.

We are excited to start our home reading program in Division 1 in No-

vember. Your child will regularly bring home a book in their book bag

to practice their reading with you. It will be the responsibility of the

child to bring back their book to receive a new book. We highly en-

courage you to read with your child on a daily basis. Happy Reading!

The theme of October was Fall/ Harvest and Halloween and the students enjoyed reflect-ing on their fun filled Halloween! November is a month of remembrance, students are encouraged to reflect on what they are thankful for and think about how they can help their community! In November, students will learn about the significance of Remembrance Day and continue to learn about the sights, sounds and signs of autumn. Students will be introduced to different Community Helpers and about their role in the Community. In Literacy, students will continue to learn new letter sounds and begin rec-ognizing initial letter sounds in words. In Math, students will continue to sort objects based on a single attribute, extending and building patterns. Students will be introduced to Habit 2: “Begin with the End in Mind” making goals to complete a task. Just a reminder to continue to practice letter sounds with your child and read the alphabet po-ems in the Treasure Books. In addition, home reading will be sent home early November. Please look through and read the package carefully. We are looking forward to another ex-citing month in kindergarten! Kind Regards, Ms. Chidley and Ms. Kaur

In literacy, we finished reading the novel, Charlotte’s Web. We created book reviews and made

comparisons with the movie using Venn-diagrams. Now, we are exploring the features of descriptive texts. We are reading vari-

ous non-fiction texts including The Inuksuk. We will begin to write our own descriptive text about our favourite creepy crawlies

and other topics. We cannot wait to share! In math, our focus moved from patterns to numbers. We learned how to recall and

write ordinal numbers. We reviewed skip-counting and discovered how to make thoughtful estimates. We used manipulatives

(ten-base and one blocks) to represent different numbers as well as addition and subtraction equations. Now, we are learning

about the values and appearances of Canadian coins. We are finishing our unit on Small Crawling and Flying Animals in Science.

Throughout the month, we have learned about the appearance, habitat and diet of insects, Arachnids, centipedes, slugs and snails,

and worms. We have explored their impact on their environment and on humans. Our focus in Social Studies has been on the

early settlements of Metaghan, Saskatoon and Iqaluit. We have learned about how these communities have evolved from rural to

urban areas.

The Grade 2 Team: Mrs. Kaur and Mrs. Zaseybida

Teacher’s Corner

Grade 2

Grade 1 Happy Autumn! These first few months of Grade 1 have been spent on learning new reading and math skills.

Students are finally in their routine and following classroom expectations. It’s amazing to see the growth in the first few months as students

begin to become more confident. In Language Arts, we will continue to focus on learning new sight words and short vowel sounds. Dolch

Words will be sent home for students to practice. We have also been learning the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts. When

reading these stories, we will be focusing on predicting and asking questions about what we read. Students are encouraged to read 20

minutes each night to build on their comprehension and decoding skills. In math, we are continuing to learn all about numbers. Counting,

recognizing and writing numbers 1-100. We have started to read and write number words 1-10 and will learn numbers before and after. Ad-

dition and subtractions skills will also be taught this month. In Science we have been learning all about the season Fall. Students have also

learned the primary and secondary colors in our Colors unit. Students have been identifying colours in a variety of natural and manufactured

objects, and comparing and contrasting colours using terms lighter than, darker than, and brighter than. In

Social, students are learning the benefits and responsibilities of living in a community. We are also examining

what helps us to recognize different groups or communities, and what are our responsibilities and rights at

home and school. Grade 1 Team: Mrs. Hundal and Mrs. Kaur

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Khalsa School Calgary

Kindergarten

In Literacy, we are working super hard on our writing skills. Our sentences are becoming

much more interesting and creative. We are doing our best to include lots of details and colorful

words. We are also learning how to describe settings and characters. We are sharpening our skills in

grammar and focusing on punctuation, different types of sentences, as well as common, proper, singu-

lar and plural nouns. We are just about done The BFG (novel study). We will be starting our Descrip-

tive writing unit. Descriptive writing provides information by classifying or describing the way things

are. Our goal is to generate details by extending on a simple idea. We will do this by using descriptive

text organizers such as the “5 W’s” ( Who, What, Where, When and Why).

In math students have completed the Patterns unit and are now working on Numbers to 1000. Here

students will compare, represent, and estimate numbers to 1000, as well as skip count numbers using

multiples of 3, 4, 5, 10, 25, and 100.

In social studies students have explored the coast, mountains, and rainforest of Peru learning about

different people groups, the Peruvian customs and traditions and even sampling a little taste of Peru.

Soon students will be traveling to Ukraine.

The Grade 3 team: Mrs. Gill, Mrs. Sandhu and Mrs. Parhar

Punjabi

KG: The students will be learning to trace second line of Punjabi alphabets. Some students are somewhat behind due to lack of tracing prac-tice at home. The parents are requested to help their kids writing at least one page every day at home. Please return homework folders when all pages have been done. In Gurmat, they will be learning the names of first Gurus, 5 Piare and 4 Sahibzade. G-1,2,3: Basic Level: The students will be learning 35 alphabets in their Punjabi classes. They will be taught to recognize the sounds of all alphabets so that they can write mixed letters to start writing Mukta – 2,3,4-letter words. The parents are requested to help their children in practicing Punjabi alphabets and their sounds at home. Advanced Level: The students will be learning to read and write different matra words. The students who can read, write and understand all matra sounds will be learning Bindi, Tippi and Adhakk sounds so that they can read and write Punjabi sentences. In Gurmat, the students will be learning the names of 10 Gurus, 5 Piare, 4 Sahibzade, 5 Kakkaar, 5 Banis and 5 Takhats. They are

encouraged to memorize at least one pauri of Japji Sahib every week. The Punjabi Team: Mrs. Kaur, Mrs. Khara, and Mrs. Gill

For Punjabi and Gurmat resources, please visit following websites:

https://sites.google.com/a/khalsaschoolcalgary.ca/mrs-satinder-kaur/

https://sites.google.com/a/khalsaschoolcalgary.ca/mrs-parminder-kaur-khara/

http://sikhville.org/

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Grade 3

Teacher’s Corner

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Congratulations to the Habit Heros

We had excellent role models that demonstrated Habits 1 to 7. Con-gratulations to the following students for receiving a Habit Hero cer-

tificate :

KA– Japsirat Dhaliwal

KB– Gurseerat Brar

1A– Japneet Sohal

1B– Kavanjot Minhas

2A– Ravneek Brar

2B– Nardev Gill

3A– Manraj Dhesi

3B– Samardeep Mangat

3C– Manpreet Singh

In November, we will be focusing

on Habit 2 which is Begin

with the End in Mind - Think

about how you want something

to turn out before you start it.

Goal setting is an important skill

for success. Set a goal. Then,

break it down into small manage-

able pieces. A great example is a

puzzle. You study the picture.

Then, you sort pieces. Perhaps

you’ll do the edge first. Next, you may

find all the pieces of one color, and so

on step by-step until it is complete.

2017 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Picture Retakes

2

Guru Nanak Celebration

No Classes

Event 5;00-8:00 pm

3

Day in Lieu

School Closed

4

Parkash Guru

Nanak Dev Ji

5 6

7 8 9

Remembrance Day

Ceremony

10:30

10

Day in Lieu

School Closed

11

Remembrance

Day

12 13

14

15

Shaheedi Baba

Deep Singh Ji

16

17

Staff PD

NO SCHOOL

18

19 20

21

Gurgadhi Guru

Gobind Singh Ji

22

23

Parent Teacher Confer-

encev3:00– 7:30

No Classes

24

Parent Teacher Confer-

encev 8:15-12:30

No Classes

25

26

Gurdwara

Performance

27

28 29 30

Birthday Schibzada

Baba Zorawar

Singh Ji

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