Important Information:
Word Study – Literacy Map:
We
are very excited that we finished learning the first 26 single graphemes and
their sounds! Horray for all of your
hard work, Grade ones!
We
will be starting to learn about the Double Graphemes starting next Monday. A letter about the learning of the double
graphemes and a Flashcard set will go home with your child on Monday. Please cut up the double grapheme boxes (just
like you did for the single grapheme flashcard set in early September), and use
the flashcard set every day to practice and review the grapheme sounds with
your child.
Continue
to also use the Flashcard set that your child brought home in early September,
of the single graphemes from a-z, by reviewing the sounds every day.
Class Photos are on Thursday, October
8. Dress nicely for class picture day!
You can vote for the new school’s name! From now until October 13. Visit our school website for details: http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b397/
Highlights
- We did our
morning math problem: “The answer is 6.
What is the question?”
- This morning we
showed our learning of the first 26 grapheme sounds on our Grapheme Quiz
(Students will be learning the double graphemes starting next Monday—a letter
about it and a Flashcard set will go home with your child next Monday for you
to practice and review with your child every day.)
- We attended the
Gr. 2 Virtue Assembly about “Friendship” in the gym, for our virtue in
September.
-- Ms. Mui’s class: We did 13 minutes of
“Read to Self” in Daily 5! (Impressive
quiet reading!). We did a patterning
activity, where we created shape patterns using the AB pattern core and the ABC
pattern core (Have your child show you 2 AB repeating patterns and 2 ABC
repeating patterns, by drawing out the shapes for you!). For the Social Studies “Getting to know you”
activity, we interviewed Madison (ask your child what Madison likes, what
language she speaks, how many people are in her family, and what some of her
favourite things are).
-- Mrs. Daniels’ class: Mrs. Daniels was
away today at a conference workshop. Our
guest teacher’s name today was Mrs. Walker (our Gym teacher last year!). We created a “Book of Rainbow Colours”, to
learn that the rainbow starts with the colours red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, and lastly ends off with the colour purple. We sorted ourselves into different groups
(Have your child tell you different groups we sorted ourselves and our
classmates into [boys on one side of class and girls on the other, by hair
colour, long and short hair, glasses and no glasses]).
Needed from Home:
**Old coloured magazines/flyers.
(We will be using these to find different colours for our Science colour unit.)
We are also collecting water bottle lids.
Please send in any that you may have.
Thank you!!!
Homework:
-No homework in
blue homework books, as teachers will be marking the Grapheme Quizzes for the
weekend.
-Review the first
single graphemes daily, using the grapheme Flashcard set your child brought
home in early September (also use the youtube Grapheme video, posted at the
side of our blog, made by our Literacy Learning Leader, Mr. Dalderis.)
-Home-Reading
– Please have your child read around 15 minutes every night. (Do a picture walk with your child first,
read the book aloud to them first, then have then read with you, and afterwards
have them try reading on their own independently.) Besides reading the at-home white readers
that are going home everyday, you may also log on to “Raz-Kids”, using the
kidsa-z.com website. The login
information is taped on your child’s purple folder. The password is the picture cue.
Mrs. Daniel’s class - the account information is still in my maiden name: “sbeechey”
Ms. Mui’s class – the account is under my username: “grmui”
Mrs. Daniel’s class - the account information is still in my maiden name: “sbeechey”
Ms. Mui’s class – the account is under my username: “grmui”
Ask me about:
-What did I like about the
Friendship virtue assembly? What did I
learn from the friendship songs and skits that the Grade 2 students performed? How can I continue to show the virtue of
friendship at school?
Important Dates:
-Thursday, October 8 – Class Photos (Dress nicely for class picture day!)
-Monday, October 12 – Thanksgiving – NO SCHOOL
-Thursday, October 15 – Healthy Hunger (Fun Lunch) – Little Caesars pizza (Order your child’s
Fun Lunch online on the main front page of Panorama Hills School’s website
under the titled link: Online Ordering for Healthy Hunger LUNCH. Must have order in by the Sunday before the
booked lunch day. Preorders are accepted for dates in advance.)
-Monday, October 19 – Federal Election – our school gym will be
a polling station
-Monday, October 26 – Gr. 1 Virtue Assembly at 12:55 pm of the
virtue “Forgiveness”, in the gym – Classes presenting/performing are Mrs.
Daniels, Ms. Mui, Mrs. Venhuis, and Ms. Purves’ Gr. 1 classes. – Parents/families of the performing Gr. 1
students are welcome to attend.
-Thursday, October 29 – Healthy Hunger (Fun Lunch) – Quiznos
-Friday, October 30 – NO SCHOOL – Non-instructional day
Reminders:
-Healthy Hunger
(Fun Lunch) – Order your child’s
Fun Lunch online on the main front page of Panorama Hills School’s website
under the titled link (with a lunch bag picture next to it): Online Ordering for Healthy Hunger LUNCH. Must have order in by the Sunday before the
booked lunch day. Preorders are accepted for dates in advance.)
-Walk to School!
Last spring we invited all
families attending PHS to join with their friends and neighbours to walk to
school every Wednesday and Friday mornings.
Let's continue to make this simple change that results in big
benefits! We encourage you to explore
the residential areas around the school for parking spaces that are more
convenient while being mindful about parking in front of private
driveways. Parking just two or three
blocks away from the school will reduce frustration and increase everyone’s
safety! You may enter your child in a
draw if they walk to school on these day.
See the school website for details.
-Reading:
To support children in
becoming knowledgeable readers, the most important thing parents can do is to
read aloud to their children and talk about what has been read. This nightly process supports children in
developing oral language skills (the ability to talk in a fluid and
understandable manner), comprehension (understanding what has been read), and
sparks enthusiasm toward the act of reading.
We created this downloadable document to support parents in identifying
the expectations for readers during their years at PHS:
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