Important Information:
Individual Portrait Ordering Packages were sent home. If you
would like to order your child’s individual portrait, please read the package
and info.
2016 Panorama Hills School Yearbook:
Inside your child’s individual photo package
is a white sheet about the 2016 PHS Yearbook.
With the purchase
of a portrait package, yearbooks are available for the SPECIAL price of $20
each. This price expires on December 31,
2015. Yearbooks purchased after
December 31, 2015 will be priced at $30 each.
Yearbooks will be printed and delivered to the school in June.
Scholastic book orders for
both Ms. Mui and Mrs. Daniels are due today, on Friday, October 9. You can pay by cheque enclosed in an envelope
with the Scholastic order form, made payable to “Scholastic Canada”. Or you can now pay online with your credit
card (please bring in the paper order form, with your Payment reference # written
on it for the teacher).
You can vote for
the new school’s name! From
now until October 13. We have 4
choices for the new school’s name. They
are:
1.
Eric Harvie School (business man
who helped make Heritage Day and the Zoo)
2.
Margaret Southern School (business
woman who helped create Fish Creek Park)
3.
Buffalo Rubbing Stone School (large
glacier rock in Panorama Hills)
4.
Norman L. Kwong School
(Chinese-Canadian man who played for the Stampeders)
You can vote for the new name on our school website. Your parents can also vote, so spread the
word! Visit our school website for
details: http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b397/
Highlights:
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We did the Grapheme Quiz of the eight double graphemes learned this week: er,
ir, ur, wor, ear, sh, ee, th.
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We drew and wrote about Thankfulness in our journal books today for “Work on
Writing” in Daily 5 -- “What are we thankful for?”
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We went to Gym this afternoon.
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Ms. Mui’s class: We went to the
Learning Commons as a whole class today to review library expectations from our
school librarian. We made a pumpkin art
about Thankfulness, where we wrote four sentences about what we are thankful
for (e.g. I am thankful for a family. I
am thankful for food. I am thankful for
water. I am thankful for a house.) and
formed the orange strips of paper into a pumpkin. We had Music this afternoon.
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Mrs. Daniels’ class: We did a
morning math problem today: “Peter had 5 hot dogs. He ate 2 hot dogs. How many hot dogs does he have left?”. We read a story called The Very Stuffed Turkey, by Katharine Kenah. In Social Studies, we interviewed Brinstan. In Math, we sorted the class by favourite
colour and number of siblings.
Homework:
-No
Homework
Review
the learning of the “er”,
“ir”, “ur”, “wor”, “ear” grapheme sounds by playing this song on youtube
to remember the sounds to particular words: “Her first nurse
works early”. Please play
this song at home, to help your child remember the grapheme spellings as well:
-Review
the first single graphemes daily, using the single grapheme Flashcard set (letters
a-z for you to cut up and practice with your child) 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 by
just looking at the pictures beginning with the title page to the end of the
book, next read the book aloud to them 1 to 2 times, then have then read together
with you 1 to 2 times, and afterwards have them try reading on their own
independently 1 to 2 times. Make sure
when you and your child are reading the words, s/he and you must use your
pointer fingers (index finger) to read underneath the words.)
-Kidsa-z.com Reading – Besides reading the at-home white readers that are going home every day, 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 under her
maiden name: “sbeechey”.
Ms. Mui’s class – the account is under her username: “grmui”
Ask
me about:
-what
I am thankful for
Needed
from Home:
**Old
coloured magazines/flyers. (We will be using these to find different colours
for our Science colour unit.)
We are still
collecting water bottle lids! We are in
need of MANY water bottle lids, so that we can print letters on the top of the
lids, and students can be able to make words out of them and play word work
games soon. Please send in any that you
may have. Thank you!
Important Dates:
-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:
-Every
Friday is Early Dismissal at 1:45 pm. Please pick up your child on time! Thank you.
-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.)
-PHS Parent Handbook – Reading
for Kindergarten, Gr. 1, Gr. 2, and Gr. 3 students:
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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