Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Important Information:

Student Voice this year has chosen some dates for spirit days. Our first spirit day will be on Thursday, October 29^th. We are going to have Orange and Black Day. Let’s show some spirit in our school by dressing in these October colours.

Highlights:

- We learned two new double-graphemes: ed, or

- We had Gym today.

-- Ms. Mui’s class: We did “Read to Self” and “Read to Someone”.  We read our alphabet poems today.  We did “Work on Writing” and wrote about our favourite animal.  Our Reading Buddies came into our class today to help us make our Bat art; then we read to them.  In Science, we painted primary colours and made secondary colours into a colour wheel.  In Social Studies “Getting to Know You”, we interviewed Aryan.       

-- Mrs. Daniels’ class: In Daily 5, we rotated into “Read to Self”, “Read to Someone”, “Work on Writing”, “Word Work”, and/or “Listen to Reading”.  We finished writing about why our favourite colour is the best.  In Science, we finished painting the primary colours and secondary colours on the “Mouse Paint” activity.  In Music, we practiced the beginning part of our Winter Concert song for the first time this afternoon!   

          

         

Homework:

- Grapheme homework – print each double-grapheme 5 times while saying the sounds/spelling rule out loud

- ed: “ed  d  t, past tense ending”         (landed  named  baked)

- or:   “or”  (for)  

(Please refer to the grapheme sounds/spelling rules on the youtube “Graphemes with Gestures” Video on the right-hand side of this Gr. 1 blog.)

-Review the first single graphemes daily, using the youtube Grapheme Video posted at the right-hand sidebar of this blog

-Review the double graphemes: er, ir, ur, wor, ear, sh, ee, th, ay, ai, ow, ou, aw, au, ew, ui, oy, oi, oo, ch, ng, ea, ar, ck, ed, or

-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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjTnR3QgLo&feature=youtu.be

-Home-Reading – Please have your child read around 15 minutes every night.  If we run out of other titles of the Level A white paper books your child is currently reading for home-reading, please log your child onto his/her kidsa-z.com reading account to find other titles in Level A that he/she hasn’t read yet.  Then write down the title of that book onto your child’s “Reading Log”.  Your child will read 1 book a night.

-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”  

https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login

Ask me about:

-how the first part of my Winter Concert song sounds like, from Music class

-what I learned how to build in Gym today

-Primary colours: red, yellow, blue

-which primary colours mix together to make orange, green, purple (violet)

-Secondary colours: orange, green, purple (violet)

Important Dates:
-Thursday, October 29 – Photo Retake day – held in the morning, for students who have already paid $5 for photo retakes and for handing in their Individual Photo ordering package to the office/Helen Scott photographer, indicating they need Photo Retakes.

-Thursday, October 29 – Orange and Black day

-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.)

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.