Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - Individual Portrait Ordering Packages are due today


Highlights:
- We had a Fire Drill practice this afternoon
- We learned two new double-graphemes: ow, ou
- We did today’s morning math word problem: “There are 6 bats flying.  There are 7 bats sleeping.  How many bats are there altogether?”
- We read our book, Poetry book, high-frequency word flashcards, and/or our previous writing in our Journal Writing notebooks during “Read to Self” in Daily 5
- We went to Gym this afternoon, where we practiced passing the ball to the next person in the line by using our underhand throws, overhand throws, and chest passes, and when we were in front of the wall we made sure to bounce the ball against the wall to catch it.

-- Ms. Mui’s class: We learned new poems in our Poetry books and read altogether in chorus.  We read quietly, building our reading stamina, and we read for 20 minutes today during “Read to Self”!  In Math, we made AAB patterns.  In Social Studies, we interviewed Karen today.  We went to Music today, and learned the beginning part of our “Forgiveness” song for the upcoming Forgiveness Virtue Assembly on October 26.          

-- Mrs. Daniels’ class: In math, we did a sorting activity.  In Social Studies, we interviewed Natalie today (ask your child what Natalie’s favourite things are, what she likes, and how many people are in her family).  In Daily 5, we worked on “Work on Writing”.  We also introduced “Word Work” today by making words.   
         

Important Information:

Coat Drive Challenge:
Please participate in the coat drive to help keep Calgary’s less fortunate warm this winter.  Please donate any clean, new, or gently used coats.  All coats can be brought to your child’s classroom teacher or the front office.  Coats are being collected until Monday, Oct. 26.

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.


Homework:
-Print double graphemes five times each and say the spelling rule out loud while printing each grapheme in homework book: ow, ou
ow – “ow, o” (e.g. the 2 sounds in the words: how, low)
ou – “ow, o, oo, u” (e.g. the 4 sounds in the words: noun, your, you, young)
(Grapheme sounds/spelling rules are on the youtube Grapheme Video at the right-hand sidebar of this blog)
-Review the double graphemes every day: er, ir, ur, wor, ear, sh, ee, th, ay, ai, ow, ou

-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 youtube Grapheme Video posted at the right-hand sidebar of this blog

-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”  


Ask me about:
-the Fire Drill practice and what are the rules that we have to follow when there is a fire drill? (line up at the door quietly, no talking, walking only, do not cover up your ears so that you can hear any announcements/warnings from teachers, etc.)
-what I did in math today (patterning or sorting)
-to show you what I did to solve the morning math word problem using pictures/numbers


Needed from Home:
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:
-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.)

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