Important Information:
Individual Portrait Ordering Packages were sent home today. 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.
Class Photos are tomorrow, on Thursday, October 8. Dress nicely for class
picture day!
Scholastic book orders for
both Ms. Mui and Mrs. Daniels are due 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:
-
We did our morning math problem: “In the garden there are 5 birds and 3
squirrels. How many animals are there
altogether?”
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We learned about the double-graphemes “ear” and “sh” and their sounds.
ear:
“ear the ‘er’ of early”
sh:
“sh”
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We went to Gym this afternoon, where we practiced our chest passes, underhand
passes, and overhand passes using a ball.
We practiced passing the ball against the wall to a partner.
--
Ms. Mui’s class: We read our Book of
Poems today! This morning in Science, we
made observations about mixing primary colours to make secondary colours, using
paint. This afternoon, we made an
umbrella with rainbow colours; we first painted in the primary colours and then
we painted in the secondary colours by mixing two primary colours
together. For the Social Studies
“Getting to know you” activity, we interviewed Heidi (ask your child what Heidi
likes, how many people are in her family, and what some of her favourite things
are). This afternoon we went to Music.
--
Mrs. Daniels’ class: Today was Mrs. Zaharichuk’s first Wednesday
with our class. We did “Read to Self” and
“Work on Writing” in Daily 5! We
practiced logging onto laptops, so that we could practice learning how to log
into Raz-Kids, into our kidsa-z.com reading accounts.
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!
Homework:
-Complete
the homework for today’s double graphemes “ear” and “sh” and say aloud the
following phrases while printing each double grapheme:
ear:
“ear the ‘er’ of early”
sh:
“sh”
(Print
5 times of each letter—1 line each).
Start using the double grapheme Flashcard set your child brought home, by cutting up the boxes of double graphemes and practicing the learnt
graphemes with your child daily.
This
week, for the learning of the “er”, “ir”, “ur”, “wor”, “ear” grapheme sounds,
we will be 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:
-the
sounds of the double graphemes: “ear” and “sh”
ear:
“ear the ‘er’ of early”
sh:
“sh”
-to show you how I did our morning math
problem using pictures/numbers
-the
colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
-primary
colours: red, yellow, blue
-Red +
Yellow = Orange
-Yellow
+ Blue = Green
-Red +
Blue = Purple
-Blue
+ Red = Purple
-Blue
+ Yellow = Green
-Yellow
+ Red = Orange
-when
two primary colours mix together, they make the secondary colours: orange,
green, purple
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:
-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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