Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - Extension: tomorrow is the last day to bring in The Alex socks for a "male" or "female"

Highlights:

This morning our school got to watch St. Jerome School’s Bell Choir perform beautiful Christmas music with their hand bells.  Our whole school also sang Christmas carols.  The students whose Library Day was today got to share their 3 sentence clues for Letter B during Tell and Show. We did a morning math word problem.  We had Gym this afternoon, where we did a relay game to toss as many bean bags into hoola hoops.

Ms. Mui’s class: We did a single grapheme review of letters a to p, qu to z (26 graphemes).  We wrote about the St. Jerome Bell Choir during “Work on Writing”.  We made a Number Book this afternoon, and worked on our word hunt for “Word Work”.

Mrs. Daniel’s class: We did Daily 5 rotations today.  We played a math game called “I have…, Who has…”.  We went to Music class this afternoon.

Important information:

The Alex “Warm Toes Without Holes”

(ENTENSION: last day to bring stuffed Socks in: Wednesday, Dec. 16)

The virtue of December is “Service”, where are are learning that service means to help people in need.

The Alex is a community health centre that welcomes homeless teenagers/youth and those who come from poor family backgrounds, with little food and everyday necessities.  As a school, we are encouraged to make socks, stuffed with everyday essential toiletries, for these male and female youth/teenagers, so that they can go about their every day being able to use these items.  To make your sock, buy a long, warm pair of male or female sock (or both), roll up one of the socks and put it into the bottom of the other sock, and stuff it inside with these items: toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, body wash, soap, body lotion, shaver, shaving cream, mittens, hand sanitizer, bus tickets to travel about the city, McDonalds/Tim Hortons gift cards for food, etc.).  The youth/teenagers who frequently visit The Alex will be happy to receive these as their Christmas gifts.  àPlease tie up your Male or Female stuffed sock with ribbon, and label the Male or Female sock “Male” or “Female”, so The Alex will know who the sock will be given to as a Christmas present, to keep their feet warm this winter.

Mayor’s Food Drive

-Thursday, December 17 – Last day to bring in Non-perishable food items (e.g. canned food, soup, uncooked pasta, etc.) for the Mayor’s Food Drive that CBE and the Food Bank have partnered together, to provide food for families who do not have enough to eat during this Christmas holiday/winter season.

Homework:

-Tell and Show – Letter B written and oral sharings this week (on your Library day).

- No Spelling homework until the new year.  Temporarily we will be reviewing graphemes until Christmas break.  Before the end of Christmas Break, we will have a final quiz of all the 54 graphemes learned this year.  If your child needs more practice catching up on the grapheme sounds, review the single and double grapheme sounds over Christmas break, to prepare them for more challenging grapheme sounds (3-letter graphemes) and Spelling words in the new year. 

Below are the links to the review videos for all of the graphemes and spelling words learned this year:

·      Graphemes 1-26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1K1joMTWs

·      Graphemes 27-54: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POhlJUlNmJg

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVL838yYsQG7yNcrlj2Rd2wO

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVIUBDYviWa4-FZRwV506PzH

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVI_SA7_gcuUzUtjXLuEVqQD

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 4: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVI0h8Rc2AtL_2Fz2H95HlP6

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 5: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVKbiF6yg8-cUZKzi4myoPVI

(To view the grapheme/spelling videos, please copy and paste the links into the url bar.)

-Home-Reading – Please have your child read around 20 minutes every 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.

Ask me about:

-       What was my favourite part about watching the students from St. Jerome’s Bell Choir perform music using handbells?

-       What was your favourite song when singing Christmas carols?

Important Dates:

-Wednesday, December 16 – Last day to bring in Male and Female ladies socks for The Alex “Warm Toes Without Holes”

-Thursday, December 17 – Christmas Carols: 12:55 pm-1:10 pm

– Last day to bring in Non-Perishable food items for the Mayor’s Food Drive

– Healthy Hunger Lunch (Quiznos)

-Friday, December 18 – Pajama & Stuffy Day! (last day of school before winter break)

-Monday, December 21 to Friday, January 2 – Winter Break. Students return to school on Monday, January 4, 2016.

-Monday, January 4, 2016 – Students resume back to school

-Thursday, January 14 – School Spirit Day (Blue and Gold Day): Wear your PHS t-shirts or hoodies you purchased from the School Council or wear blue or gold.  We are encouraging students to purchase a PHS shirt to support School Council.    

– Movie Night for families, in the School Gym

Reminders: 

-PHS School monthly Calendar and newsletters are available on the school website to view and print out

-Milk Cards can be purchased at the office, for students staying at school for lunch

-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.