Important information:
Winter Concert DVD for $10.00
A blue form went home
today, regarding the ordering of a Winter Concert DVD that can be purchased for
$10.00 (cash only). A videographer
recorded the whole 1 hour-long concert yesterday in the afternoon (1:30-2:30 pm)
when all the students were present. As
the Grade 1 and 2 students haven’t had the opportunity to watch the whole
Winter Concert production themselves (they were only able to watch Ms. Mui and
Mrs. Daniels’ classes’ practices) as they were backstage during the rest of the
concert duration, it would be a valuable keepsake to purchase a DVD for your
family to enjoy during the winter break and for many years to come. The DVD order form and $10.00 cash payment
(please place in envelope) is due next Monday, December 14, 2015 to the
videographer.
The Alex
“Warm Toes Without Holes”
(last day
to bring stuffed Socks in: Monday, Dec. 14)
The virtue of December is
“Service”, where are are learning that service means to help people in need,
whether it is helping to shovel an elderly person’s driveway, help carry
someone’s grocery bags to their car, donate food for the various food drives,
and to donate clothing.
The Alex is a community
health centre that welcomes homeless teenagers/youth and those who come from
poor family backgrounds, with little food and every 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.
Tell and Show – Letter A written and oral sharing this week
Grade 1 students in Ms. Mui and Mrs. Daniels’
classes is starting Tell and Show
sharings this week. Students will be
doing their Tell and Show oral sharing on their Library day.
Parents, students are in Grade 1 and we ask that
they learn to independently write the sentence clues and sound out the clues to
their spellings. They cannot copy down
the words from an adult’s. Instead,
guide them how to sound out the letter sounds in their writing, and allow them
to write their own beginning, middle, and end sounds in their writing, using
finger spaces between each word, an upper case letter at the front of the
sentence, and a period at the end of the sentence.
Each week we will focus on one letter of the
alphabet for our tell and show. They
select an object that starts with the letter of the week, draw the object,
write 3 clues (3 sentences) that describe the object, orally present the clues
to the class, and may also bring in the item (if they choose). Please practice the oral sharing with your
child, so that they have rehearsed their 3 sentence clues before coming to
class on their Tell and Show day (Library day).
Highlights:
Great job, Grade ones, on your amazing singing and
instrumental performances yesterday for the two Winter Concerts! Bravo!
You showed the whole school, all the families, and teachers what you have
learned in math, and all of you shone like stars. Great job to all the hard work you put into
your practices during Music classes and at home. You made your teachers, parents, families,
and the whole school very proud. Many
people praised your performances yesterday.
Way to go!
We did our morning math word problem of the day
independently. The students whose
Library Day was today got to share their 3 sentence clues for Letter A during
Tell and Show. We reviewed grapheme
sounds. We did a writing piece
independently on our own, from looking at a picture that is related to winter
with children playing in the snow. We
did Daily 5 rotations this morning. We
had Gym this afternoon.
Ms. Mui’s class: Ms. Mui was
away today, so our guest teacher today was Mrs. Dobler. We sorted by the attribute “Temperature” and
our sorting rule today was sorting temperature by “Hot” and “Cold”. We learned more about Translucent and Opaque
and what examples are translucent and opaque.
We had Music this afternoon with Mrs. Mann. We found more coloured objects from flyers
and newspapers, to fill up our coloured paper for our “I Spy” Colour Class
Book. Ask me what colour I am working
on, so that I can fill up the page with objects and things of that colour.
Mrs. Daniel’s class: Our Reading Buddies
helped us map out different locations in our School Map today by going on a
school tour with us. We found out where the Gr. 1 exit doors, our
classroom, Ms. Mui’s classroom, the school’s front entrance doors, office,
Learning Commons, Gym, and the Music room are on the School Map.
Homework:
- 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 the 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.
- Tell and Show – Letter A written and oral sharings for
tomorrow (if your Library day is tomorrow).
Below is the link to the review videos for Word Study List #5:
(Please copy and paste this spelling review video
for Word Study List #5 into the url bar, to view the spelling videos.)
-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 performing on stage
yesterday at both Winter Concerts?
-How did I feel when I was performing at the Winter Concerts?
- What is Transparent? Letting all
the light pass through an object clearly
(the object is see-through)
Examples
of Transparent: window, clear plastic water bottle, glass cup/jar, Ziploc
bag, tape, eye glass lens, clear plastic, plastic container, magnifying glass,
fish tank, an aquarium
What
is Translucent? Letting some of the light pass through
an object.
Examples
of Translucent: wax paper, a piece of notebook paper, frosted window, tinted
glass, a glass jar/clear plastic water bottle with green food colouring water
in it, a plastic container/bowl that isn’t completely see-through (the object
is not very see-through--you cannot see your hand through these objects clearly;
you can only see your hand’s shadow from behind)
What
is Opaque? Letting none of the light pass through
an object (the object is not see-through).
Examples
of Opaque: door, wall, brick wall, wooden desk, white board, Smart
Board, iPad, cell phone, laptop, eraser, pencil, pencil sharpener, crayon,
pencil crayon, pencil case, bucket, chair, table, drum, book, meter stick,
coins, wallet, ball, chocolate bar, bag of chips, bath tub, sink, etc.
Important Dates:
-Friday, December 11 – PSH
Clothing orders are due back
-Monday, December 14 – Last day to order a Winter Concert DVD for
$10.00 with order form and cash
payment
– Last day to bring in Male and
Female ladies socks for The Alex “Warm Toes Without Holes”
-Tuesday, December 15 – Christmas Carols: 10:15-10:30 am
– St. Jerome hand bell concert:
10:30-10:50 am
-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
-Friday, January 15 – NO SCHOOL!
-Thursday, January 28 – School Council Meeting at 7:00 pm
(open to all parents at PHS)
- Friday, January 29 – Report Cards go home
Reminders:
-PHS School monthly Calendar and newsletters are available on
the school website to view and print out
-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.
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