Important information:
Winter
Concert – Wednesday, Dec. 9
1:30 pm and
6:30 pm concert performances – 2 guests per family
(math-themed,
about patterns, sorting, and numbers that the Gr. One and Two students have
been learning about)
Students have been practicing for many weeks for their song and
actions they will be performing next Wednesday, December 9’s Winter Concert,
held in the Gym at 1:30 pm and 6:30 pm. Students HAVE to arrive at school, into their classroom, by 6:00
pm to get ready, practice, and be in attendance
before the performance starts right away at 6:30 pm. Parents can
drop student off at the front door and the students can walk straight to their
classroom, so that parents can find seats at 6:00 pm in the Gym.
Ms. Mui and Mrs. Daniels’ classes: Please look below at the
clothing colours your child needs to wear for their role at the Winter
Concert.
Winter Concert CLOTHING
COLOURS
PHS Winter Concert
2015
Afternoon concert: 1:30-2:30 pm
Doors open to audience at
1:00 pm
Evening concert: 6:30-7:30 pm
Doors open to audience
at 6:00 pm
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CLASS
|
Shirt/Top Colour
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Bottom/Pant Colour
|
|
Mui
|
Sun Dancers–Yellow/Orange
Moon Dancers – Blue
Chimney Stack –
Black
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ALL - Black
|
|
Daniels
|
ALL - Black
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ALL - Black
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Sun - Aryan, Noah, Suji, Teresa, Kaleb, Freshta, Aiza
Moon - Aylie, Arianna, Rei, Edwin, Logan, Matthew, Madison, Jaya
House (Chimney Stack) - David, Karen, Zoe, Aubri, Brandon, Kyera, Evan,
Heidi
Our school is asking that each child's family is limiting
to 2 guests
to watch the afternoon or evening concert, as we do not have extra chairs for
extra bodies. A videographer
will be video-recording the whole performance during the 1:30-2:30
pm concert (when all students are present) and will be selling the Winter
Concert DVD for an
affordable and cheap price of $10! No “flash” picture-taking or
video-recording unless you crouch down/kneel at the side/front “Paparazzi
Corner”, so that all audience members have a clean view of the concert
performances. Thank you for understanding.
Winter Concert song video students can practice at home:
Mrs.
Mann, the Music teacher, posted a practice video for the song sung by all Grade
One and Grade Two students on the PHS Music blog: http://panoramahillsmusic.blogspot.ca
(Please copy and paste this Winter Concert Song
into the url bar, to view the video.)
Please
provide time for your child to practice singing and doing the actions at home
before the Winter Concert this Wednesday, Dec. 9 at the 1:30 pm and 6:30 pm
performances.
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, for
families who do not have enough to eat during this Christmas holiday
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:
We did dress rehearsals all day today. We practiced “Sally Go Round The Sun” and
Monster-Number songs many times today, so that our performances impressed you
at this afternoon’s 1:30 pm concert. You’ll
be even prouder of us for doing it a second time this evening at 6:30 pm!
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:
-Remind me to practice the “Sally Go Round the Sun” and the
Monster-Number song with excitement, and with a loud and beautiful singing
voice (for tonight’s Winter Concert)
Important Dates:
-Wednesday, December 9 – Winter Concert (afternoon concert: 1:30-2:30 pm and evening concert:
6:30-7:30 pm)
-Friday, December 11 – PSH
Clothing orders are due back
-Monday, December 14 – 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 for Movie 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 14, 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.
Reminders:
-Winter Concert Clothing Colours for Mrs. Daniels’ class: Black shirts/tops and black bottoms
-Winter Concert Clothing Colours for Ms. Mui’s class: Black bottoms and for the shirts/tops:
Sun Dancers – Yellow/Orange tops
Moon Dancers – Blue tops
Chimney Stack – Black
tops
-PHS School monthly Calender is available on the school
website
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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