Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

Highlights:

Did you know that it takes many different people to make up a community?  We learned that everyone is important, including: firefighters, garbage collectors, police officers, teachers, doctors, veterinarians, mail deliverers and our family members!

In art we practiced the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy.  Instead of using letters to represent words, Chinese people use characters.  The boys and girls wrote the year 2016 using a paintbrush, ink and a paper. 

Miss Atwal is back from her injury and was feeling a little scared to come back to gym.  The students helped her come up with some safety rules for gymnastics, then they got to play a game of “Angry Birds”.

Mrs. Daniel’s class made special envelopes today with their Reading Buddies.  Mrs. Leung-Chow’s class will make them tomorrow. 

Homework:

 Literacy M.A.P. – Word List #9: Don’t forget to study for the quiz tomorrow!

Monday: look, read, book, school

Tuesday: teacher, street, went then

Wednesday: Word Study Quiz!

Tell and Show – This week is letter “H”.   If you usually share your Tell and Show on Thursday or Friday, please bring it in tomorrow (as there is no school on either of those days).

Home Reading – Please have your child read around 20 minutes every night.  Don’t forget to ask questions and have conversations about the text.

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.

Ask Me About:

How do you print the year ‘2016’ using Chinese calligraphy? 

Who did Daniel Cook visit in the Social Studies movie?  Tell me about it.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, February 10^th

- In class field trip for Mrs. Daniels class (Sensational Science) in the afternoon.  Volunteers please meet in Mrs. Daniel’s classroom @12:30pm.

- To celebrate Valentine’s Day, both classes will be reserving the last 30 minutes of Wednesday for handing out cards.  If your child would like to participate in this activity, please ensure that all students in their class receive a card. 

Mrs. Leung-Chow’s Class

(22 students)

Matthew, Arianna, Noah, Edwin, Kyera, David, Rei, Kaleb, Teresa, Zoe, Madison, Jaya, Freshta, Heidi, Aubri, Suji, Karen, Brandon, Logan, Aiza, Evan and Aylie

Mrs. Daniel’s Class

(22 students)

Zeenat, Ayla, Logan, Kevin, Narta, Sadie, Natalie, Zen, Kaidan, Brinstan, Michelle, Angela, Ethan, Mateo, Samantha, Isabella, Lincoln, Sophie, Albert, Leah, Oscar and Brady

Thursday, February 11^th

- Teacher’s Convention, no school for students

Friday, February 12^th         

- Teacher’s Convention, no school for students

Reminders: 

If you would like to participate in the Valentine’s Day card activity, don’t forget to pack them in your backpack for tomorrow!

FYI:

Sensational Science In-Class Field Trip

Mrs. Leung-Chow is still in need of volunteers for this in school field trip!!!  If you are available to come in for on Wednesday, February 24^th @12:30pm, please contact her: ghleung@cbe.ab

Panorama Hills Cookbook

Mr. Laser's, Mrs. Leong's, Ms. Fleming's and Miss Laslo's classes are excited to participate in the Entrepreneurial Adventure project. We are creating a cookbook sharing favourite recipes from our Panorama Hills Community. 

The profits made from our cookbook will go towards Brown Bagging for Calgary's Kids (BB4CK). BB4CK feeds 2900 children per day across 270 Calgary schools. We would LOVE families to submit recipes through our Survey Monkey. Please click on the link to access it: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CBGQLTZ

Thank you :)

SPRING FOOD DRIVE

Panorama Hills School will be hosting a Spring Food Drive from Feb. 29 - March 17. Please bring non-perishable food items (see below list) and place them in the donation boxes in the Grand Hall. Please see our newsletter page for more information.

Non-Perishable Items: canned soup, canned fruit, canned veggies, dry pasta, pasta sauce, fruit juice boxes, rice, peanut butter, canned fish, canned meat and protein, baby food, diapers

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.   Yearbooks are $30 each.  Yearbooks will be printed and delivered to the school in June.