Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

Highlights:

Today our school had a practice lockdown.  All the students sat in their classroom’s designated spot and had to be very quiet.  Our teachers locked the doors and we waited for a signal.  After some time, Constable Kovacs came to speak with us and said our school did an amazing job!  Even though today was just a practice, we know that if there ever was a real lockdown, all the students would know exactly what to do.

Mrs. Daniel’s class got to help put together a living tower by the Learning Commons.  This tower is made out of plastic, but by the end of the year, there will be an array of different planets growing inside our school!

Mr. Kinsman came in to teach us a special math game, helping us develop our mental math strategies.  Mental math is where you memorize math facts and don’t need any additional strategies to help you solve math facts.

Homework:

Literacy M.A.P. – Word Study List #16

Monday: write, writing, run, running

Tuesday: get, getting, sit, sitting

Wednesday:  good, old, gold, eat

Thursday: Review quiz

Friday: Word Study Quiz!

Tell and Show: Our objective this week is to obediently come up with clues for the odd letter “O”. 

Dream Box: Dreambox is an interactive math program that the students have been working on here at school.  We encourage the students to log in at home and practice developing their problem solving skills. Teachers are able to track their progress and see what areas they are excelling in or that may need improvement. Here is the link: https://play.dreambox.com/login/dq8q/panoramahs

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:

What game did we play in gym today with Ms. Atwal and Ms. Olsen?  What are the rules?

Important Dates:

Tomorrow - Scientist in School: Mrs. Leung Chow

Thursday April 7 - Scientist in School: Mrs. Daniels

Friday April 8 - Scholastic book orders are due

Tuesday April 12 - Grade 1 Art Residency, Part II

Thursday April 14 - School Council Meeting 7pm

Thursday April 21 - Earth Day Assembly @ 12:55pm

Reminders: 

April book orders are due back this Friday!  There are two separate prices on the order form.  The number listed beside the picture is the book before tax and the final price with tax is located on the order form.  Sorry for the confusion!

FYI:

Dear Parents,

Please complete our annual Panorama Hills School Parent Survey to help us in planning and organizing for our next year. Please click on the following link. It should only take you 5 – 10 minutes. We would appreciate it if you could complete this by April 15^th.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DNJFMC8

PHS School monthly Calendar and newsletters 

http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b397/calendar.htm

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.