Monday March 2, 2015

Homework

1. Literacy Map:

For homework each night please encourage your child to print 1 line of each spelling word and 1-2 sentences using these words.  As they are printing the words they should be making the sounds for each grapheme they print.  When completing their sentences, students should remember to start with an uppercase, end with punctuation, and include juicy words (descriptive vocabulary). 

Green Group (Ms. Beechey):

Monday: nice, rice

Tuesday: dance, chance

Wednesday: cage, stage, page

Thursday: Review Day

Friday: Quiz

Blue Group (Mrs. McGivern)

Monday: four, five, six, seven

Tuesday: eight, nine, ten, them

Wednesday: these, they, some, would

Thursday: Review Day

Friday: Quiz

2. Reading:

We are excited to announce that Grade 1 students will now have access to an online reading program called Raz-Kids for daily home reading.  We ask that your child read each night for a minimum of 10 minutes.  They are also welcome to continue taking the paper books from school in addition to using the online program.  Login cards will go home sometime this week.  Remember to allow your child time when solving unknown words.  Encourage them to use single and double graphemes, think about what would make sense, use the picture clues, and skip the word and continue reading to solve the word. 

3.Tell and Show:

Please note that some weeks we get fairly busy with daily learning tasks and may not have time to get to every student’s Tell and Show.  If your child is unable to share on their day please reassure them that they will get to share the following day.  This week, students will finish up sharing letter R and begin sharing letter S.  Please allow your child to complete this work independently.  Thank you to those of you who have been doing this already.  If you are concerned we will not be able to read your child’s writing please just scribe underneath what they have written. 

Ask Me About:

Virtue:

We started a new virtue of the month: Confidence

Science:

How does a Scientist smell properly?

How was the smell experiment?  Were my predictions correct?

Reminders:

   1.    We are going to be starting our building unit.  We are looking for a variety of materials.  Please send in any of the following: popsicle sticks, tooth-picks, card-board (cut into manageable pieces), clean empty food tins, toilet-paper rolls, paper-towel rolls, egg-cartons, string, etc.

   2.    Please continue to send in your Boston Pizza receipts to support our Boston Pizza Fundraiser.  When your child brings in a receipt they have a chance to win a prize!

   3.    Jump Rope for Heart Donations are due back on Friday March 6^th.

   4.    We would like to do a project with our Gr.3 buddies but require some supplies.  We are looking for empty clean glass baby food jars with lids. 

Important Dates:

Thursday March 5: Mr. Sub Lunch

Friday March 6: Jump Rope for Heart Donation forms due

                               Early Dismissal 2:05pm

Friday March 13: Early Dismissal 2:05pm

Thursday March 19^th: Student Led Conferences (Evening)

Friday March 20^th: Student Led Conferences (All Day)

Monday March 23-Friday March 27: SPRING BREAK- NO SCHOOL

Monday March 30: Classes resume.  WELCOME BACK!