Hello Parents and Students,
Happy November! Remember to send your child with a warm
jacket, boots, mittens, a hat, and socks.
It is getting cooler out there!
Ms. Dallas Holtby,
our incredible University of Regina intern, will begin her full time teaching
block in our classroom on Tuesday, November 6th. She has been enjoying every
moment of working with your children since the beginning of the 2018 school
year. She has enjoyed teaching the Science/Social Studies/Health curriculum and
has been picking up components of English Language Arts and Math. She is
excited to be teaching full time in all subject areas for the remainder of the
month. She has an amazing Agribition trip scheduled on November 21st and we are
looking forward to sharing more with you at the November 16th 3 Way
Conferences, where we will celebrate your child’s successes this first term.
Phonics letter of the week was Gg. Brainstorm some soft and hard Gg words with
your child. We created 22 of our own as
a team. Grades 1/2 particularly enjoyed the sentences.
The
children were so excited to receive Pizza Hut coupons as
a reward for their October Reading Log minutes (Goal: 250 minutes or higher to receive).
It is International
Bat’s Week. We welcomed Professor / Dr. Mark Brigham, from the
University of Regina, Biology Department, on Wednesday p.m. Our “Batman” LOVES
studying bats and visited South Africa this past summer to study them. There are 8 kinds of bats in SK and 5
that live in Regina all year long; little brown, big brown, migratory
(silver haired bat, eastern bat, hoary). There are 1300 different species of
bats. The hoary bat is the biggest bat in our province. The ones that stay in
Regina hibernate and roost in abandoned buildings. The threats to bats in Saskatchewan are
winter vines and a disease called “white nose syndrome”. He may come back in
the next few weeks with a live bat.
We enjoyed our Halloween celebrations on Wednesday afternoon. Play the
Monster Shuffle song with your child: FUN DANCE FOR A PARTY: Monster Shuffle song:
We sang songs and enjoyed healthy treats.
Many thanks for the yummy calcium foods and treats parents sent!
Now that our bat
unit and vertebrate unit is complete, your child is going to become a farm animal expert. Ask your child what animal he/she might
like to be researching. At home,
encourage reading to find extra facts about their farm animals! Each
student will be assigned an animal family in a week; horses, pigs, sheep,
cattle, or poultry. This unit is great preparation for our Agribition
visit on November 21st. Thank you to the adult volunteers joining us
on this trip.
Remembrance Day: We introduced the significance of Remembrance
Day. We will discuss the meaning of the poppy and why we wear it.
French Remembrance Day vocabulary: poppy
= coquelicot, soldier = soldat, cross = croix, wreath = couronne.
Check out the
following video: Remembrance Day Bell
calendar commercial; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ESRBMk36E
The Grade 1s continue to work on estimating objects to 20 and then counting for exact answers. The Grade 1s showed their answers as 10s and
leftovers. The Grade 1s will take their
completed UNIT 2 – REPRESENTING
NUMBERS TO 20 booklets next Wednesday to share with you. Grade 1 parents, please go over the unit with
your child, celebrate their learning, sign
and return to school.
For math, the Grade 2s will complete Unit 2 on Wednesday; Numbers to 100. I CAN
STATEMENTS: The students can
represent numbers using hundred charts, coins, ten frames, and rods and cube
units (tens, and ones). Ask your child to show you a number on a hundred
chart, or ask him/her to make you 30 cents with coins! Your child can
also sort numbers from greatest to least! Find the completed unit in your
child's agenda. Please sign and
return in their agenda next week.
Have a great
weekend everyone! Go Pats Go!
Ms. Selimos, Ms.
Holtby, and Ms. Daniels
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