Important Dates:
Please sign and return all VERIFICATION forms that were sent home. Thanks!
September 19 - PAC meeting @ 7pm in our library.
September 20 - LAST DAY TO BRING IN PHOTOS FOR MEMORY STICK PROJECT.
September 21 - Fire Drill @ 11am.
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September 22 a) Photo Day - please do no wear green.
b) Highlands OPEN HOUSE - BBQ 5pm to 6pm and
visit your child's class and teacher 6pm to 7pm.
c) The Terry Fox Run - whole school participates at different times
-Bring in a toonie (or more) ASAP and support cancer research!
- We have a collection container in our class
d) BOOK FAIR - 3pm to 7pm! MRS. MERKEL IS HOSTING A BOOK FAIR SO BRING MONEY IF YOU CAN AND BUY SOME BOOKS! 5pm to 7pm.
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September - 23 = Indigenous Education PRO-D DAY - no school for kids.
September 29 - Orange shirt day
- in support of positive aboriginal voices and
education about residential schools
September 30 - NATIONAL TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION DAY - no school.
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Learning opportunities this week...
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Language Arts - we will continue our literature study... chapter 6, 7, 8,...
- reading THE LEMONADE WAR
- students practice reading comprehension, analyze
characters, vocabulary, and events, summarize,
main idea, evaluate ideas, discussions and questioning, ...
- we read and respond to our reading, daily.
~Word Work - Unit 2 - groups - handed out on Mondays
and then the rest needs to be worked on at home.
*Students are
responsible for bringing home their list words and the activties onthe
page, practicing them at home, and returning the page for grading on the
last day of the week.
- work at the word and letter patterns, connect the sounds letters make,...
- HAND IN FINISHED 'WORD WORK' PAPER ON Thursday this week.
- Unit #2 study all list words; TEST on Thursday.
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~ Memory Sticks...
- we will finish them this week...
- students have until TUESDAY Sept 20 to complete all cards and PLEASE have all PHOTOS brought to school by then. Bringing all photos in at the same time works best.
- we will then go into the forest and find our own sticks
- next, assemble it & then we share them with the
class.
- students have until TUESDAY Sept 20
to complete all cards and PLEASE have all PHOTOS brought to school by then. Bringing all photos in at the same time works best.
- we will then go into the forest and find our own sticks
- next, assemble it & then we share them with the
class.
PLEASE REFER TO THE INDEX CARD INFORMATION BELOW...
Card 1
Front: Draw a self-portrait or bring in a recent photo of yourself (a close-up is best).
Back: List 5 words that describe you BEST. Write the 5 words in the
most creative way you can.
(Examples: energetic, humorous, athletic, creative, brilliant, caring, responsible, trustworthy, loving, kind, friendly, punctual, flexible, hard-working, honest,
…)
Card 2
Front: Draw a picture of you as a baby or bring in a baby photo of yourself. (From birth to 2 years old).
Back: List your birth date at the top and write a short baby story you want to share. Use full sentences.
Card 3
Front: Draw a picture of yourself doing something active from ages
3 to 5 or bring in a photo of yourself age 3 to 5.
Back: Write about an important event that happened between the
ages of 3 and 5.
Card 4
Front: Draw a picture of yourself learning something new from the ages
6 to 7 or bring in a photo of yourself learning
something new at the ages of 6 to 7.
Back: Write about the front side of this card - something new
(that
you could not do before) you were able to learn from the ages of 6 to 7.
Card 5
Front: Draw a picture of yourself at your current age or bring in a photo of yourself doing your most favourite thing!
Back: Write about the front side of this card – you getting
pure
enjoyment doing your most favourite thing!
Once all five cards have been completed, we will attach them
to our MEMORY STICKS that we found. Remember
to attach them in order from card 1 to card 5. Start with
card #1 and attach it to the base of the stick and so on
until
card #5 is tied on
the tip of the stick.
Criteria
will be discussed in class… daily!
Front: Draw a self-portrait or bring in a recent photo of yourself (a close-up is best).
Back: List 5 words that describe you BEST. Write the 5 words in the
most creative way you can.
(Examples: energetic, humorous, athletic, creative, brilliant, caring, responsible, trustworthy, loving, kind, friendly, punctual, flexible, hard-working, honest,
…)
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Front: Draw a picture of you as a baby or bring in a baby photo of yourself. (From birth to 2 years old).
Back: List your birth date at the top and write a short baby story you want to share. Use full sentences.
|
Front: Draw a picture of yourself doing something active from ages
3 to 5 or bring in a photo of yourself age 3 to 5.
Back: Write about an important event that happened between the
ages of 3 and 5.
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Front: Draw a picture of yourself learning something new from the ages
6 to 7 or bring in a photo of yourself learning
something new at the ages of 6 to 7.
Back: Write about the front side of this card - something new
(that you could not do before) you were able to learn from the ages of 6 to 7. |
Front: Draw a picture of yourself at your current age or bring in a photo of yourself doing your most favourite thing!
Back: Write about the front side of this card – you getting
pure enjoyment doing your most favourite thing! |
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Math - Place Value Concepts / Number concepts
- rounding to the nearest 10's, 100's, 1,000's this week...
TEST on Thursday!
Click to practice...
Bike-racing-math-rounding to nearest 10
Try some games to practice your skills!
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Health - starting soon...
~ Social Emotional Learning lessons
~ Growth mindset lessons
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Career Education - goal setting and how to achieve a long term goal
- using agendas as planning tools
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Science - The Scientific Method - next week!
- demonstrations of experiments
- learning how to describe the process and
carefully record all information in "lab write-up"
The Scientific Method
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Socials - will begin in a couple weeks
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PE - flag football skills
- proper techniques of throwing, catching, flag tackling,...
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French - conversational French
Vocab: - my name is..., what's your name?
- days of the week
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Art - TBA
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Drama - various activities integrated where possible
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Technology Skills - learning how to use MS WORD effectively
- on laptops
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House Teams have been selected in our class!
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CONGRATS to ACEAH for earning WORKER
OF THE WEEK last week
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