Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016

Highlights from Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

-Class picture day today

-Castle art, which involved drawing, cutting, pasting and painting

-We made connections with the story “Andrew’s Loose Tooth” and wrote about our own experiences

-Started learning a song for our assembly in music

-Terry Fox run on Wednesday

-Working on sorting objects based on different attributes in Math (e.g., size, shape, colour)

Important Information

Ms. Klingbeil/Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Ms. Fleming and Ms. Bain’s classes will be doing a virtue assembly on Tuesday, Oct.11 at 8:30am.  We invite parents to join us if you are available.

Parents, please read the PHS Reading Handbook for Parents found on the Panorama Hills School homepage. 

Homework

-Raz-Kids or daily reading

-100 charts were sent home for students to practice counting forward and backward by 2, 5 and 10.

-Spelling quiz tomorrow

We encourage students to practice the spelling pattern each evening. We also encourage students to hunt for the spelling pattern during their home reading. Below is a list of possible activities you can do at home to make this practice fun.

ABC Order: write your words in alphabetical order.

Creative Letters: Write your words by cutting out letters in old magazines and newspapers and glue them on a paper.

Sound Words: Use a recording device and record yourself spelling your words. Then listen carefully to make sure you spelled all the words correctly.

Flashwriting: In a darkened room, use a flashlight to draw letters in the air.

Timer: Get a timer. Set it for 3 minutes. See how many times you can write your words before the timer goes off.

Scramble: Have your parents scramble your spelling words. You unscramble them.

Trace Around: Print your spelling words neatly. Take a coloured pen and draw an outline neatly around the word, closely following the shape of the letters. Close your eyes and remember the shape.

Letters: Write each word as many times as there are letters in the word.

Colourful Words: Use two different colour pens to write your spelling words. Use on colour to write the consonants and the other for the vowels.

Computer Words: Type your spelling words ten times each on the computer. Use different colour fonts and sizes.

Snap and Spell: Snap on each letter and clap when you say the word at the end.

Action Spelling: Do jumping jacks, as you clap say a letter to spell your words.

Sentences: Write a sentence for each spelling word.

Finger Tracing: Use your fingers to spell out each of your words one letter at a time on your Mom or Dad’s back.  Have him/her guess the words.

A note about spelling:

The important aspect of spelling is whether students transfer their knowledge of these words into their writing.  We recommend frequent review of these words, so students do not just commit them into short-term memory for the quiz.  Modified lists may also go home with students who are finding these words quite difficult. 

 

Ask me about:

-Magnets attract objects made out of… (iron, nickel, steel, and cobalt).

-Do you like the novel “Mummies in the Morning”?  Why or why not?

-What is our virtue assembly about?  (Thankfulness)