Hello
Parents/Guardians!
W.O.W (Words of the Week)
Words:
- not
- red
- me
- jump
- make
Bonus words:
- thankful
- leaf
- pattern
Weekly Highlights:
- In literacy, we continued to
practice our secret stories and focused on using the classroom visuals to
help us read and write new words.
- We had the opportunity to work
with our artist in residence, Ryan Jason
Allen Willert. He taught the students about the buffalo
teachings (take responsibility for your actions, say you are sorry,
forgive yourself and forgive others) and will be creating a mural that
will be on the wall in our multipurpose area.
- This week in math we started our
unit on Repeating Patterns. Students were introduced to the
vocabulary: pattern, core (part of the pattern that repeats), terms (the
things within the pattern). They practiced identifying the core of a
variety of patterns, extending patterns, figuring out the missing term in
a pattern, telling the pattern rule, showing patterns using numbers, and
matching patterns. Here are three fun games you can play related to
patterns:
- We have now finished printing all
of the uppercase and lowercase letters. Now that we have printed all
of the letters students are expected to print mostly using lowercase
letters.
- In Science we continued to learn
about Fall. Students demonstrated what they have learned about the season of Fall
and what happens with people, animals, and nature. They created two visual
journal pages where they drew a small sketch to represent their fact and
added a label using kid spelling. Our Fall people are now up on
display on our seasonal bulletin board outside our classroom.
- Thanksgiving weekend is
here! We read a fun story about a turkey who didn’t want to be eaten
so he tried on many different costumes to hide. The best and final
disguise was a pizza delivery man costume.
It was the best one because the family ate pizza instead of
him! We also focused on the idea of being THANKFUL or GRATEFUL. We read a story called Being Thankful by
Mercer Mayer. In this story, the
characters are always wanting more and more and don’t appreciate what they
already have. The characters eventually learn that it is important
to focus on and appreciate what you already have. The main character gets a thankful rock from
his grandmother. It is meant to be
a reminder to always be thankful for everything that we have. The
students talked about what they are thankful for and each student painted
their own thankful rock to take home.
Ask your child to tell you what they are thankful for.
- One of the things we focused on
this week was learning to be independent. We talked about what the
word independence means and we practiced this skill during work
time. The students are also practicing how to solve problems on
their own (e.g what to do if they don’t have a pencil).
- We are enjoying reading with our
grade 6 buddies Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The grade one
students love the opportunity to practice their sight word knowledge, read
from their songs & poems duotangs, and read books.
- When looking at our Poem of the
Week we identified commas, periods, and exclamation marks and what to do
when we see these while reading.
Reminders:
Nature Items:
Over the long weekend we
are asking each child to collect small items from outside, such as leaves,
small twigs or berries. We will be using these items for an art project next
week. When collecting the items please put them in a bag, but DO NOT seal the
bag as the items may become moldy and unusable. Please send in objects
by Tuesday October 15th.
Remembrance Day:
Please see the message
below from the grade 6 teachers regarding Remembrance Day.
Dear Parents,
The grade 6 students will
be presenting the Remembrance Day Assembly this year on November 8 starting at
10:30 am. We are asking that students wear a white top and black bottoms that
day. Also, if you have any family members that were part of a war, were
peacekeepers or are currently part of the Canadian Forces, please send a
picture either by email or a copy so that we can honour them on this day.
Please include their name, rank and war/peacekeeping mission that they
participated in. Also, if you could please add your child/children¹s name.
Pictures can be sent to lareeve@cbe.ab.ca
Thank you for your support,
The Grade 6 Team
Home Reading:
The home reading program is
off to a great start! Thank you to those of you who have been reading
with your child.
Inside the bag they should
have a “Just Right Book” at their current reading level as well as a writing
journal. Please ensure that the writing journal and home reading book are
returned in this bag. As a reminder,
students should read the book and then write a sentence about it. Please
have your child copy the date and the title of the book. The sentence should not be a copying
activity. We want the students
writing their own sentence using kid spelling (this may mean that they only
record the first and last sound of each of their words). If you are
concerned that the teacher will be unable to read your child’s message you can
scribe underneath their kid writing what they have written. Once they
have completed their sentence they should bring their home reading bag back to
school to exchange their book for a new one. We ask that your child read and
respond to a book at least twice a week. It is your child’s
responsibility to hand in their home reading bag when they are ready to
exchange their book. They are also responsible for selecting a new
book from the home reading book cart. If you feel that the level your
child is taking home is too easy/hard please write a note for you child’s
teacher.
Headphones:
We are kindly requesting
that parents send in a pair of headphones in a plastic bag labeled with your
child’s name. We would like to use these headphones during our Daily
5 stations when doing listen to reading (Raz-Kids). The headphones will
be stored in your child’s individual book box and be kept at school to be used
until the end of the year. Please do not feel obligated to get fancy expensive
headphones, dollar store headphones will work fine. Please ensure that your child is able to
independently put on and take off these headphones. Thank you to those of
you who have already sent in headphones.
Hot Lunch:
We now have the school year's lunches/snacks available to order in
our Hot Lunch system. You can go in and order the whole year all at once if you
like! Here is the link to the hot lunches system for your
convenience: https://simonsvalleyelementary.hotlunches.net .
Please note below is a list of all the lunches and snacks for the
2019/2020 school year. For all orders the latest you can pay for orders will be
the week before the lunch/snack date. The first lunch is coming up on October
17th and if you would like for your child(ren) to participate in this
lunch, you need to pay for your order by Thursday, October 10th, 2019.
Communication Books:
Please make sure to check
your child’s folder and communication book each day and return it to school. After
checking your child’s communication book please leave it open to the current
page. Please also remember to clean out the folder each day,
leaving only the communication book inside.
Ask Me About:
1. Create a repeating pattern and
circle the pattern core
2. What is the pattern core for the
following patterns:
(square,
square, triangle)
(square,
circle, square)
3. Read, read, read! When
reading with your child have them look for our sight words, identify
letters, hunt for punctuation, and discuss the story events.
