Home Reading
Reading at home on a daily basis with your child, along with literacy supports at school is a wonderful way to support your child’s success. In the Home Reading bag you will find:
· 2-3 books chosen by your child at their Just Right level
· Home Reading Log to fill out as your child completes each book
· Reading Strategies
- sounding out – what do you hear first, next, etc.
- finding smaller chunks – s and h together make a different sound /sh/
- “what word do you think will make sense here?”
- taking turns reading like child reads a page then adult reads a page
- talking about what you are reading:
- “What was the problem in the story?”
- “How did they try and solve it?”, “How was it solved?”
- “Who was in the story?”
- “Where does this story mostly take place?”
- “When does this story take place?”
- “What does this remind you of?”
- “Who is the most important character? What makes you say that?”
- “How do you think the character knew how to do that?”
- “What would you do if you were the character in the story?”
The most important part of the program is a patient, encouraging and supportive attitude when reading with your child to develop confidence and a love of reading.
Halloween
Halloween is on Monday, October 31st! Students are welcome to come dressed in costumes all day! The morning will be a typical morning schedule. Please use your best judgment with costumes. No weapons at school.
We will have a small class celebration in the afternoon. The students will have activity centers some may be based on Halloween. We have 22 students in the class so if parents would like to supply one of the food items listed below, please email Angela to let her know what you can bring.
1 fruit platter
1 veggie/dip platter
1 salty snack (pretzels, chips, etc.)
1 sweet treat (cupcakes, cookies, etc)
1 meat and cheese platter with crackers
Dear Students and family members of Prince of Wales school,
Mrs. McKay’s PoWer Hour is all about giving back and helping others. The first group of people that we have chosen to help, live right in our city. We will be collecting winter coats, boots, hats, scarves, mitts, and snow pants that are gently used.
These items will be for Syrian Refugees from Keeler school in Calgary, where Ms. Georg is now teaching. The refugees have left their homes with nothing but themselves. (Think about it if you did not have a warm winter coat walking out into the snow). Please bring in sizes for age 4 and up. Please help out!
Donations can be brought to Mrs. McKay’s classroom.
Please have all donations here by November 4, 2016
-The members of the Give power hour
Contact Information
Teacher: Cheryl Konno – [email protected]
Room Coordinator: Angela Hill – [email protected]
Mail Pocket:
- Home reading for those who brought it back
Up coming dates:
- Oct. 24 - Family Dance ticket orders need to be in - only pre-sold tickets accepted on the 27th
- Oct. 26 – FIELD TRIP – Fort Calgary
- Oct. 27 – Halloween Family Dance
- Nov. 8 – Photo Retakes
- Nov. 9 – Fun Lunch – Opa
- Nov. 9 – PAC meeting – 6:30pm
- Nov. 10 – Remembrance Day Assembly
- Nov. 11 – NO SCHOOL – Remembrance Day
- Nov. 25 – NO SCHOOL – PD Day
- Nov. 30 – Fun Lunch – Extreme Pita
- Dec. 2 – NO SCHOOL – PD Day
- Dec. 14 – Fun Lunch – Boston Pizza
- Dec. 19 – Jan 2 – Winter Break
- Jan. 3 – First day back after Winter Break
What we have done today:
- We had French for one hour and we made Iris videos. (BT)
- We did journal writing and we wrote about symbols of Canada. (CS)
- We had a fire drill and we were outside for a long time today. (JW)
- We had our last round of Math Centers. (RP)
- We did go noodle because we were in French for an hour. (TW)
- We had math. In math we got a sheet of paper with dots on it and we had to figure out how to put skyscrapers on the dots so that there were only 2 skyscrapers on a line. (LB)
- We had free activity centers at the end of the day. (CG)
- We had make a jack o’lantern in the morning. (HM)
Daily Challenge:
Share with your family your Iris video you made for French.