REMINDER: THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW FRIDAY DECEMBER 7TH. IT IS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY. ENJOY YOUR EXTRA DAY OFF!
Home Reading Update:
Dear Families,
For those students that are engaging in our Home Reading Program, we have a few reminders and updates at this time of year:
- Students that have been accessing Home Reading, but are now reading at a level L or above will no longer be receiving Home Reading Books after school returns in January. Our Home Reading Program supports students below level L, as many of the texts that students are able to access in the Learning Commons, and through the Book Truck as well as within the rich literacy experiences in our classroom are accessible for students at that level.
- If you have more than one child at our school that is participating in Home Reading, please make sure that the books that come home are returned to school in the specific Home Reading bag that they came home in. We have had some difficulty with siblings returning each other’s books, which has caused some confusion for our lovely Home Reading Ladies and their tracking system. Your assistance in keeping the books organized is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for supporting your child as they become stronger and more confident readers!
Summarizing a Story
This week with rereading and retelling a story we have also been focusing on the importance of summarizing the important parts. Whether you are using the 5-finger model or the Rainbow retell it is important to be able to retell without just repeating the entire book word by word.
What are the most important parts?
When we are reading a story and retelling it not only do we summarize but it is important that when we retell we are putting the events in proper sequential order. If we mix up the order of the story the meaning changes. At home you can practice this by having your child read a story to you, and then reread to build fluency and comprehension.
After have them practice retelling the story, summarizing the important parts, using their fingers to remind them of the sequence. They can do this orally. It is a great way to see if they are able to tell you the most important parts, in proper order, of a book they are familiar with.
Magnetic Field
Magnets in the Real World?
Next week we will be developing our own magnetic invention. It must use the force of repulsion or attraction or both to do something useful. Talk with your child over the weekend to think about some ideas and talk it through with them. We can supply some materials such as toilet paper tolls, some magnets, tape, string, glue, cardboard, paper, foil etc but if there is something particular that your child thinks will help them create their invention please send it with them by Tuesday December 11th.
Thank you for your support.
Early Settler Contributions
This week we have been looking at Settlers that came from other parts of Canada and the world to farm and ranch and build the community we live in today. Why did they come to the West? What inspired them? How did the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian Government help convince and attract these people to come and brave a new place?
We looked at posters from the past that inspired people to come here:
We were then challenged to come up with our own Posters that would entice people to come here. We had to imagine we were in the past and living far from Alberta. What would convince us to come here? We had time to design a rough copy with all of our groups ideas. We will also make a good copy to be displayed and shared with other classes.
Beakerhead Challenge 2018
In November we accepted a challenge from Beakerhead. Our challenge is to create something with TAPE that would be from the future (3018!!!). We can use some other materials but MOSTLY tape!!
Because we have been learning about the Past and looking at the importance of trains we decided as a class that we will create a train of the future. Our classroom invention will have a hovering locomotive, cargo cars of the future, a boarding station for passengers and storrage, and track. Ask me which part of this I am inventing/creating using tape?
We will be brainstorming all week and into next about what kind of train we might see in the future? How will it work? What will it transport? People? Cargo?
The hardest part will be building this model from masking tape!
Talk with your child at home about what part of the train they are brainstorming about? How are they thinking it will look? How are they thinking to fold/cut/add to the tape to make their model.
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