Oct 21

Literacy Group Update:

Ms Daniel's group: This week in Mrs. Daniels’ literacy group we are continuing to work on our reading strategies in small groups, reading with the teacher or volunteer. This week students are demonstrating success using picture clues and letter sound knowledge to decode new words and are recognizing sight words in their reading.  Students had the opportunity to participate in several activities this week. 

Going on a word hunt: looking for and tallying sight words in leveled readers.

Making words: manipulating consonant and vowels to form small words.

Rainbow roll and write: writing our word families og, ot, and op in rainbow colours.

Searching for words: reviewing last week’s word families (at, an, am, ad) and recognizing them with a friend in a sea of letters.

Reading to someone: reading and listening to reading with a partner.

Ms. MacDonald's and Ms. Percival's group:This week in Ms. MacDonald and Ms. Percival's literacy group, we worked on end sounds that have a short a such as "an, at, ag, ad, and ap." We also reviewed our letter names and sounds. We have been continuing to use stretchy the snake to sound out new words! Please continue to work on my letters and words that are coming home today.

Ms. Plaxin's group: This week in Ms. Plaxin’s literacy group,  we all worked at our own level.  Some students continued to identify the names and sounds of the letters.   Some were working on  matching  upper case letters to lower case letters.  Many students ended the week by working on their beginning sounds of words and the creation of 3 and 4 letter words.    Many students felt the great feeling of success and accomplishment this week.   They experienced the feeling, that their efforts to keep on task,  actually, helped them progress through to their center,  tasks and activities.  We have added two new activities for next week.  One is based on vowel  sounds and the other is the creation of words with duple blocks.  Please feel free to discuss with your child, the accomplishments they had this week. 

Ms. Barley's group: In Ms. Barley's literacy group we continued using "Chunky Monkey" to break-down words we don't know. We discovered that we can break down "Important" into Im-por-tant, instead of sounding out each individual letter. Practice using this strategy at home! We introduced a new rule called the Silent 'e' and how that 'e' can make the other vowel say it's name, like in the word "same". We will continue looking at this rule next week.

The Literacy Centres we explored were:

1. Making & Breaking words

2. Building Sentences by cutting words out of magazines

3. Roll & Write words on our word wall

4. Playing Sight Word games such as "popcorn"

5. Reading through the exploration of I Spy and Search books

6. Guided Reading at the teacher centre - This week we explored Non-Fiction texts

Ask your child to explain the centres in further details!

1) Fundraising society: Happy Weekend everyone!  Your Fundraising Society really appreciates all the work, effort and orders that have come through so far!  Remember to take advantage of this extra weekend to reach out to friends and families to share our awesome fundraiser with them!  Parents are loving the chocolates, the wrapping paper and some of the fun kitchen gadgets!  There is still time to register your child for online sales, and easily share your shopping link through email, facebook, twitter and more!  You can also help friends and neighbours browse through the catalogues and fill out the order forms to pay by cash or cheque (payable to ROS Fundraising Society)!  

 

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to direct them to ROSFundraisingsociety@gmail.com, or visit our Facebook page!  Thank you again for all your support in making our great school even better!  

 

PS. Watch for upcoming news on sweet deals for Calgary Flames tickets!!!   

2) Sobey's Pumpkin Challenge - The students in Grades 1 - 3 were challenged by Royal Oak Sobey's to creatively design a pumpkin to display in their store as part of their Halloween Challenge. Each class took up this collaborative task with their students based on interests, student designs, or things they are learning about in the classroom. Parents and the community are encouraged to see the pumpkins at the store starting Friday Oct. 21, 2016. Hopefully they will last until Monday Oct. 31, 2016! Sobey's will select a class with the best design to win a class prize. The winning class will be announced during Pumpkinella on Oct. 31, 2016. 

Thank you to everyone for your hard work in getting this project done, sorry for the sort timeline. We will be more prepared for this challenge next year!