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Monday, December 16, 2013

Monday December 16, 2013

Today's learning tasks:
- Gr. 6 Outdoor School sharing - campfire songs
- Word work: alphabetizing winter words
- spelling: new words
- Wake n Shake movement + breathing and stretching
- Buddy work: completing our Comic pages on hibernation
- Alberta regions: paragraph writing
- Winter skits

Ask your child:
- to sing a campfire song they learned from the Gr. 6 students
- about the role they play in our Winter skit
- how they earned DOJO points today

Reminders:
- no school on Friday (PD Day)
- PJ Day (Thursday) – wear appropriate pyjamas to school (clean and covered PJ’s please)
                                - you MUST wear snow pants if you wear PJ’s (or pants to put overtop for                                            outdoors
                                -you can bring a stuffie (not too big)
-Pizza lunch (Thursday) –everyone gets a free pizza, juice and a bag of chips and you can stay at school for lunch

- winter skit performances on Thursday morning
- bring all props and costumes for rehearsing

Homework:
- nightly reading, math facts practice and spelling (quiz on Thursday)
- script practice, prop making
- S.S. - Alberta Regions paragraphs.  These will be due the first week when we return, so please encourage your child to be working on them each night to avoid a heavy homework load.  Criteria checklist and rubric in the green duotang to guide work.
-  "Seasonal Book Reviews" due Thursday January 9th (please READ your chapter book/novel this week and over the holiday, so you are ready to complete the assignment during the first week.  Please check your child's blue duotang for the criteria checklist.  If your child would like to complete the assignment over the holiday break, this is fine too.