Happy New Year 2019!

 Mrs. Payne’s Class Newsletter 2019

Welcome back! Hope everyone had a restful holiday and enjoyed some quality family time!  January is a busy month with lots of new projects and some fun spirit days!  

LA:   Home reading challenge continues!   Please be sure to have agendas turned in everyday so we can include your nightly reading on the bookmark levels. Congratulations to everyone who has “levelled up" 

Reading Strategies: Tackling More Challenging Texts

Finished tackling hard words takes grit/ Readers Climb the Hurdle of hard words by: chunking words/ thinking about the story/using textual clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words: gist, synonyms, antonyms, explanation, prefixes/ Next lessons include making sense of figurative language/ talking back to the text/and considering the author’s purpose 

Writing Strategies: Changing the world/Opinion Writing Unit

 See a problem-imagine a solution/ write about beautiful things/use because to explain why someone noteworthy should be recognized/ OREOs format: Opinion, Reasons, Examples, Opinion (restated)/brave bold thesis statements/ consider your audience/  

Words Their Way: we are continuing with this differentiated spelling program where your child will bring home new lists on Monday that will be worked on for 2 weeks at a time. At the end of the 2 weeks, there will be a spelling test on Friday (or Thursday if there is no school on Friday). Thanks for your support at home working on these sometimes-tricky spelling patterns!  First new lists will be coming home Monday January 14, 2019.  

Math: Completed patterns and numbers to 1000 and will do a quick review of addition and subtraction/skip counting by 2,3,4,5,10, 25 then moving onto Multiplication!  

Science: Completing Testing Materials and Designs and then starting Project Based Learning: Looking at Lethbridge soon. Building with a Variety of Materials 

Social: We have completed Quality of Life in our 4 countries India, Peru, Ukraine, and Tunisia and are continuing traditions and celebrations in relation to Canada.

Word Work Themes: New Years and Winter

7 Sacred Teachings: Wisdom

Important Dates to Remember 

  Jan. 7- Hot Lunch order deadline

  Jan. 8, 15, 22- Free after school skating at ATB centre 

 Jan. 9- School Council meeting 7pm 

 Jan.14 New spelling lists come home  

 Jan. 18 Dress up as your favourite book character

 Jan. 22-Hot lunch day (Pizza) 

Jan. 24- Spirit Assembly 10:20 in the gym

 Jan.  25- spelling test

Upcoming Fieldtrip in February

We will be skating again, at Nicholas Sheran Friday, Feb. 14^th from 10:15-11:15am. If you are able to help supervise please dojo/email. Students will again be bussed so no drivers are needed. Thanks a bunch!