Thursday September 28

Home Reading came home today!! I included a parent letter of introduction as well as an info sheet to help you when reading with your child. If you notice a trend of errors when your child is reading out loud to you it may give you some ideas of how you can help redirect them. Students can change their books when they feel they need a new one keeping in mind that reading the same book for a few nights is a great fluency builder.  I will also be adding word rings soon for some students to practice at home to improve sight word knowledge. Please keep these word rings in the folder after going through them at home so that I can work on them at school as well and change them out as they master the words.

Tomorrow is our Terry Fox Run! Please dress for the weather, wear comfortable clothing and students can bring a water bottle as well. Students can bring money for "Toonies for Terry". We watched a video today that showed footage from Terry's Marathon of Hope and we looked at a map to see how far he ran before he had to stop due to cancer over-taking his body. We discussed how Scientists are always researching and working to find new cures and remedies to alleviate the effects of cancer and hopefully find cures; however much of this research is dependent on donations.

 It is also "Orange Shirt Day"- students can wear orange clothing if they have anything to help honour that every child is important. Ask your child about the class discussion and video we watched today about Phyllis and how Orange shirt day started.

Students have been working on the comprehension strategy of Retelling. After hearing the story Thelma the Unicorn (which is a beautiful book donated by Sydney and her family) about a horse who wishes she could be a unicorn, students have been focusing on what the most important details from the story are. Using graphic organizers students drew pictures and wrote a sentence for First, Next, Then, Last to describe the main events. When students are retelling stories, they often want to include every detail from the book so it will take a lot of practice to focus on the main events. Discussing books that students have read in their home reading using these prompts will help develop their comprehension. Here are a few examples of the pictures and sentences from today.