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Bonjour families!
Thank you to all our volunteers who accompanied us on the museum field trip this week! We are so grateful for our parent (and grandparent) volunteers as well as the museum volunteers who taught us all about Airdrie in the past.
Updates and Reminders:
Adopt-a-Family: A.E. Bowers Elementary School is once again sponsoring a family in need for Christmas
time this year. We look forward to sharing details about our sponsored family very soon.
We are collecting gift cards again this year for our hampers.
Denominations of $10, $15, $20 & $25 are easiest for us to distribute.
Some suggestions include toy stores, grocery stores, malls, theatres, fast food, hardware
stores, gas cards, Walmart, restaurants, hair and nail salons.
Examples:
Fast Food – Subway $10 and A&W $ 15 are great for students who may not get the
opportunity to go for lunch with peers.
A gas card may allow a family to go visit someone over Christmas. Otherwise, they
may not have funds for the gas for their vehicle.
A toy store card will allow a parent to go and choose the toy a child is hoping for.
Walmart cards may allow a senior to buy groceries and some clothing.
The deadline to donate to our school's Adopt-a-Family is December 12, 2022.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Nancy Turner, our school
Child Development Advisor, at nturner@rockyview.ab.ca
Photo retake orders: If you would like to order photos from the photo retakes, please place your order before November 25th.
Learning Commons (Library)! Please send your students' library books back to school on their designated Learning Commons day.
Tuesday- Mme Cornell
Thursday- Mme McCaffrey
The Absence Choice Board is available for students that are away and still able to complete work at home. Follow this link for the instructions: Absence Choice Board
Boom Cards are set up for your child. This literacy tool is used in the class and can be used at home as well for practicing letter sounds, phonemes (ou, on, er, ai, in, oi, etc) and common/sight words. If you need help with logging in, please contact your teacher. Here is the link to login: https://wow.boomlearning.com/
Please check if you are able to login to myBlueprint as well: https://app.myblueprint.ca/
Airdrie Community Links is offering several Parent supports for a variety of topics such as anxiety, ADHD, big feelings, and social thinking. If you would like further information on any of these supports, and others, here is a link: Community Links Ressources
This week in:
This week in:
Literacy:
We have launched our Home Literacy page of the website. Please visit this page for details out our Home Reading Challenge.
We are starting an exciting new routine for our literacy block! Students across all grade 2 FI classes will be organized into literacy small groups that will receive targeted instruction on their individual literacy goals through targeted small group instruction, and specific literacy centers. Targeted skills will include phonological awareness skills, phonemic awareness instruction, listening to French, speaking French, writing, and reading instruction.
The sound of the week is: "n". The words of the week are: novembre, nuit, non, ne, donne
If you are not sure about pronunciations, Wordreference (english-french dictionary) has a listen button for the words: https://www.wordreference.com/
You can work on these words at home by: reading the words out loud with your child (have them translate to verify their comprehension), have them spell the words (practice daily in the agenda), or have them use the word in a French sentence. You can also have the student practice identifying each letter in french and the letter sounds (phonemes).
For more ideas on how to practice sight words at home, see the attached below:
Numeracy: Students are working to skip count by 20s, 25s and 50s starting at 0 (this will be a year long outcome, but we are focussing on number up to 100 before Christmas). They are also working to skip count by 2s and 10s starting at any number between 0 -1000 (this will be ongoing throughout the year). They will be exploring the 100s chart in a hands-on way to explore this skill.
Science: Students have been sculpting insects from clay. Students will need to ensure that the anatomy of their insect is accurate, as well as design an environment that meets all of their insect's basic needs. We are looking forward to sharing students' insects as they create a video to teach others about their insect.
Social Studies: Students are wrapping up their learning of a prairie community. We will be summarizing our knowledge of the geography, economy, and culture of our prairie community in a sketch note format allowing students to represent their learning in both writing and illustrations.
November dates:
November dates:
November 25- Photo retake orders due
December dates:
December dates:
December 5 - No School for Students (Professional Learning Day)
December 21- Christmas Concert
Have a great weekend!
Thank you,
Mme Cornell & Mme McCaffrey
Nose Creek Valley Museum
Students enjoyed our field trip to Nose Creek Valley Museum where they learned about Airdrie in the past! We look forward to continuing to explore the roots of our community over the coming weeks!
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