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Bonjour families!
We hope you enjoy a great weekend and we are looking forward to december next week!
Save your recyclables! Please start saving your thin cardboard boxes (such as cereal boxes, or granola bar boxes) as we will be creating a huge 3D map of Airdrie based on the landmarks visited during our walking tour. Students will each create a landmark to add to the grade 2 collaborative map project on December 9th. Students can bring in recyclables on Thursday December 8th and Friday December 9th.
Updates and Reminders:
Updates and Reminders:
As Christmas approaches, please let us know if you would rather your child not take part in Christmas related celebrations or activities. We will be happy to provide alternative planning for your child in the classroom.
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
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: This literacy tool can be used at home. 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 have now started our 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.
Writer's Workshop: We will also be beginning a writing workshop going forward with a focus on writing about small moments, while focusing on using subjects and verbs.
The sound of the week is: "d". The words of the week are: des, dix, dit, demain, demande.
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 exploring money.We are using our skip counting skills to count by 10s (dimes) and 25s (quarters). We are focussing our attention on coins as we will eventually use money to lead into an introduction to fractions. We are building the concept of parts and wholes as we look at dollars and cents.
Science: Students are wrapping up their insects project. We are looking forward to sharing students' insects as they create a video to teach others about their insect. Look out for videos on My Blueprint!
Social Studies: Students have finished their study of the geography, economy, and culture of a prairie community: Airdrie. We will begin exploring how our community has grown and changed over the years as we begin to explore Airdrie of the past, building off of what we learned at the Nose Creek Valley Museum!
December dates:
December dates:
December 5 - No School for Students (Professional Learning Day)
December 21- Christmas Concert (Grades 1/2 - 12:30 & 5:00 PM)
Have a great weekend!
Thank you,
Mme Cornell & Mme McCaffrey
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