Week #38

June 19 - 23

Bonjour les familles!

We would like to extend a huge thank you to all of our volunteers who braved the heat and accompanied us to Granary Road this week. Students had such a fun time learning about small flying and crawling animals!

Reminder: We are going on our final field trip of the year to Heritage Park on June 21st! All permission forms and payment are due via school cash. Please let us know via email if you'd like to volunteer to come with us on this exciting excursion!

Jump rope for heart: See our parent letter for more information about fundraising and prizes. There are many fun prizes to be won while students build healthy habits!

Powerschool:

Please check your student's powerschool to see how they are doing across all subject areas prior to report cards being released at the end of June. Power school is an important communication tool where teachers are able to share what students need to do to improve. Grades are updated in real time so you have an up-to-date picture of how your students is doing academically.

Learning Commons (Library): Please take a look at home to see if you have any remaining learning commons books that can be returned. Thank you.

Helpful Clickable Links:

Je lis (home reading): https://jelis.rkpublishing.com/student

Mathletics (Math practice at home): https://login.mathletics.com/

Boom Cards (Phoneme practice) : https://wow.boomlearning.com/

myBlueprint (Student Portfolio): https://app.myblueprint.ca/

Parents Guide to Sight Words

Video for practicing the alphabet letters (practice this out of order, for example: in reverse)

Video for practicing sound blends and alphabet sounds (Phonemes)

Wordreference (english-french dictionary)

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:

Literacy:

The sounds of the week are: ail/aille; euil/euille; ouille

The words of the week are: travaille, chandail, feuille, fauteuil, bouille, grenouille

Home Literacy: Please visit this page for details about our Home Reading Challenge. If your student has completed the challenge, please send in their completed map and they will receive a prize! Also, in preparation for end of year, we will be halting sending home physical copies of books next week, and ask that you please take a look around your home to see if any of our home reading books may have gotten mixed into home libraries. Please send books back with student in the coming days.

Literacy Routine: Students have been organized into literacy small groups that will continue to receive targeted instruction on their individual literacy goals through targeted small group instruction, and specific literacy centers. Targeted skills include phonological awareness skills, phonemic awareness instruction, listening to French, speaking French, writing, and reading instruction.

Writer's Workshop: Students have been working on fiction stories on Storyjumper - we look forward to sharing these soon!

Numeracy: Students will be finishing up with their final unit of the year: data and graphing. Students have come up with their own research question that they will be posing to their peers. They will gather data on this question and record it in pictograms and bar graphs.

Social Studies: Students will wrap up their study of Meteghan with a fun lobster art project.