-Please be sure to return the home reading bag each day whether your child has read the books or not. Please make sure that the books, word ring, tracking sheet and strategies bookmark are brought back to school each day because we will be using these at home and at school.
We will be celebrating Halloween on October 31st. You are allowed to come to school dressed in your costume. The morning will be a regular work day, and the afternoon will be reserved for a party. Please use your best judgement with costumes, and no weapons at school. Students are welcome to bring in board games if they would like. No electronics please!
Our Words of the week are:
my, me, all, said, little, there,
Please continue to practice these over the weekend. It is most important that your child is able to read these words so that they can find them on the word wall! Once they have learned to read them by sight please practice spelling these words.
Today we:
-practiced reading our poetry books as a class. Everyone is getting so great at finger tracking! Keep it up!
-had our Friday Dance Party where we learned the Monster Mash and The Time Warp and then did a dance circle.
-used 2-d geometric shapes to design suggestions for our Jack O'Lanterns and then worked as a group to decide which faces to put on our pumpkins. Parent volunteers did the carving with the groups and then we drew names from each table group to determine who got to take it home.
-had French with Madame Pallesen.
-ended our day with our smart board calendar and a "Fun Friday" video.
Please and Thank you:
-A huge thank you to Luke's mom, Cohen's mom, Carys' mom, Barnaby's mom, Isaiah's mom and Cameron's mom for helping with the carving and reading support this morning!
We could really use more volunteers each morning at 8:30-am in order to make our home reading program a success. Especially on Monday mornings! Please let our room coordinator, Leanne Trevis know if you are able to make it in. You do not need to come each week, any day that you can make it is always appreciated! Any parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or friends with volunteer clearance are welcome!
Dear Students and family members of Prince of Wales school,
Mrs. McKay’s POWer hour is all about giving back and helping other. The first group of people that we have chosen to help live right in our city. We will be collecting winter coats, boots, hats, scarves, mitts, and snow pants that are gently used. These items will be for Syrian Refugees from Keeler school in Calgary, where Ms. Georg is now teaching. The refugees have left their homes with nothing but themselves. (Think about it if you did not have a warm winter coat walking out into the snow). Please bring in sizes for age 4 and up. Please help out! Donations can be brought to Mrs. McKay’s classroom,
Please have all donations here by November 4 2016
-The members of the Give power hour
In our mail pockets:
-home reading bags (please be sure the books, bookmark and sight word cards are returned in the ziplock bag each day)
-poetry books.
Upcoming Dates:
October 31-Halloween Party (PM)
November 4-PAC Meeting 6:30 pm
November 8-Photo Retakes
November 10-Remembrance Day Assembly-10:30 am
November 11-Remembrance Day (No School for Students)
November 23- Sandwich Foundation (Five Volunteers needed-10:30 am)
November 25-PD Day (No School for students)
November 20-Extreme Pita Fun Lunch
Question of the Day (Please Answer in the comments section-What is one interesting thing that you learned about pumpkins this week? (If you already answered this yesterday can you think of another thing?