The Family Halloween Dance is tonight from 6:30-8 pm. Unfortunately, I can't make it tonight. I hope everyone who is going has a great time!
-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.
Our Words of the week are:
my, me, all, said, little, there,
Please try to practice these a little bit each evening. 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:
-started our day with literacy stations-Raz Kids, iPad, independent reading or guided reading.
-did "rhyme time" in our poetry.
-did Raz kids-all students got onto Raz Kids and read at least one book (with the exception of two students who had technical problems) What huge progress! Great work! Remember that you can do Raz kids from home at any time.
-Read a great book called How Many Seeds In a Pumpkin where we learned many interesting facts about pumpkins. Did you know that the longer a pumpkin grows the more lines it gets and the darker it gets? Pumpkins with more lines and a darker colour usually contain more seeds!
-used the information from the book to help us estimate how many seeds were in our pumpkins.
-worked on passing the soccer ball in gym.
-did our daily calendar routine. The students are getting so good at predicting the temperature outside and many of them are within a few degrees each day! Have your child tell you what temperature they think it is outside some time!
-had music.
-worked on seed counting. We gutted and then counted our seeds in groups of 10 to figure out how many seeds were in each pumpkin. The pumpkin with the most seeds had 606 seeds! What a lot of counting!!!
Please and Thank you:
-A huge thank you to Hudson's dad, Becca's mom, and Connor's mom for helping with the pumpkin math this afternoon!
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)
Upcoming Dates:
October 24-October 28-Pumpkin Math Week
October 27-Halloween Dance (evening)
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?