Ask Me About My Day!

Dear Children and Families,

For the next 2 months Cranston School is participating in the Calgary Flames Reading Give it a Shot program.  On the calendar coming home today Record and Sign the number of minutes your child reads each day.  Check the blog to add on the number of minutes we read at school to add to your daily total.  When your child reads for 100 minutes, return the calendar page to school to show Ms Collins and Ms MacMillan.  For every 100 minutes your child reads they will receive a Calgary Flames Hockey Card.  Please email Ms MacMillan if you have any questions.  lgmacmillan@cbe.ab.ca

Reminders:

-HOME READING:  Have you gotten a hockey card yet?

-Club Friday this week

-Dress for the weather please so we can get outside the minute it is warm enough!
-Next week on Tuesday February 14^th, on Valentines Day, Team 72 will have the opportunity to participate in a traditional Valentines Day exchange.  Students are welcome to bring a valentine for everyone in the classroom (22 in total).  Please only put on the Valentine who it is from, this saves time during the exchange and eliminates the need to bring home a class list J  Thank you!! 

Important Words:

POWER WORDS:              back one mother but how

These are words we are learning to read and spell.

ACADEMIC WORDS:         add plus all together doubles      

community  needs  wants respect

These are words that we are learning to understand the meaning of in math and social studies.

Today:

We practiced reading to self and reading to someone. Ms MacMillan’s reading groups had a show off day.  Ask me about the book I read to show off my reading skills.

We read for 30 minutes.

We listened to the story So Much Snow by Robert Munsch and created something to help us summarize.  Ask me what I made.

In math we talked about adding doubles.  I have brought home the 2 pages I worked on today. We are learning how to read instructions, represent what we know using pictures and numbers, and look for connections in real life using our imaginations.  Ask me to talk to you about my pages.

Ask me about music and gym!

During Social Studies we completed our sorting mat showing how people in our community meet their needs and wants in Cranston.  Then we created a new community with the children at our table.  We are going to work hard to show respect to the members of our table community so we can get what we need and want.  Ask me about it!

Tomorrow’s Class Leader: Annie (remember to bring a stuffy to share).

See you tomorrow!

Ms. MacMillan

lgmacmillan@cbe.ab.ca