Mrs. Dickson Notes

Carla.dickson@nbed.nb.ca

Notes

Posted: September 29, 2009

More Daily 5 News!

Today was another great day with our Daily 5 Read to Self program.  The students need to be congratulated for all their efforts on reaching on task reading for a total of 12 minutes.  Our best effort yet!  Way to go boys and girls!  Once again I am very proud of all of you.

Posted: September 28, 2009

Attention! Attention! Daily 5 News!

It is my pleasure to say that our class have made it to 8 minutes.  Our stamina is sure building and we hope that it keeps going up and up and up.  This means for all of you who are not familiar with the new Daily 5 program that the students in my room are able to work independently for 8 minutes without be distracted or off task.  What a BIG accomplishment!!  I am so proud of you all!   Can't wait to see where we are at by the end of the week.  Check back in later for another update!

Posted: September 25, 2009

Ginger Goes Home With...

Every Friday we send home our class mascot, Ginger the dog.  Today he is going home with Ben.  I know that he will have a fun time and that Ben will do a great job recording in Ginger's Journal all the fun activities he does with her.  Have fun Ben and we will read the journal entry on Monday.  Remember Ben that Ginger likes to be read to and see you both on Monday.

Posted: September 25, 2009

Daily 5 Update

Today on Friday, September the 25th we made it all the way to 6 minutes!  Yeah for us!

Posted: September 23, 2009

Library Time

  First term we will only be able to get to the library to hear wonderful stories from our new librarian on every other Wednesday.  Right now we share our library time with one of our Phys.Ed classes.  Our next library time will be next Wednesday, September 30th!

Posted: September 23, 2009

The Daily Five - Read to Self

Our class has been very busy for the last couple of weeks working on our new program for Language Arts.  It is called The Daily Five.  Most of our students from kindergarten right up to upper elementary will be learning this program.  The kids have decided that good readers use whisper voices or read in their heads, stay in one place, keep their eyes on their books and continue reading for a sustained period of time.  As the days progress, we will be working on our stamina and reading for a sustained period of time.  We will work towards good reading for longer and longer periods of time to help our kids become better readers.  So far we are at 4 minutes and our final goal will be to reach 30 minutes!  Each day we are successful we gain one minute.  Boy who knew that reading would turn out to be this much fun!!  Keep an eye on our classroom page for an update on how were are doing with building our stamina.

Posted: September 22, 2009

Dates to Remember

Look to the bottom right hand side of this page to locate any important dates for each month!

Posted: September 22, 2009

Welcome to Grade Two

Welcome Back to Nelson Rural School.   This year in my room we have 19 students.  There are 11 boys and 9 girls.  The names of all the students are Sarah, Josh.D, Paige, Rob, Ben, Hailey, Jacob, MacKenzie, Lee, Braden, Hayden, Laura, Josh.J, Thomas, Alexis, Kayla, Alex, Adrian and Morgan.  Oh, we can't forget to mention our classroom mascot whose name is Ginger.  Please make sure to tell mom and dad that some time this year they will be having a weekend guest, so they can prepare for Ginger.  So let's all work hard to make sure that we have a terrific year!

Posted: September 22, 2009

School Bus Safety at Nelson Rural

Today on Sept 22/09 we were lucky enough to jump on bus 64 (Jodi's Bus).  She taught us about School Bus Safety.  We learned all about the routines and rules of how to ride a bus safely.  We even practised how to exit from the back of the bus in case of an emergency.  Boy was that ever fun!  Also we practised how to cross in front of the bus safely too.  The entire class had a great learning experience, so thanks Jodi.  After we returned to class we reviewed the rules and routines by watching this site http://www.schoolbussafety.ca/kids_index.html.  Now you too can go over the safe procedures for School Bus Safety with your child at home too. 

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