If we should find ourselves quarantined at home again I have sent home a packet as part of the schools “Outbreak Management Plan” that we will be using as part of our at home learning materials.  

If students are home sick and still feeling up to doing some work they should check the teachers page first. There they will find weekly spelling words and daily writing activities. If they are finished with those they should try to read and then they may work from either of the books in their bag. The Heartsmart is a workbook that they can write and colour in. If they choose to do activities in the spelling book those should be done on loose-leaf or in a scribbler. 

Sept 23 

Read 

Math  

Spelling - The weeks spelling list will be added in the pages bar by Wednesday of each week. 

Small bag - To carry their French and Math materials, that do not fit in their binder, to and from class. 

Memo's - Consent form & Thanksgiving Dinner Pre-order.

Read - I have started reading individually with children and will be sending reading activities home based on my observations. Students will usually have opportunity to do or start this reading at school but it is meant to be a part of their daily reading time not in addition to. Of course, students are always encouraged to read from material of their choice and to continue recording it in their reading logs. 

Sign Spelling Test - Students wrote this in Campfire notebooks on Friday. 

Study new words - These are words that are in the student's passwords so it is important that they can spell them especially the ones from their password. 

Cursive Writing - I gave instruction on Friday showing students how to form the letters for Anneliese’s name and expect that they do this double spaced and to the best of their ability. The rest of the words in the back of their campfire notebook should be practices 5X each. 

Science – share – We worked in groups today and students put their activities in their blue duo-tangs. I would like them to share them with someone and explain what their reading activity was about. 

September 15, 2020 

Read & Record – Please see the “Why Can’t I skip My 20 Minutes of Reading Tonight?” handout. Students should adjust their reading time in accordance to how much time they spend doing other homework. If we go by the general rule of thumb of 10 min per grade level they should be “working” at their homework for about 50 min per evening. Most of the work that I assign will be the completion of something started in class and should probably already be finished or close to it. Having said that if they work for 20 min on other homework I would expect that they read for 20-30 min.  

Quick Write - Students should write at least ½ page about the quote or what the quote made them think of.  

Words of the Week - Spelling Duo-Tang – Finish the “Use capital letters correctly” handout 

Handouts