Good Morning Parents and Campers!

This week...

READING:  - I will continue meeting one-to-one with students to complete our oral quiz on Predicting (we didn't get through everyone last Friday).  This Friday, our oral language quiz will be on Retelling.  See anchor Chart to the right.  You will notice that Retelling is almost exactly like Predicting, except when retelling, we have read the book and now KNOW what the book was about.  In Predicting, we were guessing what the book might be about from the clues in the title, illustrations, etc.

WRITING: We are now learning about how to write a letter using these features:

1.  Heading (Date)
2.  Salutation or Greeting
3.  Indent (space before first sentence)
4.  Body
5.  Closing
6.  Signature
7.  P.S. (Optional but encouraged)

THRoW - Everyone has done a terrific job of identifying the features of Fiction and Non-Fiction in a variety of texts.  Now that we have had the chance to complete 2 Fiction texts and 2 Non-Fiction texts, we will move on to letter writing. So, this week's THRoW is a letter to yours truly - ME!  Campers are to write me a letter using proper letter format.  I will be writing back to EACH STUDENT based on their questions to me in their letters.  So, ask some good questions and I'll write back some great answers!  Can't wait to see what you write!

MATH:  This unit on MEASUREMENT is broken down into three mini-units;  Reading a Calendar, Telling Time and Temperature in Degrees Celsius.
We just finished reading a calendar and how we have begun learning how to tell time.
Gr. 1 - students learned how to tell time to the hour and half hour.  Gr. 2 - students tell time to the quarter hour (quarter to and quarter after)
Gr. 3 - students tell time to five minute intervals.

       Please practise telling time with your child on a regular basis.  This is a skill that is required life long and needs to be learned.  Telling time on an analog AND digital clock is required.

READING CHALLENGE:   I am meeting occasionally with each students to check on their reading challenge progress.  If students are reading on a daily basis Monday through Friday for fifteen minutes a night, they will easily reach their goal.  Please insist your child dedicate 15 minutes of reading a night.  Believe it or not, I have a few very dedicated readers who have already reached the goal of reading 3000 minutes before the end of the grade 3!  Now, THAT'S dedication!



That's about all a Monday brain can take for a day....

Counsellor Wilson

SECRET QUESTION:  What is 3 x 6?