Hi Parents!
I am so happy to be back with the students. This has been a tough flu season! Please remember to keep students home if they have a fever, a new cold, stomach upset, croup-type cough or sore throats. Student who come to school ill often struggle throughout the day and request to go home. Thank you for keeping our learning environment safe and healthy for all!
We will continue to remind students to cough and sneeze into their elbows and to keep those little fingers out of their mouths and noses! We will continue to wash hands before snack and before lunch.
Raz Kids Reading Online:
I have just reviewed the report for our class and it appears that many students have not been logging on lately. I will resend their log on information home tomorrow in their library bags. I understand that many accounts were locked at a certain level. This glitch has been resolved and students should be able to advance as appropriate now! Thank you for your patience.
On their log in card, there will be a number which indicates the number of days/hours/minutes that your child has practiced reading on Raz Kids. The average time spent reading on Raz Kids by 1C students is 11 hours (since we started).
IXL Math:
Kenneth Taylor School has acquired IXL Math accounts for all of the students. We are very lucky to have this resource! Your child's IXL Math account information was sent home today in their blue folders. Please take some time to explore the site with your child. Students are very excited to get started. You will find many links under grade one. Right now, we are focusing on addition and adding strategies. Place value is alway beneficial as well!
Power Words:
This weeks words are:
will
their
do
how
if
Last weeks words were:
there
use
an
each
which
Please keep an eye out for your child's individual word list (for practice). It will be coming home by Friday. These are the words that your child is working on. 10 minutes of practice at home is invaluable!!
Library Tomorrow:
Tomorrow is library. It looks like most of the students have returned their books. Please look out for a yellow paper in your child's library bag. This paper contains comprehension questions that will help to further develop your child's comprehension and oral language skills. Please have your child answer the questions you ask in a full sentence (verbally).
Thank you again for all of your hard work with the students in 1C!
Ms. Bakkan
