Looking for some ideas on how to support your student?
I will be adding a list of links that will help parents support their students at home. Many of these links were compiled by a fabulous teacher and brilliant tech guru named Ms. Lirenman. You can see more about her and her classroom here.
5 Things to Never Say to an Emerging Readers
What Makes a Good Reader?
The One Less Challenge
Want to order Hot Lunch??
The PAC has organized for a hot lunch to be delivered every second Friday. If you would like to order online, go to www.thelunchlady.ca The Lunch Lady will be delivering hot lunches on Oct. 12, 26, Nov. 2, 23, Dec. 7, 21.
Wondering what your child will be learning this year?
You can see the BC Curriculum here. Since I know that Ministry of Education's website is a little overwhelming, here is a basic break down.
Language Arts
Oral Language:
Math
Numbers
Social Studies
Skills and Processes
Identity, Culture and Society
Governance
Science
Health and Career
Language Arts
Oral Language:
- speaking and listening to recall and retell, acquiring and expressing ideas and information
- accessing prior knowledge and organizing thinking
- using words correctly
- developing phonological awareness
- choosing and reading books
- developing word-decoding strategies
- making connections to texts
- identifying story elements
- writing short passages (e.g.,journal entries,lists, poems)
- using basic punctuation and simple sentence construction
- printing legible letters and words
Math
Numbers
- skip counting starting at 0 to 100
- addition & subtraction to 20
- mental math strategies to 18
- greater than, less than and equal to
- repeating patterns of two to four elements
- representation of pattern
- one attribute of 3-D objects & 2-D shapes
- 2-D shapes in the environment
Social Studies
Skills and Processes
- simple picture maps
- co-operative participation in groups
- gathering and presenting information orally, visually, and written
- strategies for solving problems
Identity, Culture and Society
- changes in their lives
- similarities and differences among families
- social structures
- ways people work together in groups
- symbols of Canada
Governance
- roles, responsibilities, and rights at home and at school
- purpose of classroom and school rules
- how basic needs are met types of work in the community
- purpose of money
- ways technology is used
- recognizing maps of Canada
- characteristics of environments
- how environment affects daily life
- ways to care for their environment
Science
- Recording and Classifying
- Needs of living things
- Force and Motion
- Daily and seasonal changes
Health and Career
- reasons for setting goals
- sources of support at school and in the community
- personal skills and interests
- jobs and responsibilities at home and school
- practices that contribute to health
- preventing spread of diseases and conditions
- Healthy relationships
- Safety and injury prevention (including inappropriate touching)