Highlights

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Parent Teacher Interviews

Jolly Phonics Information and Web Site

Tips for Parents

Things Needed

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Issue 3
Novembe
r 2014

Osgoode
Public
School

Welcome to November
Our big ideas this month will be Shapes, Bears and Hibernation.
Parent Teacher Interviews
Our parent teacher interviews will be held over two days. They will be held in our
classroom on Thursday, November 20th, in the evening and in the morning on Friday,
November 21st. Please come at your scheduled interview time to help our interview
process run smoothly.

Curriculum Focus
Language Arts
We are continually learning songs and poems related to our themes, doing experience
charts, predictable charts, reading, and listening to stories. We are learning to print
and copy letters and words. We are almost finished reviewing the first group of letter
sounds in Jolly Phonics; S, A, T, I, P, N. We will begin our second group of letter sounds;
CK, E, H, R. We are using our letter knowledge to help us begin some early reading
practice.
Math
We are continuing with patterning and sorting activities. We are using manipulatives to
help us recognize quantities without having to count. We will begin looking at and doing
many activities with both 2D and 3D shapes.
Science/Health

We will continue to observe and discuss the changing seasons. Students will learn how to
describe and represent using their own observations, patterns and cycles in the natural
world. We will talk about about what people and animals do to prepare for winter.
Social Studies
Our Character Education focus for this month is RESPECT.
Kindergarten classes will discuss, recognize and observe Remembrance Day within our
classrooms. Furthermore, we will be attending an assembly on Tuesday, November 11th.
We will present a very short
poem in front of the school on this day. These are the
words:
Ill wear a little poppy,
as red as red can be,
to show that I remember,
those who fought for me.

Tips for Parents

The following website, http://www.jollylearning.co.uk/, offers a more in-depth look at
the Jolly Phonics language program we are using in our classroom. We invite you to
take a look. Continue working on the Jolly Phonics letter sheets sent home each
Friday!
When you return home from grocery shopping have your child help you by sorting the
items that belong together (cans, bottles, etc.) and also sort the items that are stored
in the freezer, those for the fridge, and those for the cupboards. Other counting
games include;
Counting objects ranging from 1 to 10 or more!
If your child is very familiar with numbers from 1 to 10, try higher numbers.
Play store with your child to give him/her the idea of money.
Talk about eating nutritious meals and snacks and the important steps to follow to
keep our teeth healthy.
Needed
Please try to send your child to school in clothes that they can manage independently.
We are celebrating many successes doing it ourselves!

Special Days
November 7th
November 7th
November 11th
November 13th

Wear your favourite Jersey Day!

We will have a Lolly Pop to raise money for United Way
(Gr.1-6 will chew one piece of gum)
Remembrance Day Assembly
Photo Retakes

November 20th & 21st

November 21st
November 28th

Interview Times
PA Day no school
Character Education Assembly on Respect @11:45am

Birthdays
Lilly on November 10th
Ms. Rae on November 12th
Evan on November 23rd
Special Thank You
To Jen Warr who was our Queens University Student that I am mentoring for such great
participation and hard work for the last 3
weeks! We now welcome Rosalind McCanny for the
next 3 weeks. Also a Queens University Student that I am now mentoring.

To our many volunteers for coming on our classroom field trip to Millers Farm!

To some of our families for bringing in the yummy Halloween treats for our party!
Sonya Schmidt & Jessica Ketchum & Ms.Rae