OUR LAST WEEK FOR BOXES!

Thank you to all the parents who dropped off some nice big boxes for our little "travellers"!  

I did tweet a photo of ONE of the many vehicles they made in their imaginations this week. Here is our train!

                          chrisblahout@twitter.com

We will be wrapping up our "TRANSPORTATION" focus this week and getting ready for the much anticipated April focus on "SPRING"! (If it ever arrives?)

So, if you have a box to donate, please bring it as soon as possible so we can continue to enjoy inventing different vehicles over this last week. {The boxes get beat up with all 4 classes (85 students) playing with them.}
*As of March 31st we will not need any more boxes, thank you.

March 5 to April 18 - LENTEN ACTIVITIES

Dear Parents,

This Lent at Holy Redeemer School we will help to promote the values of sacrifice and giving by supporting The Shepherds of Good Hope and Escuela San Jose Las Flores in El Salvador.  Any money we raise will help those in need and we hope to help equip a school science lab, as well as set up a chicken cooperative, for students in El Salvador.

The following is a list of special activities planned at Holy Redeemer:

March 5- Ash Wednesday Liturgy- 8:45 in the gym = Lent begins

March 21- "Hats for Hope" > Please donate a loonie or toonie to raise funds for the needy at The Shepherds of Good Hope

April 7-17 – Collection of used household items for the Shepherds of Good Hope (list to follow)

April 11 - "Flower Power" for San Jose Las Flores- Students can dress up in their best floral outfits and bring in a loonie or toonie for our friends in El Salvador

April 14-17 - Easter Basket Raffle Tickets on sale- $1 each, or 3 for $2

April 17 -  Stations of the Cross in preparation for April 18 - Good Friday

Please be sure to mark these dates on your calendar or visit our school website at https://red.ocsb.ca

We thank you for helping us to make this project a success.  Your support is greatly appreciated.

REQUESTING BIG BOXES Please!

Students will be using their imaginations to create a variety of VEHICLES - - - cars, trucks, trains, boats, planes, rocket ships, or whatever.   So-o-o...

Mme. Blahout kindly requests large cardboard BOXES for these activities.

Your child should be able to sit inside the box. 


Children are not permitted to take them on the bus, so please drop the boxes off at school following March Break. 

Thank you for your help!

Mme. Blahout

MARCH NEWSLETTERS

Click here for the JUNIOR Kindergarten MARCH newsletter.

Click here for the SENIOR Kindergarten MARCH newsletter.

                   School web address is:  https://red.ocsb.ca

   

MORE ABOUT POPCORN WORDS

The previous posting was targeted for 

Senior Kindergarten students who should be developmentally ready to focus on learning "words".   

However, if you believe your JK child is ready to 

move onto learning words then great!  Keep in mind that the 'cart' can't go before the 'horse'; so letter knowledge must come before words.

Remember, the tips that are presented on this blog are for informational purposes.  We want parents to be included in the learning process because a parent is the most influential member of the education team!

POPCORN WORDS "POP"!

ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING . . .

- Junior Kindergarten focuses on letter recognition and then connecting letter sounds to letter names.

- Senior Kindergarten then moves from solidifying letter knowledge to learning high frequency words, otherwise known as "Popcorn Words".  Finally they move to emergent reading skills, sounding out unfamiliar words mixed with these high frequency words. Every step along the journey is important!

This week we will be sending home a booklet of high frequency words printed on a popcorn design.   We encourage families to use the 'props' to help their emergent readers practice these words.  Post the props around the house and point them out whenever they "pop" up in texts.

Please encourage your child to recognize or read several of these words every day!  Knowing these words by sight will help your child be prepared for Grade One!

Thank you for your assistance in this regard.

REPORT CARD ENVELOPE

We always recycle the Report Card envelopes in June, so if you have not sent it back to school yet, please do so as soon as possible!

Thank you to those who have already sent the envelope back to school.