St. Veronica Elementary School November 2013
Agenda
Please continue to sign and return your child’s agenda each day and also the “You’ve Got Mail” folder.
Gym and Library
Please continue to check the monthly calendar for gym (Day
1 & 3) and library (Day 4). Please ensure that students have running shoes to wear for gym.
Scholastic Book Orders
Scholastic book orders will continue to be sent home on a monthly basis. Should you wish to place an order, please make cheques payable to Scholastic Book Club. No cash orders please.
At Home Reading and Writing
Please continue to read at home with your child on a daily basis and track it on the form sent home. Once the form is complete, please return for a prize from the Treasure Chest.
Students have been practicing both narrative and procedural writing in class. Reinforcement of writing at home would be beneficial and also to focus on spelling and punctuation.
Patterns and Relationships
Students will identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns
Next Unit…
Geometry and Spatial Sense
Students will be learning to:
• identify common two-dimensional shapes and threedimensional figures and sort and classify them by their attributes
• compose and decompose common two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures;
• describe the relative locations of objects using positional language.
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Guided, Independent and Shared Reading
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Word Study/ Working with Words
Personal Narratives
Students will be learning to generate ideas about a potential topic, using a variety of strategies and resources.
Procedural Writing
Students will be learning to write short texts using several simple forms.
Main Idea
Students will be learning to identify the main idea and some additional elements of texts.
Heritage and Identity: Our Changing Roles and
Responsibilities
Students will be learning to:
 Describe some of the ways in which people’s roles, relationships, and responsibilities relate to who they are and what their situation is, and how and why changes in circumstances might affect people’s roles, relationships, and responsibilities as well as their sense of self.
 Use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some aspects of the interrelationship between their identity/sense of self, their different roles, relationships, and responsibilities, and various situations in their daily lives.
 Demonstrate an understanding that they and other people have different roles, relationships, and responsibilities, and that all people should be treated with respect, regardless of their roles, relationships, and responsibilities.