I look forward to meeting parents and families on Wednesday evening. Come join us for pizza and visit our classroom!
Our new teacher librarian, Mme Thomas, will be hosting her first book fair from Wednesday-Monday in the Admiral library! Ensure that you stop in during our Meet the Teacher night to peruse the assortment of book titles available. On display, there is a wide range of titles and books from every reading level.
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| More than just books! |
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| Posters too! |
Our class loves to read. Almost every student in the class has expressed their joy for reading and was ready to share their favourite book title. Almost ALL are currently reading a book for pleasure without my prompting! Our outstanding daily homework is : READ FOR 20 MINUTES EVERY DAY!
A colleague, Zach Ambridge, shared the following to encourage his students to read for twenty minutes every night.
Why Can't I Skip My Twenty Minutes of Reading Tonight?
Let's figure it out -- mathematically!
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week; Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week. Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100
mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year.
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
By the end of 5th grade if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days. Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school....and in life?
mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year.
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
By the end of 5th grade if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days. Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school....and in life?
Terry Fox Day
On Friday, September 27th Admiral is hosting our annual Terry Fox Run. Please fill free to make a donation by sending in a loonie or a toonie with your child. On that same day, we will be voting for this year's house captains, coming up with our house cheer and adding all the points collected during the Terry Fox Run for our house.Today, in Math we worked on decimals. Students can continue to practise at home on mathfrog.ca (click on Welcome, KIDZ, Grade 5, scroll down to Number Sense chose play game Naming Decimals).
This afternoon students wrote a CASI evaluation to give me a better idea of their strengths and weaknesses in reading. The results from CASI will help to group students for Guided Reading.
As a nice surprise, I came back from lunch to find an apple for the teacher on my desk - thank you Julia and Shaelyn! It is delicious!
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