Wednesday November 6, 2013

Reminder: 

Forms for "A Day Across Canada " by The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 need to be returned by Friday November 8, 2013.                          

                                
                               

For more information please check their website: 

 http://www.cpo-live.com/main/

We are collecting non-perishable food items for the Veteran's Food Bank this week! If you are able to, please support this cause and send non-perishable food items to school.

Our Remembrance Day Assembly will be on Friday November 8, at 10:45. Please invite your family members to attend! We will be collecting donations for poppies on Friday morning - all students will receive a poppy to wear for the assembly.

-No school November 11th for Remembrance Day
- Purdy forms are due November 12th
- Photo retakes will take place November 19th

Vista Heights is a Calgary Reads School!

We are looking for volunteers to help us improve the confidence and ability of struggling young readers and to actively promote early literacy. We would be honoured to have you join our team. If you enjoy reading and have two or three hours each week to share with a child, we invite you to help us in our mission to help Calgary’s children gain literacy skills. For more information on how you can help, please visit the Calgary Reads website at www.calgaryreads.com or email info@calgaryreads.com or Ms. Toor atsktoor@cbe.ab.ca


Today we had an opportunity to work with Mrs. Turk talking about, "Hibernation" and why do animals need to hibernate. Ask me what happens to the bears breathing when they are

hibernating. We also talked about 'predators'. Ask me about it. Which animals hibernate: bats, squirrels, turtle, chipmonks, frogs, rabbits.......

 Ask me about these books....

Ask me which is fiction and non-fiction

Tuesday November 5, 2013

Forms for the Philharmonic Orchestra going home: Gr.1,2,3 and 4 will be attending a performance titled, "A Day Across Canada " by The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra on Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Please see the form for details and return by Friday November 8, 2013.                          

                                
                              

For more information please check their website: 

 http://www.cpo-live.com/main/

We wil require volunteers for each classroom.  If you have security clearance and are able to volunteer, please indicate on the form.

We are doing an authors study of 

Ask me which books did we read and what was my favourite part

 Ask me what happens......           
     Why do we need to dress warmly...    

Learning to read and spell       

                                    Ask Gr.1 scientists .......

 What is decomposing.......

Ask me what is living and non-living and why?

                         

  colouring the words we can read

                

We have been practicing O Canada for our Rememberance Day Assembly on November 8th.

Monday November 4, 2013

We are collecting non-perishable food items for the Veteran's Food Bank this week! Please support this cause, and send non-perishable food items to school.

                                                         
                                                       Vista Heights Food Collection
                                                                                   
Our Remembrance Day Assembly will be on Friday November 8, at 10:45. Please invite your family members to attend! We will be collecting donations for poppies on Friday morning - all students will receive a poppy to wear for the assembly.  

                                                                     

We observed our pumpkin after a few days

 Ask me about our pumpkin

What did I feel...........

Following our groundwork pattern lesson we looked for more patterns in nature

 Ask me about the patterns I saw in nature

Ask me about these words

Thanks,

 Mrs. Malik