Month: February 2021

Division 1 friends:

The Maywood Library is holding a contest for the most holds by division. There are some rules, so please read below! We are a group of voracious readers, so I don’t doubt that our class has a good chance of winning!

Contest! Prizes! Reading! Library!
The purpose of this contest is to give you a chance to practice using the online Library catalogue.

Rules

1. Contest runs from February16 to March12  (four weeks).
2. Theclasswiththemoststudentswhoplaceholdsusing the online catalogue during that time, wins.
3. You can only place a hold on a book in the week when your class does NOT come to the library for book exchange. That gives you two chances.
4. A hold means you place a hold online and then you actually check the book out of the library. This means you should choose a book that’s ‘In’ the library.
5. You can only borrow one book at a time, so if you already have a book checked out, you need to return it (you can return it on the day you borrow the new one). If you put holds on two books and they are both ‘In’ the library, I give you the first one that comes up on my list.
   Check the Library Blog for more information

Last Friday, your child was sent home with their first formal report card. Included in this package was a Term 2 Overview. Please sign and return the report card envelope.

Also, FSA’s are upon us. Grade 7’s have been sent home a letter explaining more. Please return the letter signed by this Friday if you wish for your child to be exempted from this testing.

This month at a glace:

• Forest Friday/Report cards go home – Feb 12
• Rainbow week: wear blue Monday, red Tuesday, pink Wednesday, green Thursday.
• Pink Shirt Day – Feb. 24th (wear pink!)
• Pro-D – Feb. 26th (no school)

Parents and students: 

We’ve now completed our week of Blogfolio sharing. Students have been preparing their best work and sometime this last week, should have sat down with a parent to share their blogfolio.

A blue checklist went home with students to help guide them through their Blog share. Parents, you were to check this with your child and let me know if anything was missing. You were also asked to comment on at least one of your child’s writing blogs. In the gold-coloured info letter that went home last Monday, there were suggestions on how to give feedback, however it ended up being on the back side of the part that was to be signed and returned to me! (oops)

Go to this link for suggestions on how to give effective feedback (Lanaway’s Lounge).

Stapled to the blue checklist was a pink Language Arts Learning Map with assessment and reflection from both myself and student. This created an opportunity for you to discuss with your child how they have been progressing in Language Arts (oral, reading, and writing), their writing goals, and to better understand what their next steps and goals are.

I hope you have enjoyed this opportunity! If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Parents: If you have not yet had a chance to do this with your child, please do try to get to it. I am still collecting the blue checklist with your signature, once it is done. I need this for my records. Thank you for your cooperation.