Home Reading Incentive

If you want to know why I'm beginning this incentive, read here.

Every day a student comes to school with their home reading book bag, and a signed tracking sheet with an adult's initials on it, I will enter them in a draw for a weekly prize. This will begin on the week of November 2, with the first draw being on Friday, November 6.

Let's get reading!

Things We Need to Work On

As adults who are partners in our children's learning (I speak as a parent with 3 children of my own), we need to be vigilant in supervising certain aspects of their daily activity, especially their school work.

Are the kids in Room 9 supposed to be reading at home every day?

YES

Are the kids supposed to be bringing home a black, zippered, home reading bag every day?

YES

Should it contain a new book every day, that the students (or the teacher and the student) have chosen to read?

YES

Should someone take time to enjoy the book with the child at home, every day?

YES

Will any of this happen if the adults at both ends are partners with the child in making it happen?

NO !

And that is what I'm seeing. Our home reading bags have stopped being used. I think they have been forgotten. Fellow adults, we need to pull up our socks. Read the next news post to find out what I'm going to do about it.

Wild Rompus

Every day for the past 3 weeks, the entire school has been doing daily physical activity, or DPA for short. DPA is mandated by the Ministry of Education: each day students are to engage in vigorous physical activity for at least 15 minutes, in order to attain and maintain an acceptable level of physical fitness. I think it's a great idea. And, the students really enjoy it.

We organized a 3 week school wide DPA, with much assistance from our P.E. teacher, Miss M. We used the story Where the Wild Things Are, which is a current movie and a classic children's book. Look on the Parkdale School News web site for some pictures of our activities.

Where the Wild Things Are

Our Wild Things...