Nov. 9

Thank you to everyone for sending in all their things for the Me Shoeboxes. We have really enjoyed looking at them and talking about them in class.

We are going to start our Oral Sharing next week. The purpose of oral sharing is:

·      To learn more about others
·      To share about ourselves
·      To practice good speaking skills in front of others (eye contact, expression, volume of voice etc)
·      To give feedback to our peers
·      To ask good questions to learn more about a topic or a person

Each morning, three students will have 1- 3 minutes to share about their family, using their picture as a starting point. They could talk about:

·      Who is in their family/how many people are in their family
·      What they love best about their family
·      What they like to do with their family
·      Where their family moved from (if not from Calgary originally)

Here is a schedule for their sharing. We will do some writing in class this week and next about our family and this will come home early next week in case they would like to practice. They are welcome to use their writing as a starting point but they can change/edit it as they want.   This doesn’t need to be anything too formal. This is just a chance for students to practice speaking to others in a safe environment and for students to learn to ask good questions to get more information.  We will continue to do this through the year with various topics.

Nov. 17	Nov. 18	Nov. 21	Nov. 22	Nov. 23
Kyle Bosco Justin Carter	Adam Ramish Jayden Isra Thomas	Tandra Ella Catrrina Sam	Everee Zoe Chloe Kieran	Makennia Juliette Ben Katerina

Coming Up:

• Veterans' Food Drive this week. Send in non-perishable food donations if you can. 
• Remembrance Day Ceremony tomorrow at 9:30am
• No School Friday
• Photo Orders due Nov. 15
• Photo retakes Nov. 15
• Poinsettia orders due Nov. 21.