Preserving the Past...Preparing for the Future

Khalsa School Calgary Division 1 Newsletter

Inside this issue:

Grade 2 Field Trip to Fort Calgary

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Teachers’ Corner 3-4

Speech Competition 5

March Calendar 6

Thursday, March 7th and Friday, March 8th

Parent Teacher Conferences are an opportunity to connect with the teacher in support of your child. Conferences are scheduled for 15 minutes and top-ics may include: academic performance, strengths and areas for growth, work habits, social interac-tions with other children and adults, work samples and assessment data. To get the most out of the experience we suggest that you regularly talk with your child about how things are going at school, re-view your child’s report card prior, arrive on time, be prepared with questions, and involve your child. It would also be beneficial for your child to attend to review their work and set goals to further ben-efit their learning outcomes for the remaining of the school year. Students in grades K – 3 require an appointment, which can be done on our online system at https://ksc.schoolappointments.com/admin/. You can find this link on our school website under upcoming events.

Important Dates

March 7th -Parent

Teacher Conferences

3:00-7:30 (No School)

March 8th -Parent

Teacher Conferences

8:15-12:30 (No School)

March 15th-Hola Mahalla

Gatka Presentation1:00-

2:00pm

March 22nd-Staff PD

(No School)

March 27th- Div 1

Speech Semi Finals

March 28h-Div 1 Speech

Competition Finals

March 29th-Casual Day

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Grade 2 Field Trip to Fort Calgary

Our grade 2’s got to learn more about Calgary’s past and enjoyed dressing up in costumes, learning new languages, and handling artifacts as they learned about what makes different cultures unique. Students also got to work together to build a child-sized log cabin and then travel through the museum to further explore buildings and their materials.

February has gone by so quickly as kindergarten has been a very busy place of learning and enrichment! In Literacy and Language Arts, kindergarteners have continued to work in their letter booklets and on sight words. Students are focusing on letter sounds J, Z, W and V this month. Students are making progress in applying their knowledge of letter sounds to start sounding out words, setting the foundation of read-ing. In science, the Kindergarten classes have continued learning about our five senses of sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. The students have done many exciting experi-ments as they learn further about this topic. In social studies, both kindergarten classes have continued to focus on their community. In celebrating Valentine’s Day, kinder-gartners focused on love and friendship within their school community and home community. Color words, number words to ten and measurement have been the focus of kindergarten mathematics in February. For 7 Habits, we concentrated on learning Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood in the month of February. The next habit of the month is Habit 6: Syner-gize, which means working together is better than working alone. The Kindergarten Team: Ms. Chidley and Ms. Kaur

For Literacy, we will be working on our third genre of writing. We will be looking at Narrative texts. Narrative texts either tell the reader a story or describes and comments on life, they

are usually fictional accounts.

For math, we will be focusing on our Number Sense unit. In this unit we will be focusing on money, fractions, multiplication and division strategies. With money students will learn how

to add and subtract money amounts up to 100 cents using skip counting strategies. In fractions, students will recognize equal parts of a whole as a fraction. Students will also learn

how to name fractions using words and numbers. In multiplication students will learn how to multiply by adding long sequences of the same number by skip counting. In division

students will learn how to divide items into equal groups.

For science, we will be focusing on our Exploring Liquids unit. In this unit students will be able to describe properties of water and other liquids and recognizing the importance of

water to living and nonliving things. As well, we will describe the interaction of water with different materials and apply that knowledge to practical problems.

For social studies, we are continuing to learn more about the people that live in Meteghan, Saskatoon and Iqaluit. We have expanded on a various traditions and celebrations that are

significant in each community. This term, students are to demonstrate an in depth understanding of traditions and the way of life in each community.

Mrs.Salmon and Ms.Gill

Teacher’s Corner

Grade 2

Grade 1

Literacy: For the month of February, students will be working on retelling important facts and ideas in a variety of texts. We will also be learning how to identify or categorize information according to sequence, similarities or differences. Long Vowel word lists will be sent home, please make sure to practice these words at home. Math: Students will continue to learn addition from 1-20. Students will refine their number sense from 1-100. We will be continuing on with word problems. Students will learn how to demonstrate their knowledge of word problems by using numbers, pictures and words. Science: We will continue to work on the five senses. The grade one classes will be going on a field trip to the Telus Spark during the month of March. Next, students will start to learn about the needs of plants and animals. Social: Our students have been very interested in learning about how stories and events of the past connect their families and communities to the present. Ms. Raeewal & Mrs. Kaur

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Khalsa School Calgary

Kindergarten

In Literacy, we have done a wonderful job on our procedural writing including instructions, recipes and the scientific method. Now, we are busy

learning about the purpose and features of persuasive texts. We are enjoying coming up with creative ideas to convince and persuade! Next

month, we will focus on descriptive writing. We are continuing to engage in weekly spelling tests, text-talk vocabulary lessons, grammar les-

sons, working-with-word exercises and journal writing. We are reminded to read every day for at least 30 minutes and to practice our FRY

words. Keep up the wonderful efforts, grade threes.

In Math, we are working hard to finish our unit on Addition and Subtraction. We have learned a variety of helpful strategies to help us add and sub-

tract 2-digit and 3-digit numbers. We have worked with base-ten blocks to regroup. Our next unit will be Measurement.

In Social Studies, we have travelled to the exotic and interesting country of Tunisia. We are learning all about its geography, culture, religion, life-

style, goods, services and natural resources. We enjoyed a special presentation from Teacher’s Pet to introduce the unit.

In Science, we are having a lot of fun investigating materials and design. We are the Junior Khalsa Engineers and we are completing important

missions in order to learn about best methods of design. We have learned all about the strongest shapes, arches, pillars, cube constructions, con-

tainers and more. In a few weeks, we will begin our construction of bridges, animals and our very own playground. We cannot wait to get started!

Learning through hand-on exploration is the best. Please begin to collect empty cardboard containers at home.

Mrs.Parhar and Mrs.Konrad

Punjabi

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Grade 3

Teacher’s Corner

Hola Mahalla: Gatka Presentation: There will be Gatka presentation by Sikh Youth Calgary in special assembly dedicated to Hola Mahalla on Friday, March 15. All parents

are invited to watch our future generation playing Gatka in the big gym at 1:00-2:00 pm.

Punjabi Speaking Competition

There will be Punjabi Speaking Competition on Saturday, March 23rd at 1:00 – 4:00 pm in Whitehorn Community Hall organized by ‘Punjabi Likhari Sabha’. The details have

been already sent by the email. The parents, who want their child to participate, are requested to prepare their child to recite a decent and meaningful Punjabi poem or song

for the competition. The students who are interested in participating this event can register their names directly with Punjabi Likhari Sabha (403-680-3212 or 403-714-6848).

The competition will be held according to following age groups:

Group 1 - G- 2,3 & 4

Group 2 – G-5, 6 & 7

Group 3 – G-8, 9 & 10

KG: Our youngest Punjabi learners will be learning to trace and name fourth and fifth row of Punjabi alphabets. Most of our students have learned all paintee alphabets and

they can recognize the mixed letters. They will be learning to read and write Mukta 2, 3 and 4-letter words. They have learned Punjabi counting 1-10 and we will be working

on saying and writing 11-20 numbers in Punjabi. Some students are still learning to trace the second row. Parents are requested to help them practicing at least one page

per day so that they can trace the letters nicely. In Gurmat, KGs will be learning 10 Gurus, 5 Piare, 4 Sahibzade, 4th and 5th pauri of Japji Sahib.

G-1, 2 & 3:

Basic Level: The students will continue working on different matra words. Most of the students have shown great improvement in their Punjabi learning. The students are

encouraged to practice writing and reading their matra words at home every day for at least 15 minutes. The parents are requested to check their Punjabi notebooks for their

homework and help them complete all the assigned work as this is counted for marks.

Advanced Level: The higher level students will continue working on all matra words, comprehending Punjabi text, Punjabi vocabulary, reading strategies and writing prac-tice. They will also work on making plurals and changing genders in word form. The parents are requested to check their Punjabi notebooks for their homework. In Gurmat, the students will be memorizing Japji Sahib patth. The parents are requested to help them in memorizing one pauri every week.

The Punjabi Team: Mrs. Kaur, Mrs. Khara, and Mrs. Gill

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Black and White Day

2

3 4 5 6 7

Parent Teacher Con-

ference 3:00-7:30

No Classes

8

Parent Teacher Con-

ference 8:15-12:30

No Classes

9

10 11 12 13 14 15

Hola Mahalla Assem-

bly at 1pm

Bana Day

16

17 18 19 20 21 22

Staff PD (No School)

23

24 25 26 27

Div 1 Speech Semi

Finals

28

Div 1 Speech Compe-

tition Finals

29

Casual Day

Pizza Lunch

30

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