Raz Kids - Home Reading!

Our home reading program begins today! Students have been practicing reading on Raz Kids at school and coming home today are their log in cards with their passwords! Please take a moment to familiarize yourself and your child to the home reading program. Students are expected to read at least 1 to 2 books a day. Students are to listen to the book read to them, read it on their own, and in some cases there is a quiz that tests the students comprehension.

Below is our Raz-Kids cheat sheet - please review the document below to help navigate throughout the website. If you have any questions, please email me at sktoor@cbe.ab.ca (Click on the picture to make them larger)

-->Visit www.raz-kids.com - click on kids login

-->Grade one students enter teacher user name vvhs1 and grade two students enter vvhs2

-->Find your child's name

-->enter in the password provided on the card that came home (their CBE ID)

Thanks! Mr. Beattie & Ms. Toor

The October Newsletter and Calendar came home today! Please take a look at some key events for October!

October 9 - our 50th anniversary celebration

October 10 - PD Day - no school for students

October 13 - Thanksgiving - no school

October 14 - School council meeting (all parents welcome)

October 17 - Picture day!

October 24 - Pizza Lunch

October 31 - PD Day - no school for students

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Reading Strategies

Today we began to learn some reading strategies! We first began to sound out each of the words, looked for smaller words in bigger words, and looked at the pictures for clues!

Please read a story with your child today and practice each of these reading strategies!

In autumn, our weather can quickly shift from summer-like warmth to, what we witness a couple of weeks ago, winter conditions. 

This week, Mrs. Reimer has shared a beautiful book called Wild Child by Lynn Plourde. In this story, Mother Nature is trying to put her daughter (Autumn) to sleep but she keeps being met by the same replay

"Not for a while," said her wild child, who comes up with a variety of stalling tactics, including a song, a snack and, of course, a kiss goodnight.

Finally, Autumn goes to sleep as  the weather drifts  into winter. Hopefully, the Wild Child (Autumn) will be staying up late this year!

Please ask your child about the natural  changes that they see taking in our Vista Heights community.