Literacy and Social Studies

Dear Parents,

Our class is beginning a Language unit called Celebrate Traditions. In this unit, students find out about different celebrations enjoyed by many people across Canada, such as Canada Day, Aboriginal Solidarity Day, Remembrance Day, Kwanzaa, and Chinese New Year. Students will learn:

• An understanding of titles and headings

• The listening strategy of listening for predictive words
• The reading strategy of predicting
• The media strategy of interpreting messages from invitations
• The writing strategy of staying on topic
• Word work and vocabulary skills

During the next few weeks, I will be sending home activities about celebrations that you and your child can do together.

Here are some suggestions for how you can support your child's learning during this unit:

• Talk about family celebration and traditions with your child. What celebrations or traditions do you celebrate as a family? How did these traditions begin?
• Make a favorite family celebration food with your child.
• Discuss how we can show respect for different cultures by learning about their traditions and celebrations.
• Read simple books with titles and headings and discuss how the titles and headings help a reader predict what the story will be about.

Enjoy!