WELCOME TO AN EXCITING NEW YEAR

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Welcome to a new school year! I hope you had a wonderful summer and enjoyed spending quality time with your child. I know that each year of your child’s schooling presents new expectations and routines for you and your child to become familiar with. I will be introducing classroom routines and structure in a way that removes all of the guesswork from the child and allows them to concentrate fully on learning. In reading, the classroom structure I use is called Daily 5. Soon your child will be talking about talking about the Daily 5 at home. The purpose of this letter is to explain the Daily 5 and to make you aware of our classroom blog. I will be posting information about our progress as a class on our class blog. Type the following link (http://ff5f.blogspot.ca/) into your internet browser  to be taken directly to the class blog.  You may choose to scroll down to the bottom of the blog and there you will a method to subscribe to the blog.

The Daily 5 is a literacy structure that teaches independence and gives children the skills needed to create a lifetime love of reading and writing. We introduce these tasks and demonstrate the expectations for each activity. Then, the children work on building stamina until they are successful at being independent while doing that task.

These are the five tasks:

• Read to Self
• Work on Writing
• Read to Someone
• Listen to Reading
• Word Work

When all five tasks have been introduced and the children are fully engaged in reading and writing, I am able to work with small groups and confer with children one-on-one. One thing you may notice is a decrease in the number of worksheets your child brings home. Although worksheets keep students busy, they don’t result in the high level of learning we want for your child. Please visit the blog often, or subscribe to keep up with the exciting things we will be doing in the classroom throughout the school year. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mr.Francia