Hello, and Happy New year SKILL parents,

I hope that everyone stayed happy and healthy over the winter break. I feel rejuvenated and am looking forward to a great 2020. 

We have begun a new unit for vocabulary already and are practicing printing and saying our new words: eye, nose, hand, ear, finger, arm, back, elbow, teeth, lips, knee toes, foot, head, and stomach. 

That is the basic list but we may add some more body part names as we go along. Please try to help your student practice these words at home. 

Message from the  VP

We are excited to bring back two programs, Simons Valley Reads

and Simons Valley Mathletes. Both programs were a HUGE success because of volunteers such as you! We are hoping to run an 8-week program of both SVS Reads and Mathletes starting January 28th for 1 hour a week.

Here is a brief description of the two programs (little different from last year) but just as impactful!

SVS Reads

To support our Grade One/ Two/ Three students, we are looking for parent

volunteers who would be able to come once a week for an

hour and work with two students. Volunteers would work with a student for 20 minutes each practicing high-frequency words, sentence work and of course, reading a short story. All of the materials will be provided for you!

SVS Mathletes

The second program, Simons Valley Mathletes is a program designed to

help our grade 3 to 6 students develop proficiency in mathematics. The focus this year will be to strengthen basic math facts. With this program, as SVS Reads, we are looking for parent volunteers who would be able to come once a week for an hour and work with two students. Volunteers would work with each student for 20 minutes making numbers, practicing basic math facts and then playing a math game. All of the materials will be provided for you.

If you are interested in volunteering with either program, please contact us at ggdavidoff@cbe.ab.ca

or bghordern@cbe.ab.ca before January 14th.