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Upcoming Dates:
April 3—Good Friday—No School
April 6 to 10—Easter Holidays—No School
April 13—Earth Rangers Presentations
April 15—Grade 8 Farewell Pictures
April 27—Pre-K/K Orientation for Eastview Area Families @ Eastview Community Centre
May 15—Staff Professional Development—No School
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GLEN ELM COMMUNITY SCHOOL
GECS School Calendar
April 2015
Sunday
Trustee:
Ms. Cindy Anderson
Superintendent: Ms. Morgan Reed
Principal:
Mr. Patrick Mooney
Vice Principal:
Mr. Andrew Pelling
Admin Assistant: Mrs. Shannon Zikman
Issue #7
April 2015
Hello to our GECS parents, caregivers and families!
At Glen Elm Community School, we have been excited to have four student-teacher candidates
in our school for the last three weeks of March. Mr. Opdahl, Mr. Siemens, Ms. Craske and Ms.
Sawka have been welcome additions to our Glen Elm family! They have been supporting our
students’ learning in Ms. Evans’ and Mme. Berriault’s classrooms and have taken an active roll
in those classrooms and in our school. We will miss you all and we wish you all the best as you
complete your studies this year and move into your internship next year!
We also just had an opportunity at the end of March to meet with parents/caregivers, students
and our teachers at our three-way conferences. It was great to see many of you in our school
and for our staff to share information about your child’s learning and their strengths and areas
for improvement. While we did get to visit many of you, our overall turnout was just 61.3%. If
you were unable to attend your scheduled conference with their teacher, please do not hesitate to contact the school to arrange for a meeting. Communication and supporting one another is crucial to continuing to improve our outcomes (academic and social) for our young
Knights. We know that when parents/caregivers and the school work together to support
learning we are more likely to make a difference for our students!
Enjoy the Easter Break and we will see you when school resumes on Monday, April 13, 2015!
Kindergarten Registration and Pre-K Applications
If you have children who will be 5 years old by December 31, 2015, you
can register your child for Kindergarten programming in the fall. Please
call the school or go to the school website to complete the registration
application for your child.
We are also accepting Pre-Kindergarten applications for students who are aged three and four at
the start of next year. Please give our school a call
if you would like to submit an application!
Glen Elm Community School
1225 9th Avenue E., Regina, SK
Phone:
(306) 791-8588
Email:
glenelm@rbe.sk.ca
Glen Elm Community School
A Proud Member of RPS!
Glen Elm School Day
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION
8:50am
Warning Bell
8:53am
Instruction Begins
10:30am
Recess (15 Minutes)
11:45am
Noon (Outside at 12:15pm)
12:45pm
Classes Resume
2:15pm
Recess (15 Minutes)
We are accepting registrations for the 2015-2016
school year for our Kindergarten program. If you have
a child will be starting Kindergarten in September
2015 please register as soon as possible. The number
of students registered determines how many
Kindergarten classes we have. The staffing process
begins in April/May so...
3:37pm
Dismissal
Please register as soon as possible!
Morning supervision starts at 8:38am! Please aim
to have your child/children arrive at school at or
after this time!
UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
To make sure that we are able to contact parents/
caregivers or other contact persons in the event of
an emergency, we ask all families who have had
and recent changes to their home address, or to
thierr home, work or cell phone numbers to please
contact the school at 306-791-8588 so that we can
update our family records.
Happy Easter!
No school April 6th to
April 10th.
Classes resume:
Monday April 13th, 2015
Glen Elm Community School is a proud
member of
Regina Public School’s family of schools!
Things to Know About Reading and
Literacy
Literacy involves more than reading—it is about reading,
writing, speaking and listening. The National Reading
Panel (US) has identified five areas that children need to
be skillful in becoming good readers:
PHONEMIC AWARENESS
The ability to focus on and use phonemes (the
smallest units of spoken language) in spoken words. The English language has 41
phonemes which combine to form syllables and words. Some words have only one phoneme (a or oh). Most words consist of a blend of phonemes, such as the word ‘go’ with two
(g and o) or the word check with three phonemes (ch e ck).
Children must be 5 years of age by December 31, 2015
to be eligible for kindergarten. Registration forms are
available at the office or can be downloaded from our
school website. (glenelm.rbe.sk.ca)
Please bring your child’s birth certificate and health
card when registering.
If you have Pre-K eligible students, you may also want
to apply for one of our potential spaces. Please keep in
mind that Pre-K children must be transported to and
from school by parents or caregivers.
Application forms are available at the Glen Elm Office
or online (glenelm.rbe.sk.ca). Like K registration, birth
certificates and health cards are required for Pre-K
applications.
PHONICS
Learning the alphabetic system or letter-sound relations and spelling patterns.
FLUENCY
Reading text with speed, accuracy and proper expression.
COMPREHENSION
The goal of reading, that integrates the skills involved with reading and understanding what
is being read.
VOCABULARY
Knowing and understanding the words one is reading.
Are you on
Please consider subscribing to the Glen Elm Community School Remind!
This is an easy way for students and parents to get
updated reminders about important Glen Elm Community School news. To subscribe, send a text to
(306)993-0979. Type ‘@glenelmcs’ in the message.
You will receive a message back asking for your
name. Once you’ve replied you will be entered into
our GECS Parents’ text group. If at any time you
would like to unsubscribe, simply reply ‘HELP’ to one
of the text messages.
http://remind.com/join/glenelmcs
Good Readers:

Are reactive and responsive to the text
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Are not speed readers nor read word…..for…..word
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Predict what will happen—connect reading to what they already know
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Form a mental image while they read
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‘Self-question’ while they read
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Check for understanding and make sure it is clear, through re-reading when they are confused
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Summarize, interpret and think about what they ae reading