Category: Our Learning Story – Actions

All divisions have gathered on Friday afternoon for Celebration of literacy assembly.  Mr. Pantaleo presented a wordless picture story book projected on four walls in our gym. Students had an opportunity to view four pages at a time around the gym. They were then asked to predict what is happening and share their predictions with…

During our January 26th Professional Learning Day, we met with all staff to discuss examples of reading strategies that we taught our students this term and to set goals to improve our students’ reading comprehension for the rest of the school year.  We also took the time to examine the reading resources we have at…

Our school learning story for this year was the focus of our Winter Concert.  Classes integrated literacy in creative ways for their performances.  Students composed plays, read books and sang seasonal and cultural songs. The concert was a huge hit with students and families this year!! Grade Group Ideas K-1: Choral reading or song adaptation…

We held our second Celebration of literacy assembly on Friday afternoon. Mr. Pantaleo presented on the reading strategy of inferencing.  He read the story and had the students use clues in the story and their background knowledge to infer important information given. We also celebrated classes that reached their first reading goals!   Attachments 4.pdf…

This afternoon we held our first Celebration of literacy assembly. We had our principal read a book about Diwali, then two divisions presented a poem and different genres of literacy.  Finally, each division shared their goal for the first term, examples include: read a basket of books, read 280 cm of books, read 250 novels…

Diefenbaker staff decided to choose their favourite children’s books and model their love of reading for our students.  The books behind our faces are posted on a bulletin board in front of the main office for our students to see.  See the attached photo.  Attachments staff reads 1.pdf