Welcome to our classroom website. This website was designed to help keep Division 10's students and their parents informed. As you explore this website, you will be able to see our class schedule, read about special events, follow educational links that will help children to extend their learning, and meet our teacher. This website will help you to better understand what we do each day in Division 10. We hope you enjoy exploring our class site.
Items to Remember:
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Read for 30 minutes daily
Your child must have running shoes at school every day.
French is on Tuesdays & Fridays
Our Gym days are
Field Trips:
Reminders:
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Read for 30 minutes daily
Your child must have running shoes at school every day.
French is on Tuesdays & Fridays
Our Gym days are
Field Trips:
Reminders:
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Reading With Your Child At Home
Why Your Child Should Read
20 Minutes per Day
It may also be helpful to establish a set reading time each night, perhaps right before bed. For younger students, this could mean reading a story together and for older students, perhaps the child can read the story to you. This allows children to share their reading progress with you but also to view reading as a positive and productive habit.
Sometimes students have difficulty understanding just why it is so important that they read every night for at least 20 minutes. Research proves that reading proficiency is based mostly on how much reading a person does.
When your child says "Why Can't I Skip My Reading Tonight?", consider this as an answer:
Let's figure it out mathematically.
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week= 100 minutes/week.
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week= 20 minutes/week.
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes/month.
Student B reads 80 minutes/month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year.
Student A reads 3600 minutes/school year.
Student B reads 720 minutes/school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
By the end of sixth grade, if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits,
Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days.
Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school and in life?
[Source: U.S. Department of Education, America Reads Challenge. (1999) "Start Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become A Reader." Washington, D.C.]
Sometimes students have difficulty understanding just why it is so important that they read every night for at least 20 minutes. Research proves that reading proficiency is based mostly on how much reading a person does.
When your child says "Why Can't I Skip My Reading Tonight?", consider this as an answer:
Let's figure it out mathematically.
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week= 100 minutes/week.
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week= 20 minutes/week.
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes/month.
Student B reads 80 minutes/month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year.
Student A reads 3600 minutes/school year.
Student B reads 720 minutes/school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
By the end of sixth grade, if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits,
Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days.
Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school and in life?
[Source: U.S. Department of Education, America Reads Challenge. (1999) "Start Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become A Reader." Washington, D.C.]