What's New
Pizza Fridays are back!
Every Friday we have pizza day - $1 per slice. Send money in Thursday morning by 9:00AM to your child's teacher.
Important Dates
May 13 - 19: Teacher
Appreciation Week
May 14: Regional Track and
Field meet at NOC
May 14: Grade 3 - Swim to
Survive at YMCA
May 15: Grade 6 to Brock
Leadership Program
May 15: Pasta Orders Due
May 16: Caretaker's Day
May 16: MacMillan's Delivered
at 1:00 PM in the gym
May 16: Mad Science 3:25 PM
May 17: E.I.McCulley Talent
Show
May 18: P.A.Day - NO SCHOOL
May 21: Victoria Day - NO
SCHOOL
May 22: Pasta Lunch
May 23 - June 6: EQAO
Provincial Testing - Grades
3 & 6
May 23: Milk Orders Due
May 23: Mad Science 3:25 PM
May 25: Twin Day
May 29: Sub Orders are due
May 29: Volunteer
Appreciation Tea 2:15 in the
Learning Commons
May 30: Mad Science 3:25
May 30: Welcome to
Kindergarten Information
Session 4:00 - 5:00 PM
May 30: SAC Meeting 6:00 PM
June 5: Sub Lunch
June 6: Environmental
Presentations - Grades 5 & 6
June 6: Mad Science 3:25 PM
June 7: Olympic Country Day -
show your favourite country
spirit and celebrate the
upcoing 2012 Olympics
June 8: P.A.Day - NO SCHOOL
June 11: Celebration Assembly - RESPONSIBILITY. Wear your colours!
Welcome to E.I. McCulley Public School!
E.I. McCulley Celebrates Literacy
E.I. McCulley School celebrated Family Literacy with the theme "A Week in the Life of Literacy". This event took place on February 23 and families rotated through 7 stations, representing the days of the week. At each station, families engaged in hands on, fun activities that incorporated literacy into the activities. Stations included Math Monday, Travel Tuesday, www.Wednesday, Think About it Thursday, Feeding Friday, A Song for Saturday and Snuggle Up on Sunday. Dinner was included, as well as prizes and a special guest reader.
Click on the link to see photos from our recent Family Literacy Night - A Week in the Life of Literacy.
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN UPDATE—Math Manipulatives
Manipulatives provide a concrete way to help students understand mathematical concepts. They help them relate abstract ideas about numbers and shapes to something they can see and touch. We have recently purchased a number of math ma-nipulatives to ensure that each classroom has a sampling of useful manipulatives and that we have a class set in our resource room that teachers can use for math instruction. Ask your children how they have used manipulatives in math at school.
Cuisenaire Rods |
Fraction Strips |
TOP 10 TIPS TO HELP YOUR CHILD WITH MATH
1. Connect math to daily life – Let them know the importance of math! Talk about how you use math in your day-to-day life (at the store, in your job, around the house).
2. Counting can be fun and entertaining – Show them math can be fun! Sing songs (One, Two, Buckle my Shoe) and play games (card games, hopscotch, board games, Dominoes, chess).
3. Start Easy and Work up! – For example, after they’ve got counting by 1s, talk about skip counting and count by 2s, then 5s and 10s. Don’t jump ahead too fast.
4. Use household items for practice – Practise adding and subtracting with objects from the house like spoons or pots and pans.
5. Tap into your child’s curiosity – Go on a number hunt in your house.
6. Talk about time – Talk about seconds, minutes and hours, then count days and weeks. Ask them questions: How long until bedtime? How many “sleeps” until the weekend?
7. Practice mental math using coins – Count money or have them show you how much an item costs and practise making change for when they’re at the store.
8. Play the estimating game – Estimate measurements, distances, time and grocery bills and then compare to the actual.
9. Sports and math – There is a lot of math in sports such as batting averages, points per game and save percentages (discuss these as you watch the games or read the newspaper).
10. Computers + Math = Fun (there are lots of great computer games available to explore math).
