Home-Based Education

Hello HBE families:

I hope that everyone is well, and your educational pursuits are coming along. The cold weather has us spending more time indoors which is a good chance to get some letters to Santa or grandparents and some holiday stories written.  Remember to save some of your work samples so you can see the progress you have made in June. The Ministry of Education requires you to keep evidence of each child’s learning for a minimum of 2 years, you don’t need to keep everything just a few samples/pictures/ test for evidence. After 2 years you may recycle work samples, tests etc. if you wish.

HBE Funding; The funding forms have all been organized and sent into the accounting department, the funding $ will be sent out to HBE families at the end of January 2023. Families are not required to provide receipts for the educational materials they purchase with this funding.

Programs: Some parents have inquired about other educational programming besides Home based education that the PSSD offers.

These are the options:

1. Students may return to the local school during the school year
2. We offer a program called “learning@home” for grades K-8. Students regularly connect with the teacher for guidance, but their work is self-paced and managed by individual family schedules. The teacher provides the grade appropriate lesson and  the assessments. Parents support the learning but don’t have to find the curriculum.
3. Spirit elearning is our online school. The next intake time is January 9^th for online classes. Credit classes for grades 10-12

If you are interested in either of these options, please connect with me for more information and the next steps.          lorraine.fitzgerald@spiritsd.ca

Grade 10 Pathways:

Students that are in grade 9 may want to consider the pathway they wish to take for their educational journey and possible post secondary options.  

This graphic is a quick look at the pathways if you are not attending your local school.  

Gym & Skating times for your PE classes:

Martensville Athletic Pavilion: these Fridays: Dec 9, Jan 13, Feb 3, Feb 10, March 3, March 10, March 31, April 28, May 5, May 12, May26, June 2, June 23  from 10am-12pm

Warman Communiplex:    every Tuesday from 1-3pm except non-school days.

It is appreciated that the facilities rules are being followed and that only registered students are using the facilities as per our agreement with the cities of Warman and Martensville.

Skating times are booked on at the Warman Home Centre Communiplex (formerly the Legends Centre) on Centennial Street in Warman. Helmets are mandatory on the ice.

Dec 12^th , Jan 16^th, Feb 6^th , March 2^nd , March 16^th from 1-3pm

Hello Home based educators:

Well the snow really arrived this weekend I hope everyone was safe and warm and enjoyed the snow and the shovelling. 

2023 SHBE convention: 

I checked the SHBE website to see if they were holding a Home based education convention this year and they are so if you are able to attend it may be of interest to you.  To register go to the SHBE website. 

Hello fellow homeschoolers!

Mark February 24 and 25 in your calendar for the 2023 SHBE Homeschool Convention. Plans are in the works for a full-size convention, including keynote speakers, workshops, vendor hall, used books, and lots of socializing.

SHBE has booked the Queensbury Convention Centre in Regina for the 2023 SHBE convention.

  Mental Health Literacy 

I have attached a couple of videos from a Mental Health Literacy & Wellness workshop I attended last week.  PSSD iheld an in-service and the  PSSD counsellors were sharing information with teachers to help them explain or have discussion about mental health literacy with students. Here are two videos. As parents you may wish to watch and share the ideas with your children. Depending on their age they could watch the video with you and have a discussion as a follow-up or as a parent you could watch the videos and choose what to share with your children.

Literacy tip

Daily reading and writing are important for a strong reading foundation. Reading daily to young children can help with language acquisition, communication skills, social skills, and literacy skills. There are five early reading skills that are essential for development. They are:

1) Phonemic awareness – Being able to hear, identify, and play with individual sounds in spoken words.
2) Phonics – Being able to connect the letters of written language with the sounds of spoken language.
3) Vocabulary – The words kids need to know to communicate effectively.
4) Reading comprehension – Being able to understand and get meaning from what has been read.
5) Fluency (oral reading) – Being able to read text accurately and quickly.

“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” (Zig Ziglar)

Think back to when you learned to ride a bike, drive a car or play a new sport. First, you needed to learn the essential skills. Then it was all about practice and more practice until you increased your confidence, improved your speed and became skilled.

The next time your little one asks you to read a book yet again or wants to play the same game over and over, remind yourself that it’s a good thing! It’s good because repetition provides the practice that children need to master new skills. Repetition helps to improve speed, increases confidence, and strengthens the connections in the brain that help children learn.

      (https://www.readingbrightstart.org/articles-for-parents/lets-repetition-important-learning/)
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