Thank you to all who contributed a donation to the Terry Fox - Cancer Research Foundation. Monday morning our class will be taking part in the Terry Fox run at Thorncliffe Park Public School.
Today in class we watched the video below. Maybe you can watch it with your child or family and discuss the bravery of a young man who struggled with cancer. Terry Fox created a life-long-memory to remember those who are sick and need help to find a cure.
"Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port
Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada's west
coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18
years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer)
and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches)
above the knee in 1977.
While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other
cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run
across Canada to raise money for cancer research.
He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.
It was a journey that Canadians never forgot.
After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to
prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12,
1980 with little fanfare. Although it was difficult to garner attention
in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along
his route began to mount. He ran close to 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day
through Canada's Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario. However, on
September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry
was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because
cancer had appeared in his lungs. An entire nation was stunned and
saddened. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at the age 22.
The heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning.
To date, over $550 million has been raised worldwide for cancer
research in Terry's name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across
Canada and around the world." - www.terryfox.org/Foundation/
READ, READ, READ!!!
It is very important to read 10 minutes everyday -
including weekends. The easiest way to do it is to make it a bedtime
routine.
In addition, parents should read at home. Children will model what
they see!
Read aloud to them or share a book with them.
After you are done
ask questions and discuss some parts of the book. What happened first, then, next and last?
Also help your child sound out words... using this reading strategy poster might help.
click to see it larger
You can also have plenty
of reading material available (i.e. visit your local library, magazines, newspapers, comic strips,
brochures, and borrow-a-book will be starting mid October etc...) so they can read at any time.
Don't forget, turn off the t.v. and ... read, read, read!
