Week of January 26-28

 This week in Kindergarten...

We are collecting toilet paper rolls for a project we are going to do this coming Friday. Please bring in any clean toilet paper rolls to school. Thank-you!

This week in Kindergarten, we learned about the letter "O." We practiced making the letter o in our fine motor journals. We also drew a picture of something that begins with the letter o and labelled it.

In math, we worked on recognizing shapes by reading the story The Shape of Things, going for shape hunts in the classroom, as well as creating animals from pattern block shapes.

We then made shape pizzas and identified what shapes we put on our pizzas, as well as writing the number of each shape we used.

Important Dates to Remember:

Winter Olympics are beginning this coming Friday. To celebrate in Kindergarten, wear red and white to show our Canadian pride and support our athletes. 

TUESDAYS are our library day. Please remember to send back library books by Tuesday each week. Thank-you! If students have library books out before library day. they will no longer be able to take a new book home. Please take a peek for any of those lingering library books at home!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6: AM Class ONLY

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11: Wear red, purple, pink or white for Valentine's Day

FEBRUARY 12, 13 & 16:   No school for Teacher's Convention and Family Day              

***Valentines Day information will be sent in a School Messenger shortly.*** 

Week of 19-23

Next week Provincial Assessments continue. I will be in the building working with individual students to complete these assessments on several days, but there will be a guest teacher in the classroom during these times.   

This week in Kindergarten....

We started the week by learning about the letter N and what sound it makes. We practiced writing the letter N in our fine motor journals as well. Let me tell you some words that begin with the letter N!

Next, we practiced hearing the different sounds between the letters M and N by doing an M/N sort. We cut out different pictures of things that start with M or N. To sort, we said the word and then asked our friends what shape our mouth was in (closed lips or open) to help us decide where the picture should go.

We also read the story Sneezy the Snowman to practice our sequencing skills. We cut out and glued the different pictures of the ways the children in the story helped warm up Sneezy the Snowman. Ask me to tell you all about the story.

We finished the week by practicing the number 8 and representing it in different ways in our math journals. 

We also explored a few new centres this week - creating a garden, building with new blocks, velcro shapes playing in the sensory bin and Tetris!

Important Dates to Remember:

We are collecting toilet paper rolls for a project we are going to do in February. Please bring in any clean toilet paper rolls to school. Thank-you!

Valentines Day will be here before we know it. The Kindergarten team will be sending out information regarding this next week. 

TUESDAYS are our library day. Please remember to send back library books by Tuesday each week. Thank-you!

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN ONLY

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30: PD Day - No School 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6: AM Class ONLY

January 12-16

Next week Provincial Assessment starts. I will be in the building working with individual students to complete these assessments on several days, but there will be a guest teacher in the classroom during these times.  

This week in Kindergarten....

This week we learned about the letter "m." Ask me what words begin with the letter m.

We read the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. We chose an animal to act out in the story and acted it out. We then sequenced the order of the animals that entered the mitten. These were sent home this week. Ask your child to retell you the story of the mitten.

In math, we represented the number 7 in our math journals in a variety of ways.

Important Dates to Remember:

We are collecting toilet paper rolls for a project we are going to do in February. Please bring in any clean toilet paper rolls to school. Thank-you!

TUESDAYS are our library day. Please remember to send back library books by Tuesday each week. Thank-you!

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23:  PM Class ONLY 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN ONLY

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30: PD Day - No School 

January 5-9

 This week in Kindergarten....

Happy New Year kindergarten families! I hope that everyone had a great winter break. It was so lovely to be back together once again this week. This week we learned about the letter "w." We practiced writing the capital and lower case w, we practiced making the sound, and brainstormed different words that start with the letter w. Ask me what some words are that begin with a W!

We also talked about WINTER (and winter starts with a w too). We read a story about winter and drew what we see in winter.

In math, we practiced making the number 6 and represented it in four different ways in our math journals.

We then read 6 Sticks and used 6 popsicle sticks to create our pictures. We made cats, dogs, clubhouses, rockets, fishes, monsters and flower gardens!

Important Dates to Remember:

TUESDAYS are our library day. Please remember to send back library books by Tuesday each week. Thank-you!

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16:  AM Class ONLY 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN ONLY

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30: PD Day - No School