2023-2024 EHS Kindergarten

This week we focused on rhyming and making sentences with rhyming pairs. We drew pictures and wrote a sentence in a Rhyming Book. We read many rhyming stories to support our work with rhyming pairs. We continued to play math games that focused on building number sense. Many of the games focus on adding numbers together,  counting on from the larger number. We continued to work on some of our Coulee School learning through our Senses and drew pictures of items in nature that we saw during our week outdoors. Please make note of the following Spirit Days for June :        June 19 - Dress Tropical June 26 - Wear Red and White Upcoming Dates Friday June 14: AM Kindergarten Field Trip to Butterfield Acres Celebration of learning 1:30-3:30pm  Friday June 21:  PM Kindergarten Field Trip to Butterfield Acres Wednesday June 26: Last Day of Kindergarten

 It was an extremely busy and fun filled week in the Coulee. We want to say a huge thank you to our parent volunteers for joining us. We appreciate it ! You can check out all of our learning from Coulee School Friday June 14 from 1:30-3:30pm for our school's celebration of learning.  Please make note of the following Spirit Days for June :        June 12 - Dress like a rockstar June 19 - Dress Tropical June 26 - Wear Red and White Upcoming Dates Friday June 7: NO Kindergarten- Orientation for our new Kindergarten students of 2024-2025 Friday June 14: AM Kindergarten Field Trip to Butterfield Acres Friday June 21:  PM Kindergarten Field Trip to Butterfield Acres Wednesday June 26: Last Day of Kindergarten

This week we worked on rhyming word families. We practice reading and writing the words from the following word families "at", "en", "ig" and "og". We read stories and wrote rhyming words and drew pictures in our visual journals. In math, we played a variety of number games. We continue to work on adding numbers together and counting on from the biggest number. We played a domino game which matched dominos to the numeral, we played addition war and addition Yahtzee. We began to learn about problem solving and looked for clues to tell us if it was an addition or subtraction problem.  We did free choice journals and are working at writing simple sentences to express our ideas. Our learners are encouraged to label their drawing with beginning sounds and we are encouraging them to stretch out the words and write beginning, middle and end sounds in words. We are building on our high frequency words. We have learned: the, you, it, is, in, I, to , said,...

Field trip forms for Butterfield Acres were sent home this week.  Please complete the forms and return to school ASAP.  Thank you to all the volunteers who have signed up.  All volunteer spots are now filled. If you are looking to volunteer, please consider signing up for Coulee School the week of June 3-6. Thank you to all the families who attended or will attend (Friday) our Duck Celebration of Learning.  It was wonderful to be able to share our ducks and learning with you all.  The ducks will go back to the farm Saturday morning.  It has been a wonderful experience having them in the classroom and we will miss Oreo, Sunflower and Dottie. Our work these week had us finishing up items for our celebration of learnning.  We continue to explore subtraction to 10 in math.   Upcoming Dates Friday May 24: AM Kindergarten Attends Celebration of Learning Kindergarten 11:00am- 11:50am Friday May 31: PM Kindergarten Attends Monday-Thursday June 3-6: C...

We had an exciting week with our ducklings ! AM Kindergarten named our first duckling Oreo and PM Kindergarten named our second duckling Sunflower. We took all names and then drew 4 names which the children then voted on. We spent a lot of time this week, watching the ducklings wander about in the classroom and learn to swim. Thursday we had a third duckling hatch. Mrs. Coulson and Mrs. Mask had to help the little one to get out, and I am happy to say the duckling is thriving :)  This week was all things ducklings. We continued to work in our Duck journals, we did more duck art, finished our plasticine and continued to read about and watch videos about ducks. We worked on our Quack and Count retelling to share with our families at the celebration of learning. We played a variety of subtraction games . We know how to play subtraction bump, Race to Zero and Splat.  Field trip forms are to go home on Tuesday for our Butterfield Acres trip and we will also send a sign up Genius fo...

Our learning this week was all about Ducks. We continued to candle the eggs every couple of days (shining a light under the egg) to watch the development and growth of the ducks. We have been busy with creating artwork, using plasticine, working in our duck information booklets and reading many non fiction books about ducks. We placed the incubator in lockdown today and hope to see the ducklings start to hatch on Monday.  We read "Quack and Count" which is a story about ducks and adding to 7. We are creating our own Quack and Count story in our class. We created our own painted paper and make ducks to retell the story.  We continued to learn about subtraction and played a variety of games to reinforce our learning.  We continued to look at some high frequency words, we have been practicing the following words the, a, is, it, in, you, can, see, and, the, for, that. We have been playing some word games to practice these words.  The PM Kindergarten practiced a fire dril...