Thursday September 14

This week in Kindergarten we continued to focus learning the routines of our classroom.  We have read many stories talking about how we treat each other and our space at school. 

AM Kindergarten had their first fire drill practice this week.  Please ask your child the rules for a fire drill.

We start our day with arrival centres where we work at tables to complete literacy, math and fine motor tasks.

Our favourite part of the day is big centres.  This includes playing at the house centre, lego, dollhouse, painting, dinosaurs and trains.  We are working on sharing materials and cleaning up when we are finished playing.

We continue to work on our fine motor skills as we explored the book "Lines that Wiggle".  We drew a variety of lines in our journals and used watercolours to paint our design.  We continued to work on strengthening our fingers as we ripped paper to create the first letter of our name.

Wednesday is "Writing Wednesday" in Kindergarten.  We write in our personal journals each week.  At this time in the year, our writing consists of drawing pictures and writing our name with our art.  Each week we will continue to expand on our writing skills.

We continue to explore the numbers 1-5.  We went on a scavenger hunt to find numbers in our world, we practiced writing numbers, and we rolled dice to find the numbers.  We began exploring shapes in our world by looking at squares, circles and triangles.

We had music with Mrs. Coulson and gym with Mrs. Watterson. In gym, we are practicing how to move safely around the gym and ways to move our bodies such as hopping, skipping, gliding, marching, galloping, running etc. 

Library book exchange will be on Wednesdays.  Please ensure your child returns their book prior to Wednesday.  We have a bucket in the classroom for children to return their books if they finish with them early and would like to return their book.

Please return coloured folders to school once you have emptied them out.  We will store the folders at school until we need them again.

Upcoming Dates

Friday September 15 PM Kindergarten (8:20-11:50am)

Thursday September 21 Meet the Teacher evening - more details to follow

Friday September 22 No School

Wednesday September 27- Picture Day

Friday September 29 No School


















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