Thursday September 21

Thank you to all our Kindergarten friends who ran like Terry.  We learned lots about Terry Fox and his bravery and courage.  Thank you to for all the toonies for Terry that were donated for cancer research.

At school we continue to explore the ideas of being kind in Kindergarten.  We listened to stories about how to show kindness towards others.  We drew pictures of how to be kind at school.

We continue to work on strengthening our fine motor skills.  We learned the correct way to use scissors.  Ask your child what it means to not have "chicken wings" when cutting.  We snipped paper and used the paper to create our names.

We have used loose parts to create our very own self portrait.  We are very happy to see our masterpieces hanging in the hallway.

We have continued to explore numbers, working on 6. We have been practicing identifying and printing the numbers 1-6.  We have also continued our shape exploration by looking at squares and triangles. 

We look forward to meeting families this evening! See you then :)

We are looking to do a community walk with the kindergarten classes next Thursday September 28. As long as their isn't rain, we will be going for our walk. We are looking for a volunteer for AM and PM classes. If you have your volunteer security clearance and can attend please email your child's teacher. jcmask@cbe.ab.ca or  tmconley@cbe.ab.ca Thank you.

Some additional ideas that you can choose to do at home:

-Printing your child's name. Have your child practice printing their names with a variety of items (crayons, markers, pencils, chalk, paint) . They can build their names with lego, blocks, buttons etc. 

-Cutting skills- have your child cut up playdough, recycled items (newspaper, flyers) nature items (leaves, grass etc) to practice using their scissor. 

Number Hunts- Go on a number hunt in your house or the community. What numbers can they find. Have your child write down the numbers they find on paper. 

Upcoming Dates

Friday September 22 No School

Wednesday September 27- Picture Day

Thursday September 28 - Orange Shirt Day to honour National Truth and Reconciliation Day on Sept 30, Please wear an orange shirt if you have one.

Thursday September 28- Community Walk (Please dress for the weather)

Friday September 29 No School












Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thursday June 20

This week we focused on Fairy Tales. We read, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs. We read several versions of the stories. We talked about the characters, setting and the problem in each of the stories. Our learners drew pictures to share about each story in their visual journals. We worked on addition and subtraction to 10 by playing a variety of games.  We did literacy centers and focused on skills such as alphabet recognition, letter and sound matching games, reading 3 letter words (cvc-consonant vowel consonant ), and reading high frequency words (such as you, it, in, is, to, the, that etc.) Upcoming Dates Friday June 21:  PM Kindergarten Field Trip to Butterfield Acres Wednesday June 26: Last Day of Kindergarten- Sports Day and Spirit Day - Wear red and white
Read more

Thursday April 25

Image
Monday April 22 is Earth Day.  We read "The Earth Book" by Todd Parr and completed a guided drawing of his cover page.  We used watercolor paper and paint to finish our project.  We learned about ways we can help to take care of the Earth.  Please ask your child for some of the ways they can help to take care of of our planet. We continue to be excited about our 8 duck eggs. The eggs are in the incubator set up in our class and will be learning about and watching our eggs over the next couple of weeks to see how the eggs change. We will be candelling the eggs every couple of days (shining a light under the egg) to watch the development and growth of the ducks.  This is a big week in Kindergarten - we have finally learned ALL the letters of the alphabet!!  We focused on the letter X.  We learned the songs, practiced printing , and drew pictures that start with the letters .We have learned the following letters and letter sounds at school this year and ...
Read more

Thursday May 16

Image
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...
Read more