Thursday November 2

This was a busy week at school!

Thank you to everyone who dressed up in their Halloween costumes - we had a very spooky day at school.

We read the story 5 Little Pumpkins and then used sharpies and watercolours to create pictures of 5 pumpkins sitting on a gate.  We played "mystery number" where we drew a haunted house.  We were then given a secret number and had to draw that many ghosts in our haunted house.  We asked our friends to count our ghosts and try and guess our mystery number.

We practiced printing the letter M and learned the M song.  We drew pictures in our personal journals.

We introduced Zones of Regulation with Kindergarten.  Zones of regulation is divided into 4 colour, green, blue, red, yellow.  Zones of Regulation is a complete social-emotional learning curriculum, created to teach children self-regulation and emotional control.  Throughout the month of November we will explore our feelings and strategies to help us when we are feeling dis-regulated.

We continue to explore patterning in math.  We are learning about the core of the pattern, using letters to name our patterns and using our bodies to make patterns.  

We had library with Mrs. Carde, gym with Mrs. Watterson and music with Mrs. Coulson.  Please ask your child what they did when they were learning in other areas of the school.

We continue to work with Jen from E-Motion.  Please ask your child what they are learning about.

A notice went home today about Eric Havie Clothing for sale. If you would like to purchase any clothing, see the notice for information. 

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

-Letter M practice. Can you find items at home that begin with M? Have your child look through flyers and cut out letter a or pictures that begin with a M. Your child can practice printing the letter a using chalk, pencil, marker, playdough etc. 

- Patterns - please have your child look at home, inside and outside for patterns that appear in their environments. 

Please work with your child to set them up for success on learning to put on and zip up their jackets independently. Especially with the cooler weather, it makes dismissal time run much smoother when children can do their winter gear independently. Thank you :) 

Upcoming Dates

Thursday Nov 2:

Picture Retakes

Friday Nov 3: 

PM Kindergarten attends

November 9 - 14: Fall Break - no school
















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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 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 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