Thursday January 11

 Happy New Year. We hope all our families had a lovely break. We were excited to have everyone back. 

Update on Library Book Exchange: starting the week of January 15 library book exchange will happen in the first 15 mins of each school day.  Kindergarten learners will no longer have a regular scheduled book exchange on Wednesdays.  Learners will be allowed to exchange their library book any day of the week.  

HOME READING STARTS TODAY!  Your child brought home their coloured folder today with their first home reading book.  In the coloured folder you will find information about home reading, a home reading book recording sheet, a home reading book and a pointing stick.  Home reading books can be exchanged any day at school.  Please send home reading books to and from school in the coloured folder.

We focused on the letter E this week.  We learned the E song, practiced printing E, and drew pictures that start with E.  We have learned the following letters and letter sounds at school this fall and your child should be familiar with them all: S, M, T, I, P, N, D, C, P, O, A, B,G & E.

We read the story "Brown Bear Brown Bear" by Eric Carle.  We looked carefully at the way Eric Carle creates his art work in this story.  We then used paint to create our own Eric Carle inspired paper.  We will use this paper as we begin work on our very own "Winter, Winter What Do You See?" books.  We have completed the first few pages in our books and are very excited to be authors and illustrators.

In Math, we have begun to explore shapes and geometry.  We began with a shape hunt of 2D shapes and practiced drawing 2D shapes. We learned that we turn 2D shapes into many other things.  Please ask your child what they can turn a square, circle or triangle into.  We used playdoh to create shapes.  We have begun to explore 3D shapes.





Upcoming Dates

Friday January 12: PM Kindergarten attends

Monday January 15: No School -PD Day

Friday January 19: AM Kindergarten 

Friday January 26: PM Kindergarten attends


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