Thursday February 8

At school this week, we have continued to work on the re-telling of the story "A Loud Winter's Nap" and are making our puppets to help us with the re-telling.

We continue to explore coding by playing with the Indie Cars at school.  Please ask your child how they can make their Indie car move.

We have learned the following letters and letter sounds at school this year and your child should be familiar with them all: S, M, T, I, P, N, D, C, P, O, A, B,G,E,R,H, F & K.  Please make sure they are familiar with both the upper case letter and lower case letter.

We continue to learn about sight words at school.  Sight words are words that are the most common when reading.  We do not want our learners sounding out sight words, you just need to recognize the word.  We introduced the words "in" and "it".  We used these words and the words from last week to help us write this sentence in our journals "It is in the ....".  Learners drew a picture of what "it" is and where it was, for example, "It is in the fire station" and it was a firefighter.

Thank you to the volunteers who came to the fire station with us.  We appreciate the support.  All classes had a great time exploring the fire truck and learning about community helpers. The firefighters stressed the importance of knowing your address incase of an emergency. Please practice this with your child. 

Swimming forms came home with your child this week.  Please complete and return by February 20.

Valentine's Day in Kindergarten

Kindergarten children will exchange Valentines on Wednesday February 14th.  If your child wishes to participate please send Valentine's with only their name signed in the from line.  Please do not address valentines to individual children - this is very hard for us to manage in the classroom.  

Mrs. Conley's class has 20 students.  Ms. Mask's AM class has 20 students.  Ms. Mask's PM class has 19 students.

Upcoming Dates

Friday February 9: PM Kindergarten attends

February 15, 16, & 19: No School - Teacher's Convention and Family Day Long Weekend

Friday February 23: No Kindergarten 

Friday March 1: AM Kindergarten attends








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