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Weekly Message: February 27

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Hello Kindergarten families,   Our learning:   We went to the gym for an assembly and Celebration of Learning,  the grade(s) 3/4 hosted . We talked about kindness and what it looks like in action!      Math:   In Math, students played math games and continued to build their number sense skills. We also introduced some activities that include patterning. We talked about how to make a triangle and how many sides it has.       Literacy :   We spent time working on forming the letter Dd and drawing things that start with the letter Dd in our journals.  We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt, Pp, Ff,  Ii ,  Nn , Oo and Dd. We are getting better at recognizing our "heart" words (irregular words) and have been practicing reading these words. So far we have learned: The, I, a, is, and, as, & said.  During carpet time, we practiced making phrases that included the word "said" in them.      Social/Scienc...
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Weekly Message: February 20

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Hello Kindergarten families,   Our learning:   We recognized a variety of celebrations this week such as Lunar New Year and the beginning of Ramadan.  We also showed Canadian pride as we   wore red to cheer on Team Canada. We talked about various Olympic sports and the countries participating in the games. It was Family Friday today. Students moved around the school to participate in different activities in another classroom. Ask your child what they did.   We have a puppet theatre in our dramatic play centre and students have been actively practicing their "professional" skills during play. Students are also aiming to create visual content that should be entertaining for an audience. I have been reminding them to tell a story with a beginning, middle and ending.     Math:   In Math, students worked subitizing (recognizing familiar number patterns) on dominos by playing "The Hockey Game".  In this game, students determined the greatest number...
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Weekly Message: February 6

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Hello Kindergarten families,   We continued working hard on our Storytelling Project on Jan Brett's retelling of "The Mitten".  We did our best to incorporate it into all our areas of study.     Our learning from this week:   Math:   We completed a math assessment this week, where students made an effort to make sets from 0-10.   We also talked a lot about the size and shape of things.  When creating our simple puppets for our Mitten re-telling, students carefully selected the cut paper to "fit" the size and shape of their animals.  ( ie .  small card for the mouse, big card for the bear.)  We also experimented with rectangles, noticing that they could be long and short or tall and skinny. We talked about how we could "rotate" the card to help our animals fit (long and short for a fox, but tall and skinny for the owl.) The students really got a chance to work on their fine motor skills ripping masking tape to attach their puppe...
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