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Weekly Message: January 9

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Welcome back! We hope your winter break was refreshing and full of quality family time. The kindergarten students were happy to be back. This week we drew in our journals about our break and what we did during the time away from school. We also started on some winter art, with help from our grade ¾ buddies, by ripping masking tape and preparing to make a "Tree in Winter", inspired by the beautiful rime frost covered trees we had at the beginning of the week. It was wonderful watching the students help each other and build relationships across grade levels.    Our learning from this week:   Math:   We are continuing to practice using our numbers 1-5 and be able to recognize them "at a glance." We played a couple of math games this week, including "Garbage" and a dice rolling game. We have also begun explorations of size and shape.    Literacy :   We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt and Pp. A handout for the letter Pp and words will be sent home on Mo...
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Weekly Message: December 19

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Our winter break is upon us and we hope you have a wonderful time with family and friends.    We spent a few minutes every morning with the entire school singing Carols in the gym. We made  a special art project for our families this week. Maybe you can decide whether you open it now or save it for a special celebration in the coming weeks. Our gifts are very fragile, so please handle the gift with care.   We had lots of themed fun and read the book:  How to Catch a Gingerbread Man.     Our learning from this week:   Math:   We have continued patterning and worked on  making patterns with a variety of mediums. The students made wrapping paper using patterns for their special family gift.        Literacy :   We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss and Tt. We are beginning to learn about VC (vowel-consonant) words. We will be working toward making some CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant) in the New Year. A blue at hom...
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Weekly Message: December 12

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Warm Wishes to you all!    We are definitely getting into the Holiday spirit here in Kindergarten.  Our students did a wonderful job at the winter concert; their hard work shone through, and it was a joyful learning experience for everyone.  The children have been busy pretending in our Cozy Christmas Baking Centre making pretend cookies and treats. These spaces now have Christmas Trees, which we have been decorating with some beautiful ornaments from the writing centre.  We used our senses to make some observations about some Christmas presents.  We looked at the size and shape of the presents and used our sense of hearing to help us make guesses of what was inside!       Our learning from this week:   Math:   We have continued patterning and worked on  making patterns with bingo  dobbers  to look like holiday lights. We also played the math game, "Garbage", which helps children learn to sequence numbers from 1-...
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Weekly Message: December 5

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Hello kindergarten families! Thank you to all of those who visited us for conferences last week and for those of you that have booked meetings if you were unable to make it. We loved seeing and meeting your families again.  Our learning from this week:   Math:   We have continued patterning and worked on  making patterns with our 'daisy-chains' in the classroom. We also played some math games with dice to continue our work of spotting numbers at a glance.        Literacy :   We have learned letters Aa, Mm, and Ss. We are continuing to practice forming the sounds these letters make, and printing them during writing. We have introduced the "Heart" words:  The , and  I . Keep practicing writing these letters and words at home as well as observing them in your daily surroundings. It is helpful to point out letters that you can see around the home and on signs as you go by them.     Science and Social Studies:   Earlier th...
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