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Weekly Message: May 29

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  Hello Kindergarten Families! This week in school we observed our butterflies emerge from their chrysalises! We noticed that they still had 6 legs, 2 antennas, and a proboscis. We also noticed that a butterfly's body includes a head, thorax, and abdomen. Since the butterflies emerged early in the week, we were also able to observe them as we released them near the school garden. Some butterflies flew out of their enclosure right away and others took some "convincing." We discussed how butterflies survive in their natural environments and how they now have risks because they are outside of a safe enclosure. Students loved seeing the orange, black and white colour of our painted lady butterflies.      In math, we broke apart the number five and played a spill and count game to represent different ways of making 5. We are practicing forming our number correctly (facing the right way) and making addition math sentences that equal 5. You will be able to see this work in ...
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Weekly Message: May 22

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  Good Day Kindergarten Families! This week in kindergarten, we were very excited to observe another big change in our classroom caterpillars. Many of them turned into chrysalises! The students were amazed to see how quickly they changed and enjoyed discussing the different stages of the butterfly lifecycle. We completed our second caterpillar observation in our journals, where students practiced carefully looking at details, drawing what they noticed and sharing their ideas through pictures and words.  We also created colourful caterpillar art projects that are now brightening up our school!          In Math, we continued with our exploration of the number 4 and how many ways it can be made. We played a pizza game in our journals and experimented with making number sentences  (ie, 1+3=4, 2+2=4, 4+0=4.)     During our UFLI literacy lessons, we focused on the leter Hh and the /h/ sound. Students practiced identifying words that begin with...
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Weekly Message: May 15

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Greetings Kindergarten families! We have caterpillars! We have been observing their size, shape and colour and drew our first observation in our journals. They grow quickly. We noticed that they can make webbing to protect themselves. We learned that they shed their skin as they grow, and that their food and poop are the same colour but different textures. (We only smelled and felt the food.)      W e began our week outside and then  started our skipping unit in gym. Students are practicing hopping, jumping, and gliding with both feet. We learned how to hold a skipping rope and how to move our arms to swing the rope over our heads. We are building our ability to jump over the rope.             In our journals, we practiced writing the number 4 and made an "I can see..." sentence. We also finished drawing and writing about our outdoor observation from last week.            We had "Family Friday" on Thurs...
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Weekly Message: May 8

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  Hello Kindergarten families! We had a great week learning Cricket with the Cricket Residency during our gym time. Students learned how to grip a bat and hold the ball for throwing. The first part of the week was spent in the gym and then we moved outside to play more of the game's style. Students had so much fun trying to catch the ball after someone hit it. They ran around "bases" to make runs and everyone had a chance to bat and be in the field trying to collect the ball. Ask your student what their favourite part of the games was.        Kindergarten participated in a school-wide writing activity. They wrote about a spring scene and things that they might see in spring. We went outside for our spring observations. In their journals, students made drawings and wrote about  what they could see in the natural environment. We did a nature scavenger hunt too!           In math, we are continuing to write numerals and represent numbe...
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Weekly Message: May 1

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Wow! We are so proud of our kindergarten students and the hard work they put into our Ocean Environment unit! Thank you to everyone who came out to see the Celebration of Learning on Thursday. We had a busy week preparing for our assembly. The children did a great job refining their "character's" movements, speaking loudly and clearly and working as a team. They showed what they learned about the ocean environment. I'm sure you have better pictures than I have posted below. Regardless, please enjoy some of the photos we captured throughout the process.                We have started to write the numerals 0-2 this week. We will be continuing learning to form these in our writing. We also played math games.  .       The students wanted me to share their block building skills with you!      In our journals, we wrote about our celebration of learning. We are sounding out words and making sentences on our ow...
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