Weekly Message: January 23

 Hello Kindergarten Families,  

We spent much of our week working with students individually to complete mandated Alberta Provincial Assessments in literacy and mathematics. Your children have shown amazing stamina and resilience while completing these. They also showed great "flexible thinking", working with different guest teachers and moving in and out of activities during their testing times.  



Our learning from this week: 

Math: 

We have continued to explore the concepts of size.  This week we compared: sorting a set of objects into group by size (big/medium/small), with ordering objects in a sequence from smallest to largest. The students then, independently cut out and ordered snowflakes to show their understanding. We will send these home next week. During centres we have also explored sequencing objects from shortest to tallest.  

 

Literacy: 

We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt, Pp, Ff and Ii. A handout for the letter Ii and sight words will be sent home next week. Be sure to put them in your blue At-Home Folders. Reviewing all letters of the alphabet and recognizing them in print or on signs will help them be able to recall letters as they learn to read and write.

A fun way to practice:  Post our decodable words from the homework sheets on index cards and tape them around your house.  Give your child a pointer and have them look for them all and read them with their pointer.  You can also give them a clipboard and have them find them and write them down.   

 

Social/Science: 

We read books about  winter and what we wear in the cold. Students worked on colouring and cutting skills to dress a model with articles of winter clothing. 

 

We are beginning to explore how animals move and how they keep warm in winter. We read "The Mitten" by Jan Brett this week and will be reading it a few more times as we work on retelling stories in the coming weeks.  

 

We had a circle time with our Elder Sandra Manyfeathers. The students listened to songs and tried a few dance techniques with their feet.  

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