Ms. Kinnear's Kindergarten Class

Happy Spring Kindergarten families!     Happy Eid & Al-Fitr to families who are celebrating this. We hope you all have a wonderful spring break!  TRS spirit days were exciting and fun! The students really embraced school spirit. Pyjama day was big hit! We had a great time being secret agents during "Mission Impossible" in the gym. Students were stealthy and quiet as they made their way through different obstacles and tasks. We have some great photos of this!      Literacy :   We spent time working on forming/printing the letter  Gg .  We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt, Pp, Ff,  Ii ,  Nn , Oo, Dd, Cc, Uu and Gg . Our "heart" words are: the, a, is, as, said, to, do. We made some crab art to go along with our Ocean Environment unit. We have been talking about different ocean an imals and where they live and how they move. We also learned more about depths of the ocean and what kind of animals can be found at each level....

  Hello Kindergarten Families,    We had a super fun week using the big gymnastic equipment. Thanks for everyone sending their kids to school in "gymnastics friendly" clothing.  The children did a great job following safe routines and experimenting moving their bodies in different ways on the equipment.  They LOVED it! We spent time reminding and refining our "motorcycle" grip while using equipment. Ask your child what they liked doing in gymnastics.  Today we worked in our journals drawing about this experience. The children also wrote "I can" statements, now that we have learned the letter Cc in  Ufli  Literacy. Children wrote sentences such as:    -I can hang on the bar.   -I can run and jump on the mat.   -I can climb on the ladder.     They are really beginning to see themselves as writers!                  Next Week, we will continue with gymnastics so please hav...

Hello Kindergarten families,   It was wonderful to see your families at conferences yesterday. Thank you for taking time out of your day to see the progress that your student is making in their learning. My highlight was watching the students explain and show their knowledge through engaging activities.      Our learning:   In our journals this week, we finished our "animals in winter" page. We also started the task of creating a pet store in our dramatic play area. We will be doing more of this through the next two weeks. Students will be making signs and labels for things that they are "selling" in the pet store. Feel free to encourage them to create material at home if you have time. Students drew a pet that they would like to have in their journals (sorry! ;)   Math:   In Math, we continued working on patterns and playing math games. We counted forward and backward lots this week. We even tried counting to 20 as a whole group and backward from 20. ...