Weekly Message: June 5

 Hello Kindergarten Families!

This week the students were excited for their field trip to the Zoo. We talked about when we were going using words & phrases like "this week," "Thursday," "the day after tomorrow", and "tomorrow." We discussed what animals we might see and which ones we would like to visit. We also reviewed expectations including, how to remain in a group. 

We continued our work with the letter Rr and introduced students to the concept of "Rr" being the second letter in some words and how to sound it out and blend it to say words like "grab," "frog," "crop" and "trip." Take a look at our home reading sheets and practice reading with your child. Rr is a tricky sound for many students. It helps if we continue to work on these sounds at home. 

 

In math, we formed the numeral 6 and explored ways to make quantities of 6 (3 and 3, 2 and 4, 1 and 5, etc.) We also had a conversation about measurement and units of measure. You can try this at home using a household item (like a shoe) to measure other things (like people and objects.) We determined how many "Mrs.Wacker's" it would take to measure the distance between the goal posts in the soccer field at school. It was 3 Mrs. Wacker's! (and a head.)We also did this using a student from our class. Kids predicted how many of each "person" it would be. 

                

The Zoo field trip was a success! We heard and saw many students as they visited enclosures and made observations. Everyone had a chance to look at the butterflies and some noticed the difference between our butterflies (that we raised) and the different coloured butterflies at the Zoo. The animals were active and gave our students much to observe. Ask your student something they remember about the Zoo or their favourite living thing that they saw.


    
       

We hope you have a fun-filled weekend with your children!

Your Kindergarten team,

Ms. Kinnear & Mrs. Wacker

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