Week of September 21-24

This week in Kindergarten...

It was an exciting week in Kindergarten as we began learning about the letter "T." We read a story called When Tilly Turtle Came to Tea, practiced looking for pictures in the story that begin with the letter T and used our fine motor journals for the first time to make upper and lower case Ts. Ask me what sound a T makes!

We continued our work on the letter T by learning about what happens to trees in the fall by reading a non-fiction story called Colourful Leaves. We practiced our fine motor skills by drawing a tree trunk and then used a new tool, white glue and tissue paper, to make fall trees in our visual journals. 

Wednesday was our annual Terry Fox Run. We looked through a story about Terry Fox and watched a short video from CBC Kids to learn more about him and why he is important. The AM Kindergarten students ran with the entire school around our field. Even though it was pretty chilly, and a long distance, they were amazing! The PM Kindergarten students ran with a Grade 4 buddy student from Mrs. Phelan's class around the baseball diamond. They had so much fun with their Grade 4 buddy!

On Thursday, we began representing numbers in Math. We started with the number one by reading the story How to Count to 1. It was a big hit! In our math journals, we represented the number one using the numeral, a picture, a tally mark and a 10 frame. 

We would also like to welcome Miss Petrie to our Kindergarten classroom while Mrs. Rupert is away for the next little while. 

Important Dates to Remember:

***TUESDAYS: Library Day for AM students - PLEASE RETURN YOUR BOOK!

***THURSDAYS: Library Day for PM students - PLEASE RETURN YOUR BOOK!

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25: PD Day - No School

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: Orange Shirt Day at School

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: National Day for Truth and Reconcillation - No School

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2: AM Kindergarten ONLY!

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7: Picture Day

Week of September 14-18

 This week in Kindergarten...

We began our week with continuing to practice routines and school rules by learning about expected and unexpected behaviour. We read the story David Goes to School and talked about things that David does in the story that is "unexpected" and what we can do to show "expected" behaviour. We then continued our practice using gluesticks by doing a picture sort in our visual journals of things that are expected and unexpected.

We celebrated Dot Day by reading the story The Dot by Peter H Reynolds. In our visual journals we drew different things we could make from a dot. Ask me what I drew! We also used different mediums to colour large dots red to contribute to a whole school art project. Each grade was given a different colour to make dots. When it is completed, we will share a photo in our blog. 

Next we read some stories about food and entered into our Kindergarten Kitchen to become chefs! We introduced our new school tool - scissors! We learned the rules about scissors and how to use scissors to make scissor salad to feed our customers, Waffles and Chestnut! They were soooo hungry! 

We also read stories about being ourselves and being unique. We practiced using our scissors again by cutting out our names and gluing them into our visual journals. A good thing to practice at home is recognizing our names, as well as learning to write our names. 

For the afternoon class, it was our turn to become Kindergarten Scientists to complete our apple taste test. We used our senses to touch, smell and taste 3 different kinds of apples. We charted which ones we liked and didn't like in our visual journals. We then coloured an apple to make a class graph. Ask me which apple was my favourite.

Important Dates to Remember:

TUESDAYS: Library Day for AM students - PLEASE RETURN YOUR BOOK!

THURSDAYS: Library Day for PM students - PLEASE RETURN YOUR BOOK!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24: Open House from 5:00-6:30pm

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25: PD Day - No School

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: National Day for Truth and Reconcilation - No School

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2: AM Kindergarten ONLY!

Here are a few more pictures from our week:

Week of September 8-11

 
This week in Kindergarten...

What a busy week in Kindergarten! We have been continuing to work on our daily classroom routines such as finding our coathook, where we put our shoes and walking in a line. We also began playing on the playground this week! Ask me where my meeting spot is when the teacher blows the whistle. 

Kindergartens read the story Too Much Glue and practiced using our new tool - glue! We ripped paper and glued it onto either a leaf or an apple which worked on fine motor skills, as well as how to use our gluesticks.  We learned about how our fingers have tons of tiny muscles- and ripping paper is a great way to build those tiny muscles that will help us develop our printing and drawing skills.

We also read the story Our Class is a Family and talked about how we can treat each other in our classroom families. Our students had some amazing ideas to contribute to our class promise such as sharing, being kind and respectful, as well as being brave in our learning! We then made classroom promise bracelets with beads and pipe cleaners. 

The AM class had their first turn at our Friday schedule. Fridays are long for kinders, especially at the beginning of the year, but they did a great job! We had an assembly, went to phys ed to play a game with Mr. V and had Apple Day! We had an apple taste test, created some apple crafts and made an apple graph. Ask me which was my favourite kind of apple. Our PM friends will be enjoying Apple Day next week when they come on Friday.

Kindergarten also had our very FIRST trip to the Library this week. Our AM class will have library every TUESDAY. Our PM class will have library every THURSDAY. Please make sure you return your child returns their book each week on their library day to ensure they get a new one. 

Important Dates to Remember:

TUESDAYS: Library Day for AM students

THURSDAYS: Library Day for PM students

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18: PM Kindergarten ONLY

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24: Open House (more information to come)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25: PD Day - No School

Here are some pictures from our week together: