November 21st - 25th

Dear Kinder Parents...

 Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me last week to celebrate your child's successes and areas of focus. I really appreciated having the opportunity to connect and check in with each one of you!

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It was a very quick week in Kindergarten!  🙃

On Monday and Tuesday students shared about their weekend adventures during our 'Talk Rock Time'. Then they drew a picture about their weekend in their journals. We have been working on using lots of detail in our pictures to help the 'reader' understand more about what we are trying to communicate in our drawings.  

We did not have our regular library exchange time due to the Book Fair being set up. Instead, we enjoyed looking at all the wonderful books that were for sale and adding them to our wish lists that were brought home. We will resume our library exchange this week so please remember to bring back your books!

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November 14th - 18th

I am looking forward to meeting with families this week during conferences!

Thank you to those who have booked an appointment time already...if you have not yet booked a time, please login to your MyCBE Account to do so.

Kindergarten conference times are: 

• Wednesday Nov. 23 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm  (There is still school for students this day)
• Thursday Nov. 24 from 8:00am - 7:00pm  (No school for students this day)

During these conferences I will be sharing your child's Early Years Evaluation - Teacher Assessment (EYE-TA) report with you. I will be sending a copy of this assessment home with your child on Monday or Tuesday for you to review and have for reference during our conference. You can find information about the EYE-TA here: Early Years Evaluation

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Learning Intention:

- Children demonstrate understanding of messages communicated in texts. 

I Can:

- discuss ideas and details from texts

This week in Kindergarten we continued learning and exploring about different feelings and emotions. Some of the books we have read include:

In each story, we looked closely at the way the author or illustrator gave us clues to help us predict and understand each feeling better. For example, the colour red was often used to describe angry and the colour yellow was used for happy or busy. Students also looked for feelings in the facial features - silly eyes, sad mouth - and began to use the first letter of the feeling word as a clue as well - "I knew it was jealous because the word starts with a 'j' and I can see the girl is jealous that her dad is holding the baby." We also had tons of fun role playing and acting out the many different emotions that we often feel!

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Students did a great job remembering to bring back their library books.

Check out all the new books they borrowed this week!

 

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Thank you to RH, OR and HD for bringing in donations for the Veterans Association!

 We will be collecting items until December 16th and appreciate your support.

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Classroom Snapshots

 

 

 

November 7th - 11th

 

~ Thank you to all the families who were able to join us for our assembly ~

This past week we continued to learn about Remembrance Day. The T/TH group practiced for their assembly and the M/W group helped with some preparation work behind the scenes. I was very proud of all the kindergarten students and how they participated in helping to honour and recognize this important day.

Learning Intentions:

- Students participate in action songs and poems

- Students experiment with a variety of art materials to create two and three dimensional forms

I Can:

- participate in learning the words and actions to a song/poem 

- use various art materials to create two or three dimensional art pieces

    

     

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Please see a wish list of items from the Veterans Association here: 

https://veteransassociationfoodbank.ca/donation-lists

October 31st - November 4th

 

It was another great week in Kindergarten! 

The M/W class looked fabulous in their costumes and enjoyed their day of Halloween fun!

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Learning about Remembrance Day

Learning Intention:

- students develop historical thinking; they can differentiate between events and activities that occurred recently and long ago

I can:

- understand that the war happen a long time ago and that Canada is a safe and free country

With Remembrance Day approaching, we took some time this week to learn about the importance of this special day. We read the story A Poppy Is to Remember by Heather Patterson and talked about the significance of the poppy and it's symbol of remembrance, hope and peace.  Students began working on a special poppy art project that will be displayed in the gym during our Remembrance Day assembly.  We have been working hard on learning the words to O Canada. We listened to different versions of it - one which was a mix of English, French and indigenous languages. As well, we watched it being done in sign language. 

   

O Canada - English Version 

  

O Canada - 3 Languages by Asani

O Canada - Sign Language

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Classroom Snapshots