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Weekly Message: January 9

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Hello Kindergarten Families, Welcome back! We hope your winter break was refreshing and full of quality family time. The kindergarten students were happy to be back. This week we drew in our journals about our break and what we did during the time away from school. We also started on some winter art, with help from our grade ¾ buddies, by ripping masking tape and preparing to make a "Tree in Winter", inspired by the beautiful rime frost covered trees we had at the beginning of the week.  It was wonderful watching the students help each other and build relationships across grade levels.    We have also had a lot of fun exploring our new Puppet Theatre centre.  The children have been exploring how to create a story with puppets, along with exploring other roles such as selling tickets and popcorn and being an audience member.  The class has been working hard with our small finger muscles, ripping and scrunching yellow paper to make our pretend popcorn.  Our l...
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Weekly Message: December 18

Our winter break is upon us and we hope you have a wonderful time with family and friends.    We spent a few minutes every morning with the entire school singing Carols in the gym. We made  a special art project for our families this week. Maybe you can decide whether you open it now or save it for a special celebration in the coming week.  Our gifts are very fragile, so handle them with care.      Our learning from this week:   Math:   We have continued patterning and worked on  making patterns with a variety of mediums. The students made wrapping paper using patterns for their special family gift.      Literacy :   We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss and Tt. We are beginning to learn about VC (vowel-consonant words) We will be working toward making some CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant) in the New Year. A blue at home practice folder was sent home this week. Please take a look and keep the folder at home with you...
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Weekly Message: Friday December 8

  Weekly Message   We are definitely getting into the Holiday spirit here in Kindergarten.  Our students did a wonderful job at the winter concert; their hard work shone through, and it was a joyful learning experience for everyone.  The children have been busy pretending in our Cozy Christmas Baking Centre making pretend cookies and treats. These spaces now have Christmas Trees, which we have been decorating with some beautiful ornaments from the writing centre.  We used our senses to make some observations about some Christmas presents.  We looked at the size and shape of the presents and used our sense of hearing to help us make guesses of what was inside!      Our learning from this week:     Math:   We have continued patterning and worked on  making patterns with bingo  dobbers  to look like Christmas lights. We also played the math game, "Garbage", which helps children learn to sequence numbers from 1-5 usi...
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Weekly Message: Nov 27

Hello Kindergarten Families,  It was great seeing so many of you today and over that last week.  If scheduling did not work for your family this week, email you teacher and we would be happy to meet next week after class or through a Teams Meeting.    Our learning from this week:   Math:   We have introduced patterning and worked on recognizing familiar dot patterns, such as the ones found on dice.      Literacy :   We introduced the letters Aa and Mm using our UFLI literacy program.  We were able to practice forming these sounds and printing the letters.     Social/Science:   We continued to explore our outdoor environment this week using our five senses.  The children noticed things like crunchy snow, frosty breath, and cold air touching their skin.  They noticed that snow doesn't have much of a smell.  We also had lots of fun digging and playing with the snow.     Afterwards we worked ...
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