Mrs. Wacker's Kindergarten Class

 Hello Kindergarten Families, We took the opportunity to go outside several times this week for PD, science and for our community walk.   We have been practicing using our senses to make observations about our outdoor environment and the change of seasons to fall. At Home :   You can support your child’s learning at home by talking about and comparing the objects in their home environment. Identify colours, compare size and describe shape.  Ie. “Look at the   trees on our front lawn.  The red one is taller than the yellow one.” Learning intentions in Math: I can sort a set of objects by size, colour and shape.  We looked at the attributes of objects using plastic animal figures, marker lids, and even students in the class. We have been practicing sharing our “sorting rule” and describing which attribute they sorted by.  Ex.  “I sorted by colour.  These bears are green, these ones are red and these ones are yellow.” Learning Intentions ...

 Hello Kindergarten Families, In literacy we started constructing our Sound Wall, to help us see how we use our mouths to make different phonemes (Sounds like /t/ like tiger or /sh/ like sheep.) We have also been working on using horizontal and vertical lines to make Uppercase Letters: L, E, F, H, T, I.  We have been working hard to remember to form letters from top to bottom and from left to right.  This is really important for children to become efficient and accurate printers.   We have also been working on our science skills, looking closely at materials at our nature centre.  We have been thinking about: shape, colour, texture, size and quality (old/new, rotten/fresh, whole/partial etc.) Our nature centre as some living plants, specimens from a forest environment and earlier this week some snails from Mrs. Wacker's garden.  This centre also has magnifying glasses to help us look closely.  We read the famous book, "The Dot", by Peter Reynolds,...

 Dear Kindergarten Families,  We had a busy week filled assemblies, outdoor time and lots of learning. The children are becoming more comfortable with our morning entry.  Please ensure you check, empty and return folder each day.  This is where you put notes about changes in pickups (preferred over emails/verbal messages.) Please ensure your child has a backpack that fits their folder and a large library book. Please do not fold folders.  Plastic School-Home Communication folder We have learned about different types of and how letters represent the sounds we make.  This week we have started our UFLI (University of Florida) literacy program. After reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, we used sidewalk chalk to practice making lines, shapes and letters outside! We made our own coconut trees in our Learning Journals, then we learned how to use our letter stamps to re-enact the story.  At Home: Talk about different lines that you can see.  Straight, curvy,...

Dear Kindergarten Families,  We had great first week in Kindergarten. It is amazing to see how comfortable students are following our routines like putting on their indoor shoes at arrival or lining up for music! Our daily communications folders should be in and ready to go on Monday morning. Please check these folders next week each day and remove any notices or classwork from them. This is where you can send notes to the teacher and completed forms. We focused this week on building routines, such as gathering our mini white boards and markers for literacy work and cleaning up after our centre time.   Centre Time, is an extended daily learning time, where student can make self-determined choices in their learning. Children choose from activities such as painting, sand exploration, building and imaginative play. The children have been very focused on their learning and have been making lots of friends. We have been opening the centres slowly to review expectations....