Weekly Message: Sept 27

 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 in Literacy:

I can identify how my mouth moves while making letter sounds (phonemes) and describe the quality of the sound.  Ie. When making the /z/ sound, a student may say the sound is “continuous” or can be stretched out and that their “voice is turned on”.

We have been working on the “getting ready” lessons in the UFlI Literacy Program.  We have learned all the consonant phonemes and have put them on our class Sound Wall.

I can write letters from using efficient and ergonomic formations. 

We have been learning to use vertical/horizontal/slanted and curved lines to form uppercase letters. We have been ensuring that we start letters from the top down and from left to right.

At Home: 

Look for letters in your house (ex. on cereal box)  Have your child identify if a letter has curved or straight lines, do they know its name?

We also talked about the word indigenous, learned about Orange Shirt Day and worked on our Land based learning.

Many of the leaves on our class tree have changed colour.

Identifying lines and fine motor work at the light table.

Stamping at "table time"

Learning to use glue...and to close the lids when we are done!

Constructing and collaborating.

We looked for lines, shapes, colours, letters and safety features!


Community Walk.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wacker


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