Weekly Message: January 23

Hello Kindergarten Families, 

We spent much of our week working with students individually to complete mandated the Alberta Provincial Assessments in literacy and mathematics. Your children have shown amazing stamina and resilience while completing these. They also showed great "flexible thinking", working with different guest teachers and moving in and out of activities during their testing times. 

Our learning from this week: 

Math: 

We have continued to explore the concepts of size.  This week we compared: sorting a set of objects into group by size (big/medium/small), with ordering objects in a sequence from smallest to largest. The student then, independently cut out and ordered snowflakes to show their understanding. We will send these home next week. During centres we have also explored sequencing objects from shortest to tallest.  



We have also been practicing our game, Garbage, which helps us practice ordering numbers (1-5) on ten-frame cards.  


 

Literacy: 

We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt, Pp, Ff and Ii. The student were very excited to do our first decodable passage.  Please practice this page many times.  Students started by highlighting our heart words: I, and.  The rest of the words are fully decodable.  We practiced tracking the words with our fingers and ensuring we are sounding out each letter sound and blending the sounds together.  Having our fingers on the words help with this process, and helps us notice when we accidently guess the word instead of reading the word on the page. 

A fun way to practice:  Post our decodable words from the homework sheets on index cards and tape them around your house.  Give your child a pointer and have them look for them all and read them with their pointer.  You can also give them a clipboard and have them find them and write them down.  

 

Social/Science: 

We read books about  winter and what we wear in the cold. Students worked on colouring and cutting skills 

to to dress a model with articles of winter clothing. 

 

We are beginning to explore how animals move and how they keep warm in winter. We read "The Mitten" by Jan Brett this week and will be reading it a few more times as we work on retelling stories in the coming weeks.  

 

We had a circle time with our Elder Sandra Manyfeathers. The students listened to songs and tried a few dance techniques with their feet.  



EXIT THE FORCE IS STRONG places WITH THOSE ONLY ONE YOU WHO READ READING




Making popcorn for the theatre
Arctic Mega-tiles
P is for Penguin

Sorting small things is good for our fine motor skills

Wet-on-wet watercolour trees


Pulling the tape resist off our pictures is good for our fine motor skills
It is fun seeing our sparkly white trees!







 

 

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