Weekly Message: January 30

 Hello Kindergarten Families, 

We have been excited to start learning some volleyball fundamentals this week as we have practiced "volleying/setting" and "bumping" with small beach balls. This helps students learn technique and strengthen their fingers and arms. 


Literacy: 

We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt, Pp, Ff, Ii and Nn. We were super excited to read a new story featuring the letter Nn and our new sight word "is".  Before reading The Pin In the Map, we identified the heart words:  I, A, the and is. We highlighted these to remind us that we cannot sound the whole word out.  Please practice this decodable story and your /n/ homework sheet and store them in your blue, at-home, literacy folder.  Please ensure you are practicing heart words, letters and sounds and decodable words that we have sent home for the past couple months.  

                                               Acting out the story: (Yes this is upside down.)

Math: 

We have been reviewing our 2D shapes and tying concepts together with science, as we explore how humans stay warm in the winter. We made a (paper) house out of varying shapes in our journals this week. This task also assists students in recognizing the shapes needed to draw a house. This was a fun activity to watch as students critically chose colours that would be visible as they made their houses. 

 

Drawing animals with shapes.

Constructing houses with shapes

N is for Narwhal: A new animals for each letter

Beading bracelets:  Great for fine motor skills

We have been investigating the concept of winter changes and movement in science.  We read Move! by Steve Jenkins, and have been discussing vocabulary to describe the different ways animals move.  ex.  bears lumber, mice scurry, owl's swoop.  We have been exploring Jan' Brett's Story, The Mitten, to help his reinforce using descriptive language in oral story telling.  We went outside this week to look carefully at animal tracks.  We considered the size, shape and pattern of tracks to infer which animal left them.  For example, rabbits are "hoppers" with the two hind feet spaced apart from the front paws prints, where as, a dog is a "straight walker". 
 

Weaving our mittens for our Oral Storying Telling Project on Jan Brett's: The Mitten

Practicing sewing on burlap

Great for our fine motor skills and recognizing a up-down repeating pattern.

Investigating tracks in the snow to determine which animals have been in our community.

Hunting for fresh snow by the seniors home next door to the school.

Comparing people prints and rabbit prints.


                                            We are wondering if these little and close ones are magpie prints.


Have a great long weekend, 

Mrs Wacker and Mrs. Kinnear

                                                    

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