Weekly Message: January 9


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 learning from this week: 

Math: 

We are continuing to practice using our numbers 1-5 and be able to recognize them "at a glance." We played a couple of math games this week, including "Garbage" and a dice rolling game. We have also begun explorations of size and shape.   

 

Literacy: 

We have learned letters Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt and Pp. A handout for the letter Pp was put in folders today.  It will help describe some of the words and work word we did this week.  Keep it in your "At Home Literacy Folder", so you can access it for continued practice.




 

Social/Science: 

We were scientists observing our outdoor environment. We felt the snow and looked for evidence of movement in the snow. We asked and answered questions like: Is it fresh or packed-down? Do we see where animals have been? How can we tell? Can we pack the snow? Why won't it stick together. We also observed the thick frost earlier this week and discovered that it is called "rime frost."   





 

Alien In-line Skating: 

We had an amazing start to our skating program.  The children learned how to put on equipment, how to stand up, how to fall safety and how to move in various ways around the gym.  We talked a lot about how we expected skating might be challenging and worked on our "Growth Mindset."  We reminded ourselves that when things are hard and we feel frustrated our brains and bodies are doing a lot of learning.  We called this "The Learning Space".  In the gym, we realized falling was a positive thing, for it gave us more opportunities to practice falling safely and to practice standing up.  During skate days it is helpful to wear stretchy clothes but not too bulky so that we can slide our knee/elbow pads on.  Having slightly taller socks helped us tuck our pants.  Children are welcome to bring their own helmets, but they are also provided with the rest of the gear.  

 

Reminders: 

  • Alien In-Line is on Tuesday and Thursday this coming week (Jan. 13 & 15.) 

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