Weekly Message: February 6

 Hello Kindergarten Families, 

We continued working hard on our Storytelling Project on Jan Brett's retelling of "The Mitten".  We did our best in incorporate it into all our areas of study.

Literacy:  We discussed story organization, including the relevant things that are introduced in the beginning: Who are the Characters?  Where does the story take place? And When does the story take place?  We paid close attention to how the animals moved and the descriptive verbs used.   

We also practiced making cvc words and making connected sentences, using our heart words.  Students listened to Stella: Queen of the Forest and drew about the things in a forest environment.  Here students practiced adding details, labelling object and creating simple sentences. 

Math:  In Math, students worked subitizing (recognizing familiar number patterns) on dominos by playing "The Hockey Game".  In this game, students determined the greatest number and stacked their dominoes, so that the tallest stack was the winner. 



We also talked a lot about the size and shape of things.  When creating our simple puppets for our Mitten re-telling, students carefully selected the cut paper to "fit" the size and shape of their animals.  (ie.  small card for the mouse, big card for the bear.)  We also experimented with rectangles, noticing that they could be long and short or tall and skinny. We talked about how we could "rotate" the card to help our animals fit (long and short for a fox, but tall and skinny for the owl.) The students really got a chance to work on their fine motor skills ripping masking tape to attach their puppet handles.  We also decorated our mittens with a repeating pattern on each side. 

Seeing if we could jump "as far as" or "farther than", the bunny prints we found outside

We put our feet on the starting position then comparing it to the second blue line.  


Creating our puppets for our mittens.  Thinking about sizing and proportions is hard work!

Science: We continued to investigate the concept of tracks and pathways and how animals move.  The students have been making tracks in our white playdough.  The kids also used rolling objects and stamping objects to compare how pathways could be made with them at our paint centre. 


Playdough is great for building small hand muscles.
The students looked at pictures of tracks to guess which animal visited Mrs. Wacker's front yard.  After, students used the highlighter on the smartboard to trace the bobcat's form.

We moved our plastic animals and compared them to our 3-D printing animals stamps.

PE: We are wrapping up our volleyball unit and we have gotten much better at "volleying/setting" and "bumping" with small beach balls. We have shown what it looks like to be a good partner in sports and training. We like to play the game "No Junk In My Yard" where students throw/pass/hit beachballs over the net to clean up their "yard" or side of the court.   

Hopefully you found our Valentine's Day note in your child's folder.  Remember, we will hand out cards on Wednesday.  It can take a long time for your child to write their name on 16 cards, so start early if you choose to hand out cards!  It is Teacher's Convention this week, so Wednesday is the last day of school. 

Have a great weekend, 

Mrs. Wacker and Mrs. Kinnear





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