Newsletter #7

 October 29^th Edition of

The Kindergarten Class News

Greetings!

What a beautiful week. The weather is cool now, time to bundle up!

 

On Monday we continued to learn about printing and practiced the lowercase letter ‘j’. Later we made some very cute “sneaky cats” and played in centres time. The kids were excellent word detectives and the class enjoyed hearing the First People’s legend of why Mt. Maxwell is “hunched” over.

 

Tuesday was our first session of our Oral Language Groups! Each week we will learning about different aspects of phonological development. This week we started with story sequencing. Later we welcomed local artist and district Aboriginal Education contact, Quentin Harris into the class. Our time with him is always full of laughs and humour. This time he shared a story and we made canoes. 

 

On Wednesday I was away at a union meeting all day. The kids practiced their numbers in math, wrote in their journals and played some fun games outside. Wednesday is library day and the kids who returned their books were able to sign out new ones. 

 

Thursday I was away for another appointment, but it was a Spooktacular day! The children came to school in costume and enjoyed many Halloween-themed activities. 

 

Once again, we have now started our regular show and tell rotations. Each week your child has a day to bring in one item from home to show to the class. Please keep in mind that each day has a number of kids assigned to it so if your child misses his or her day we may not have time to fit them in on a different day. Here are the days again:

Monday or Friday: Arlo, Desmia and Ella Mae

Tuesdays: Eva, Gia and Josey

Wednesdays: Lia, Lula and Mateo

Thursdays: Rory, Rosemary, Stella and Will

Next week we are looking for items that begin with the letter ‘Ee’.

 

Important Dates to Remember:

Oct. 31 Halloween 

Nov. 11 Remembrance Day (no school)

Nov. 13 School in session

Dec. 3 Early dismissal

 

 

Have a lovely weekend and Happy Halloween!

 

Warmly,

Ara Van Riel

avanriel@sd64.org

 A food mural! 

                                           Colouring in the canoes.

                                           

 Centres time!

 Happy Halloween!

Newsletter #6

 October 22^nd Edition of

The Kindergarten Class News

Greetings Everyone!

We had another beautiful week! Here are some highlights to keep you in the loop.  

 

Monday was an exciting day, with school photos. If your child was away on this day, retakes will be announced soon. We have been talking a lot about kindness and how to be a good friend at school. Ask your child if they remember what a ‘cotton ball’ or ‘sandpaper’ word is. On Monday, we also started our home reading program! The kids are excited to pick a book each day. You will find the book in the planner bag.

 

On Tuesday we worked on printing the lowercase letter ‘f’, made funny jack-o-lantern art and went to Music. There were quite a few students away again. Outside, we talked about traditional uses of the rose hip and harvested some from our forest.

 

Wednesday, we practiced counting/writing numbers through a Halloween eye spy game. We also wrote about our favourite colours in the journals and played at centres. Most of the kids signed out new books from the library. In the afternoon, we made rose hip tea out of the rose hips we had harvested. 

 

Thursday was our trip to the pumpkin patch! Many of the kids were excited to take the school bus for the first time. It was a fun and festive morning at the farm. Later, the class went to Music and we ended our week in the forest.

We are on to the letter Dd for Show and Tell next week! It has been fun seeing what the kids come up with for their day.

 

Next Thursday is dress up day at school! Students are welcome to come to school in their costumes (we will have a costume parade in the morning with the whole school). Just a reminder that weapon aspects of a costume should be left at home and if there is a mask involved, the mask will only be worn during the costume parade. 

 

Dates to Remember:

Oct. 29 Dress up day at school

Oct. 31 Halloween 

Nov. 11 Remembrance Day (no school)

Nov. 13 School in session

Nov. 24th Photo retakes

Dec. 3 Early dismissal

 

Have a great weekend!

Ara 

avanriel@sd64.org

Here the kids are working on a sorting activity.

More work with patterns.

 

Our tea party!

Making jack-o-lanterns.

Hard at work

Pumpkin Patch!

So much fun on the bus.

Newsletter #5

 October 16th Edition of

The Kindergarten Class News

Happy Friday Everyone!

We have had another eventful week. The class continues to practice using Whole Body Listening when it is expected and we are working on filling up our kindness jar. Ask your child what this means. 

 

Monday was Thanksgiving so the school was closed.

 

On Tuesday we played a fun letter matching game, worked on counting spiders and went to Music. It was a stormy afternoon and we ended the day with a power outage. The class was very good about it!

 

Wednesday we practiced writing our numbers from 1-10, wrote about our holiday weekend in our journals and selected new books to take home from the library. Please remember to send back your book each week.

 

On Thursday we worked on matching uppercase and lowercase letters, played a number race and went to Music. We also enjoyed time in the forest. There are many impressive forts being created!

 

Friday was a school day and PJ day!  We worked on our printing, made festive pumpkin art and went outside to learn and play in nature.

Next week's Show and Tell will be for the letter 'Cc'. 

Furthermore, we will be starting our home reading program next week! The children will select a 'just right' book each day to bring home and read with you. This is a wonderful opportunity to bond with your child while also helping them on their journey to become a reader. Please watch for the purple reading folder to come home in the planner bag. The idea is to record the book read and return it every day for a new one. More information will be included in the reading folder.

 

Next Thursday, October 22^nd, we are going on to the pumpkin patch (assuming we have no issues with the bus availability). We will be leaving the school at 9:30am and taking the school bus to and from the farm. Each child will get to pick out a pumpkin to bring home! We will return to the school at 12pm. If your child is catching the bus home that day we may need to keep the pumpkin at school to be picked up at a later time. Please hand in the $7/permission slip by Wednesday at the latest. 

 

Important Dates to Remember:

October 19- Picture day

October 22- Fieldtrip to the pumpkin patch

October 31- Halloween!

 

Have a nice weekend.

 

Warmly,

Ara Van Riel

avanriel@sd64.org

Having fun matching letters!

Exploring the water beads!

Fun with the Halloween sensory bin.

                         

  

Counting with gems.

Epic train tack.

Making leaf people.

Fort building.

Number races.

 

                                                      Counting pumpkins

                                               Girls in the garden.