February 7th Edition of
The Kindergarten Class News
Greetings Everyone!
It was an exciting week at school for the kids with the snow finally arriving. February is proving to be a very busy month with many guests coming in to enhance the learning!
Monday was a packed day! We only had about half the class but still managed to proceed with a fun story workshop, made Chinese lanterns while learning about Chinese New Year, went to the library and worked on problem solving in math.
Tuesday we had most of the class back. We welcomed Robynn Scott in to begin a creative movement dance workshop. She will visit every Tuesday for the next month. We also worked on identifying the initial sound in words, compared shorter and longer lengths in math and worked on our story project with Glen in the afternoon.
On Wednesday we worked in our journals and welcomed Laura Kiel and Johanna Hoskin in to begin another school wide art project. Each child in the school will be responsible for creating a clay salmon piece to replace the salmon on the side of the school. It is exciting to know that our kids will be a part of a project that will be enjoyed for years to come. Also on Wednesday, Kaz continued her unit on respecting the body and the children drew and labelled their own bodies.
Thursday we continued working on throwing skills in the gym, went to Whole School Meeting (where some people from Saturna's Orca Whale research team came to show us what they do) and went to Music. In our Oral Language Groups, we started learning about segmenting sentences into words and later we went to the bog and discovered it is frozen!
Next Thursday is Valentines Day. An info sheet about our class party was sent home this week. As a reminder, if your child chooses to bring cards or anything to school, we ask that they bring one for everyone. We will make little bags to collect the cards in. I suggest not addressing the cards to make handing them out easier but writing whom they are from would be nice. We will be having a shared snack on Valentines Day. If you would like to send something to share, the kids would be sure to enjoy it. I will make cookies.
The Spring Showcase is fast approaching. Forms are due, no later than Wednesday, February 13th. Students need to practice in their own time and be ready to audition for their teachers the following week (Feb 19-22). This check in ensures that students have made efforts and will be ready for the Showcase on Thursday, February 28th. Creations will be brought to the office on Wednesday, February 27th. Please include a label with students name, age and title of creation.
As our school has had many children home sick, I’m sending a friendly reminder to please keep children home at least 24 hours after the last time he or she has thrown up. For example, if your child throws up at 12pm on Sunday they should not come to school until 12pm on Monday (or wait until Tuesday to return).
Also, if you know of any children who will be turning 5 this year, Kindergarten registration for the 2019-2020 school year is now open until the end of the month.
Important dates to remember:
February 14Valentines Day/class party
February 18 Family Day (no school)
February 22 School in session/half day
February 27 Pink Shirt Day (to support anti-bullying)
February 28 Spring Showcase 1:15pm
Warmly,
Ara Van Riel
avanriel@sd64.org
Glen led a breathing excursive using paper boats.
Measuring longer and shorter paper
Drawing salmon
We found animal tracks in the snow!
Some of the kids playing in the snow
Experimenting with slope in centres
The frozen bog!
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