April 28th Edition of
The Kindergarten Class News
Hello Everyone.
Well, our spring weather has been all over the map. Please make sure your child has rain gear for those heavy blasts of precipitation we have been getting!
This week on Monday, we continued our writing practice with a spring focus. We made lovely spring flowers in art and went to Music class.
The class continues to battle the cold bug that is going around, and many kids were tired and grumpy this week. I understand it is hard to navigate wellness in little people and appreciate the efforts everyone is taking to keep sick children at home. Here are a few reminders of pre Covid protocols that can be referred to when trying to decide when it is fine to send your child back to school, even when you know it is not Covid:
-Stay home for at least 24 hours following vomiting or a fever.
-Stay home if the child has thick/green mucus.
-Stay home if the child is persistently coughing and sneezing and has low energy (specifically at the beginning of the symptoms as some colds can linger and if energy is up and coughing is down, trust your instinct).
Thank you and I hope to see everyone on Monday.
On Tuesday we continued blending sounds together in our Oral Language Groups. We also had another dance/movement class with Kristen Lewis and went to the library. It was a very wet lunch play and many kids did not have proper rain gear so instead of getting back into the soggy coats, we went on an inside shape hunt around the school and had a shorter outside time.
Wednesday, we worked on editing our writing and making sure our pictures matched our words. Arye and Fen talked about our duck eggs at the Whole School Meeting (great job!), and we had a fire drill. We also started a nature art project that will continue for several weeks. The kids really enjoyed painting with flowers and leaves found in the forest.
On Thursday the class had free choice in the gym, worked on addition in math and I introduced a unit on insects. Later we worked on reading and re-visited our Word of the Week lessons. Quinten Harris joined us in the forest, and it was a fun end to our week.
Important dates to remember:
May 6 School in session and a possible walk to Pebble/Shell Beach (weather dependant)
May 23 Victoria Day-no school
May 27 School Day
Have a nice weekend.
Warmly,
Ara Van Riel and Ms. Janice
avanriel@sd64.org
Flower fairies playing in the forest.
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