Newsletter #28

 May 6^th Edition of

The Kindergarten Class News

Hello All

What a busy week!

 

On Monday we were surprised to see an early duck hatch out! We also worked on our writing, went to Music, and made duck hatching art. We planted more carrots in the garden and enjoyed forest play. 

 

Tuesday was very exciting as the rest of the ducklings started hatching and we added them to the brooder. We also had our second to last dance session with Kristen Lewis and continued stretching out the sounds in words during our Oral Language Groups. Outside, we drew what we could hear during nature art. 

 

On Wednesday the kids continued writing, practiced adding up different types of insects and enjoyed a fun and upbeat performance from Ache Brazil! I was away for a union meeting. 

 

Thursday was a full day. We welcomed another new student to our class (Jasper) and enjoyed watching the ducklings play and swim. The kids were high energy, and the class feels very full! We used our ducks as inspiration in our writing and learned that different insects have different types of mouths. See the little books that came home.

 

Friday was a school day and our last day with the ducks. We welcomed the 3/4 class in to do a big buddy activity. They helped our class make origami cats! That was fun. We also went to nature class, practiced reading, and worked on one more/one less in a number activity. 

 

From now on, Show and Tell is free choice. We no longer need to match items to a letter.  

 

Important Dates to Remember:

May 23 Victoria Day (No school)

May 26^th Trip to the fire hall

May 27^th School Day

June 10^th Trip to Mrs. Van Riel’s farm (date pending bus)

June 16^th Conservancy filed trip

June 21 Year End Whole School Picnic 

June 23 Last Day of Kindergarten/Kindergarten graduation celebration

 

Wishing all of you a happy weekend.

 

Ara Van Riel and Ms. Janice

avanriel@sd64.org

 

Our peas are growing!

Making potions

Our first duck to hatch!

               

             

Dance fun, making shapes with our bodies.

                    

Nature Art

                     

The ducklings!

                    

The ducklings meet baby bunnies!

Big buddy time

                    

The ducklings take go for a swim.

                  

      

 

  

 

Newsletter #27

 April 28^th 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.

Morning table activities.

Centres play

                      

Going on a shape hunt!

                             

Nature art

A break from the rain!

More centres creativity 

      

 

  

 

Newsletter #26

 April 21^st Edition of

The Kindergarten Class News

Hello again.

The kids had another fun week, aside from the sickness going around. We had very low attendance this week. 

We have welcomed another new student, Frankie, to our group and our new class dynamic is starting to settle. We hope to see everyone back next week!

 

Monday there was no school due to the Easter long weekend.

 

Tuesday, everyone was excited to share stories about their long weekend and the kids wrote about these stories in writing. We had another dance class with Kristen Lewis and we started working on identifying ending sounds in our oral language groups. The class went to the library and then we candled our duck eggs! It was fascinating to “see” inside the changing eggs. So far, it seems about half the eggs are developing nicely. 

 

On Wednesday we continued working on our writing with a focus on spring. We used marbles to paint with and the kids went to nature class. 

 

Thursday was a fun day! We worked with partners in math, continued with our story workshop and then enjoyed a fantastic Spring Showcase! There were so many talented displays and performances. Well done!

 

On Friday I was “away” for a literacy conference, but the kids had a good Earth Day. They completed their art project with a sentence about how they can help the earth and went outside to explore nature with their senses for writing. It was the book exchange which was a fun way to demonstrate reusing. 

 

Important Dates to Remember:

May 6 School in session (Wednesday schedule)

May 23 Victoria Day (no school)

May 27 School in session (Monday schedule)

 

Have a nice weekend!

Ara Van Riel and Ms. Janice

avanriel@sd64.org

Exploring the forest. 

Marble painting

                             

Mining for crystals

Math

Earth Day activities