Welcome to Kindergarten!

 Thank you families for all of your support with kindergarten startup. We have had a great first few weeks of school! Your children have been wonderful, and I am more than impressed with the way they are taking care of themselves and wearing their masks. Everyone has done a great job keeping their masks on and utilizing mask breaks. Each student brought home two masks on their first day of kindergarten. 

We have spent some time learning our new procedures and routines. Keeping a distance, sitting spots, whole body listening and lots of hand washing and sanitizing. We are working on lining up, making new friends, being calm, and in control of our bodies. They have all demonstrated just how amazing they are at learning how to be a kindergarten student while washing/sanitizing their hands and wearing a mask! 

We have enjoyed reading some books the past few weeks. Here are our favourites so far! 

We have been learning about lines and practicing different types of lines to develop our pre-printing and drawing skills: 

Additionally, we are learning about 2D shapes. We are developing our vocabulary such as round, sides, and corners. We are becoming masters at drawing shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. We used our knowledge of shapes to begin some guided drawings of crowns, bumble bees, and people. Please ask your child to share their drawings with you as I know they are VERY excited to show off their artwork! We also went on a shape hunt this week in our classroom to find  examples of circles, squares, triangles and rectangles all around us. Please ask your child if they can find examples of these shapes around their home.

Next week we will continue to practice how to draw our shapes, and discover what types of pictures we can create and draw using different shapes. We will continue learning about the alphabet letters and letter sounds through songs (such as A is for Apple), sound games, matching games and conversations. We will introduce different emotions, what they look like (focus on eyes and eyebrows as it is hard to see our mouths when we are wearing masks) what they feel like, and how to calm our mind and body when we are dysregulated. 

Friendly Reminders

• All students brought home demographic forms last week, please complete and return by Friday September 18th. 
• AM and PM Kindergarten classes alternate on Fridays. These are longer days and some students may need a second snack!
• Please try logging in to your child's Google Account on or before September 21st prior to our Virtual Meet the Teacher Night. An email was sent Monday morning with your child's google account information. Check their educbe gmail account for an invite to our Google Classroom
• September 24th  is our Virtual Meet the Teacher Night. We have two sessions scheduled from 6pm-6:45pm or 7pm-7:45pm. We will be using Google Meet. Please check your email for the meet code and information about how to join. There are two sessions and you will only log on for one of them
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Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns 

Ms. Fieldstone 

sifieldstone@cbe.ab.ca