Thank you to all the families who met with our kindergarten class online for Virtual Meet the Teacher Night! Thank you for your patience and cooperation with the technology issues we faced last night. The presentation will be shared with parents through email next week. Please email me if you have any questions or concerns. Please check your child's backpack for the Wish for A child paper - wishes can be written and returned for Monday.
Our Learning
This week we are continuing our work on following routines, whole body listening, interacting with friends, while staying safe and having fun. We continued our work on letters and letter sounds using our A is For Apple Song and Lively Letters! The Lively Letter program was developed by speech language pathologists and it uses pictures and stories to help teach letter sounds. The stories are based on how the sound is produced in the mouth and letters are generally paired based on sound production. In the last few weeks we have zoomed in on the letters /P/, /M/, and /S/.
This week we started our "Friend of the Day". Everyday one student will be selected by draw (if someone is absent their card goes back in the pile so no one misses out). Our Friend of the Day will get to come to the front, write their name, share their favourite colour, activity and food, as well as their age. They will be the line leader and will help with small tasks around the classroom.
Friend of the Day is a great opportunity to begin work with letters/letter sounds and numbers. For example Mia starts with /M/ can we think of some other words that begin with the letter M? Elizabeth is 5, how can we show the number 5? Students are encouraged to print their own names.
In math, we continued our work with 2D shapes. Students practiced drawing the shapes, and using lines to create pictures. Our focus this week was using horizontal and vertical lines to draw ladders. We will continue next week with tracing, constructing our own pictures using shapes and a shape surprise!
Some of our learning will include learning from the land and Indigenous Peoples. Each student has an animal table group.
Ask your child, "What animal table group do you belong to? How does this animal move? What questions do you have about these animals? What do you wonder?"
(We've started to learn about these animals movements, Blackfoot names and their importance to us here on Treaty 7 Land, in Calgary and area). If you'd like to read through some of these animals with your child, click here for the Animoves Resource .
As we learn about being Treaty Peoples. we've been practicing The Calgary Public Library's Treaty 7 Land Acknowledgement.
Wednesday, September 30th is Orange Shirt Day. Please wear an orange shirt to school. In kindergarten we will continue to learn that everyone belongs in our classroom, school, community and beyond. Every. Child. Matters.
Reminders
AM students Terry Fox Run Thursday
Friday, October 2 NO School for AM Students
Friday, October 9 PD Day NO School for K-4
Monday, October 12 Thanksgiving Monday NO School for K-4
Friday, October 16 AM Attends
Friday, October 23 NO School for AM Students
Friday, October 30 PD Day NO School for K-4
Have a fantastic weekend! See everyone's smiling faces (behind the masks) on Monday! If you have any questions or concerns please contact me at sifieldstone@cbe.ab.ca
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