12 Spirit Days of Winter/Christmas Ken Taylor School

  Dear Families,

The school community will be participating in the below holiday activities. Please note that these are optional for your child to dress up/participate in.

Letters in Our Name

 Hi Room 108 families, We have had a busy week in Kindergarten. We now have an AM class (blue team) and a PM class (green team). This week we revisited our rules, routines and expectations. Continuing our alphabet work, we focused on our names. We printed our names using 1 uppercase letter and lowercase letters. We counted the letters in our name and used tally marks/hearts to graph the letters in each students name. 

The next day we worked with a friend and compared our names with each other. What is the same?What is different?How many letters are in your name? your partner's name?

What letters are the same? What letters are different? After, we cut out the letters in our name and sorted the letters using our giant alphabet chart! This was a big task for the kiddos but they had a blast doing it! 

We spent some time outside this week exploring and observing how fall has changed into winter! 

Hope you had a wonderful weekends enjoying the sunshine! 

REMINDERS

Following the christmas break classes will resume online for 1 week. We will be using Google Meet and Google Classroom January 4-8. It is important that each student has access to these platforms, so please practice logging in. 

 More information coming soon!

Friday, December 4 PD Day, NO School K-4

Friday, December 11 PM Attends 8am-12pm

Friday, December 18 AM Attends 8am-12pm 

A is for Apple

 Hi Parents & Guardians, 

Students attended a school wide virtual assembly for Remembrance Day. I must say I was very impressed, they were respectful and handled the moment of silence like pros. It was great to virtually see some of the other students and their artwork. We continued our work with peace and poppies exploring the five senses and created our own poppies to wear for the ceremony. 

We continued our work with numeracy and exploring the concepts "Same and Different" we looked at pictures and noticed what was the same and what was different in image. 

Please ask your child "What is the same?" and "What is different?" 

We are continuing our work with alphabet letters and sounds using our "A is for Apple" song and alphabet charts to help us. We are identifying the letters in our names and challenging ourselves to identify the beginning letter sounds in our classmates names. 

We are continuing our letter work during centre time, matching uppercase and lowercase letters, writing our classroom affirmations and spelling our names with lowercase letters. 

Reminders 

• Thursday, November 19 and Friday November 20 Virtual Conferences, No Classes for K students. I look forward to meeting with each of you online to discuss your child's progress and EYE-TA results. Please check your email for the link to book a time for conferences. 
• Friday November 27 AM Kindergarten Attends 
• Friday December 4 PD Day No School  

Peace Feels Like...

This week we read the book "What does Peace feel like?" it is a book written by children and uses the 5 senses to explore peace. Next week we will be completing journal pages exploring what peace means to us and what it looks like, feels like and sounds like. 

We continued our work for remembrance day, and talked about peace in our classroom using gentle hands, kind words and helping others. We learned about poppies and how it is a symbol of peace. We created some beautiful poppy art (that I forgot to take pictures of!) I will post pictures of our art on Monday. 

We are continuing our work with sorting and exploring the different ways we can sort in our classroom and at our homes. We have some very creative students who wanted to sort their snacks by colour during snack time! Please ask your child "What is your sorting rule?" 

We are continuing our work with our 5 Little Pumpkins wall story. We used macaroni to create our numbers and spent time using our writing strategies to spell key words in our poem. Using isolation and letter sounds we learned how to spell "Oh My" "Run" and "Fun". It was hard work but we persisted! 

On Tuesday November 10th we are having a virtual assembly in honour of Remembrance Day. Poppy donations are gladly accepted at school if you would like to donate.

Reminders 

Thank you for working on independent dressing! I have noticed the growth in this big skill. 

Snacks: Thank you for sending healthy snack and water with your child. We understand treats and candy are popular this time of year. If you do send a treat with your child to school, please limit it to 1 small candy/chocolate. Thank you! 

• Monday November 9th Picture Retake Day
• Wednesday, November 11 Remembrance Day No Class for K-4
• Friday, November 13 PM Attends 8am-12pm (No Class for AM) 
• Thursday, November 19 and Friday November 20 Virtual Conferences, No Classes for K students. I look forward to meeting with each of you online to discuss your child's progress and EYE-TA results.  Please watch your email for further information soon. 

I Can Sort!

 

Happy Halloween Kindergarten! I hope you had a wonderful Halloween weekend with your family.  We had another busy week, we are continuing our work with 5 Little Pumpkins and created reading goals. Every morning we review our goals and affirm we are readers! 

On Monday we revisited our seed exploration and used ten frames to count our seeds and ensure numbers 1 - 10 are "stuck in our brains". We learned when the top row is full we have 5 objects, and if the top and bottom row is full we have 10! 

Working on our Friend of the Day, we used oral language and memorization to create sentences to share the knowledge we learned about our friends. 

For example, "Kamran's favourite colour is blue", "Ians favourite activity is drawing" and "Evelyn is 5 years old". 

 Please ask your child to share their friend of the day sentences.  

I Can Sort! We are exploring sorting in our Kindergarten classroom, and challenging ourselves to sort in different ways. In our animal groups we worked together to sort our mystery objects. by size, colour or shape. We took part in a gallery walk to view each others sorting group and went around the room sharing "The sorting rule is _____" 

Please review these pictures with your child and prompt "What is the sorting rule?"

Reminders

• Picture Day Orders due by November 5th

• AM Kindergarten Attends Friday November 6th 

• Picture Retake Day November 9th 

• Remembrance Day November 11th (No School)