Kindergarten EMJ

 Dec. 12 - 16 Kindergarten News: Literacy: This week in Literacy we started reading our Twelve Day of Christmas books.  Each day we unwrap a new book and then read our story.  We have had lots of fun and laughs reading our new collection of books.  Thank you to  Ms. Tucker for wrapping and selecting our new books. We have also been helping Elfie, who leaves us a mixed up message every morning to unscramble.   I can learn to read messages from left to right and top to bottom.   I can learn about periods and capitals in morning messages and books.   Our Robert Munsch book this week and next week is Finding Christmas.  We had Mrs. Montgomery our Kindergarten Strategist visit us on Tuesday and read the story to us.  She also brought a game for us to play.  We have presents to hide then we need to give clues to a friend to find the presents we hid.  I can use prepositions to help my friends find the presents.  Example:  The present is under the table.   We continued working at our stations

 December 5 - 9 Dear Kindergarten Families, Thank you for supporting our book fair.  Thank you so much to Tiiu for helping out in the book fair everyday.   Literacy: This week in literacy we read Sounds Like Christmas by: Robert Munsch.  Monday: I can listen to a read aloud story and talk about my favourite part of the story with a friend.  Tuesday: I can vote on my favourite part of a story and then help draw a class picture to illustrate and show my understanding of who is in the story, what happened on that particular page, and where the story took place.  Thursday: I can draw my favourite part of the story remembering to draw who was in the story, where this part of the story took place and what the story was about.  Friday: I can share and talk about my picture during author's chair sharing.  (Note: not everyone was able to share however throughout the month of December each person will have a chance to share.  We have also been able to unwrap a new book each day with a frien

November 27 - December 2 Kindergarten News Dear Kindergarten Families, Our book fair is this week Monday - Thursday from 8:30 - 11:30 am.  We hope you are able to support our book fair.   Due to the book fair we will not have library book exchange this Wednesday.  You may keep your book for an extra week.  Remember good readers read books more than once. Literacy This week in literacy we read another Robert Munsch book entitled:  Put Me in a Book.   We read the book on Monday and discussed our favourite part of the story and why we liked it.  Most of us liked the humour in Robert Munsch's stories.  Some of us liked the illustrations.  On Tuesday we re-read the story and drew a class picture together.  On Wednesday we re-read the story then we drew our favourite part of the story in our visual journals.  We shared our final illustrations with one friend or adult.   Thursday we read the story Rosie's Walk and acted it out.  We were practicing and learning prepositions from this s