Kindergarten EMJ

  March 11 - 15 Dear Kindergarten Families, We have music on Monday and Wednesdays.  Please help your child to arrive on time so we are ready for music at 8:00.  This week music was cancelled on Wednesday. Thank you to Ms. Nida for helping in our classroom this week. She played number Bingo with a few of the students and had time to play at a variety of centres, as well as helping with many tasks.  We have had a very busy week.  We learned new math games using cards. We read factual and fiction stories about animals to support our Vet Centre.  We shared puppet shows with our friends and some of them were recorded.   Literacy: This week in literacy we read about different kinds of jobs veterinarians have. Some work in clinics in the city, some work with farm animals, some work with wild animals.  We read some animal stories and talked about things that could happen to animals that they might need to go to the vet for.   Our morning messages have been filled mixed up words that we have h

  March 4 - 8 Dear Kindergarten Families, We have music on Monday and Wednesdays.  Please help your child to arrive on time so we are ready for music at 8:00.  This week music was cancelled on Wednesday. We have had a very busy week.  We learned new math games using cards. We read factual and fiction stories about animals to support our Vet Centre.  We shared puppet shows with our friends and some of them were recorded.   Literacy: This week in literacy we read about different kinds of jobs veterinarians have. Some work in clinics in the city, some work with farm animals, some work with wild animals.  We drew a picture of our favourite farm animal and our favourite ocean animal. Our morning messages have been filled mixed up words that we have helped our teacher fix.   We are learning that capital letters go at the beginning of a sentence or at the beginning of our name not in the middle of a word or sentence.  We read the book  The Boy Who Ate Books,   By: Oliver Jeffers.  We discusse

     February 26 - March 1 Dear Kindergarten Families, This week we had our swimming lessons at Canyon Meadows.  The students progressed so quickly.  They were so excited to go down the slides or jump off the diving board by the end of the week.  A huge thank you to Ms. Nida, Ms. Jessica and Mr. Brent for volunteering this week.  Your dedication and help in the changing rooms was greatly appreciated by everyone.  Thank you to Ms. Stringer and Ms Guss for arranging and organizing this wonderful experience for our students.   After discussing our week each day we learned that we loved the bus ride to and from the pool and we had lots of fun learning how to swim.  Literacy: This week in literacy we coloured, wrote and read a swimming book that we worked on.  We also made thank you cards for our swimming instructors.  Math: This week in math   we continued working on number talks.  We are learning that there are many ways to represent a number.  We can write a numeral (3).  We can draw obj