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 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 listened to the story:

Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase - YouTube    

and we heard a few other leprechaun stories this week during our snack time. 

Math:

This week in math we continued working on number talks.  We are learning that there are many ways to represent a number.  We practiced playing Memory with cards and with a partner this week. We talked about numbers that come before a certain number and numbers that come after a certain number. For example: what number comes before 5?  What number comes after 8?  We also began using blocks to add together two numbers. 

We had to solve a problem in math. We needed to figure out how to get 9 wheels on our boat.  If we put too many wheels on our boat it would sink if we put the correct number it would float if we didn't have enough wheels on our boat it wouldn't be able to get off the dock.  Ask your child how they solved this problem. 

Centres:

At the Vet Centre, we have forms to fill out, a scale to measure our stuffies, a stethoscope to check their heartbeats and breathing, thermometers, to take temperature, a cash register to pay for services at the vet.  Ask your child to share something they enjoyed at the vet centre this week. We have get well cards to make for our sick pets to continue to promote or writing skills.  We use white boards to make letters and numbers.  The light table, blocks, puppet stage, Lego, sand table, cars and big blocks were centres that were visited by  the students this week.  

Gym:

We introduced a skipping ropes and hoops in gym this week.  Some of us liked to skip with the ropes others liked doing a variety of tasks with the hoops.  We played the game Four Corners in gym this week also. 

 Buddies:

We played at centres with our buddies.  We also shared our ocean pictures with our buddies. 

Art:

We did a guided drawing of a pot of gold with a rainbow for St. Patrick's Day.