Kindergarten EMJ

  April  21 - 25 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 in music we learned some new songs. Thank you to Ms. Nida for volunteering in our classroom this week.  We have had a very busy week. We checked on our plants each day to see if they needed  water, and if we noticed any sprouts.  Almost all of our plants have sprouted and some are twice the size of the pot.  Literacy: Our morning messages have been missing letters at the ends of words and we are learning to figure out the missing letters by listening to the sound that the letters make.  We are learning the "ing" ending in the word morn(ing) and other words that appear on our morning message. We read two different versions of The Three Little Pigs.  We worked in groups to make houses of straws, sticks and bricks (which were our big hollow blocks).  We acted out the story.  It was fun to see the students so

  April  15 - 18 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 in music we learned to keep the beat using rhythm sticks. Thank you to Ms. Nida for volunteering in our classroom this week.  We have had a very busy week. We checked on our plants each day to see if they needed  water, and if we noticed any sprouts.  Almost all of our plants have sprouted and some are twice the size of the pot.  Literacy: Our morning messages have been missing letters at the ends of words and we are learning to figure out the missing letters by listening to the sound that the letters make.  We are learning the "ing" ending in the word morn(ing) and other words that appear on our morning message such as the word end(ing). We listened to the story:  The Three Bears.  We compared two different stories written by different authors.  We put the story in order using pictures that we cut out and

  April  8 -12 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 because the division 2 students were getting ready for the concert.  We were entertained on Thursday morning by a variety of instruments and songs being played on a variety of instruments.  Thank you to Ms. Nida for volunteering in our classroom this week.  We have had a very busy week. We checked on our plants each day to see if they needed  water, and if we noticed any sprouts.  Some of our plants have sprouted this week.  We shared puppet shows with our friends.  The train centre is back and we are having fun delivering our flowers to different places on our train route.   Literacy: Our morning messages have been missing letters at the ends of words and we are learning to figure out the missing letters by listening to the sound that the letters make.  We are even learning the "

  April  2 -5  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 planted flowers with the students and played a few memory games and writing practice. We have had a very busy week.  We learned about the needs of plants and read a few factual stories about plants.  We shared puppet shows with our friends.  The train centre is back and we are having fun delivering our flowers to different places on our train route.   Literacy: This week in literacy we read books about plants and spring. We learned that plants get their food from the stem.  If a plant didn't have a stem they wouldn't get water and other nutrients they need to survive.   Our morning messages have been missing letters at the ends of words and we are learning to figure out the missing letters by listening to the so