May   27 - May 31

Library Day is Thursday.  Please help your child remember to return their books so they can choose a new story to share. with you.  This will be the last week for book exchanges.  

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.  We learned a new song in music this week.  We will keep practicing it and learning movement actions that go with our song next week. 

Thank you to Ms. Nida for volunteering in our classroom this week.

Upcoming Field trip to the zoo on Monday June 10th has been cancelled as we did not have enough volunteers.

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 now listening to sounds in the middle of words and trying to figure out the letter and how to spell the word.  

We practiced spelling words on the white boards this week.  We also worked on printing our letters going from top to bottom and finding pictures that we can draw that begin with the letters we are printing.  This week we printed the letter ' Mm, Rr and Zz.'

We read factual stories about giraffes this week.  We drew pictures of giraffes and talked about the patterns we see.  We learned that each giraffe has their own unique pattern. We lay down on the floor shoulder to shoulder and tool a picture of how long a giraffe would be if it stretched out to have a sleep.  We learned that giraffes don't sleep very much and they usually sleep standing up. 

Math:

This week in math we introduced non-standard measurement.  We used a variety of containers at the sand table to measure what holds more, less and are there any containers that hold the same equal amounts? 

We worked on the number 10 this week and found various ways to add numbers together to make 10.  

We did some butterfly math.  We counted the number of wings, antennae's, body parts and legs.

Centres:

The camping centre continues to be a popular centre.  The students love to pack the picnic basket and have picnics on the floor at the pretend campfire. The light table, marble works, Lincoln Logs, puzzles, paint and arts and crafts are other centres that the students enjoy visiting and exploring how to build structures and design their art work.

Gym:

This week we went outside and ran to the soccer posts and ball diamond then we played at the park. We played Ship to Shore as well as a few racing games and Doggie Doggie Where's Your Bone?