Ruth King Kindergarten Div 12

Hello!

With the snow last week, not much happened with the one school day we had school, so one post for two weeks.

On Valentine’s day, we made huggable hearts and painting some snowy winter trees. They are on display on our window, for the community to see.

This week we talked more about healthy eating choices. We learned about different vegetables and fruit, and how we should be eating a balance meal, so treats are okay, but only a little bit at a time. We had a race to 100 this week with our healthy eating habits, it was a close race, but healthy eating won!

We also made V is for veggies and W is for watermelon art. I know the V has some fruit on it… We ran out of vegetable cut outs…

We also worked on our family booklets, with almost everyone finishing up their homework. We only have one more page to complete before we share our families with the rest of the class.

We started our independent writing journals, by using our sounding out powers to spell words independently. At first there was a lot of uncertainty, but after some experimentation, many of the students persevered. We will be doing more journal and independent writing in the next few weeks.

We started officially looking into shapes this week, talking about the properties of each, and where we see them in real life.

Friday was 100’s day! 100 days in school, and to celebrate we worked on many 100 day activities. We made h is for hundred, gluing 100 pieces of paper into an h in groups of 10 (so much work). We also made 100 day crowns, and worked on 100 day mazes. During our Friday hustle, the other K teachers led the school through 100 exercises, it was a lot of work.

As we are halfway through our kindness month, our class has started the 100 acts of kindness board, open to all K students, to show all of the kind acts that happen in our class. Lots of swing sharing going on. We will see if we manage to get 100 before Pink shirt day.

A field trip form went home today about a trip to Gokdstream park, for some nature exploration and bannock bbq. It will give us a chance to learn more about the natural world around us, as well as experience some traditional aboriginal food. Should be a fun time, as long as it doesn’t rain too much.

Have a good weekend, and see you Monday.

Hello!

We have 2 new students, one last week and one on Wednesday. Although we also lost one who moved into the interior. Lots of change.

We worked on the letters o, u, l, f, and b this week, spelling words like fit, bun, ect. Next week we will start looking at specific two letter sounds, and practice more writing.

Our class made g is for giraffe and g is for fish art.

We have started looking at simple addition into what makes 5. We started making block towers of 5 using two colours, most make pattern towers which showed 3 + 2 = 5.

We have been learning so much about penguins, next week we will display our learning for the school to see in the hallway.

On Friday we learned about groundhogs day! We made weather predictors to show whether we believe the groundhog will see its shadow and hide for 6 more weeks of winter, or come out in the clouds to start foraging in the spring.

Next week we will look into Chinese New year, finish up our penguin work, discuss family differences and tranditions, and work on Valentine enveloped with our big buddies.

Speaking of Valentine’s day, I will be sending home a list of names in the class. If you choose to send cards, make sure everyone gets one.

Should be a fun week ahead, hope you have a good weekend and see you Monday.