Ruth King Kindergarten Div 12

Hello!

And we are back in action this week. Hope everyone had a good holiday, I slept for most of it.

We started back with our letters this week, using the jolly phonics order of s, a, t, i, and p this week. We have also started practicing creating and spelling small words, such as at, it, sat, pit, ect.

With our numbers we have started focusing on specific numbers, this week 1 and 2, what they look like and how we can represent them in different ways.

We have started learning about ourselves and our families this week. We learned to draw a picture of our faces, and drew pictures of our favourite food, colour, thing, and what we want to be when we grow up. Lots of future chefs in our class.

We have also started playing catch up with our letter art, this week was “s is for snake” and “i is for insect”.

We worked on some more soccer skills this week in gym, I am thinking we will start throwing skills next week.

Next week we will look more into families, the similarities and differences between them, and even try to draw our families.

There will be a notice going home next week about a hearing and vision check at the school at the end of January, so be on the look out for it, as well as pizza forms.

Hope you had a good weekend, and see you on Monday.

Hello!

With the countdown to the winter break on, we have been very busy finishing up our work.

We raced through our letter of the day this week, working on s, t, u, v, and w.

In math, we worked on numbers 1 to 6, reviewing to draw, write, and tally them. We also learned how to jump using a number line, as well as how to break a number into two smaller numbers.

We also made paper chain patterns! A classic craft for the holidays.

We finished off our investigation into owls, with completing our KWL, and sharing what we have learned.

Each student also shared their own learning, and combined it with their chalk art drawing of an owl. They are currently displayed in the hall.

The main takeaway seemed to be that owls can’t move their eyes, only their heads, and that they use talons to grab things.

During centers this week every student was given the chance to make an ornament craft. They will be coming home next week in a bundle.

Next week we will be going on two field trips. A short walking one to the m’akola housing center on Tuesday to work on a craft with some of the residents, and a skating trip on Thursday.

A reminder about the skating trip: every child must bring a helmet to wear.

Also next Friday we will be having a school wide PJ day and pancake breakfast, should be a lot of fun!

Have a good weekend and see you Monday.

Hello!

Finally a full week! Feels like we haven’t had one of those in a while.

We worked on the letters K, L, M, N, and O. Trying to get through the rest of the alphabet before the holiday break.

We worked more on our numbers 1 to 5, and began practicing our math station rotation. Here are some of the stations we practiced this week.

We started looking into owls this week, listing what we know and what we want to learn as a class.

We also drew our own owls! They copied my example from the board.

To get ready for the holiday season we have started colouring some colour by number pictures. I will post a picture next week. So far they have been pretty good about recognising the number, though I feel they dislike my high expectations of no white spots.

On Friday we performed our first science experiment: Will it sink or float! The students had to first think about the object and make a hypothesis about the outcome. After their initial prediction, they were able to hold the object, and see whether their prediction changed. It was a lot of fun, and so much excitement. Here were some results.

Next week is another short one, with Monday off. Thursday is our winter concert. I will send out instructions Wednesday about the show, and how the evening show works. Tuesday I will send out some field trip notices for our last week of December. Also if you want November or December scholastic book orders, order soon because shipping takes about 2 weeks.

Have a good weekend and see you Tuesday.

Hello!

A short week this week with Remembrance Day on Monday, and a TTOC on Tuesday. Lots of students sick this week as well.

We worked on the letters E, F, and G, and started making funny sentences with our words.

We spent more time this week with writing and drawing numbers 1 to 10. We will continue practicing what 1 to 10 looks like until the winter break. We also started collecting and sorting shapes to help show off our numbers.

Baby Tyson came for another visit on Wednesday, we saw how much he has grown and learned so far since his last visit.

We finished our discussion about the seasonal changes that have been occuring this last month. We created some artistic paintings and leave rubbing to showcase our learning. They are on display outside our room in the hallway.

Next week is our patent teacher interview on Thursday. I have sent home notices indicating which time each caregiver has been assigned. If there are any questions, let me know. Friday will be a Pro D day.

Have a good weekend, and see you on Monday.

Happy Halloween!

We finished our first round of letters this week, with x, y, and q. Next week we will start again using the ABC order and a new work book.

We dive into counting and numbers to 10 this week with our number stews. Each stew had a recipe card that students had to follow. There was a witch stew, a colour stew, and a nature stew.

We also learned a few math game, such as roll to 30, and war.

On Tuesday we made some spooky ghosts to take home. Everyone cut their own face out, added to their individual ghost.

On Halloween, we played a new gym game called Trick or treat haunted house. Students had to sneak inside the haunted house zone to steal a candy, if they were slow, they would be caught by a monster.

We also learned to play Halloween bingo. It took them a while to understand what a full line is, but eventually they got it.

On Thursday we wrote in our journals about what we did in Halloween. Sounds like everyone had a fun time.

On Friday we learned about remembrance day, and why we wear poppies. Out big buddy class came down, and we created poppy wreaths for each class. They are displayed at the front of the school. Ours is the green one, and the others is our buddy class.

Next week we will be practicing a remembrance day poem for our assembly on Friday. We will also start looking at the weather changes, and Autumn leave colours.

Have a good weekend, and see you Monday.