Hello!
First Things First - I'm going to put some FYI's here for important dates coming up! All of a sudden there is just over four weeks of school left, and I'm not quite sure how that happened! They will be fun but busy weeks, so the following are some highlights to be aware of, specific to Kindergarten parent involvement (for a comprehensive list, check the front page of the Fridge Door!)
Friday, June 3 - Track & Field. You are welcome to come watch!
Saturday, June 4 - Spirit Run
Wednesday, June 15 - Field Trip
Friday, June 17 - Grade 8 Grad. Grade 8's will invite certain Kindergarteners to be their escorts up the aisle - if your child is one of those, invites will be coming soon, and all students prepare a special song together for the graduating class, so plan to be there if you can!
Wednesday, June 22 - Kindergarten Celebration of Learning. I'm so happy to be able to honour all the learning that happens in these foundational years. This Celebration of Learning will be for both JK's and SK's and we hope all parents can attend. Invites will come closer to the date with details, but it will be an afternoon event!
This week, we learned about Skippy the Frog, who tries reading the whole sentence to figure out the tricky word. We will work on applying these strategies for the rest of the school year. We read a book called The Letter Tree by Leo Lionni that showed us that it's not enough to write letters or even words - we need to use those words to say something important! With that as our writing prompt, it was so interesting to see what students wrote! Some wrote about people they love (mommy and daddy were very prevalent!), upcoming exciting events like sleepovers and our class trip, and things that are special in their lives, like playing with a sibling. Some decided the most important thing was to tell me about Jesus!
We also continued our pet project - how do people share knowledge with other people? How will we share our knowledge about picking a good pet? We finished our poster and newspaper article and just have some editing on the video... the students pick up on how to do this amazingly quickly!
We also did some fun exploring with art! I brought in some lilacs and we learned about mixing paint, mixing different shades of purple and green, and looked at how God made lilacs.
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In math we worked on our teens, learning that teens were ten and some number. We also learned a song for it!
We made 30 trains (and found out that the bigger your item the longer your train), and also kept working on our estimating and showing our work skills!
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One other thing we did was plan for a revamp of our house centre, something special for the last month of school. We took suggestions, discussed, voted, and a forest centre won! We made plans today and I will be collecting and buying a few things, but one request that students had was to bring in their costumes from home. So, we are wondering if you can help us out! Due to the heat, non-full body costumes would probably be best.
Thanks!
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