Remembrance Day Assembly Friday

Organizers of the school-wide Remembrance Day assembly are asking that students dress in red in support of the troops.  This week we will be making poppies for our class wreath. 

Catching Up

The next few posts will be catching everyone up on what we have been doing the past two weeks.  Sorry about the delay in getting these entries online. 

For this shared reading poem we read and chanted the poem for several days.

A Turkey is a funny bird.
Watch him wobble, wobble
All he knows is just one word
Gooble, gobble, gobble!


We discussed the difference between letters and words.  One way I help the students to remember the difference, capitalizing on a favourite meal of many kindergarteners....spaghetti and meatballs.  The spaces between letters within a word are "spaghetti" spaces (skinny), a new word starts at a "meatball" space.  We use popsicle sticks with pom poms to help discover which spaces are,in-fact, meatballs. 

During centre time students were invited to use wikki sticks to put circles around letters in the poem. 

When reading with your child at night see if they can locate letters they know and look for "meatball" spaces too!

Name Songs and Poems

In an effort to get  to know each other and as an introduction to shared reading we have, and will be reading, chanting and singing the following poems.  Try reading or singing some of them with your child at home.

Owl in the Tree is sung to the tune, Skip to My Lou

Wiggelty, wiggelty, bumblebee who can say their name for me?

(child says name)

let's all say it (name)

Let's clap and say it (name)

Let's whisper it (name)

What is your Name?
(Hush Little Baby)


What is your name? I'd like to know.

What is your name? I'd like to know.

Please won't you tell me before I go?

What is your name? I'd like to know.