Field trip tomorrow

I kept hoping if I waited the weather forecast would change and say sunshine tomorrow, but alas it has not.   When dressing your child rubber boots and a raincoat is a safer and easier option than umbrellas (nothing extra to carry and less eyes being poked). Please pack your child's regular snack.  Volunteers, see you tomorrow!!!

School Based May Newsletter

Birds

We have been working on many different activities.  Our theme based circle activity has included reading a book by Joanne Oppenheim and Barbara Reid. 

We have been listing the names of some of the birds from the book with a focus on the first sound in the bird's name and the distinguishing visual features of the bird.

We played a matching game using bird pictures. 

This week we are making our favourite birds.  Looking at the pictures of birds to discover their colours. 



Authentic Writing Opportunity

I received this note in the notetotes the other day and couldn't resist sharing.  It was such a great opportunity for authentic writing.  Other ideas to get your kinder kid writing would be adding things to the grocery list, making a to-do list, thank-you cards. Thanks Zack and family for allowing me to share.

Writing Centre

While cruising kindergarten blogs I discovered a great activity that has been added to our writing centre.  It is also an activity that can be done easily at home.  We have been looking through old magazines and cutting out pictures that catch our eye.  Next, we write a sentence to describe or tell about the picture.  Some students are even creating their own "stories" about the picture.  It is an activity that can tell you so much about your child's literacy development.   Some children are writing word wall words and using "stretchy the word snake" (ask your child about stretching out words).  Other children are writing random letters, and in doing so are demonstrating that they know that letters represent the meaning and the message and that we write left to right.  Oh, the little things kids do can show us so much!!

Kindergarten Concert

The kindergarten classes would like to invite you to an evening of song and dance Wednesday May 16th, at 6:30pm.  

Dinosaurs and Shapes

Friday afternoon I realised I had returned home without taking any pictures of our work for the week!!  So here it is.

We began reviewing what we know about shapes.  We have been making a class anchor chart (a chart made by the students, for the students to refer to) dealing with 2D shapes (names, # of lines, and # of angles).

We made shape dinosaurs as a follow up activity.  After Easter, we will, with our buddies, count and graph the shapes we used (and quantity) when making our dinosaurs.  As you can also see we have been patterning with shapes during Math Centre time as well.



We also made fossils using modelling clay and dinosaur toys.