The letter n and trout eggs

Dear Mom and Dad:

Ask me to tell you what animal I drew today with my teachers for our guided drawing for the letter N.

AM kindergarten: We had guest teachers today! Ask me to tell you what we did with Mrs. Southworth and Mrs. Wright.  

PM kindergarten: we sketched our trout eggs today! They have all hatched now. We learned that they are at the stage of their life cycle called Alevin". Ask me to tell you what colour the eggs are.

Question of the day: post on the blog what your favourite activity was today!

Love,

Kindergarten 

Housekeeping:

AM kindergarten has school tomorrow.

There is no school on Monday for all kindergarten. See you ton Tuesday!

Parents we will be having our valentine festivities on Tuesday February 9. If you would like to hand out cards please leave the TO blank and Only write FROM: (your child's name).

Number of students in the AM for each class

Red: 22

Blue: 22

Green: 20

Number of students in the PM for each class

Red: 17

Blue: 19

Green: 19

The letter N

Dear Mom and Dad:

We had literacy groups today! Ask me to tell you who my teacher is. 

I had dance today with Mrs. Janelle!  

We learned that the “N” sound is a nose sound. Ask me to tell you why.

Question of the day: Post on the blog what happens when I make the “N” sound and then plug my nose!

Love,

Kindergarten 

Housekeeping:

Literacy Groups

Dear Mom and Dad:

**Parents, we have a pair of missing girl boots in the PM kindergarten. The student has her name written on the inside. If you could please check your child’s boot to see if they might have taken the wrong pair. Thank you for your help! 

Kindergarten started literacy groups today! I will be working with a teacher 2-3 times a week to work on literacy. Ask me to tell you what I did in my group today! This will really give me a boost with my literacy skills. Some of us are learning our letters, some are looking at sight words and some of us are blending words and reading stories.

We are doing centers in gym. Ask me to tell you what centers I tried out today.

AM kindergarten: we did a sketch of our trout eggs! Ask me to describe what a trout egg looks like.

Question of the day:  Post on the blog what you did in your literacy group today.

Love,

Kindergarten 

Housekeeping:

Good fit goals

Dear Mom and Dad:

Do you know what a good fit goal is? Today we worked with Mrs. Bowles to think about how to make a good fit goal. Ask me to tell you about the different shoes that we looked at. We learned that picking a good fit goal is similar to picking a good fit shoe.  

We talked about purpose and interest as well. If I am going snowshoeing, I would pick the snow shoes, not the high heels! Each shoe has a purpose. We then related this to choosing good fit goals for kindergarten. We also discovered that a goal that I am working on might not fit with another student in my class. Mrs. Bowles tried to wear Mrs. Ly’s shoes and it did not fit her!

We have a new activity in gym! Ask me to tell you about what station I was at today.

Question of the day:  Post on the blog one thing you learned about choosing good fit goals from our good fit goals shoe lesson today!

Love,

Kindergarten 

Housekeeping:

Snow and eggs

Dear Mom and Dad:

Wow we are natural scientists at Ctanston School!

We have 65 new guests in our school! Ask me to tell you about the eggs and what kind of eggs they are. There were about two that have hatched already. We will be monitoring them closely to see if we observe any changes!

Ask me to tell you what happened to our containers of snow! We learned that water comes in 3 different forms. It can be a solid and a liquid as what we have observed. We are investigating what the 3rd property is!

Ask me to tell you what I observed and noticed today about the different containers.

AM: ask me to tell you what we did with Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Southworth.

PM: ask me to tell you about the letter a and what sound it makes!

Question of the day: what do you wonder about the trout eggs?

Love,

Kindergarten

Winter Walk

Dear Mom and Dad:

A HUGE thank you to all of the parent volunteers today for helping us on our walk. We could not have done it without you!

What an exciting day we had today. Our winter walk was fantastic. Ask me to tell you what I was looking for today and some of the winter signs I saw.

We collected some snow and brought it back to the classroom. We learned that we use a thermometer to measure temperature. We learned that when things are cold, the red mercury goes down and when it’s warmer it goes up! We tested this by comparing the temperature when the thermometer was in our snow and when it was out.

We decided to put the containers of snow in 4 different areas.

1)   Classroom 

2)   Outside

3)   Freezer

4)   Fridge

I wonder what will happen to the snow in these different areas!!

Question of the day:  I wonder what will happen to the snow?

Love,

Kindergarten 

Housekeeping:

Please return signed report card envelopes

A is for Apple and guest teachers

Dear Mom and Dad:

We are going on a community winter walk tomorrow! We will be outside for about an hour. Please make sure I am dressed appropriately for the weather tomorrow. Layers work best! Snow pants, winter boots, gloves, scarves, hats, toques etc. 

AM Kindergarten: We practiced looking for A words today. I learned that the letter a is one of 5 vowels. Did you know that it is impossible to spell a word without a vowel?

A is for Apple, a-a apple! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs

A-A ants on my arm! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_aLRtt5VZ4

PM Kindergarten: Ask me to tell you what we did with our guest teachers this afternoon. We also had a new center this afternoon! Ask me to tell you what it was. We also practiced holding a hockey stick and passing a puck today with a partner. 

Question of the day: What was your favorite part of the day? 

Love,

Kindergarten 

Housekeeping:

Community walk tomorrow:

AM 9:00-10:00am

PM 12:30-1:30pm

Please return signed report card envelopes