January 25 to 29

Monday, January 25 - Letter O - Reid, Salah, Jasper, Max

• Gymnastic Physical Education Unit Begins as well.

• During the next three weeks, please ensure that your son/daughter is dressed in loose clothing appropriate for our gymnastics unit. For safety reasons, students will be asked to go barefoot and jewelry will be put in their mail or in my basket. We would appreciate it if the girls NOT wear tights, unless of course if the tights are footless J

Tuesday, January 26  

• Mrs. Wilkens away to attend a workshop, substitute in to teach class
• Black or white day
• Library books due
• Music
• Computers

Wednesday, January 27

• Mrs Gummo storyteller 8:45 AM to 9:30 AM
• Library

Thursday, January 28

• Music
• Computers

Friday, January 29

• FAF - Mrs. Gummo 10:40 AM to 11:20 AM
• Parent Volunteer would be appreiated

Monday January 18th

Reminders:
Tomorrow is wear Blue or Green Day
Wednesday, January 20th  - 8:45 to 9:30 AM Mrs. Gummo writing residency with Kindergarten
Thursday, January 21st  -  Fun Lunch - 12:15 PM pick up time
Friday, January 22nd - Fresh Air Friday - Dress for the weather and we could use a volunteer for our activity

Friday, January 15

We observed the secrets and treasures that Whispering Woods shared with us. We heard and saw a bird. There were a lot of rabbit tracks, vole snow tunnels, berries, dried up leaves and seed pods. Afterwards, we drew a picture of what we found so that we can share our findings with Mrs. Gummo.
Next Wednesday,  we will spend some more time with Mrs. Gummo.

Monday, January 18th - Letter G - Solomon, Shawn, Addison and Mika

Our classroom schedule has changed to:
Music on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Library on Wednesdays

Thursday, January 14th

What  A Busy Day!

1. We practiced our letter Dd's in our letter booklets.
2. Checked our Red Wiggler Worms to see if they ate any of the food that we gave them, Sure enough the vegetables were gone but there was some moldy bread that they were still eating. In our LGT journals,  we sketched and labeled our worm box. 
3. With the assistance of our parent volunteer, we planted some cucumbers, tomatoes, basil and peppers. Our seed pucks are right under the grow light, so hopefully we will see some seedlings sprouting soon!
4. We finished our FAF survey with our buddies and had some time to work on Mathletics. 

This week, Mrs. Gummo told us a wonderful story about what we can find in Whispering Woods. We are hoping to find some of the 'things' she talked about in her story. So tomorrow we are going outside to Whispering Woods to see what secrets and treasures we can find to draw and talk about.
Please remember to dress for the weather!

Storytelling with Mrs. Gummo

Monday, January 11

This Tuesday (10:00 - 10:45 AM) and Wednesday (8:45 - 9:30 AM ) Kindergarten will have their first sessions with our Writer in Residence Karen Gummo. We will be doing some detective work in Whispering Woods. We will  dream about yesterday, today and tomorrow when we look at the woods. Our focus will be to engage in stories that we can tell and retell and to draw an image to remember our stories.

Tomorrow is treat day so please remember to send 25 cents to school.

Starting next week, our music classes will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of Mondays and Wednesdays. I'm looking into rescheduling our Library time.  

Friday, January 8

Today, we went on our ABC scavenger hunt outside. Afterwards we enjoyed a hot Chocolate with our snack. Many thanks to our classroom volunteers and our school Hot Chocolate volunteers! Letter of the Week Sharing:
Monday, January 11 - Letter D - Bill, Katie, Tessa, Maria
Please check your child's backpacks for your Fun Lunch orders and your Mathletics passwords.
Please return your Fun Lunch orders in either a envelope or Zip Lock bag labelled with your child's name. This assists us with keeping track of everyone's orders. 
For Mathletics, please complete all of the Kindergarten strands before you move on to grade one.
Enjoy the weekend!

Wednesday, January 6

Today we practiced sounding out and printing three letter words. We used mini white boards to sound out words such as: cat, rat, bat, sat, mat and many more. It would be very helpful if you could practice making more three letter words at home.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I would like to wish everyone a prosperous and healthy 2016!

Today we had library and Mrs. Kidd would appreciate it if you could search for a few missing books. Tomorrow, a note will be sent home listing your child's overdue books. No note means no overdue books! Sometimes, missing books suddenly appear so just let Mrs. Kidd know if you have any questions or need some time to locate them.
Mrs. Kidd
dckidd@cbe.ab.ca

This Friday, we are planning to go outside to finish our Alphabet letter search.  If you are available to volunteer, please sign in on our google calendar or let Cassie or me know. Also, it's planting season in Kindergarten so please sign up during the next two weeks to plant some seeds. We can plant whenever a volunteer is available! More planting opportunities will be available later this month.

Letter of the Week Sharing:
Monday, January 11 - Letter D - Bill, Katie, Tessa, Maria
Monday, January 18 - No Letter of the Week due to Artist in Residence Activities
Monday, January 25 - Letter G - Solomon, Shawn, Addison, Mika

Treat Day is next Tuesday, January 12.