Friday, December 18th

Thank you to all our families for joining us for such a wonderful week of festivities!
We are truly blessed at Dr. Coffin to have so many volunteers!
Monday, January 4th - Letter M - Yafet, Ashton,Trinity and Jack
Perhaps, I will see some of you out shopping or at one of our ski resorts over the holidays.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Thursday, December 17

We had so much fun crafting, beading and decorating our cookies today! What a wonderful party and a very warm thank you to our volunteers who prepped our craft, brought in our party food and cookies and joined us at our party!
Tomorrow, is our F.A.F. Winter Sports Day so don't forget to dress your child for the weather. We will be outside for most of the morning participating in many fun winter games. We do have two indoor stations, the favorite will likely be the Hot Chocolate station!
HO HO HO!

Monday, December 14th

We enjoyed a great morning of letter 'r", patterning, music, gym and big centers.
Library Books are due tomorrow. We have quite a few students who have not returned their books.
Tomorrow morning we are caroling and you are welcome to join us. Also, we have planned a fun craft with our buddies in the portable.
If you are available, we could use a volunteer for Beading on Wednesday and a second volunteer for our Winter Sports Day on Friday.
Your support is always appreciated!

Friday, December 11

For Monday, December 14 our letter of the week is R

Payton, Justin and Lily please bring in your letter R sharing object.

FAF ABC Scavenger Hunt

Candy House Picture

Here's one more picture.

Candy Houses

We had soooo much fun this morning! This is an excellent activity for fine motor skills, following directions, sharing, cooperation and planning your decorations. 

Wednesday, December 9

Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, our candy houses are built and ready for decorating tomorrow.
Please send in your decorations for our candy houses tomorrow.
Also, our volunteers were very busy assisting us with painting our Christmas Trees and making our Christmas cards.
Tomorrow, we are reading winter and festive stories with our buddies. You are welcome to send a book to school that your child can read with their buddy. Please make sure that your book has your name on it. Our buddies are also bringing in some books to share and we do have lots of books in the classroom.
If possible, we could use a volunteer this week for  F.A.F. please.

Festive Activities

Please check yesterday's blog for important information about our festive activities.
We could really use a second volunteer for Thursday December 10 for candy house decorating and a volunteer for F.A.F. on December 11th.
If you are having trouble logging on to our google calendar then please let either Cassie or myself know via email.
Thank you!
Lisa
lawilkens@cbe.ab.ca

Christmas Activities

• Treat day tomorrow so please bring your quarters!
• On Thursday, December 10th we will be decorating graham cracker, candy houses. Due to allergies, we are asking each family to send a SMALL, labeled bag of assorted candies, cereal, raisins etc for your own child to use. Kindergarten will provide the plates, graham crackers and special icing. I have a few decorations to share such as mini marshmallows (snow), mini candy canes and Smarties.
• On Thursday, December 17th we are having our Winter Party. On party day, please do not send a snack or drink to school. The students will be provided with a healthy snack, drink and craft activity to enjoy. In addition we are having a Tinsel Day, so please feel free to dress or accessorize in something sparkly!
• Thank you parent volunteers for sending in play dough!

Thursday, December 3

Monday, December 7th - Letter H - Reid, Salah, Jasper and Max

Wednesday, December 2

Please check yesterday's blog for important information about school photos.
Today, we worked on a journal entry. Most students used the 'I went to' sentence starter. Many students are beginning to make connections between their knowledge of letters and the sounds that they make in their writing of letter strings and words.

Tuesday, December 1

Today, I introduced Kindergarten to Mathletics. On Thursday, our room 4 buddies will assist us with logging on to Mathletics and creating their avatar. We need some tme to practice using Mathletics at school and then your passwords for Mathletics will be sent home.
The date for our Kindergarten class party has been rescheduled for Thursday, December 17. We are in the process of planning a fun F.A.F school event for Friday, December 18.

Messages from Mrs. Rennie:

Yesterday the office provided you with your students photos.  Many of these photos were the actual photos that parents ordered for their children while several of the photos were a result of the recent retakes.  Can you please have students tell their parents that the deadline to return their orders for photos based on their retakes is this Friday, December 4.  They can also order photos and pay online at Lifetouch’s website that is noted on the order form.

Green forms regarding the Festive Evening are due next Monday.

Friday, November 27th

Your child has received a notice (specially made for our Kindergarten students) from our grade 6 students about the sale of 'Frozen' Rafiki bracelets. Please send your orders in with the correct payment in a ziplock bag or an envelope. In order to qualify for 'free' delivery of the bracelets your orders must be returned to school by this Monday, November 30th. Your support is appreciated!
Monday November 30th - Letter E  - Sharing object - Solomon, Shawn, Addison, Mika
Next Friday, December 4th is a non - instruction day for the teachers to meet for some Proffesional Development. No classes for students!

November 26th - Crazy Day!

Wow what a Fun and Crazy Day! Crazy Hair Day and Fun Lunch for Kindergarten. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers!
Please check in tomorrow to learn about a new bracelet fundraiser.

Wednesday, November 25

This week we have some grade 12 students from Sir Winston Churchhill High School teaching us Physical Education.
Tomorrow is Fun Lunch! If you did not order a Fun Lunch for your child you are welcome to send in a lunch for them. Pick up is at 12:15 pm tommorow.
Also, it is Crazy Hair Day tomorrow!

Friday, November 20

Thank you parents and students for joining us for our Face to Face conferences. All of students are demonstrating their willingness to learn and explore the world around us.
Next week we are learning about the letter Kk.
On Monday Nov. 23rd - Letter K - Katie, Bill, Tessa and Bill are sharing their letter objects.
Also we have a special object coming in for the 'c' sound from Reid.

Fun Lunch Reminder

Hello Parents,

The last day to bring in order forms and money for the FUN LUNCH is Thursday, November 19th this week.  As there is no school on Friday, the Fun Lunch organizers will not be able to collect any late FUN LUNCH orders after Thursday; therefore, children who have not brought in their order forms and payment will have to bring something from home for this next FUN LUNCH.

Our Fun Lunch is on Thursday, November 26 and pick up for Kindergarten students is 12:15pm.

November 15

Just a reminder for our letter of the week sharing for tomorrow

o   November 16           letter C/K       - Yafet, Ashton, Trinity, Jack

Fun Lunch Orders

Please look in your child's back packs for their fun lunch order form. All orders are due by November 19th. Please ennsure that your order form and money/cheques are in either an envelope or a zip lock bag. Otherwise everyones orders and payment can get mixed up!
Tomorrow is FAF, so please dress for the weather for our walk through Whispering Woods. The wooded area are snowy.

Remembrance Day

I hope you had restful and thoughtful day. Tomorrow, is our first day of Bollywood Dancing. This should be a lot of fun! We are looking for a few more batches of play dough. So far we have some blue play dough for which we are grateful for.

FAF Nov. 6

For FAF we took lots of pictures of tall and short trees. We discovered our Aspen trees in Whispering
Woods. Did you know that there is a mother Aspen tree with her daughters or seedlings? We have some research to do about Aspen trees!
Letter of the week -  Monday, November 9 letter N - Leo, Payton, Justin and Lily
Please bring in an object to share that starts with the letter N  

November 5

Kindergarten is preparing for our FAF activity tomorrow. I have asked our students to practice taking pictures with an ipad at home. If they dont have an ipad or time this evening no worries as we will be practicing taking pictures at school as well. A letter was sent home today about our Ever Active School visitors. Please read over this form and return it tomorrow morning.
Dont forget to dress for the weather tomorow as we will be outdoors for quite awhile.
In addition, we could use some colorful play dough. If you could make some for us we would greatly appreciate it.We will need enough play dough for 4 to 6 students.

Tuesday, November 3

This week, we are learning all about the letter Pp. We are trying to remember to always start our letters from the top. Our pictures of things that start with the letter P are getiing quite detailed and many students are sounding out their own letter P words. Please take a few minutes to read your child's letter P booklets.

In addition,
we are collecting food for the Calgary Food Bank. Our grade 5/6 students are organizing this school wide innitiative. The class that brings in the most donations will receive the 'Supercan' award. Let's see if Kindergarten can support this very worthwhile cause!

Halloween Party

We enjoyed a great party! Thank you volunteers for assisting in the classroom and sending in our party food.
Monday, November 2 - letter P - Reid, Salah, Jasper and Max

Pumpkin Carving

Please remember to wear your costume for our Pumpkin party to school tomorrow. As we have lots of great food for our party, you do not need to send a snack to school.

Today, we sequenced the story Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington. Everyone cut out six pictures, and glued them in sequence for how a pumpkin seed grows into a big pumpkin. 

 

Monday, October 26th

Letter of the Week - Ii
Please remember to wear your costume to school this Thursday, for our Pumpkin Party!
PD Day this Friday October 30th, so no school for students.

Pumpkin Party

On Thursday, October 29th the Kindergarten class will be having a Pumpkin Party. We have some exciting pumpkin activities planned for our special day. This year, our students will be decorating a cookie and enjoying some healthy, party food. Students are welcome to come in costume, but please keep it practical for the school environment. No weapons of any sort, please!

October 23

This week we carved a two pumpkins for our class Jack-o'-lanterns. As we worked we discussed shapes and the parts of a pumpkin. Today, we labeled the parts of a pumpkin and I am so impressed with everyone's growing innitial letter sounds! For snack we enjoyed some yummy pumkin seeds that Joanne our parent volunteer made for us. Our snack lead right into our story about seeds and our search for seeds outside. Everyone was able to find seeds, which we collected for further study in the classroom. We finished off our FAF with some time on the playground, which was a lot of fun!

This week letter T

Today, we shared our objects that started with the letter 'T'.  Next we learned how to draw pictures of our letter 'T' objects and sounded out the words so that we could print them. Our printing practice for letter formation went well.
Always start your letter from the top!
Tomorrow is Treat Day, so please remember to bring your 25 cents.

October 16th

Fabulaous morning!
Great time at Big Centers!
We had a lesson at the amphlitheater in Whispering Woods about weeds. Tessa from the Calgary Zoo taught us how to identify weeds and how to dig them up and pull them out. Everyone did a great job of identifying weeds and digging them out. We put them in a composting bag.

Our First Fire Drill!

We had our first fire drill today! We did an excellent job of lining up quietly (despite the very loud alarm) and lining up to walk outside to our meeting place. 

Computer class is going well where we are getting better at logging off and on our desktop computers. We have our assigned computers in the learning commons.  Star fall is a fun way to practice our literacy and numeracy skills. Our buddies from the portable and room four are very helpful in helping us to learn how to use a desk top computer.

Today we received our own mini backpacks and mugs for our FAF's! A big than you to our Dr. Coffin parent council for sponsoring this fantastic idea for our adventures outside!

FAF October 9th

We went outside on a scavenger hunt. We were looking for fall artifacts. We found prickly bushes and plants, crabapples, pinecones and colorful leaves. Some leaves were still green.
We ran outside on the field and then we had snack.
Finally we enjoyed exploring some new 'big centers' such as Home Living and trains.
Happy Thanksgiving!

October 8, 2015

We have an enjoyed a great week of getting into our 'Letter of the Week' routine.  Our first Fun Lunch is on Thursday, October 22. Kindergarten students who are staying at school for Fun Lunch will need to be picked up at the kindergarten door at 12:15 pm. Today, we gave each student their Fun Lunch order form. Please ensure that your son/daughter returns their order in a labelled envelope or that the money is attached to the order by October 16th. Your son/daughter is more than welcome to bring their own lunch on Fun Lunch day as an alternative to the pizza lunch.
Tomorrow is F.A.F. so please dress for the weather.

October 2 Fresh Air Friday

Today, Kindergarten really enjoyed their time outside! We followed up our lesson from yesterday about the parts of a tree. We looked at the trees outside and identified their roots, trunk, branches, leaves/needles, bark and fruit (pine cones and crab apples). Next we sketched the Ornamental Crab Tree at the front of our school. Our students sketched excellent, detailed pictures of our tree!

Our Terry Fox run was a great success! Kindergarten ran 190 laps which contributed to the Dr. Coffin's total laps.
1058!
To date we have raised $1500.00. We are getting close to our goal of 2015.00. Donations will be collected until Friday, October 2nd.

Thank you to all of our helpers!

Tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday or FAF so please dress for the weather. Kindergarten has just started our study of Trees. Let's see what we learn about our trees in our outdoor spaces. Please note that we are not venturing into Whispering Woods as we are trying to avoid the wasps in the area.

Terry Fox Run

Terry Fox
Dear Parents,
Kindergarten is preparing for Dr. Coffin's Terry Fox. Everyday,  we practice running around the field so that we will be ready for the big day on Wednesday, October 30th. Please ensure that you son or daughter is wearing appropriate clothes for the weather and running shoes that do not fall off as they speed around the field! Here is the link.

http://terryfox.org/

Sept 22 -Drawing

We are learning to draw our whole body and face with shapes and details. Today, I was very impressed with their drawing skills. We had our first library class and your son/daughter checked out either one or two books. Library books are due back at school by Monday. We also met our buddies from the portable and shared a story with each other.
Tomorrow, we are going outside to practice our Terry Fox Run on the school field. Please dress for the weather!

Fresh Air Friday was a lot of fun! We enjoyed centers outside in the sun circle. Our centers were bubbles, chalk drawing and looking for shapes. We took pictures of shapes to add to our shape sort.
Everyone was very happy to play in our 'BIG' centers. We are getting better at choosing a center and making new friends.

Welcome to our blog. Today, we sorted our 'Fresh Air Friday' shape pictures.
Tomorrow, we are meeting Mrs. Kidd our librarian. We are very excited to learn how to choose library books and check them out.