2020-2021 Kindergarten

We had fun seeing everyone dressed up at school today.  We made paint chip halloween monsters. It was fun to see everyone's creativity! We read the story, "The Crankenstein" and  did our very own guided drawings of Frankenstein.  You can watch the story:  Crankenstein We used our "smarts" to do a smartie graphing activity. We each got our own small box of smarties and had to mark on our smarties on the graph how many we had of each colour. Which colour did your child have the most of and least of?   We had music. Ask your child what their favourite Hallowe'en song is.  We had gym with Mr. Der. What game did we play today? Happy Hallowe'en ! If you would like to add some learning fun into Hallowe'en, here are some ideas below to do with your child.  1. Ask your child to sort their candy by size, shape, colour. type etc. 2. Have them count the number of each kind. 3. Have them count the number of pieces of candy in each small box. 4. Identify the le...

We read, "The UnScary Book." Ask your child, what happens with Nicholas Ickle in the story. After discussing the story, we made our own class version of the UnScary Book. We had to draw and write about something that is "unscary". What did your child draw? You can read the story by pressing on the link:  The UnScary Book We had gym with Mr. Der. We are continuing to work on our targeting practice by throwing over and under hand.  We had centers. Where did your child play? We played with our Fall loose parts today.  We use the loose parts to tell stories. Please check out our class versions of The UnScary Book: The UnScary Book- AM Mrs Mask The UnScary Book Mrs. Conley's class The UnScary Book PM Kindergarten PM Kindergarten had Halloween story time with Mrs. Kinsman.  Please ask your child what they listened to. Tomorrow, your child can dress in their Hallowe'en costumes to school. Please no weapons or scary masks. Your child must still wear their mask to sc...

Today we worked on naming the core of our patterns.  We built patterns out of manipulatives and wrote the letters to match the core of the pattern.  For example, pumpkin, cat, pumpkin, cat is an AB pattern. We wrote our first stories today!  Each student was given 2 stickers as a writing prompt.  We then drew pictures to add to our sticker stories.  We tried to label our pictures with the first sound we hear in words. The morning students had Halloween Storytime with Mrs. Kinsman.  Please ask your child what stories they listened to. Kindergarten will be reciting this poem for our Remembrance Day Virtual Assembly.  Please help your child to practice the words at home.  We will be recording ourselves reciting the poem on Monday November 3. Eric Harvie School will celebrate Halloween on Thursday October 29.  All children are invited to wear a costume if they would like.  Please note: students must still wear their masks.  Costume mask...

Today we started learning about Remembrance Day.  We used red and black paint and sponges to sponge paint a poppy. We had gym and music today.  Please ask your child what they did with Mr. Der and Mrs. Coulson. We continue to work on patterning at school.  We are learning to label the core of the pattern using letters, for example an AB pattern or an ABC pattern.  Challenge your child to find a pattern at home and ask them to name the core of the pattern.  Here is a fun math pattern game to play online. GeoPatterns Kindergarten will be reciting this poem for our Remembrance Day Virtual Assembly.  Please help your child to practice the words at home.  We will be recording ourselves reciting the poem on Monday November 3. Eric Harvie School will celebrate Halloween on Thursday October 29.  All children are invited to wear a costume if they would like.  Please note: students must still wear their masks.  Costume mask can not replace their u...