2020-2021 Kindergarten

We will be going outside for phys. ed this week so please dress for the weather (hats, screenscreen-please apply prior to coming to school) Today we practiced writing familiar words and labelling our ideas with beginning letter sounds. We used a spring picture to help us get ideas as we begin writing stories.  We continued to look at adding two groups of numbers together and played a dice addition game.  We had music, centers and gym.  NO school Friday as it is a PD day.  We are asking if each child can bring in a clean plastic lid (yogurt, sour cream, cream cheese, hummus etc.) for an upcoming plasticine art project. Please label the lid with your child's name. All lids need to be at school by Wednesday June 9.  Thank you :) I see butterflies, trees, sun, nature, flowers, grass. I see butterflies. I like flowers. I can play. I see fences. I like to play. 

 Today was a great day at school!  We went for a walk in the community/coulee to see Waterfall Valley, Cattail River and Teepee Forest.  If you are out exploring this weekend, ask your child to show you where these special spots are.   It was fun to eat our snack in the coulee on the path too!  We sat by the pond watching the ducks swim. We even found a teepee that we spent a few minutes exploring.   When we made it to teepee forest we took some time to work in our journals.  We completed the sentence "In the coulee I see ..." by drawing pictures of things we had seen on our walk.  We saw leaves, flowers, bushes, trees, birds, rocks, a pond and so many more interesting things.  After our drawings were complete we used watercolors to paint our picutres. Back at school we continued practicing writing math sentences.  We continue to work on making sure our numbers are facing the right direction.  We had centers and more snack for those that were still hungry. We had a fire drill

Tomorrow is AM Kindergarten.  We will be going on a community walk.  Please make sure your child has comfortable walking shoes and is dressed for the weather.  Please pack your child with a small pocket sized snack that your child can carry with them to eat in the middle of our walk.  We will have additional time back at school for more snacking if needed. We had music and library today.  If you have not returned your coloured folders that were sent home prior to online learning, please return them ASAP.  We would like everyone to get new home reading books on Monday.  Thanks! We practiced writing numbers 1-10 focusing on printing them from the top to bottom and watching for reversals. Practice writing or making numbers at home by using chalk, paint, playdough, loose parts or nature items.  We worked on math problems today.  We talked about strategies to help us solve problems, such as drawing pictures, using our fingers to count, using counters or a number line.  We practiced writing

 We looked at the letter T and made trees out of the letter. We practiced writing the letter T and talked about the sound it makes. Can you find items at home that start with Tt? Listen to  Jolly Phonics letter t song We read  We are the Gardeners  and talked about gardens and what they need to grow. We used the painted paper we made yesterday and made flowers to make our very own Kinder-garden.  We practiced making addition sentences and used objects to help us count out the items.  We had gym and practiced our basketball dribbling.  Friday is AM kindergarten.

Welcome back to school!  We were very excited to see each other this morning after our couple of weeks at home. Today we worked in our personal journals.  We are getting very good at labeling our pictures with the beginning sounds we hear, using the word wall to copy print and trying to write a sentence to go with our picture. We worked on simple addition sentences today using manipulatives to count out the answer.  We tried writing the math equations in our journals. Please check out www.abcya.com for  Molly Adds Up to 10  for additional adding practice. We talked about the strategies we use to help us find the sum. Ask your child what strategies they can use to solve a problem. We continued to investigate our author/illustrator study of Eric Carle.  Today we made our own paper like Eric Carle does.  We used paint and objects to stamp paper.  We were surprised to learn that we could paint a whole sheet of paper without using a paint brush.  Please ask your child what materials they pa

Have a fabulous long weekend!  There is no school Friday May 21 (PD Day) and Monday May 24 (Victoria Day). Mrs. Conley  MUSIC 9:30-10:00am Google Meet code: EHSmusic 10:10 - 10:40am OR Google meet code: conleykindergarten 10:45-11:15 am Google meet code: conleykindergarten MASK (AM) MUSIC - 9:00-9:30 Google Meet code: EHSmusic 9:45-10:15am OR Google Meet code: maskkindergarten 10:30-11:00am Google meet code: maskkindergarten MASK (PM) MUSIC 12:15-12:45 Google Meet code: EHSmusic 1:00-1:30pm OR Google meet code: maskkindergarten 1:45-2:15pm Google meet code: maskkindergarten Please check out Mr. Der's phys ed blog  http://ehsphysicaleducation.blogspot.com/ Math Materials: chalk and dice Build your own Snakes and Ladders Game. Once the game board is created. You will use yourself as the game pieces and move that number of spaces after rolling a die. If you land on a ladder you may go up the ladder. If you land on a snake you must go all the way down the snake. The first player to get

 Pl ease have your child bring 12 objects to use as counters for a math activity. You can use items such as coins, blocks, buttons etc.***              TODAY IS BEACH DAY! Wear your favourite summer attire and hat to the meet! Mrs. Conley's AM Schedule 9:00-9:20am Attendance & storytime Google meet code: conleykindergarten 9:45-10:15am OR Google meet code: conleykindergarten 10:30-11:00am Google meet code: conleykindergarten Mrs. Mask's AM Schedule 9:00-9:20am Attendance & storytime Google meet code: maskkindergarten 9:45-10:15am OR Google meet code: maskkindergarten 10:30-11:00am Google meet code: maskkindergarten Mrs. Mask's PM Schedule 12:25-12:45 Attendance & storytime Google meet code : maskkindergarten 1:00-1:30pm OR Google meet code: maskkindergarten 1:45-2:15pm  Google meet code: maskkindergarten Please check out Mr. Der's phys ed blog  http://ehsphysicaleducation.blogspot.com/ Math : Count the Fridge Materials:  blue math journal, pencil, pencil cra

Mrs. Conley's AM Schedule 9:00-9:20am Attendance & storytime Google meet code: conleykindergarten 9:45-10:15am OR Google meet code: conleykindergarten 10:30-11:00am Google meet code: conleykindergarten Mrs. Mask's AM Schedule 9:00-9:20am Attendance & storytime Google meet code: maskkindergarten 9:45-10:15am OR Google meet code: maskkindergarten 10:30-11:00am Google meet code: maskkindergarten Mrs. Mask's PM Schedule 12:25-12:45 Attendance & storytime Google meet code : maskkindergarten 1:00-1:30pm OR Google meet code: maskkindergarten 1:45-2:15pm  Google meet code: maskkindergarten  *** For tomorrow's meet please have your child bring 12 objects to use as counters for a math activity. You can use items such as coins, blocks, buttons etc.*** Math:  Superhero Sums of 10 Materials  - blue math journal or piece of paper, pencil, manipulatives (buttons, tokens, gems, rocks, pom poms, etc) Count the number of blue dots first and print the number. Next, count the n

Mrs. Conley  MUSIC 9:30-10:00am Google Meet code: EHSmusic 10:10 - 10:40am OR Google meet code: conleykindergarten 10:45-11:15 am Google meet code: conleykindergarten MASK (AM) MUSIC - 9:00-9:30 Google Meet code: EHSmusic 9:45-10:15am OR Google Meet code: maskkindergarten 10:30-11:00am Google meet code: maskkindergarten MASK (PM) MUSIC 12:15-12:45 Google Meet code: EHSmusic 1:00-1:30pm OR Google meet code: maskkindergarten 1:45-2:15pm Google meet code: maskkindergarten We will be continuing to look at books by Eric Carle this week. Check out Eric Carle's Website  https://eric-carle.com/ For additional read alouds listen to:    Tumblebooks Math Materials: Deck of Cards Make Ten The ability to make a ten out of the numbers is a math skill that will help your child with addition and subtraction. Set out cards and take away all of the Jacks, Queens, Kings and Jokers.  Place the deck face down and hand out 5 cards to each player. Place your cards face up and have your child try and crea