Hello everyone! Happy October! Our apologies for not posting before now. September in Kindergarten is extremely busy and hectic. Then add Covid-19 on top of the usual frenzy and time gets away from us. :) 

We have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know our new Kindergarten kiddos these past few weeks. We know how important this first year of school is in setting up a good foundation and a positive mindset for the learning years.

As you noticed, home learning packets were sent home last week. These packets are ONLY to be used in the event schools are closed due to Covid-19. If that happens, we will be posting daily on our individual teacher pages to let you know what items you will need to use.

So far this year, we have learned about bus safety, playground safety, fire safety, and lockdown procedures. We have worked on name recognition and printing, the introduction of the alphabet and colours. In Math, we have introduced sorting, patterns and number sense.

Starting this week, we will introduce two letters per week.  Students will be practicing alphabet activities both at home and school. In Math, we will begin learning about numbers starting with zero.

We hope to update our teacher pages on a weekly basis. Please check our individual teacher pages for pictures of what we have been learning and activities or websites you can check out with your child.

Please feel free to email us with any questions or concerns.

Happy learning!

MAA Kindergarten Teachers

Hello everyone!

I hope you are getting a chance to get outside and enjoy this beautiful May weather! Remember to put on some sunscreen. :)

This week's new sight words are: your, all, away, back

This week I am taking part in the Virtual Olympics with my sons.  Wow, are they competitive!  We are having lots of fun.

I will be calling this week for my weekly check-in. I am looking forward to chatting with you.

Ms. Lawlor

Mrs. Cameron kindly shared her note to her class this week with me to share with you. 

Sight Words

This week for our sight words let’s look at List 13 words –

day, down, into, looking.  

These words can be added to your campfire notebooks. There are some ways to practice your site words on the sight word choice board- posted earlier. Stay tuned for a photo gallery of fun ways & ideas to learn your sight words.

Reading

Hopefully, you are enjoying the Raz Kids reading site- just a reminder that you can listen to the stories by clicking the headphones or read the book yourself by clicking the book icon.

Math
On the grid this week there is a “Shape tap” game to play as you review 2D shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, rhombus)

Before school switched to Home-Learning we introduced 3D shapes by sorting them. Keep in mind- Kindergartens can name 2D shapes but we are not expected to know the 3D shape names. For example: “A cube” would be referred to “like a box”; "A cylinder” would be “like a can”; "A sphere” would be “like a ball”.

Dear parents,

Our class brought in the most items for Food for Friends last week and we won a pizza party!  We will be having pizza in our classroom on Friday, October 12^th @ 11:30.  If your child does not like pizza please send in something else for lunch. J Please also send a drink and snacks for morning recess.

Thank you!

Ms. Lawlor   

A reminder that tomorrow is library day.  Please return your library book so that you can sign out another book to enjoy for a week.

We now have a total of 71 items for Food for Friends!

This week we are asking students to bring in non-perishable food items to donate. Mr. Henderson announced this morning that the class that brings in the most food items gets a surprise.  We have received 25 items today so we are off to a great start.