Happy Friday!

Our week of learning about pumpkins has come to an end. Our weekly poem taught us about different sizes of pumpkins and helped us to start recognizing words that repeat. We reviewed the letters Mm, Ss, Aa, Rr, Ll, Tt, Ff, Nn, Ll and Tt. We will not be doing new letters next week but will take the week to continue to review the letters we have talked about so far. We sign the song for each letter and learn an action that goes along with it that helps us remember the sound it makes.

We also talked about the number 1 and the number 2. We write the number, create a group of objects showing that number (2 blocks, 1 pencil, 2, leaves, 1 stick, etc.) show the number in tally marks, show the number in pictures (drawing 2 cars or 1 bear, etc.), what the number looks like on a dice as well as what the number looks like written in a word. 

Next week we will be retiring to look at our names and the letters in our names. We will practice printing our names, making our names with clay, rainbow writing our names and going on a letter hunt around the school. We will do a new weekly poem with the topic of how our names make each of us special and unique. 

The following week we will be discussing and learning about Remembrance Day and what that day means to us. I just wanted to give you a heads up in case you wanted to start talking with your child about the day and what it means. 

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the nice weather we are supposed to be having!

Seana Blake

smblake@cbe.ab.ca

 Happy Friday Kindergarten Families!

We have had another great week of learning! Learning about trees and their leaves and what changes happen with trees in the fall. we learned another fall poem and enjoyed creating actions to go along with the words. Make sure to ask your child to sing the poem for you. :) 

Next week we will continue to talk about fall as well as talk about pumpkins and their lifecycle just in time for Halloween next weekend. I will also be sending out a email messenger with more information  about what we will be doing for Halloween at the school.

Also make sure to check your email for one from em over the weekend. I will be sending you an email with your students google classroom login as well as their password. Please make sure to login to their google email and get into our kindergarten online classroom. If you have any issues getting in make sure to send me an email and I can try to troubleshoot with you. 

With all the crazy cold weather we are having, make sure to send your students with the correct clothing for the weather. Jacket, snow pants, hats, mittens or gloves and boots are needed Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday if it is cold and there is snow on the ground. 

If you have any questions, please make sure to email me!

Seana Blake

smblake@cbe.ab.ca

 Happy Friday Kindergarten Families!

We have had a wonderful week in kindergarten! We have been reading books about fall and what is happening to the trees and leaves this time of year. Students have worked hard to read our poem this week and and play at different discovery centers. 

Students worked on asking questions about fall and what is happening to our tree. Next week we will start to find the answer to some of these questions. 

On Fridays, we do not do our discovery centers in our classroom. We use that time to go outside onto the land around our school and play and discover in nature. We have chosen a class tree and like to visit our tree and see the changes happening to it. We play different games and sometimes we do a scavenger hunt to look for different nature items. Each student has a sit spot that we use to sit quietly for a couple of minutes and observe what is around us. We look and listen but remain quiet. We talk about what we observed during that time as a group when we are done. 

We are busy and doing lots of great learning in kindergarten!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Ms. Blake

smblake@cbe.ab.ca

 Happy Tuesday!

I hope you all had a lovely and restful long weekend! Last week we took the week to learn about ladybugs and what they are doing in the fall. We talked about the different colors of lady bugs and where we might find them outside. This week we will be continuing about the changing season and what we are noticing outside. What we see with the trees, how the air feels, what the days are like. 

We will have a new class poem the week called Fall. We will work on reading the poem as well as looking for letters we know, words, repeating words, how many words, reading and pointing with our finger going from left to right. Here is the poem below.

Fall

Fall has red leaves.

Fall has yellow leaves.

Fall has orange leaves.

Fall has brown leaves.

Fall has falling leaves.

Feel free to read this poem with your child. You can look for letters they may know and they could draw pictures of the different colour leaves.

Hopefully the weather will hold up so we can go outside and see the different colors of leaves on the trees. 

Have a wonderful week,

Ms. Blake

smblake@cbe.ab.ca

 Here is the link of the scholastic flyer. 

https://cdn.coverstand.com/63079/674017/dd7bc65fdcd64cd388c5a491d48825403c2108ba.pdf

Have a wonderful weekend!

Seana Blake

 Hi Families!

We have had another wonderful week! This week we have have been taking about Orange Shirt Day and how all children matter. We read the book "My Hear Fills With Happiness" and talked about what makes us happy. Students had some lovely ideas about spending time with family, playing together and holding hands. We also created beautiful pictures about what fills each of their hearts with happiness. These pictures will be going up in the hall show we can share our happiness with the rest of the school.

Today kindergarten and the whole school participated in the Terry Fox Run. We read a book about Terry called "Terry Fox and Me" and then went out onto the field to run just like Terry did. We didn't give up and tried our hardest to run the whole time!

I attaching a link to the October Scholastic flyer in case you are looking for some new books for at home. This is optional for you but it is a great way to get new books at a great price. It also helps me to get new books for our classroom as well. If you decide to order, make sure you use our class code which is RC190682. 

October is off to a great start in kindergarten!

Have a wonderful and restful weekend,

Seana Blake

smblake@cbe.ab.ca