Hello Kindergarten Families,

Welcome to the last full week of school! I know you child is getting excited about summer and having some time off but I want you to know that they are all still working so hard in class each day. 

This week we will be focusing on a few different things. We will be talking about the summer solstice as well as National Indigenous Peoples Day today. We will be celebrating and honouring indigenous people and their contributions to our communities. Please take a few minutes to speak with your child about the different things we did in class. 

For the week we will be continuing to learn about bees and how they are important to our land and in nature. Students will get the chance to learn how to draw a bee and make their own rock bee as well.  We will also learn about how we can protect the bees. 

If the weather is nice we will be outside as much as possible this week. If you wish for your child to wear sunscreen please make sure you send them with it on when they come to school. It would be a good idea to have a hat in their backpack as well. 

Have a wonderful week and as always please send me an email if you have any questions.

Seana Blake

smblake@cbe.ab.ca

 Happy Monday kindergarten families,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and were able to enjoy some time outside in the wonderful weather we had. 

Last Friday we ended our inquiry and learning around earthworms. We talked about what they do fir the soil and how they help plants grow. For the next 2 weeks we will start learning about an insect we see often in the spring and summer. We will begin to talk about the bumblebee and honeybee. We will be reading books about them as well as watching different information videos. Students will also get the chance to learn how to draw a bee and learn he different body parts they have. We will also be talking about why we need to take care of the bees and how they help us.

Today we will be going outside and tying orange ribbon onto our fence by the playground. We will de doing this to honour and remember the 215 indigenous children found buried at the Kamloops residential school. While we will not talk directly about the bodies that were found, we will discuss how indigenous children were forced to go to the schools. We have spoken about this many times before and the children are always very insightful in their thoughts and feelings about the subject. They understand that we continue to talk about residential schools so that we don't forget and to make sure it never happens again. I encourage you to speak with your child about their ribbon and why the ribbons are on the fence. 

We plan to be outside as much as possible over the next 2 weeks so please make sure your child comes dressed for the weather. If you wish for them to wear sunscreen, please out it on them before they come to school.

As always, please email me if you have any questions. I hope you have a fabulous week!

Seana Blake

smblake@cbe.ab.ca

 Hi Kindergarten Families!

Happy Thursday! We have been super busy in kindergarten and doing a ton of great learning and exploring. We have been finishing up our study of animals in winter this week. We focused on animals that adapt this week and specifically talked about the arctic hare and how it's fur changes colour in the winter. We watched videos, read books and looked at different pictures and drew hares in the winter. Our poem was also about how the hare changes colour. You can have your child read the poem to you and tell you about the hares winter adaptation.

I Am A Little Hare

I am a little hare,

small and white.

I change colour

in the winter.

To hide out of sight!

We have also been looking at the difference between 2D and 3D shapes as well as working on our printing and counting to 20. Next week we will be moving on to talking about Friendship and Valentine's Day. Normally students would be able to bring in Valentine's cards to share with the class but we as that this year your refrain from sending any in. Unfortunately with COVID-19 we are not able to bring things to school to share with other students. Thank you for your understanding! If you have any questions feel free to email me or we can always chat at the door. :)