November 15-17

 This was such an odd week- coming back on a Wednesday!  

I hope everyone had a refreshing fall break.  The students were so excited to see each other and be back together.  

We had a short, but sweet week together- enjoying the sunshine, practicing skills and learning new things.

We were excited to see the freshly fallen snow, and went outside to look for animal tracks.  We found rabbit tracks and bird tracks and dog tracks too and followed them outside to investigate where they had gone.  We also loved making our own prints in the snow, making snow angels and writing our names with our fingers and sticks.  We were using our 5 senses to look, touch, and listen to the sounds of snow in our own environment.

In Literacy we practiced letter formation of letters we have learned together.  We have been practicing the letters and letter sounds for "A, S, P, T" and we did some sorting of pictures based on the first sound.  Students are practicing saying words slowly to identify the first and last letter sound in words.

We also listened to a funny story about " More Pies" to find words with the P sound.  We are learning the difference between fictional stories and non-fictional stories.  We are practicing making predictions about what is going to happen next in a story and we are retelling the story by sequencing what happens in the correct order after we read it together.

Our word of the week this week was "Subitize".  It is a math word that means "the ability to recognize a number of objects instantly- without having to count them",  We say "When you subitize, you only can use your eyes!"  We have been practicing our "Super Subitizing Skills" all week with dice games, ten frame cards and speed practice on white board.  We even played a game together on our smartboard with a dots that would disappear so fast- we had to try to guess the number before it vanished.  It was lots of fun, and I can see students ability to subitize developing significantly over the last few weeks.

We practiced representing the number 6 this week in various ways and read a story called "Six Sticks".  We used our creativity and imagination to create our own 6 Sticks pictures using popsicle sticks.  We are excited to share them with you at the upcoming Parent-Teacher conferences.

On that note, please remember to go online and book a time for Parent-Teacher Conferences next week. A reminder that there is no school for students on Thursday or Friday because of Conferences.  We will also be taking the students to the library this week to preview the Book Fair.  Any items can be purchased from the Book Fair during the conferences if you would like.

Lastly,  we have been playing or exploring the outdoors as often as we can.  Our Kindergarteners are doing fantastic in getting themselves prepared for the outdoors- however, some items have been getting mixed up or have gone home with the wrong person despite our best efforts (so many similar items, similar sized items etc).  Please, please, please help by labelling your child's items so we have a better chance of making sure items make it back home.  Also, if something comes home with your child that doesn't belong to them- please send it back or let me know.  I appreciate it so much:). We'll get this all running so smoothly before the real winter cold! 

Here are some pictures from our week!

As always, please reach out if you have any questions.  Thank you for all you do to support