Subitizing

Dear Mom and Dad:

Highlights of the week:

•       Photo Day!
•       “Race to the Top math game”
• Centre swap
•       Red/green diad visiting the learning commons. –We will be going to the learning commons every Wednesday. Please read the story with your child several times and return it after the weekend for Wednesday so they can get a new book.
•       A triangle can be…

I had my first school photo in kindergarten! My proofs will be coming home shortly. Watch for this in my folder. A reminder to parents that folders will be going home if I have mail. Please send the folder back if the mail needs to be signed. If the mail is just a FYI, please send the folder back to school even if it is empty. Thank you!

Ask me to tell you about doing centres in the other kindergarten room. We got to explore even more different learning centres. Ask me to tell you one of the new centres I played at this week.

I also learned a new math game this week. We learned a new big math word called “subitizing” which means to know how many dots or objects at a glance. Right now I am working on subitizing the numbers 1-5. You can help me with this at home. You can hold up 1-5 fingers quickly and then take it away. I will then need to tell you how many fingers you had up. Subitizing is an important math skill to have as it helps build a strong foundation for my math skills in future years. We are working on subitizng dots at a glance. If we have dice at home, I can practice by rolling the dice and then saying how many dots there are without counting them one by one.

Question of the week: What are you thankful for? (Please have a discussion with your child that we are not looking for being thankful for materialistic things). We will be discussing this on Tuesday.

Happy Thanksgiving and see you on Tuesday with your “beautiful stuff” bags!

Love,

Kindergarten

Housekeeping:

Beautiful Stuff:

We would like to have our “beautiful bag” stuff brought in on Tuesday October 11 . A couple of weeks ago, your child brought home a letter, and a special paper bag to collect “treasures” around your home or outside. If you have items that you think we could use and it will not fit in the bag, please send them our way. Your junk will become our treasure! We would love things such as beads, string, broken jewelry, rocks, gems, bottle cap lids, empty toilet/paper towel rolls, wire of al sorts, nails, bolts, washers, cardboard with no print, broken watches or machines and the list goes on!

Fall Walk:

Kindergarten will be going on a fall walk. We need 5 volunteers total for the AM and 5 volunteers total for the PM for each diad.

Blue/Yellow Team:

Please contact your child’s room parent (contact information on the left column of this blog)

Tuesday October 18

AM class: 9:00am

PM class: 1:00pm

Red/Green Team:

We have enough volunteers for the AM class.  We need more volunteers for the PM class. Please click HERE to sign up for Wed October 19.

Wednesday October 19

AM class: 8:45am

PM class: 12:45pm