Christmas Concert Info

Our Christmas Concerts is on:

Monday Dec 5

Evening performance (AM & PM classes altogether) @ 6:00pm

AM dress rehearsal @ 10:15am

PM dress rehearsal @ 1:00pm

November 21 - November 23 - What's in your feelings toolbox?

Dear Mom and Dad:

A short week but always lots of learning happening in kindergarten! Ask me to tell you about Roots of Empathy and learning about what feelings are.  

Parent teacher conferences

Dear Parents:

We are looking forward to meeting you on Thursday or Friday for conferences. Both teachers in your child's diad will get a chance to sit down with you and your child to share their successes. At this time, we will be going over the results from the Early Learning Evaluation assessment. Please bring your child to the interview if possible. If you have not signed up yet please sign in to the CBE account portal.

We are booked back to back for 10 minute slots. Please arrive a few minutes before your interview time to ensure that you get your full time slot. We are on a tight schedule and will not be able to accommodate for missed appointments or extend times. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to meeting with you!

- The Kindergarten Team

Help us bring some Christmas joy to our city’s homeless

 

The Fill a Sock, Fill a Need campaign provides a Christmas “stocking” of essential needs and small personal items to those in need.

 

We are asking each student to donate $5 (or more J) to help fill socks to be donated to the Drop In Centre.  If possible, we would also ask students to donate a pair of new, warm, adult sized socks.

 

We strongly encourage students to earn their donation money by doing chores around the house - shoveling snow, taking out the garbage…etc.

 

We will be collecting money from students between November 21^st and December 1^st.  We will also be collecting cash donations during Parent Teacher Interviews.

November 14 - November 18

Housekeeping:

**Parent Teacher Conferences are on Thursday and Friday all day. Please sign up for a slot by clicking here. We look forward to seeing you! Each diad will be doing their interviews together which means you will sit down with both of the diad teachers. Please bring your child to the conference if possible, we would love to share their successes.

**Team Wonder will be changing our library day from Wednesdays to Mondays.

Dear Mom and Dad:

Highlights of the Week:

- Practicing our Christmas Concert Songs with Mrs. McBride. Our Christmas Concert is on Monday December 5 @ 6:00pm at Cranston School
- Todd Parr Portraits
- Zones of Regulation
- 5 senses
- Roots of Empathy Babies

This week we have been talking about what feelings are and how this affects us. I learned that feelings live in my heart and it sends a message to my brain that tells me what I am feeling. We will be learning about the "Zones of Regulation". There are four different zones that I could be in. We learned that it is okay to be in any of the zones. We will be looking at the different "tools" we can use to help us move from one zone to the other and get back to green zone!

Ask me to tell you about the author Todd Parr. We have been reading his books and creating art inspired by his drawings. Ask me to describe his art.

Did you know we all have 5 senses? This week we explored these 5 senses using popcorn! Ask me to tell you about this science experiment and what I noticed.

We met our baby teacher this week! Ask me to tell you their name and what I observed!

PM kindergarten had our second session of Friday Clubs! Ask me to tell you what club I am in! (AM kindergarten will participate in clubs later in the year)

Question of the week: what are your 5 senses?

Love,

Kindergarten

P is for Poppy

Dear Mom and Dad:

Highlights of the week:
- Poppy Art
- The Letter P
- Roots of Empathy

Ask me to tell you why we wear poppies. This week we all made some poppy art using coffee filters. We learned that on November 11, it will be Remembrance Day. The AM class attended a beautiful assembly for Remembrance Day. We have been talking a lot about peace and what it means to be peaceful.

We looked closely at the letter P this week. Ask me to draw a P in the air and to tell you some things that start with the letter P. We learned that P is a lip puffing sound. This means that when I put my hand to my throat, there is no "buzz" or vibration when I say the p sound. Click on the link below and sing the song with me!

The Letter P Song

Kindergarten is really lucky to be starting a program called "Roots of Empathy" (ROE). This program runs for the entire year and each diad class will have a teacher baby! We will be learning from our baby and tracking its growth throughout its first year.

Results showed that Roots of Empathy children demonstrated:

• Increase in social and emotional knowledge

• Decrease in aggression

• Increase in prosocial behaviour (e.g. sharing, helping and including)

• Increase in perceptions among ROE students of the classroom as a caring environment

• Increased understanding of infants and parenting

• Lasting results

We have not met our teacher baby yet but are going to first learning about what a baby needs and how they communicate.

Question of the week: Why do we wear poppies?

Love,
Kindergarten

Practice Lockdown

AM parents:

On Thursday November 10, Cranston school will be having a Remembrance Day assembly. The assembly will end shortly after 11:00am after a moment of silence. To honor our special guests that will be at the assembly, kindergarten will be staying the entire time and will be dismissed with the rest of the school at around 11:10am instead of 11:05am. We will be dismissing through the red gym doors on the compound to avoid the heavy traffic of other students. 

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Dear Mom and Dad:

Highlights of the week:

-       Internal Lockdown practice

-       Constable Mattice in blue/yellow diad

-       Senses and sketching

We had a practice lockdown this week. Ask me to tell you what that means and what I need to do during a lockdown. The week of November 7-10, the school will do a practice lockdown but we will not know when it is.  We all did great! My teachers were very proud.

Constable Mattice visited the blue/yellow diad this week to read us a story. Ask me to tell you who she is and what she taught us. Team Wonder will be meeting Constable Mattice on Monday.

We learned how to sketch this week. Ask me to tell you what I sketched.

**don’t forget to turn back your clocks for daylight savings!

Question of the week: Where does your class go during a lockdown?

Love,

Kindergarten

Housekeeping:

On Thursday Nov. 10, we will be observing Remembrance Day with an assembly. Students who are members of Scouts Canada (i.e. Beavers/Cubs); Girl Guides Canada (i.e. Sparks/Brownies); or Cadets are invited to wear their uniforms for the day.

Cranston School is joining with the Veterans Food Bank to collect non-perishable food items, as well as cash donations to purchase  Co-op gift cards for veterans to use to purchase fresh produce and meats.  We will be collecting donations until November 15th, so please send in what you can.  If your child is in rooms 54, 55, or 82, and you are planning to attend our Remembrance Day celebration on November 10th, we ask that you bring a donation to support this cause.  Our school goal is to fill all 4 boxes that were sent for the food drive, but we will always welcome more!  If you are able to make a cash donation, even if it is only your spare change, we will have a jar in the office for students to add to.  Thank you for all of your support!!!