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