Dear Mom and Dad:

Gung Hay Fat Choy! This week we had a fun filled week full of learning about the traditions and customs of Chinese New Year. Ask me to tell you about our Chinese New Year Feast. We practiced eating with chopsticks. Ask me to tell you why we ate noodles and oranges.

We even made firecracker sounds to ring in the new year and I brought home a special red envelope from my teachers. 

PM kindergarten performed at our Chinese New Year Assembly on Friday and saw the lion dancers. 

We worked on the letter Dd and did a visual drawing in our journals. 

Team Blue and Yellow met our student teacher this week. Ask me to tell you what her name was!

Love,

Kindergarten 

Housekeeping:

Kindergarten will be going swimming from February 6-9. Thank you for returning the beige swimming ability forms. We now need all Acknowledgement of Risk swimming forms returned ASAP. 

**Team Wonder AM and PM class, please note that with our swimming time, there will not be much time for a snack. You can pack ONE Thing that can be eaten with one hand (yogurt tube, cheese string, crackers, banana etc) No fruit cups please. Please ensure your child eats a big breakfast that morning or big lunch that afternoon. 

January 16 - January 20

Dear Mom and Dad:

Highlights of the week:
- learning about the Chinese zodiac
- the letter Tt
- Roots of Empathy
- Club Friday for AM class
-  Team Wonder has a student teacher!
- Blue/yellow Team learning all about snowflakes

In Team Wonder, Mrs. Green has joined our learning community. She is a student from Mount Royal University and we learned that she is going to teacher school to learn how to be a teacher. She will be with us until the end of April. We are very excited to teach her what she needs to know.

Did you know that I am a certain animal in the Chinese Zodiac. We read a book called "The Great Race" and learned about why there are 12 different animals in the Chinese Zodiac. Ask me to tell you which one I am. You can look it up here Chinese Zodiac Calculator. Ask me to tell you who won the race. Ask me to tell you why there is no year of the cat and why cats don't like rats!

I learned that T is a quiet tap dancing sound. Ask me to tell you what the letter says. When I make this sound, my tongue is tapping the back of my teeth. Ask me to tell you what I drew in my visual journal that started with a T.

The Letter T song

In Roots of Empathy, we continue to talk about emotions, I am learning to identify my emotions as well as being able to recognize how others are feeling too. We learned that everyone has emotions, including moms, dads, grandparents, uncles, even my pet fish, dog or cat!

Chinese New Year's Eve is on Friday January 27. We have been learning all about Chinese New Year and it's traditions and customs. Ask me to tell you what the lucky color is. On Thursday Jan 26, AM class can come to school wearing RED.

On Friday January 27, PM class please wear RED! 

Question of the week: What is your Chinese zodiac animal? You can post your family members' animals too! 

Housekeeping:

On Thursday January 26 Kindergarten will be enjoying a Chinese Feast with our friends to celebrate Chinese New Year. We will be enjoying egg noodles with veggies, oranges and some tea (iced tea). This will be equivalent to a snack. If you would still like to send in a snack, you may do so but please do not be alarmed if they bring back their snack uneaten because they will love their teachers cooking so much :P

Friday January 27 - PM kindergarten will be hosting the Chinese New Year Assembly. PM Parents are welcome to come. Time TBA (it will be between 9am-12pm) PM parents will be notified by e-mail this week with all of the details.


Our Chinese Restaurant is open for business!

Making lanterns for Chinese New Year

Making snowflakes with our bodies! Can you count how many points each snowflake always has?

January 9 - January 13

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Dear Mom and Dad:

Highlights of the week:

• -       Roots of Empathy baby visits
• -       Working on the letter Aa
• -       Constable Mattice visit in Team Wonder’s class
• -       Trout eggs arrived on Friday 
•       Gymnastics began this week 
•       Snowflake experiment and snow inquiry in blue and yellow team 

We had our baby visit this week. Ask me to tell you about our Roots of Empathy baby. We have noticed a big difference in the way they look and how they've grown. 

We took a closer look at the letter A. Ask me draw an upper case and lower case letter in the air for you. I should ALWAYS be starting my letters at the top going down.
I can sing our Jolly phonics song with you! "ah-ah, ants on my arm....."

Jolly phonics A song

Team Wonder met Constable Mattice and Constable Baker on Monday. Ask me to tell you who she is and what tools she uses to help her be a police officer. 

On Friday, our school trout eggs arrived! The PM class visited the tank and we learned that we will be raising them from the egg stage to the fry stage and releasing them in May. There are 65 eggs that came. Ask me to tell you to describe what the eggs look like right now. AM class will get to see them on Monday. 

Love,

Kindergarten

Housekeeping:

Friday January 20, AM attends.

Swimming ability forms return by Monday Jan 16.

We would encourage all students to participate in the swimming. If you or your child is concerned about swimming because they have very little experience with water, please know that they are in VERY good hands! The instructors at Bob Bahan are fantastic and your child’s teacher will be on the swimming deck as well to assist. Students will be expected to attend school that week if they do not participate in swimming. They will join a grade ½ class for the duration of swimming days. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your child’s teacher.

Constable Mattice and Constable Baker teaching us about why they are important in our community

A representation of downtown!

PM Team Wonder - Baby Eleanor visits for Roots of Empathy, we are singing our "Hello song" to her

AM Team Wonder - Baby Finlay visits - we are measuring him using blocks and comparing it to last time. He is currently 11 block long! 

Gymnastics!

Mrs. Low measuring the temperature of the water in the thermos where the eggs came in. 

Our trout eggs!!!

65 eggs altogether - I wonder when they will hatch??

Monday January 3 - Friday January 6

Dear Mom and Dad:

Highlights of the week:

-       Roots of Empathy

-       The letter V

-       Numbers 1-5

-       Snow inquiry

-       Friday Snowman art

Welcome back and Happy New Year! We had a great first week back from the holidays. The students did well getting back into the routine of things. 

We continue to work on numbers 1-5. Ask me to find these numbers or count a number of objects. I am working on recognizing, representing the number and thinking of two numbers that could make 5.

Our topic this week during Roots of Empathy is “What goes in a diaper bag?” We talked a lot about what a baby needs and why it is important for their caregiver to be prepared at all times. Ask me to tell you what items a parent will need in their bag and why it is important.

Ask me to tell you what we have been learning about snow and snowflakes! We are going to become experts as we explore the many different properties of snow.

AM kindergarten did some snowman art on Friday. Ask me to tell you about this and how I made it.

Love,

Kindergarten

Housekeeping:

Friday January 13, PM attends.

Swimming ability forms return by Jan 16.

We would encourage all students to participate in the swimming. If you or your child is concerned about swimming because they have very little experience with water, please know that they are in VERY good hands! The instructors at Bob Bahan are fantastic and your child’s teacher will be on the swimming deck as well to assist. Students will be expected to attend school that week if they do not participate in swimming. They will join a grade ½ class for the duration of swimming days. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your child’s teacher.