Language

 

The jolly phonic sound for this week is the V v sound. You can download the v sound page to assist you to learn the action for the sound. The students love to play "Detective Eyes" in order to find the jolly phonic sound in my silly little stories. For example: There was a girl named Violet who loved to drive in her van with all her friends. Vicki loved to play her violin,  while Valerie was vacuuming the carpet in her violet vest.

 

The By Heart words for this week are: so and no.

 

 

When I am reading aloud stories for the next two weeks the students will be asked to describe how the characters from the story are feeling. The more difficult question they will be asked is to give evidence from the story. Orally giving evidence from the story will assist the SK students in the area of comprehension (understanding) the story. Offering your SK additional practise with this strategy when you read to them would be very beneficial.

Valentines Celebrations

 

The dance-a-thon was a great success. Thank you for all the wonderful and generous donations. All the monies raised from this fundraiser go directly to Hospice Niagara on Ontario Street. They will be shocked at the generous donation from one small school population. Thank you once again.

 

The students loved the dance-a-thon. In their words I quote: "The dance-a-thon was amazing", "this was the best day ever", "this was the most amazing Valentine's Day ever!"  Every Kindergarten child danced their little hearts out and got lots and lots of exercise. By the way, just so everyone knows I did not stop dancing either. Great success!!!

Beautiful Junk Creations

 

Even in Kindergarten the students do not need all the fancy things that are sold in the store in order to get their imaginations operating. I have been saving all kinds of recyclable materials for a couple of weeks and decided to put out the box of materials to see what they would build or create.

 

First two JK boys in the afternoon created a city for the cars to travel around. The road for the cars they told me was the table because it was dark brown and most of the roads are black. "But we are pretending it is dark brown. Then we built a city of buildings around the road, because when we are in the cars we see gas stations, buildings, houses and restuarants".

 

 

Another day three SK boys built a castle using many of the materials. Inside the castle were dinosaurs, but they were pretending they were dragons. The dragons were protecting the princess from a wicket fairy who wanted to kidnap the princess and change her into something ugly. All the people in the kingdom liked the princess because she was so kind to them and helped the poor people.

 

At the beginning of the week the boys asked me if I could buy them a car mat so they could use it for the cars to drive on. First, I asked them what they wanted to have on the car mat. They explained, they wanted lots of roads, buildings, houses, stop signs and traffic lights. I explained to them I could not afford to buy them a car mat but I could give them a large piece of brown paper and they could create their own.

The boys and the girls liked this idea and became very busy with the markers to create their own car mat. Personally I think it is far better and is put to greater use than a purchased car mat. Examine what the wonderful Kindergarten creative imaginations made.

 







• Language

The By Heart Words for this week are: do and she. These are part of the kindergarten word list. However, this is mainly for the SK students to assist them for next year in grade one and to help them in the area of reading and writing. Not next week but the following week the SK students will come home with a list of all the words we have learned so far.

 

The Jolly Phonic Sound for this week is the "y" sound. The students love the silly sentences that I make using as many of the words as possible. Then volunteers (JK and SK) come to the front and circle the sound when they find one in the word. This strategy is really assisting all the students to learn the letter and sound. This is by far the best learning strategy I have come up to assist the students to learn the letter and sound jolly phonic learning.

Some of the words I will be using this week are" yak, yam, yap, yard, yarn, you, your, yawn. yea, yell, yet, yelp, yolk, yo-yo. yes, yesterday, and yoga.

 

 



 

Calendar and Newsletter

 

The school calendar and newsletter for February are now on the blog. You can click on the right hand side of the blog and download both the calendar and newsletter. Some parents have found this to be beneficial so I will continue to do this each month.

 

 

 

 

Kindergarten Registration

 

Just a reminder, Kindergarten registration is on Thursday, February 6th from 4:00 to 6:00. So if you or anyone you know has a child who will be four years old before the end of this year be sure to tell them about registration. Also this is the year that all Kindergarten programs in Ontario are full day. This is a very exciting time for all the schools in the Niagara region and across Ontario. 

Language

 

The jolly phonic sound for this week is the Ww sound. Some of the easiest words are: west, went, we, will, well, web, wig, won, win, wet, wad, wed, wee, was, wag, way. In order to assist the students to identfy the jolly phonic sound/letter when written with other words, each day I write two silly sentences using as many words with that sound in it and the students have a turn to come to the front and circle the sound and do the action. I have found this has assisted many of the students to remember what the sound looks like and to identify the sound.

 

For example on Monday the sentences will be:

When I was walking down the west side of the street on Wednesday, there was a big wad of weeds on the ground. I told you they were silly sentences but the students love them and can't wait for a turn to come and circle the sound.

 

The By Heart Word for this week is the word in and oh. Oh is not one of the words the kindergarten students are required to know, but it does occur in many of the simple books.

 

The word family for this week is the in. Some of the words the students will be blending together to make are: bin, chin, fin, grin, pin, tin, win.

Mathematics

 

Next week the students will be introduced to the measurement of capacity. They will have some different sized containers and use some materials to decide which container will hold the most or the least. This learning experiece will assist the student with their visualization skills about different sized containers and how some containers can be deceiving. For example, a container that is short but wide may hold as much as one that is tall and narrow. Young students often will think the tall and narrow container will hold a lot more than any other container.

You can further your child's learning with capacity when baking or cooking and show them some different sized bowls, cake pans, etc.