Ms. Penfold's Kindergarten

Looking Back... - The letter of the week this week was Cc for candy cane and cookie, using just a piece of paper we learned how to make our own pattern candy canes  - For read aloud we listened to a few different versions of the Gingerbread Man story; ask your student which one was their favourite - After listening to the gingerbread man story, we sequenced how to make a gingerbread cookie from start to finish and labelled it 1-6  - We continued to practice writing letters 3 and 5 as they are a little tricky!  - We made snowmen books and counted up from 1 to 5 on each page, using snowman stickers to represent each number  Looking Forward... - Next week Friday we will be trying small Gingerbread cookies for our intro to the 5 senses, please let me know of any dietary restrictions that would require your student to not participate in the tasting - Friday December 19th is the last day of school before winter break! Classes will resume on Monday January 5th  - Frida...

We are in the final stretch before the holidays and getting festive in the classroom!  Looking Back... - This week we were busy!! We started the week learning the letter Ss for Snowflake, Snowman and Snow - In our journals we drew pictures to represent what we like to do in the snow!! Ask your student what they picked to draw about - In math we worked on subitizing numbers; this is having the ability to instantly recognize a number or set of items without having to count them, like when you look at dice - We also represented the numbers 4 (after reading Pete the Cat's "My Four Groovy Buttons) and 5 (after reading "Five Little Penguins")  - With our buddies we made snowflakes in art, using tape and water colour paints Looking Forward... - A reminder that there are to be NO TOYS at school. This is a school rule, as they become a big distraction and we cannot prevent them from being lost or ruined. Please keep all toys at home. I understand daycare sometimes allows toys...

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