Ms. Penfold's Kindergarten

Looking Back... A quick little week we had again! - The letter of this week was Ll - We labelled the classroom, using our phonetic awareness to stretch and sound out different words! We have been practicing this a lot recently as we start to build our reading and writing skills - We journaled about the Olympics, and drew pictures as what winter sport we would choose if we were athletes, ask your kiddo which sport they picked Looking Forward... - Friday February 20th is PM Kindergarten, please do not send your morning kindergarten friends ☺ our next AM Kindergarten in Friday March 6th!  - Tuesday is library day, please return all books!  - Wednesday February 25th is Pink Shirt day - to spread kindness and a sense of belonging.  - There is NO SCHOOL Friday February 27th for a system wide PD Day - A reminder; please DO NOT let your child bring ANY toys to school. We are having major issues with toys in the classroom, not sharing, getting lost and bringing them to gym/music w...

 Looking Back... - The letter of the week was Vv for Valentine  - We had Kindergarten Olympics and rotated through a bunch of different stations including Scooter Luge, Paper plate Figure Skating, painting, math games and literacy games that were olympic themed - On Wednesday we handed out Valentine's, decorated bags and made all sorts of different hearts  - For Art we read The Love Monster and created our very own love monsters Looking Forward... - There is NO SCHOOL Thursday February 12 to Monday February 16th , classes resume Tuesday February 17th  - Next Friday February 20th is PM Kindergarten, please do not send your morning kindergarten friends ☺ - Tuesday is library day, please return all books!  - A reminder; please DO NOT let your child bring ANY toys to school. We are having major issues with toys in the classroom, not sharing, getting lost and bringing them to gym/music where they are not appropriate to have. Toys are NOT allowed at school, this is a ...

 Looking Back... What a busy week! - The letter of the week this week was Gg for groundhog!  - On Monday we listened to a story about Groundhog Day and talked about what it means, we looked out the window and brainstormed what we thought the groundhog would predict for this year!! We all thought he would say early spring, but he said 6 more weeks of winter - We made groundhog homes with cute little groundhogs as a fun craft - In math our number of the week was 9, we used pictures, numbers, and tens frames to represent the number 9 - We watched number blocks to introduce the number 9 and they made lots of math sentences that equalled 9 so we tried to make some too. Like 8 + 1 = 9 and 5 + 4 = 9  - We did a letter sort and organized words that did and did not start with the letter Gg into the right categories, some of us even used our knowledge of letters to sound out and label our work!!  - To kick off the Olympics we talked all about winter sports, sportsmanship and w...