Ms. Penfold's Kindergarten

 Looking Back... - The letter of the week last week was Nn for Narwhal! We read Narwhal and Jelly books and drew a narwhal - We did a letter sort to organize images that started with Mm and Nn, this helped us learn the difference between the sounds these two letters make - In math we worked on our knowledge of 2D shapes - With our buddies we made and labelled snowmen using lots of different 2D shapes - Using tiles, we built animals out of shapes as well - The letter of the week this week was Oo for Octopus and Olympics  Looking Forward... - Library day is Tuesday! Please return library books every week to be exchanged for new ones ☺ - If you could collect and send in clean toilet paper rolls for a project at the beginning of February, that would be greatly appreciated! We need one for each student in Kindergarten.  - Next week Friday, January 6th we are celebrating the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies. We will have our own fun Kindergarten Olympics during the upcoming ...

Happy New Year!  Looking Back... - We have jumped right back into learning since the break!!  - The number of the week last week was 6, we represented six using pictures, number form, stickers and tens frames - For art we did a project using 6 sticks - ask your kiddo what they turned 6 sticks into, they had some really creative ideas!  - Last week's letter of the week was Ww for winter, we talked about what changes outside in winter and fun winter activities - We journaled "In winter I see...." using pictures and starting to sound out beginning letter sounds we labeled our drawings - The letter of the week this week was Mm - We read The Mitten and practiced sequencing a story by acting out the animals with headbands and cutting and gluing animal pictures in order - We finished patterning, creating our very own patterns on Mittens! - The number of the week this week was 7 Looking Forward... - Next week provincial assessments start, I will be in the building working with st...

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...

 Friendly reminder; in order for books to be here before the winter break orders are due tomorrow ☺ Visit  https://bookclubs.scholastic.ca/  to place orders using our class code RC110977  This is completely optional, but there are some really great deals if you are looking for any holiday books or last minute gift ideas for your kids, friends or family!

Thank you all for coming to parent teacher conferences, it was so nice to chat with you all about your amazing kiddos!  Looking back... - This week we continued working on the letter Ff for family - We talked about our families, what we like to do with them and drew family portraits using the photos you sent in!  - In math we continued to practice writing the number 3  - We also had a special guest come to our school, Hal Eagletail, he taught us about the importance of indigenous ways of learning through nature, sang us traditional songs and taught us how to make animal sounds!  Looking Forward... - BOOK ORDERS incase you missed it, book orders were sent home last week! If you would like to place an order for any books, please have orders placed online no later than Thursday December 4th so I can place the order on time for the holidays! Order through Scholastic Canada using the classroom code RC110977 - there are some great deals on all sorts of books for our early...

Thank you so much to those of you who remembered to send in either a physical copy or an email of a Family Photo ☺  If you still need to send one, there is still time! We will be working on a family art project the next couple days and it is easier for the kiddos if they have a photo to reference.  Feel free to send a hard copy with your kiddo tomorrow or Wednesday, or pass one along to my email (stpenfold@cbe.ab.ca) and I can print it here.  Thanks again and see you all at conferences this week!!