This week we will be working on the letters Ii (Inny Inchworm) and Jj (Jerry Jellyfish).  Ii is a vowel and can make 2 sounds. It can make the short /i/ sound in words like pig, lip, slip and igloo or it can make the long /i/ sound as in pie, ice cream, night and pineapple.  Vowels are hard workers!  To print the uppercase I use the ABC boom strokes - plop, vroom, vroom.  Lowercase i is made with a plop and a tick! Practice printing these at home.  Jj can be found in the words jeep, jig, Jennifer and just.  Look for words with the letter j in them at home.  Check your food labels and newspapers. It is very important to practice letters and sounds at home. We are working on using begininng sounds and stretching out words when writing.  Ask your child to tell you what letters certain words begin with (Can you tell me what car starts with? How about elephant?) and have them try to spell by stretching out for sounds.  A fun game to play is the Quiet Machine on pbskids.http://pbskids.org/lions/games/We will finish up our Math unit on patterns this week and start working on the numbers 0 to 5.  Keep searching for patterns at home. Try and find some number patterns! Picture re-take day is Wednesday. Please let me know if you want your child to have a re-take. Library is Thursday. We are going to have a super week in Kindergarten! 

This is a short week for students  (there is no school on Thursday and Friday due to teacher PD days) so there will be no homework!!  We are going to review the letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee and Ff. Practice these sounds at home.  Remember to keep reviewing your sight words for October (a, and, to, the, like, I).  Try writing or saying sentences using these words (I like dogs.  I like to swim.  I went to school.).Keep looking for patterns.  Can you make patterns with toys at home? Try drawing some. This is Fire Prevention week.  We will review fire drill procedures and have a visit from some firemen! Have a great week!!

We got together with Mrs. O'Toole's class to practice our apple poem.  Follow the link below to see us in action: http://gretnagreen.nbed.nb.ca/class/video/apple-poem

This week we will be working on the letters Ee and Ff.  Show your parents the zoophonics sound and signal for Ellie elephant and Francie fish.  E is a hard working vowel and makes 2 sounds.  It can be found in words like eagle, elephant, egg and Ella.  Funny, Friday, first and fish start with the letter f. What words do you know that begin or end with these letters? What would your name be if it started with the letter Ff? I'd be Fiss Fatheson!! That would be silly!!!  Practice printing these letters at home.  In writer's workshop we will keep praticing telling stories through pictures.  Remember the more detail you add, the clearer the story becomes!    We are going to start working on sight words this week! October sight words are being sent home with this month's homework. This week, we are going to learn the words "I" and "like". We'll make sentences with these words and use them in our writing! I like dogs. What do you like?       In Math, we are going to work on making simple patterns. We go to the Library onThursday. Remember to bring your book back so you can get a new one!  Show and Tell is Friday.    Homework begins this week.  There is a homework calendar being sent home for the month of October.  Parents, please have your child choose 3 activities to complete for the week (you do not need to write anything down for the oral activities).  Each student will also receive books to read (parents, you can read these books to your child, have them search for letters, point to words, etc.) and a list of October sight words.  Children are encouraged to practice their letters/sounds using the zoophonics package that was sent home last week.  All homework books are to be returned on Friday.     Have a great week!!!

Don't forget to bring your library books back tomorrow!!!!

We are off to a great start in Kindergarten!! We have been having a lot of fun getting to know each other and making new friends.  The boys and girls in KM are awesome!!!  I will post some pictures of our first few days when all the Permission to Photograph forms have been returned.   We will be busy this week learning and practicing rules and routines for school just like David in the book "David Goes to School".  Ask your child to tell you something that they can do at school.  In Kindergarten we will be kind to each other, keep our hands to ourselves, wait our turn and raise our hands.  Most of all we will have fun!   This week, we will be exploring all the letters in the alphabet.  Try singing the alphabet song! Look around your house and see what letters you can find. We will spend time working on our names.  I have a lot of fun activities for us to try.  Practice printing your name at home!    We will meet Mr. Stewart this week! He's going to talk to us about being bucket fillers!    Meet the Teacher night will take place on Thursday at 6:00 pm in the cafeteria.  Hope to see you there!   We will be going to the school library on Thursdays.  Each week, you will be allowed to sign out 1 book to take home for the week.  Remember to bring it back on Thursday in order to get a new one!   The cafeteria will open this week. Parents, if your child is ordering please send their written out order in a baggie with their name and the exact change.  Please put the order in your child's orange take home folder (not in their lunch can) to ensure that orders are not missed in the morning! Thank you.   I am enjoying getting to know all the boys and girls in KM and am looking forward to a fabulous year!

It's the last week of Kindergarten!!! Wow! I can't believe how fast the year went! It's been a great year.  I am so proud of each and every one of you.  You all worked hard and hopefully had lots of fun.  I hope everyone has a super summer full of adventure and laughter.   There are a lot of cool school wide activities happening this week: K-2 Fun day, Teacher vs Grade 5 softball game, Buddy Reading and an assembly.  Friday is a half day! Dismissal is at 11:15. Please let me know if you will be picked up or are to take the bus.  Report cards will be sent home on Friday.  Have a great last week!