Hello Families!

Welcome to our Kindergarten class blog/website! In addition to the yellow communication folders, I have now created this blog to keep you updated on things happening in our school and classroom. Instead of sending home paper reminders of upcoming events, I want to be more environmentally friendly by using this blog as a way to communicate important information to you. Letters and forms from the PAC, school and community will still be coming home in the yellow folders.

Tomorrow I will be sending home a notice with instructions to access PASSWORD PROTECTED posts. Password Protected posts may have pictures of students in them. Please do not share this password.
**You are welcome to save photos that your child is in, but please remember: if there is another child in the photo you may NOT post that picture on social media (ex. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, your own personal blog, etc.)**

Some posts will also include students engaged in classroom activities and samples of their work. These posts will complement the Kindergarten curriculum and will work as evidence of their learning. I would love to encourage you to comment on the posts!

Tips on Commenting and Supporting the Learning Process

You will notice that I will be making comments about your child’s learning and giving suggestions for their next steps.

I invite you to be partners in your child’s learning process throughout the year by commenting on the posts.

Under any of the posts, there will be a COMMENT link > click to open a box. (You can record in any language.)
Some suggestions for your comments are to:

  • Notice thoughts, capacities and growth.
  • Connect with your child’s opinions, stories or ideas
  • Share your intellectual curiosity; wonder aloud
  • Encourage
  • Co-conspire… “You are interested in spiders? Me too, here’s an interesting website I’m reading about spiders.”
  • I noticed you…
  • A few things you did well here are…
  • One thing I’m seeing about your work is…

I hope you enjoy future posts we include on our website!

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at Gina.Kovac@BurnabySchools.ca

Many thanks,

Gina Kovac