Our school has now reopened and while some students are returning to class,  others are continuing learning from home.  We appreciate our families have different needs and are happy to support you in your educational choices for your children.  We will keep updating our blog with new learning activities and we look forward to continuing receiving samples of your children’s work if you are doing remote learning.  You do not have to email work samples if your child is attending class.  While we may not be able to answer your emails as quickly as before, we will do our best to balance in class and remote teaching.  We are pleased to continue partnering with you in your child’s learning and invite you to reach out by email to your individual teacher with any questions or comments.

In Literacy this week we will focus on rhyme. Rhyming words sound the same at the end of the word, not at the beginning.  To hear if two or more words rhyme, listen careful and if they have a similar or same ending sound, they are rhyming words.  (For example: cat and bat rhyme but car and cat do not.)   In Kindergarten, we learn about rhyming  “nonsense” words and real words.

In this simple, rhyming story, Bear like fruit.  After listening to the story,  ask your child to copy the words from the story, Apple, Bear, Orange, Pear, and draw a picture of each.  Perhaps you can ask your child to help you make a fruit salad with 2-4 of your family’s favourite fruits.  After enjoying your fruit salad, perhaps you can draw and write what fruits you used in your fruit salad.

Listen carefully to Dr. Seuss’s There’s a Wocket in my Pocket story and guess which words are nonsense words – made up from Dr. Seuss’s imagination.  Can you draw a picture of an imaginary animal that might sit on this pillow?  Draw and label your picture. Remember your imaginary animal name should rhyme with pillow……I was thinking maybe spillow or trillow?  Can’t wait to see what your imagination came up with!

Listen to the Rhyming Dust Bunnies story by Jan Thomas and find out what happens to our funny friends.  Can you draw Ed, Ted, Ned, and Bob?  Label the picture with their names.  Talk with a sibling or a parent what is it the dust bunnies like to do for fun?  What might they be afraid of?  Perhaps go on a dust bunny hunt around your home?  Play a rhyming game with your family, take turns coming up with rhyming words of your own, if someone misses a turn, they can do five jumping jacks!

Watch and listen to the story I see,  it is very short.  Can you listen to it again and read along with me?  What do you notice about the book?  You can’t really turn the pages!  It kind folds like an accordion.  Ask your parents to help you make an accordion book and you can illustrate and write your own book.  You can use the same animals or come up with  your own!   (Here are some suggestions: Cat/Mat, Frog/Log, Snake/Lake,  Bug/Mug)   Copy the words or try and sound them out yourself.  Say the word slowly, (like the word:  c-a-t)  stretch it out, and write down the sounds that you hear.  Don’t worry if you don’t spell it correctly.

Click here for more  online rhyming activities  to enjoy.

In Numeracy this week we will continue to focus on Canadian Coins.  Can you name the animals on the Canadian Coins?  The Penny, no longer in circulation, has the maple leaf on it.  The dime has the Bluenose Schooner, a famous symbol of Canada.  Make a paper wallet and decorate it with your name.  Write the names of the coins on the outside – Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter, Loonie and Toonie.  We also have a 50 cent piece, not often used.  Print of some paper coins or ask your parents for real coins to put into your wallet.  Can you set up a play store in your home and spend your money?

For more Math activities this week, please check out our new Math Tab above for lots of games and math ideas.

Everybody loves to dance right?  We loved the Tooty Ta dance in our class!  Check it out and maybe you can teach it to your parents?  Try the Freeze Dance for even more fun!  Maybe you can share your favourite dance moves with us?

We have enjoyed hearing about your walks in the neighbourhood.  Can you try and guess where we were on these walks?  I’ll give you a hint, it’s a big lake in your city!  In Burnaby, not too far from school.  Maybe you too can go for a walk there, but your parents would have to drive you!    Walk 1 – Sky   and Walk 2 – Duckies

We hope you have enjoyed our Recipes and we would like to enjoy yours too!  We invite you to share your family’s favourite recipe.  We would like to publish it on our blog using your child’s first name only.   Please send in your recipes to your teacher by email and look for our upcoming Kinder Cooks tab.

 

 

Go into our Butterfly tab and watch 2 videos! The first one shows one of our caterpillars emerging into a beautiful butterfly, and the other is of Mrs. Lee releasing them in our school garden!

                                                 

Warmest Regards,

Mrs. Lee, Ms. Maratovic and Mrs. Nero