We hope you have been enjoying the beautiful weather and have had a fun and relaxing Mother’s Day!  Thank you for sharing pictures of the cards and gifts made with love by your children.  They brought joy to us just as they did to you!

As you are choosing this week’s activities to do with your children, please remember that learning in Kindergarten is not a “one-time activity”.  Learning takes repetition, revisiting, and redoing activities over and over.  Please repeat, revisit and redo some activities your child has already enjoyed these past few weeks.  In addition, this week, please observe “where your child is at” with their learning and what you might want to do next over the coming weeks to help them learn.  Please do these activities for a few minutes each day, rather than a long chunk of time in one day.

  • Ask your child to write their name.  Observe.  Are they printing the letters properly?  Are they using all capital letters or just for the first letter?  By end of June, it would be nice if they printed their name using the Capital letter for the first letter and using lowercase letters for the rest.  You may want to teach your child to write their last name as well.
  • Ask your child to say the alphabet.  Are there any letters they are confused with or not confident with?  Practice those letters specifically.  Can they identify the letters of the alphabet at random?  Capitals and lowercase.  If they are missing letters, practice those letters specifically, a little each day.

Visit Starfall for a complete guide to letter names and letter sounds.  Have your child practice the letters and letter sounds they are not confident with.  If your child has access to a device, please visit Starfall daily.  There are many literacy and numeracy activities to explore for all reading readiness and reading levels.

  • Count by 1s to 30.  Practice until it is easy for them.  Ask them randomly, what comes after 11, after 23, after 29.  Ask them what comes before 5, 9, 14, etc.  Of course, you can work with higher numbers if your child can count to 100.
  • Count objects in your home.  For example, you can ask your child to go and count all the pillows and tell you how many pillows there are.  (other ideas:  chairs, beds, tables, pots and pans, cutlery, sets of toys – cars, dolls, etc.) If you have small items at home like buttons, or blocks, or crayons, ask your child to count out 10 of them and put them on the table.  Have them count them and arrange them in a line.  Add 2 or 3 and ask your child how many there are now.  Take away some and ask your child how many there are now.  Observe your child’s thinking by what they are doing.
  • Teach your child your cell phone number and your address.  Practice each day until they have it memorized.  If you think it is too hard, try again in a week or so.  Practicing together once a day will help them learn.  Please be patient.  If your child already knows their phone number and address, practice having them write it down.

Remember our Salmon and Mme. Dare’s release video?  To learn more about salmon or for other science activity ideas, please check out Science World – Dome at Home link.

 

 

 

Emergencies – Does your child know what to do in case of an emergency at home?  Does your child know when to call 911?  Please check out this website from the Canadian Government and watch the videos on making a family plan. 

 

Story Book Corner has more read alouds for you to enjoy!  Please revisit the previous stories and enjoy the new stories added to our Story Book Corner. Happy Listening!

  • Circles of Round with Mme. Wong If you have made some shapes from Mme. Wong’s activity, can you make a mobile with your paper shapes?  If you don’t have wire or dowels, use straws, chopsticks, or rolled up paper straws and string to create a fun mobile!  Click on this link for more Mobile Making ideas. 

   

  •  Wishes from Mrs. Rawnsley Can you think of a wish for yourself?  A wish for your mom or dad?  A wish for your brother or sister?  Ask your mom, dad, brother, sister or grandparents what their wishes might be.  Working hard together we can make our wishes come true!  Send us your drawings of your family wishes.  Happy wishing!

 

 

 

 

  • Ms. Maratovic will read you a fun story of three misbehaving cows and a chicken called Is Everyone Ready For Fun?

 

 

 

 

 

  •     Mrs. Lee  will read you a fun story about a Very Impatient Caterpillar!

 

 

 

 

 

Coming soon to our blog – Painted Lady Butterflies! We are looking forward to our butterfly larvae arriving  and observing the butterfly life cycle and learning all about Metamorphosis.

 

 

Don’t forget to use our Useful Links for May activities from our Music and ELL teachers

Warmest regards, 

Mrs. Lee, Ms. Maratovic and Mrs. Nero