November Newsletter

Halloween is on Friday! If you would like to send your child to school in a costume, you are more than welcome to. Please remember: no weapons, masks or offensive language.

Scientists in the School

Scientists will be here on November 6.

Mrs. Cunningham’s class will be in the morning. Volunteers please arrive at 8:45 am to room 129. 

Ms. Yang’s class will be in the afternoon. Volunteers please arrive at 12:30 pm to room 104.

The workshop is about 2.5 hours long.

Brookbanks LibraryWe will be walking to the Brookbanks Library on November 19 in the morning. We are sending a package called Ready for Reading with more information. If your child does not have a library card and you would like them to get their own, please fill out the Customer Registration Form and return it to school no later than November 10.  The librarian will have the card ready for our visit. If your child does have a card, you do not need to fill out the form and send your child to school with their card on November 19. Students with cards will be allowed to borrow books that day. Please note that it will be your responsibility to return the books.  

What have we been up to?

Learning centres are well on their way! Each morning we engage in a different learning centre. Here are some of the things we do:

Working on fine motor skills and counting skills.

Sorting and recognizing numbers.

Sensory: Writing letters and words in sand.

Working in a team to put together an alphabet puzzle.

Making the letter of the day: M.

With our worm inquiry out of the way...and a new season upon us we have been looking at the season of fall. We have noticed the abundance of leaves on the ground that have been blowing all over the place. We started collecting leaves and sticks for our discovery centre and sorting them! 

Playing with sticks and leaves in our discovery centre.

Ready to sort!

Our 2 sorters helping us figure out where the leaves go.

End product.
A few of our students said some leaves in the red pile looked
more purple so we moved them over. The class agreed. 

Finding a seed after reading a book about leaves. 

Scientists in the School

Scientists in the School

Hi everyone!

We currently have 2 volunteers for our class on our November 6, Scientists in the school. We are looking for 2 more volunteers to help us out! If you are a mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, auntie or uncle that would like to spend some time helping our class out in the afternoon, please let either Ms. Campbell or me know. :) Our science workshop needs YOU to run smoothly!

More updates soon!

October Newsletter

An October Newsletter was sent out this past week...please make sure you read it! :)

Here is the Newsletter in case you misplaced it.

Indoor and Outdoor Shoes!
Parents and Guardians, please remember to bring a pair of indoor shoes to keep at school. The weather is changing. That means rain and snow will be coming soon. To keep our classes neat and tidy, we ask that a pair of shoes (Velcro) be left at school.

Scholastic Book Orders
Reading at Home is Great!
Each month your family has the opportunity to buy many wonderful books at amazing prices. These books promote literacy, numeracy as well as science, social studies and the arts. Please remember to send money with exact change with your order by the due date on the flyer.

Scientists in the School
On Thursday, November 6 the Scientists will be coming to our kindergarten classes for a Sensational Science workshop. They will be learning about the 5 senses. The program will take about 2.5 hours. Please note: children will be tasting: apple and grape juice, apple juice with some red food colouring, peanut and gelatin free jelly bean, cocoa powder, lemon juice, gluten free soya sauce, sugar and salt. They may touch or smell orange extract, parmesan cheese, vinegar, coffee, cinnamon, and a latex balloon. Please let us know if you have any concerns about any of these!

Volunteers Needed!
We are asking for 5 volunteers to supervise a centre. If you are interested, please let your child’s teacher know! More information will be given.

Numbers 0 – 10
We will be continuing with learning and making numbers from 0 to 10! At home, you can practice counting different things (ie how many apples did mom buy?)

LettersOur classes have just started learning about letters and sounds.