Specialist Schedule

Monday, Day 5 - Music and Second Step

Tuesday, Day 6 - Classroom Support and Physical Education

Wednesday, Day 1 - Learning Buddies and Music

Thursday, Day 2 - Library and Physical Education

Friday, Day 3 - Music

Dates

Magic Toothbrush Presentation: Our class will be attending a presentation of The Magic Toothbrush on Monday, October 27th at 8:45 a.m.  All Kindergarten students will also receive a copy of the book, a toothbrush and a flosser. 

Halloween Spirit Day: Students are invited to dress in black and/or orange on Thursday, October 30th in celebration of Halloween. 

Book Exchange: Our next book exchange will be on Thursday, October 30th, Day 2.  Please have your child return their Library book(s) by or on Wednesday, October 29th, Day 1.  Merci!

Halloween Kindergarten Classroom Rotation: Our class will be participating in a Halloween Kindergarten Classroom Rotation from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 30th.  Students from each class will be grouped together and rotate through a variety of 5 different activities, one in each of the classrooms. 

Halloween Costume Day:  All students and staff of Sherwood School are invited to dress up in their Halloween costumes on Friday, October 31st.  Kindly have your child wear their costume to school.  They will change out of it before going outside for recess at 11:45 a.m.  Please pack a change of clothes in your child’s backpack for them to wear for the remainder of the day.  For safety reasons, kindly do not include a mask or weapons as a part of their costume.  Please also keep small accessories at home as they may get broken or lost at school.  It is going to be a fun day! 

Halloween Party: Our class will be celebrating Halloween on Friday, October 31st by playing bingo and enjoying a snack together.  I will provide a healthy snack that is individually wrapped in its original packaging and labelled as Peanut/Nut Free.  Merci beaucoup!

Halloween Costume Show and Share: All students are invited to talk about their Halloween costume for Show and Share on Friday, October 31st.  Kindly help your child introduce themselves and tell the other students in the class what they are dressed up as in French.  The following sentence structure may be helpful to them:  Bonjour!  Je m’appelle _____.  Je suis un/une _____.

Sherwood School's Home and School Association Crested Clothing Sale:  Sherwood School's Home and School Association will be selling crested clothing from Tuesday, October 21st until Wednesday, November 12th.  Kindly see the following link for further information:  

Sherwood School Crested Clothing Sale

Reminders

Here are a few points of information pertaining to the week ahead:

Leader/Assistant: Our first leader of the day will be Max and our first assistant will be Nolan this week.

Theme: Our theme will continue to be Halloween this week.

Assessment and Evaluation:  I will be working with each student individually to assess their progress in fine motor, early numeracy and early literacy development again this week.  Our daily routine will be adjusted slightly to accommodate this activity.

Eye See…Eye Learn! Program:  Kindly have your child take advantage of the Eye See … Eye Learn! Program before June 30th, 2026.  The Eye See … Eye Learn! program is an eye health and vision awareness program which provides one free eye exam and, if needed, one free pair of glasses to all Kindergarten students across P.E.I.  Please refer to the following link for further information:

Eye See...Eye Learn! Program

Reminder!  Peanut/Nut Free School: Kindly ensure that your child’s snacks and lunch are peanut/nut free.  Thank you very much for taking the extra time to read ingredient and allergen labels.  It helps keep all students safe at Sherwood School.

Reminder!  Rain or Shine Play: Students will be playing outside at recess, rain or shine, except in heavy rain or when temperatures reach a windchill of -20.  Kindly ensure your child is dressed appropriately to play in all weather conditions. 

Fall Activities Show and Share:  Thank you for emailing me a photograph of your child participating in an outdoor fall activity for our integrated fall activities themed Show and Share on Friday, October 24th.  All students were very excited to tell the class about their chosen activity.  Merci beaucoup! 

Kindly find the link to our slideshow below.   Some students asked to show it to their families!

Fall Activities Themed Show and Share

School Occupational Therapist Weekly Message

Kindly see Sherwood School's Occupational Therapist, Katherine McKee-Blanche's, weekly message below.  Please read and watch both as they will be very helpful to your child, you and me. 

Dear Kindergarten parents!

This week’s video involves cutting with scissors! Using scissors is a great two-handed task that works on hand strengthening and coordinating two hands to work together which is very important for developing eye-hand coordination skills! Please watch the video and use the fun strategies at home with your children. Remember, if your child is left-handed, use left-handed scissors as the blades are different on left-handed scissors, making it easier to cut.

Scissor Skills 

As always, if you have any questions, please let me know.

Katie McKee-Blanche

Occupational Therapist

kmckeeblanche@ihis.org

Happy Halloween!