October 12th

Happy Thanksgiving!

This week we will continue on with Fall and Halloween fun. We will be counting Halloween items and making bat or owl windsocks. The class will be looking at pumpkins and comparing and arranging them from biggest to smallest. Our letters this week are "c" and "o" and the trick word is "like". We will be doing some more activities that focus on syllables and rhyming. 

We will be having a class costume party on the Friday, October 30th . I will send out some more information in next week's update.  If anyone is sending in treats to share from home, please keep in mind that we are a peanut/nut, and fish free school.

October 5th

October is flying by and Thanksgiving is approaching. The class will be counting feathers to decorate turkeys, as well as writing about things that we are thankful for.  We will be practicing number formation using our whiteboards with the focus on 2& 3.  

Our letters this week are "i" and "u" and the trick word is "the".  I will be sending home a laminated sheet with the Fundations writing grid on it and a white board marker. This is yours to keep and use with your child if they would like to do some extra letter printing using the Fundations wording. We will be working on syllables and some Fall/Halloween rhyming. In Writer's Workshop we will be talking about how illustrators use tools and that illustrators use sticks, circles, and boxes when they draw.

Picture Day

Just a reminder that picture day is Thursday, October 8th.

There are no classes for students on Monday, October 12th in observance of Thanksgiving.

September 28th

It is hard to believe that we are almost one full month into school and are heading into October! This week we will be doing some Fall and Thanksgiving related literacy and numeracy activities.

We will be counting leaves to match to a number, as well as doing a roll the dice and colour in the apple activity to work on number recognition (1-6). 

At this point in the year, kindergarten students mainly use pictures to tell their stories when writing. We have been learning that storytellers share stories, retell stories and act out stories. Our letters this week are n and m and our trick word is "can".

The big book we are reading this week is I Was Walking Down the Road by Sarah E. Barchas. It is a rhyming book that talks about all the animals that the little girl in the story finds on her walk. It is a fun story for predicting and identifying rhyming words. The following link is a YouTube  video of a read aloud of the story. 

I Was Walking Down the Road 

Some reminders for upcoming events

Tuesday- Orange Shirt Day

Wednesday- No school in recognition of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 

Thursday- UPEI Nurses Teddy Bear Clinic -  Your children can bring in their stuffed animals or dolls for some TLC from our UPEI nursing students.

Picture Day is October 8th for English kindergarten classes.

September 21st

Tuesday marks the beginning of Fall. We will be starting to talk about the season and all the various topics that surround this, such as leaves, pumpkins, and Thanksgiving. We will be reading the big book Changing Colours and creating books of our own. We will also be reading the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle . I will be using the story as a launching point for some retelling, colouring ,sequencing  and number identification activities.

We have finished up our Fundations orientation week and are beginning Unit One. The focus letters  are "b" and "f" as well as last week's letter t. We will also begin to talk about sight words (high-frequency) or "trick words" as they are referred to in Fundations. This week's trick words are "I' and "see" .

In numeracy we will be working on counting and creating sets, as well as reviewing last week's concept of more, fewer, and as many as.

Glen Stewart will be having our annual Terry Fox run on Friday. 

Terry Fox Run/Walk

 In 1980, Terry Fox faced considerable challenges while running the equivalent of a marathon a day for 143 days during his 3,339 mile Marathon of Hope.  It was all about effort for Terry.  He challenged himself every day with one goal in mind: raise the most money he could to end cancer.  Now it's Glen Stewart Primary School's turn.

On Friday, September 25th the students of Glen Stewart Primary School will be walking and running around the school playground in memory of Terry Fox.  We are asking students to make a small donation of a twoonie or a loonie to help raise money for Terry's cause.  Students can bring donations to their classroom teacher or families can make a donation of their choice directly to the Terry Fox Foundation by clicking on the following link:  

Terry Fox Donations Link 

Orange Shirt Day

Glen Stewart will be having Orange Shirt Day on Tuesday, September 29th

Orange Shirt Day is September 30th. Every Child Matters is a movement that is sweeping our country and YOU are invited to become a part of it! At six years old, Phyllis Webstad was excited about starting school. Her grandmother took her shopping and Phyllis picked out a shiny orange shirt to wear on the first day of residential school. Her new shirt was taken from her on that first day and she never saw it again. Phyllis' story is similar to many residential school survivors. Held annually on September 30th, this day honours these survivors of Indian Residential Schools. 

September 14th

We have gotten off to a fantastic start to Kindergarten in KC! Your children are doing an amazing job of following and remembering our routines, as well as sharing and being kind to others. I am looking forward to a great year!

These next few weeks in class we will be working on establishing our classroom routines and expectations. We will be talking about what is acceptable behaviour both in our classroom and out on the playground. Our class will be reading the book “Hands Are Not for Hitting” and we will be doing some activities around what positive things that we can use our hands for. We want kindergarten to be a happy and safe environment for everyone! We will also be learning about each other this week and finding out what makes us all special and unique. We will be talking about birthdays and how we got our names. I will be sending home a sheet for you to fill out the story of how your child got their name and then sharing these stories with each other as they are returned. Thank you for helping out with this activity.  The class will be involved in various literacy activities  and we will be working on our scissor skills as well. This week also marks the beginning of our Fundations program. I will be sending home an information packet about this literacy based program with your child this week.

If you have not already had an opportunity to do so, please sign and return the forms that were sent home in your child's homework bag last week. Thank you and have a great week!

Meet The Teacher Night- We will be having a Meet the Teacher night on Wednesday, September 16th at 6:00.  I look forward to seeing you then. 

September 8th

Thank you for taking the time to checkout our classroom blog. Starting next week I will be using this page to post weekly what we will be up to in KC. I try to post every Sunday for the upcoming week.