We have entered week 3 of Advent

Save the date!!!! December 21, 2016 Kindergarten Christmas Concert

Please be advised of the times for the three Kindergarten Classrooms.

Star Class ( Ms. DiRienzo) and Clownfish Class (Mme. Finlay & Ms. Lavoie)  will be combining for this years Christmas concert.

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Ladybug Class ( Mrs. Panetta & Mrs. Deek) 

Time: 10:00 a.m.

We ask that you come no earlier then 8:45 a.m. to allow the rest of the school to clear hallways and finish announcements.  Your  child's name  will be posted on the Gymnasium door to give you an idea of where they will be positioned in the gym for your picture taking.  Please arrive timely so we can respectively have both classes begin on time. 

If there is any other information needed for parents concerning the concert a notice from your child's teacher will go home prior to the date in their mailbag.  

We look forward to seeing you!

Kindergarten Team 

Clownfish Class

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank our generous parents of our class for donating gift cards.  We were able to purchase Christmas items for the children and they're thrilled to begin the creativity.

The Kindergarten students are learning about The Season of Advent

Sunday, November 27th marked the beginning of Advent.  Your child, along with the rest of the school celebrated the event on Monday and will continue celebrating every subsequent Monday until Christmas Day. Please ask your child about their experience to reinforce the meaning of the Season.

The Advent wreath consists of 3 purple, 1 pink and I white candle. The 4 coloured candles represent the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas Day. The white candle is lit on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

The first candle lit is purple and represents HOPE.  The second candle lit is also purple and represents PEACE. The third candle lit is pink and represents JOY.  The forth candle lit is purple and represents LOVE.

BELOW ARE THE WREATHS EACH STUDENT HAS CREATED AND WILL CONTINUE TO "LIGHT" EVERY MONDAY. 

The Ladybugs (Panetta/Deek) classrooms happenings

The students enjoyed making and eating some pumpkin spice muffins. 

 A follow up to our Halloween pumpkin carving .

Gears gears Galore! Thanks to Lance's dad for coming in and teaching the students how to build with gears in a variety of ways.

Ethan is creating new colours and great designs with the light table.

Dans ma salle de classe - Le clown Alexandre/Paul Langel

Please find this video on www.youtube.com



Dans ma salle de classe - Le clown Alexandre/Paul Langel

Remembrance Day Ceremony

All Kindergarten SK's will be joining the ceremony in the gymnasium at 10:30 a.m. All JK students will be remaining in their classrooms  for a ceremony and standing for the moment of silence at 11:00.  We will follow the live feed on our smartboard at Parliament Hill.  Parents who are wishing to attend, can pick me up  their child from class.  All students are encouraged to wear their red tomorrow. 

Ladybug item request

If you haven't had an opportunity to send in your $5.00 toward our classroom crafts, now would be a great time.....with Christmas coming! If you prefer to send in items there is a list below to give you some ideas.  To those who have already sent in several items, we thank you so much! With a class of 29, craft items go very quickly!

Christmas stickers, foams shapes, wrapping paper, pipe cleaners, colouring books

Cotton balls

Pompoms

Small boxes 

Bells

Foil wrap

Playdough

Anything you think the students would inquire about!

Again, thank you so much from the Ladybugs

Student Photo Proofs

Reminder that your photo orders are due to school by Thursday, November 10th.

Nouvelle chanson pour les groupes Stars et Clown Fish!

The Stars / Clownfish Class learnt a new song

Halloween sing alongs!

We hope everyone had a fun and exciting Halloween!  The children were surely happy and excited to share costumes and stories of their night.  With many news feedings hitting the media, we are strongly encouraging parents to inspect candy carefully and limit the sweets in the healthy lunch preparation.  Please listen to our number ! hits this year in class.

The Ladybugs enjoyed our science experiments

Parents were in last week to help us with some fun science experiments. Lots of inquiry was happening. Will the pumpkin sink or float? What will happen when the vinegar is added to the baking soda? Why? How will we make the slime? The skittles are making a rainbow!! The colours are joining together...red and yellow is making orange!!

Thank you parents for your patience and for promoting more inquiry.

November Scholastic

November Scholastic flyers go home tomorrow. When you have a minute to browse, check out the greats deals!  They would make great Christmas gifts!! If you are ordering for Christmas, we would be happy to hide them for you until you were able to pick them up.  Below you can see just a few of the great deals this month!  Happy Reading!

Practicing zippers

Please help encourage your child to independently zip zippers and provide time to independently practice putting on boots, coats, scarves, mitts and hats.  Winter is closely near and this would only benefit their dressing and undressing skills in a timely manner to enjoy the activities to follow.  Many children have difficulties with gloves and the spreadi of the fingers so please work with your child on putting on and taking off.  If possible, please  keep a spare pair of mittens in their backpack as it may take awhile for mitts to dry throughout the day.  We do not want to see our children feel cold.

Halloween crafts

With our gift cards that were given to the Clownfish Class , I would like to announce that the children are very delighted to see some of the wonderful crafts purchased by some of the funds given.  Thank you to all the families who helped contribute supplies needed in the classroom. 

Many Thanks to our parents!

The clownfish class would like to say many thanks for your generous donations for our Shepherds Of Good Hope.  The children have been extremely eager to bring food items in and take part in helping our community.  Many learning curves have been seen from graphing to counting and  of course leaving our mark on the gigantic thermometer.  Please continue to help this great cause.

Brrrrrr, it's cold outside

Today was the first day we felt the chilly weather while playing outside.  Since we will continue to go outside daily to get some much needed fresh air and gross motor play, we kindly ask you dress your child with a warmer jacket and send a hat and mittens for these cold days.  They have so much more fun if they are cozy warm! Please label everything possible. Thank you so much!

Halloween News

Holy Family will be celebrating Halloween at school on Monday, October 31st.  There is no obligation but your child is certainly welcome to wear orange and black or a Halloween costume that day.  For their own safety, we kindly ask that the students not wear masks or bring any hand held props that would be considered a weapon such as swords and knives. It might be a good idea to have them wear the costume over their clothes so they are free to change when they get tired.

Since one of our students has just recently been diagnosed  with a peanut allergy, we would ask that you do not send in any candy or treats please.  We have a feeling they will get enough that evening!!! 

Thank you for your understanding.

Bonjour, Bonjour! - alain le lait (French greetings)

Sing Along!

         



All Kinder classes have been singing along to this catchy tune! Play it and have your child sing along and tell you what the song is about.  You will learn some new French words about items in the classroom. Enjoy!

Because a parent inquired! This is our Lunch prayer for the Clownfish and Star Classes

Hexagon creations

Finn was creating some amazing structures with the hexagon shapes today. Please present one of your creations to your friends tomorrow. 

Creating fossils

The Ladybugs were creating fossils of all kinds.  Ask them.... What is a fossil?  How is a fossil created? What can you see in a fossil? 

Permission form to bus to Holy Cross Church

Thank you for the signed forms we have already received but we are still missing quite a few. Please sign the form and send it in as soon as possible.  Let us know if you have misplaced the form and require another.  Thank you!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Wishing you all a relaxing Thanksgiving weekend with your families.

From The Kinder Team (Mrs. Panetta, Mrs. Deek, Mme Finlay, Miss Lavoie and Miss Dirienzo)

All kinds of inquiry happening with the Ladybugs

Teresa counted and moulded the numbers with play dough. Great countingTeresa!

Taylor traced the alphabet. You will soon be printing words Taylor! Great work!

Chase, Micah and Messie were busy sorting leaves at the science table. Scientists in the making!

Ladybugs did some baking today.....yum!

The Ladybugs had fun measuring, stirring and sprinkling as they made apple crisp this morning with Mrs. Deek.  The school smelled delicious as it was baking. Everyone had a taste of the delicious treat!  Please ask your child about it!

Blankets and change of clothing

We will be sending the blankets home on Friday  for a washing. We will also send home summer outfits from their change of clothing bag.  Please replace these items with colder weather wear and return to school on Monday with their blanket.

Thank you!

Terry Fox Walk

Tomorrow, the students will be walking around our track in support of the Terry Fox Foundation.  Please ensure your child has comfortable outdoor shoes for walking. 

Thank you for the toonies that have already come in.  You can still send in your toonie tomorrow!

Please ask your child about the event when they get home.  Thank you and enjoy your weekend!

Lost and Found

Lost and Found

Clownfish Class

Apple inquiry has lead the Clownfish class to discover  the mystery shape inside.   Ask your child about the house with no windows or doors today!

Bilingual Songs | English French | Vol 1

The clownfish class have been working on the first four songs.  Has your child been singing at home?

The ladybugs did some apple tasting today.

Our graph shows that red apples were the most popular but they really enjoyed tasting all three .

Feel free to send in apples for your child's snack. We have a slicer and they always taste better sliced!! Ask them about it!j

Ladybugs happenings

The two green amigos busy spelling words! Good work boys!

Ladybugs Classroom happenings

Nathan was busy printing his grocery list! Great work Ethan!

From the Panetta/Deek Classroom...

A friendly reminder to send in your designated Alphabet Letter soon.  The ones that were already sent in are so creative and look amazing on the wall.  Thank you!

We have several family photos but still missing a few. We really want every child to be part of our Family Tree.

Coming soon....

We can't wait to post photos of our classroom happenings. There seems to be a glitch right now but we will rectify ASAP!

We will also post photos of  items that the students are not recognizing.....Tupperware, grey sweater.

Missing: one of our students is missing a precious cream colour sweater; if your child accidentally brought it home, please return thank you.

Thank you so much for your support!

A very warm Welcome to our new students as well as our returning families! We look forward to another fun filled school year. It was a very hot first week but we got through it triumphantly......well perhaps with a few tears!

We have 3 Kindergarten classes this year:

Miss Dirienzo is in Room 7 with a class capped at 15 with no ECE (Early Childhood Educator); 

Mme Finlay is in Room 8 with Early Childhood Educator, 
Miss Lavoie;

Mrs. Panetta is in Room 9 with Early Childhood Educator, 
Mrs Deek.

We welcome Miss Dirienzo and Mrs.Deek to our school! We are very happy to have them join our Kinder Team!

Meet the Educator Night

We encourage all parents to come out on Tuesday evening, September 27th  to meet the teachers and have the opportunity to join your own childs' teacher(s) for a short information session. This is an adult only evening please.

Since we have 3 Kindergarten classes this year we have decided to give each class a fun name for quicker identification and response!!

Miss Dirienzo's students are the STARS 

Mme Finlay and Miss Lavoie's  students are the CLOWN FISH

Mrs. Panetta and Mrs. Deek's students are the LADY BUGS

A few reminders and requests......

• We know the weather is changing but for now the school is quite warm, Please send your child in layers so they are not too warm.

• Please write your child's name on everything possible (clothing, shoes, rubber boots, winter boots, lunch kits, water bottles, plastic containers, blankets, etc.  You would be amazed at the duplicates!!!!

• If you haven't sent a change of clothing in a labelled ziplock yet, please do so before we actually need them. To save us time from writing notes, if a set of clothing comes home soiled, please replenish the next day.

• Your child will require a set of headphones for the ipad use. Remember we did keep a few sets from our last year Junior Kindergarten students.

• If you havent sent in a box of kleenex, box of ziplock bags and 2 containers of playdough,we would certainly appreciate the contribution. Several of you have already sent them in.....thank you so very much! 

• In addition to the above, we would kindly request a small gift card, $5.00 or so, from Dollaramma, Dollar Tree or Walmart for example. This would be for our year long purchases toward special and seasonal craft items, sensory bin materials, developing photos and so much more. We certainly appreciate your generosity.

Thank you so much!!!!!

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Mme Finlay and Miss Lavoie Library		Miss Dirienzo    Gym		Miss Dirienzo    Gym
Miss Dirienzo    Library	Mrs. Panetta and Mrs. Deek   Gym	Mme Finlay and Miss Lavoie        Gym	Mrs. Panetta and  Mrs. Deek   Gym	Mme Finlay and Miss Lavoie     Gym
		Mrs. Panetta and  Mrs. Deek Library

Blankets will go home the last Friday of every month to be washed. Please return the following Monday please.

Birthdays

We always highlight every student's birthday with a crown, singing and a goodie bag and you really don't have to feel obligated to send in anything. If you are wanting to send a little something, may we suggest perhaps a pencil or sticker, etc. All three classes have students with sensitivities to a variety of foods and one sibling with a serious peanut allergy. We would kindly ask that you not send in baked goods.  Thank you so much for your understanding on this sensitive matter. 

Please save the date

SK Farewell for both Kindergarten classes will commence on June 21, 2016 @ 9 a.m. In the gymnasium.