Leave the phone alone campaign

Recently, we discussed the importance of safety and how we can help! Please take that moment and listen to what your child has to say about cellphones and when it's a safer time to use them.

Correction

The children should only be using the one uppercase letter in their name

For example

Miss Lavoie and Mme. Finlay

Tidbit # 2

Numeracy

SKs


*. The children should know their numbers at least to 20 even if you take them out of order.  They should be able to group objects to associate the number.

For example.                                        Recognizing dice dots as a number   : :  
                                                              ( recognizing familiar numbers without having to count or
Show me what 4 looks like.                    begin skip counting 2 4 6 8 10 some adding as well)
                                                               Recognize  what + and - means
Child puts 4 cubes on table

*. Children should be able to recognize patterns red/ green/ red green

* visually acknowledge shapes , colours  and be able to attempt drawing the angles associated .

We have been working on oppositional up/ down.  Over/ under   high/low.  Sink/ float

Finer directions for scissor cutting skills

Zippers.... Buttons......lacing.....snaps......are all great practicing skills they should continually work on

 Upper and lowercase letters and use only the uppercase letter in their name

Parent Tidbits

SKs

We are in our last few month's of school and we are working very hard to prepare them for grade 1.

Here are some ideas you can do with your child at home to help keep the constancy for that transition to the big grade 1.

* 20 minute timer for lunch.  The children will need to be encouraged to do less talking and more eating.

* practice opening reusable containers and packaged wrapped foods such as granola bars, yogurt tubes, thermos , oranges bananas on their own.  They will not have the help like they do in kindergarten to do this therefore, it will delay their eating time if they're struggling with.this.

* If you are planning to send your child in shoelaced shoes they need to be encouraged on how to tie their own shoes before putting them in shoes such as these.

* letter and number recognition! Your child should be at this point recognizing letters even if you pull them out of order.  Do not be fooled of rote memorizing  The children should be associating most sounds to the letters that will be required for reading.  Children should be able to see sight words such as

the.    but.    to.      then.   for.        dad.       about.      in.   after.   like

all.     in.      my.     this.    mom.    what.     is.      many.   how.    time

Words with ( ing) knowing  the ing in words

Be able  to associate rhymes

Cat.   Bat.  Mat.  Rat. Mat

Sit.   Bit.    Fit.  

Boy  toy

Mop. Top     All of these words should not be needed to  be sounded  out but  noticed in books you read with them

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OK clean water

Ok Clean water project,

Thank you to all the families who helped make this year's OK Clean Water Project a success.  The Kinder team outside of the regular grades raised over 100.00! We can not extend enough how powerful this project was in our class.  The children learned money value, the hard work it takes to allow running water to simply come out a tap that we simply take for granted.  We also learned how much we actually use water in a day .. Bathroom, fountains, cleaning floors and washing hands are just some common areas the children knew.   We graphed in 10 frames and added piping tubes for visuals on how much piping we have helped.  Thank you so much for your support.