The Kindergarten Connection: SVS Team!

November 14 & 15, 2024…

This is Me in November!

We continue to practice drawing people using Mat Man shapes to create a self portrait of "This is Me in November." The students are learning to add more details to help identify their own unique characteristics: hair, eye colour, ears, clothes they are wearing that day.

Did you know that Kindergarten children can access FREE GLASSES if they need them?

Eye exams are also covered by Alberta Healthcare...check out the information below if your child has not had a recent eye exam!

Eye See Eye Learn Information

Google classroom is LIVE!! We post weekly plans on google classroom as well as helpful links and valuable information. As your child moves to Grade 1 they will be using google classroom weekly and getting used to checking it now is a Kindergarten expectation. If you are planning a vacation or your child will miss consecutive days of school, our google classroom provides helpful information about supporting your child.

If you have not done so, please log in using the information provided via email.

Thank you!

NEXT Library Day will be Monday, November 18!

Thank you for helping your child to remember their library book AND plastic protector BAG each Monday!!

IMPORTANT KINDERGARTEN DATES...

Monday, Nov.18 - Library Day - Return books in their plastic bag

Wednesday Nov. 20- Photo retakes (let us know if your child needs photos)

Thursday, Nov. 21- Parent Council Meeting 7pm

Friday Nov. 22- PM Kindie attends

Thursday Nov. 28 (evening) and Friday Nov. 29- Parent/ Teacher conferences- More details to come!

Link to our Simons Valley School calendar: Click Here

Link to schedule for Friday Kindergarten Classes: Friday Schedule

Our Emails

Mrs. Oster: rdoster@cbe.ab.ca

Mrs. Sutherland: klsutherland@cbe.ab.ca

Mrs. Wiskar: mjwiskar@cbe.ab.ca

This week in Kindergarten, we focused on the theme of Peace! We read stories, painted poppies, and explored what makes us feel peaceful using our 5 senses. We love discussing peace with our students; here are some of their ideas about Peace...

We believe peace starts with us and learned a fun song, "I've Got Peace in My Fingers." You can listen to it using this link:

We created a beautiful field of poppies inspired by Indigenous art with Lance Cardinal; we used balloons dipped in acrylic paint to start our collaborative work and finished it off with sharpies and paint sticks.

We read a favourite story by Todd Parr' called "The Peace Book”. Then we drew pictures of what “peace means to me.”

We traced our hands and cut them out to make a poppy to create a special wreath for the Thursday Remembrance Day assembly. We honored veterans and listened to lovely music about peace. Thank you to the big kids and teachers for sharing such important songs, photographs and poetry with our school. Ask your child about their favorite part of the ceremony!

Here are a few more peace books we used to guide our discussion this week.

Math

In math, we're began learning more about numbers using a math BINGO game. We are representing numbers using assorted items in our math tubs. We are also learning to count using one-to-one correspondence by touching the objects one by one as we count. You can help at home! Ask your child, "Can you show me four cars? six spoons?"