The Kindergarten Connection: SVS Team!

Friday, March 6, 2026

March 2-6, 2026

This week in Kindergarten, we kept learning about our community — the place where we live, work, and play!

We added more details to our personal community maps. The children drew houses, vehicles, and road signs. We talked about what makes a house special. Students noticed shapes, numbers, different materials, and the parts of a house like doors, windows, and roofs. We read A House by Kevin Henkes and shared our ideas about what makes a house feel like a home.

We read books about vehicles and signs we see in our neighborhood. The children were excited to identify school buses, ambulances, fire trucks, and cars by their colours, shapes, and symbols.

As we continued working on our community maps, students added these new details to their drawings. We learned that road signs can be recognized by their shapes and colours, too. The children drew different road signs in their visual journals.

On your way to and from school, ask your child if they can name the shapes and colours of the road signs they see!

We also spent time celebrating what makes each of us special and unique. We read Be You and talked about how we can be proud of who we are, even when we are different from our friends. The children completed their monthly self-portraits, and we are so excited to see how their artwork shows their growth throughout the year.

Lively Letters is a life changing strategy to hear, recognize, and say the letter sounds in our alphabet! Mrs. Sutherland introduced the partner letters "p, b" and “t, d” using the Lively Letters strategy. You can view the videos with your child. They are posted in the google classroom.

Fundraising Opportunity!

Good news! Mabel's Labels is having a sale and Simons Valley School is one of the choices for fundraising at checkout...check out the link below if you need a new supply of labels for your kiddos!

Mabel's Labels Sale!

Mark your calendars! The Scholastic Book Fair is coming!

Our school’s Scholastic Book Fair will take place on Monday 16^th March to Friday 20^th March.

Our students will have a chance to browse the books with their teacher from Monday to Thursday during school hours, and open to parents on Thursday evening (4:30 pm – 8:00pm) and Friday morning (8:30am – 1:00pm) during the student-led conferences. Cash and Cards accepted.

There will not be a Virtual option this year.

Your investment in your reader helps our whole school. All purchases earn Scholastic Dollars that can be redeemed for books and educational resources for our school’s classrooms and library.

The countdown to more Bookjoy is on!

Link to our school calendar: Simons Valley School Calendar

Friday Class Schedule

Library Day is Tuesday, March 10, 2026!

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

Important Kindergarten Dates...

Tuesday, March 10 - Library Day - Return books in their plastic bag

Friday, March 13 - PM Class Attends (9:02-11:58am)

Our Emails

If you have any questions or need to contact us, our emails are:

Mrs. Oster: rdoster@cbe.ab.ca

Mrs. Sutherland: klsutherland@cbe.ab.ca

Mrs. Wiskar: mjwiskar@cbe.ab.ca

Friday, February 27, 2026

Feb. 23-27, 2026

💖 Kindness Matters in Kindergarten! 💖

This week in Kindergarten, we learned all about kindness — being kind to ourselves, our families, classmates, school, community, and even our world!

We met some special Canadian Indigenous Kindness Critters who sent us videos and kindness challenges to try. Ask your child what they did this week to show kindness to themselves, their families, big kids, and friends!

Meet Bizzy Beaver & Mo the Moose!

These friendly critters (created by Chris Kewistep and Paul Windsor) helped us think about being kind and celebrating who we are.

We practiced being kind to ourselves by accepting our uniqueness. We drew self-portraits and picked three words that describe us. Some of our words were:

I am… grateful, loving, a good kindness friend, a hard worker, creative, kind, silly, talented, brave… and more!

Special Guest: Mrs. Azzopardi & Kindness Kangaroo

Mrs. Azzopardi joined us with her friend Kindness Kangaroo to read “What Does it Mean to Be Kind?” We talked about ways we can be kind to each other.

We also learned a new kindness song to sing with a friend:

“I like you. Yes, I do. Will you be a friend of mine? I like you.”

Then we made kindness bookmarks for our grade 5 math helpers and created posters to share kindness around our school.

💖 PINK SHIRT DAY – Wednesday, February 25 💖

Many kindies wore pink shirts to celebrate kindness and support anti-bullying.

We read “Say Something” by Peter Reynolds, which teaches how one voice can make a difference. Around the school, we shared kind messages and gave high fives to teachers and big kids:

“You are awesome!”
“Thank you for helping us!”
“Happy Kindness Day!”
“Happy Pink Shirt Day!”

Every day is a chance to show kindness with our actions, words, and voices.
Kindness counts!

🤝 Thursday’s Kindness Challenge

We talked about being a friend to others. We read the funny story “Enemy Pie”, where a dad shows his son how anyone can become a friend if you’re willing to try.

We learned that friendship and kindness go hand in hand — and it’s fun to make new friends! The Kindness Book by Todd Parr shared so many ideas of how to be kind to others. Check out our drawings of what we learned about kindness this week.