The Kindergarten Connection: SVS Team!: November 4-7, 2024

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?"