Healthy Bodies last week and now...Healthy
Wellness!!
Last week, we talked about keeping our bodies healthy. This week, we learned
all about Healthy Wellness — which means understanding and sharing our
feelings. We learned that sometimes we can feel happy, sad, angry, scared, and
calm. We read books that showed us it's OK to have different emotions. We read
stories that showed us all feelings are normal and an important part of our
social wellness journey. Ask your child,
“How are you feeling today?” and listen as they tell you about their feelings.
Talking about our feelings helps us understand ourselves better and makes us
good friends.
We read about the Colour Monster who wakes up feeling very
confused. His emotions are all over the place. He feels angry, happy, calm,
sad, and scared all at once. Colours are one way we can help young children to
unpack their feelings and identify their emotions to feel more in control. Ask
your child what colour monster they feel like today?
We also shared a special book called "In My Heart"
by Jo Witek. It shows the many feelings
we have inside our hearts. Each feeling was captured with words, colours, and
pictures, like "happy, calm, sad, afraid, mad, silly, and
more." Here are some of our drawings showing what is in our hearts.
SNOW fun- Winter weather arrived! We made snow angels and tried
to catch falling snowflakes on our mittens and tongues. Thank you to all our
families for sending your children with warm hats, mittens, snow pants, and
boots. We also visited our “Fletcher’s tree” to see how it looks covered in snow.
Fletcher is a fox from a picture book story who learned about all the seasons
from his favorite tree.
💐Thank you to all the families who joined us for parent-teacher conferences this week. We enjoyed meeting with you and celebrating your child's learning in kindergarten!
Library Day is Tuesday, December 2!
Thank you for helping your child to remember their library
book AND plastic protector BAG each Tuesday!!
Link to our school calendar: Simons Valley School Calendar
Friday Class Schedule
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
