Wednesday, Jan. 9th - Day 3

Hello Everyone,

Welcome back to school!  Hope you all enjoyed the holiday break with friends and family.  Please see below regarding important information for this week, as well as class updates:

Year Ahead Day – Thurs. Jan. 10

Students will be in the Senior Kindergarten classrooms for the day to experience what school will be like next year.  Our class will be in Mrs. Blair’s class in room 12. Please drop off your child’s belongings in their regular cubby.  Ms. Blair will be collecting the students from the gym as per usual. I will be away with the grade 7 and 8’s for their ski trip and will have limited access to email.  Please contact Kaitlin at the front desk if there is an urgent need to contact the school. 

New Math Unit

Our next math unit is all about patterns!  Please see your child’s agenda for an information sheet regarding this unit. 

New Unit of Inquiry

How We Express Ourselves- Patterns Everywhere!

Central Idea: Patterns can be discovered, created and expressed

Lines of Inquiry:

- The order of patterns in the world

- Different pattern forms

- How patterns in nature inspire human creativity

Key Concepts: Form, Connection and Reflection

Letter of the Week Show and Share Schedule

Fri. Jan 18^th - Letter F: Mark, Krish, Shan, Nihal

Fri. Jan 25^th – Letter B: Aaryan, Ahaana, Adam

Fri. Feb. 1^st - Letter J: Lizzie, Aaraiz, Armaan, Inaya

January Important Dates

-       Thurs. Jan 10^th – Year Ahead Day

-       Tues. Jan 15th – After-Care Invoices Due

-       Wed. Jan 16^th - Legoland

-       Mon. Jan 28^th – Fri. Feb 1^st: UOI Summative for Patterning

-       Tues. Jan. 29^th – Bake Sale

-       Wed. Jan. 30^th – Bake Sale

-       Thurs. Jan 31 – Casual Day

                                                                                                                                                                             

Today, January 9th 

Gym – Please see Ms. Yustin’s blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com/

Healthy Snack

Language - This week we are learning about the letter L! Today the JKs learned the sound it makes, and the jolly phonics song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDViX6Y9Q_0

 

They also created the letter out of playdoh:

 

Recess/ Lunch

Music

Language continued - The JKs completed their letter L scavenger hunt activity:

 

Morning Circle – Calendar: days of the week, months of the year songs. Today’s weather, dress for the weather.

Math – Students completed their patterning pre-assessment.

Recess/ Lunch

Inquiry Centres

Story Time

French – Please see Mlle. Jessica’s blog: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com/

Pack up/ Dismissal