Reading

Many of the students in Kindergarten have begun to read. Reading is an extremely important tool in life and developing good reading habits early on is crucial.

Take a look at the list of techniques a good reader uses and help your child to use these techniques while reading to you.

For children who have not started reading building a strong foundation of letter sounds, blending sounds together, and recognizing small words will encourage them & give them confidence in reading.

Also reading stories to your child builds their vocabulary, helps them recognize proper grammar & shows them that reading can be fun!

Celebrating Life Concert

This morning was St. Jude's celebrating life concert. The students enjoyed listening to the wonderful music and watching the great dancing!

Inclusion

Today the kindergarten students joined the students from grade 1 to 6 for a special production by Big Kid Entertainment.

We watched a creative reinterpretation of Cinderella and The Frog Prince focusing on accepting differences in others and including everyone.

The show was very entertaining and educational. Everyone enjoyed it!

Check out their website for further information: www.bigkidentertainment.com/

Learning Goals

This week the students are learning:

- The letter Ee: the sound it makes & words that start with Ee.

- About eggs: what we know about the eggs we eat, where they come from (chickens), and other animals that hatch from eggs.

- Simple subtraction by taking away one.

- About Easter and the price Jesus paid for us for our sins.

Please ask your child about the things they are learning in class! The more they share their experiences and new knowledge the stronger the foundation you are building in their lives!

Extending Our Learning

Thank you to all the parents who helped their child extend and reinforce their learning by completing the work we sent home over the March break!

There were so many good examples of using force (pull & push). Like pulling our zipper up on our coats, pulling our pants up our legs, pushing a checker piece across the board, and pushing a suitcase across the floor!

Thank you also for the good deed flowers and leaves! This is an excellent start to our spring tree. It was awesome to see all the good deeds being done by your children. Like helping to do laundry/sort the clothes, helping to clean up, bringing water to their dad, sharing or giving things to others.

If you haven't sent in your child's completed flowers & leaves there is still time to record all the wonderful things they do to add to our tree! We look forward to receiving them.

Photos

Here are a couple of photos of the amazing work some of the students brought back to school today.

Great job to all the children who shared their learning with their parents!

There is still time to send in your work if you haven't already :)

Welcome back!
We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and we are happy to see you back! :)

March Break

Next week is March Break so there is no school. Classes will resume again on Monday March 18 at 8:30am.

This is a great time to practice the skills your child has learnt at school.
For students in senior kindergarten any extra help or practice they get with reading, writing and math will ensure they are ready for grade 1 next year.
For students in junior kindergarten this is the perfect time to strengthen the skills they have learnt as well to boost them ahead in school.

But most importantly spending quality time with your child is the very best thing you can do. Whether it is reading a book every afternoon, going to the park, visiting the Science Center or spending time at home.

Spending time and having a conversation with your child (making sure it is a two way conversation) is the best thing you could ever do.

Enjoy the week and we'll see you when you return!

Science

Students have been learning about Isaac Newton's first law. An object requires a force: either a push or pull to make it move.

Students have been experimenting with and investigating the forces of push and pull in every day life. Such as pushing a door shut or pulling the door open and pulling a sled up a hill or pushing the sled down the hill etc.

This is a difficult concept for most children, therefore, please point out the people you see using push or pull to move things. Examples are someone who is kicking a ball is pushing the ball to make it move or when you take a box off the shelf you are using the force of pull to move it.

Learning Goals

This week we will be learning the name & sound of the letter Bb and we will be finding words that start with Bb.

Students will not be completing their regular letter work this week but will instead work on their own page to contribute to our class book: Book in a Box.

The students will continue to practice simple addition by creating adding on stories. Creating stories for the class addition book will continue to strengthen their verbal communication, creativity & thinking skills.

Through the borrow a book program students will have the opportunity to take home these books, as well as the other books we have previously created, to share their learning with you at home. Ask them to being home these books to share with you. Be sure to take interest in your child's work and to praise them for a job well done.