Welcome back and Happy New Year!
As the school year progresses, there will be growing expectations for students to demonstrate their knowledge of letter sounds, and recognition of basic sight words and short phrases. Students are encouraged to produce more written work, including the use of appropriately “sized” letters (lower case versus upper case). Please reinforce an awareness of this at home, and in their world outside school, as much as you can. Good examples of environmental print are local street signs, food containers (cereal boxes, cans) household games, child-friendly websites, and simple recipes, etc.
As the school year progresses, there will be growing expectations for students to demonstrate their knowledge of letter sounds, and recognition of basic sight words and short phrases. Students are encouraged to produce more written work, including the use of appropriately “sized” letters (lower case versus upper case). Please reinforce an awareness of this at home, and in their world outside school, as much as you can. Good examples of environmental print are local street signs, food containers (cereal boxes, cans) household games, child-friendly websites, and simple recipes, etc.
Home suggestions to support classroom learning:
- Use pictures on the cover and/or the book’s title to predict what the story will be about. Check back during the story to see if they want to change their predictions as they are given more information through print and pictures (…be a story ‘detective’). * Also search for high-frequency sight words found in stories or the environment.
- Review the number of syllables in words (also described as ‘chunks of sound’ - e.g. rain/bow = 2).
- Practice printing lower case letters at all times (- except when a capital letter is called for). Encourage as much printing practice as possible: e.g. adding their name and labeling their drawings, as well as labeling items around the house (e.g. “bed” / “door” / “lamp”).
- Practice counting to 50 & beyond. Counting while walking around the house or brushing your teeth, etc.
- Use small items (e.g. marbles, lego) to practice adding & subtracting; start with 5 and work up to 10.
- Count in French how many steps it takes to get from your front door to the bedroom / kitchen / car / etc.
- Have your child identify (or teach you) colours, the weather, or other common words in French.
- Enjoy a ‘treasure hunt’ for shapes or patterns (e.g. dinner plate =circle; table = square; floor tiles = pattern).
winter/ hiver snow/ neige ice / glace cold/ froid slide/ glisser ski / skier skate/ patiner snowman/ bonhomme de neige coat/ manteau hat/ chapeau mittens/ mitaines boots/ bottes snow pants/ pantalon de neige sled / traineau snowflake/ flocon de neige
The SKs are learning to complete simple phrases, such as:
The SKs are learning to complete simple phrases, such as:
Je veux _____. / Je peux _____. / J'aime ______. (glisser / patiner / skier / jouer)
(I want _____. / I can______. / I like ______.) (slide / skate / ski / play)
Report cards will be sent home
February 16th. There is a new format for Kindergarten report cards, which has been created by the Ministry of Education.
The new report card will not contain any formal marks. It is designed with four frames for anecdotal comments under these headings:
- Belonging and Contributing
- Self-regulation and Well-being
- Demonstrating Mathematics and Literacy Behaviours
- Problem Solving and Innovating
As always, if you have any questions or concerns just give us a call.
Sincerely,
The Kindergarten Teams
(I want _____. / I can______. / I like ______.) (slide / skate / ski / play)
Report cards will be sent home
February 16th. There is a new format for Kindergarten report cards, which has been created by the Ministry of Education.
The new report card will not contain any formal marks. It is designed with four frames for anecdotal comments under these headings:
- Belonging and Contributing
- Self-regulation and Well-being
- Demonstrating Mathematics and Literacy Behaviours
- Problem Solving and Innovating
As always, if you have any questions or concerns just give us a call.
Sincerely,
The Kindergarten Teams
