Feb 2

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Retakes
Nov. 10
Library
Thursday
New Readers
Tues /Fri.
Interviews
Nov. 20 eve
Interviews
Nov. 21 am
No School
Nov. 21
FDK 5
October Happenings

as well. They love to share these patterns that they
notice on their clothing.
-We learned a song about pumpkins that practices
positional words (in, out, up, low, etc). Each child
made a pumpkin to help them act out this song.
Last week we worked together to put numbered
butterflies in order and we are practicing counting
to 100.
-The children have free exploration time when they
can pick their activity but we also have guided
centre times. The children are placed in groups and
rotate through a series of centres to work on
different expectations of the Kindergarten
curriculum.
-Our centres this month involved: exploring fall items
with magnifying glasses and recording their
thoughts in their discovery journals, predicting
whether certain items would sink or float and then
experimenting to see if their predictions were true,
building alphabet and sound knowledge using the
starfall.com website, matching upper and lower
case letter game, Halloween lace and trace to
build fine motor skills, decorating haunted houses
with stickers and chalk, making foam pumpkin
creations, painted gourds, finishing a wooden
Halloween decoration, a Halloween sticker
counting book, pumpkin adding, roll a dice and put
the correct number of pumpkins on a fence, roll and
graph the Halloween erasers and using the
Smartboard they spun a dice and dragged the
correct number of Halloween items onto the screen.
We also had a week when each child had an
individual bucket (I bucket) filled with different items
(such as cubes, marker lids, buttons, counters,
coloured sticks, shapes). The children explored the
manipulatives and counted, sorted and patterned.
We take photos of the children while they are
engaged in these experiences and we later share
them with the whole class. This activity allows the
children to share


-We have studied many Jolly Phonics sounds this
month: c, k, e, h, r, m, d, o and g. Your child should
be able to identify the sound and the letter name.
Please continue to review these as well as our sight
words at home.
-We have been playing games and singing songs to
work on identifying beginning sounds, rhyming and
blending the sounds together to hear the word. For
Thanksgiving the SK children wrote about something
they were thankful for and the JK children identified
beginning sounds in some Thanksgiving foods.
-We made words that rhyme with at and then
read a book with our new sight word.
-After reading If You Take a Mouse to School, the
children each drew a response of something the
mouse might ask them for at school. We discussed
making personal connections to the text to have a
better understanding of what has happened in this
text. We will make text to self connections
throughout the year to improve the childrens
comprehension skills. We also read a big book
One Stormy Night and made connections to our
own experiences with storms and how we felt during
stormy nights.
-We participated in the Big Crunch. This event
involved the whole school crunching down on
apples at the same time in the gym to celebrate
healthy eating. Our class wrote a thank you letter to
the Farrells from Homefront Orchard for donating
the delicious apples to our school!
-We learned the song Ten Little Turkeys as well as
some poems that helped us count from 1-10 and
then backwards. You may have heard your child
say Five Little Pumpkins sitting on a Gate. We love
to sing with the children and hope they are sharing
these at home with you.
-We have sorted in numerous ways suggested by
the students: boys/girls, shoes, hair length, etc. We
have made patterns as a group and talked about
what is a pattern and how do you know. Your child
may be pointing out the patterns on their clothing

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children to share their thinking with others and reflect on their learning.
Book orders are due Nov. 3. If you would like to have an order put
aside for Christmas gifts, please write us a note and we will let you
know when the orders come in for your pickup.
Reports will be sent home on Nov. 14.
***Please label all of your childs winter clothing. This ensures that we
can return the proper clothing to each child. Often we may have
several pairs of the same boots or mitts and the children sometimes
have difficulty identifying their belongings. It is often a good idea to
send an extra pair of mitts in case the first pair gets wet. If we send
home some of your childs wet clothing, please send in replacements as
soon as possible for our cupboard. Thank you!
We thank Mrs. Richards for coming in once a week to read with the
children and review their sounds. If you have some extra time and
would like to come in to help the children one on one with reading,
sight words, sounds, math or at sometimes at centres, please let us
know. The children enjoy working with our volunteers and showing
off their knowledge.


Happy Halloween from FDK 5!







We are busy learning at our
centres. Ask your child
what he/she is doing!