Important Dates!

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Monday, April 30th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.

Tuesday, May 1st:  Music for the afternoon class.
Early dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

Wednesday, May 2nd:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Thursday, May 3rd:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.

Friday, May 4th:  Music for the morning class.

This Week in Kindergarten!

We are very busy further developing our kindergarten literacy skills.  This little girl is circling a capital letter (une lettre majuscule) in the illustrated sentence.

Circling a lower-case letter (une lettre minuscule).

Circling a word.  We are also working at identifying the first and the last letters in words (la première lettre et la dernière lettre dans un mot).

Playing a springtime memory game.

Hard at work in our spring booklet.

Practicing to print the letter V.

Printing the initial consonant sounds.  These are the sounds that we hear at the beginning of a word.  We did a great job!  Mme Godin taught us that chenille (caterpillar) is a bit trickier.  It starts with 2 letters that we put together to make the sound "ch" in French.

Spring Vocabulary - Part 2!

Please take some time over the next few weeks to practice these new spring words.

Important Dates!

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Music classes are cancelled this week due to the grade 3 to 5 spring musical.  
Phys. Ed. classes will take place in the classroom or outdoors.

Monday, April 23rd:  Music is cancelled.

Tuesday, April 24th:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
The afternoon class will watch the spring musical rehearsal.

Wednesday, April 25th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
The morning class will watch the spring musical rehearsal.

Thursday, April 26th:  Music is cancelled.

Friday, April 27th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!

This Week in Kindergarten!

Practicing to print the letter R.

Earth day activities on the SMARTboard.

Do these objects belong in the compost or recycling?

Circling the term (le motif) of a pattern.

The boys and girls coloured coffee filters with blue and green markers.

Once the children were done colouring they sprayed the coffee filter with water.

These beautiful planet earths (la terre) are on display in our classroom.

Earth day patterns.

We continued to watch clips from "Les aventures d'Écolo-fille".  On Wednesday's episode, the children had to decide if the egg shell belonged in the recycling (le recyclage).

Or the garbage (la poubelle)?

Everyone agreed that the egg shell did indeed belong in the compost (le compost).

We even read a story about la poubelle (garbage can) in our series of Paul and Suzanne books.

Important Dates!

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Monday, April 16th:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Tuesday, April 17th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Early dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

Wednesday. April 18th:  Music for the morning class.

Thursday. April 19th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!
The boys and girls may wear something blue, green or brown to school today to celebrate Earth Day which takes place on April 22nd!
Mme Godin is attending a kindergarten workshop in the morning.  Mme Dryjski will be the substitute teacher.

Friday, April 20th:  Inservice Day (No school!)

This Week in Kindergarten!

I told the boys and girls that if we made spring trees maybe we would get warmer weather.  The joke was on us, it snowed the very next day!  The morning class' trees.

The afternoon class' trees.

Hard at work copying and illustrating a sentence in our spring booklet.

We have been learning all about words that rhyme (riment) and don't rhyme (ne riment pas).

Practicing to print the letter B.

Brainstorming for words that begin with the letter B.

Counting sets of objects and printing the correct number.

Printing the missing numbers in the number sequence.

Playing a springtime memory game.

Marching around the tower.

Playing in the sandbox.

Many of the children in the afternoon kindergarten class continue to create with K'Nex every day.

They love to add wheels and watch their creations roll all over the classroom.

Spring Vocabulary - Part 1!

Please take some time over the next few weeks to practice the new spring vocabulary.

Important Dates!

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Monday, April 9th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.

Tuesday, April 10th:  Music for the morning class.

Wednesday, April 11th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!
Mme Godin is attending a kindergarten session this morning.  Mr. Reid will be the substitute teacher.
Wear something pink to school today!

Thursday, April 12th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.

Friday, April 13th:  Music for the afternoon class.

This Week in Kindergarten!

Our first day back after Spring Break and we are preparing for grade one.  The boys and girls are practicing to copy a sentence on the line.  They must remember to leave a space between words and to put a period at the end of the sentence.  They also drew a picture to illustrate the sentence.

We continue to work on correct letter formation, printing letters from top to bottom.

And we have completed our number booklets.

Every day we read our friends' names on the SMARTboard.  During this activity the children were identifying and circling the names of students who were absent from school.

We have been practicing to "read" some simple words such as "le, la, les, un, une, c'est, voici".  These are words that we often see when singing songs and reciting poems.  On Monday, I wrote the word "lundi" on the board and this little boys was very excited to show me the word "un" in the word lundi.  BRAVO!

And during play time, this student pointed out the word "les" in one of his classmate's names.

A number matching game on the SMARTboard.

Playing a math game with dominos.

Exploring colour mixing with these very special glasses.

Alphabet puzzles.

Practicing our new spring words.

We have been brainstorming ways that we can help planet earth in preparation for Earth Day on April 22nd.  The boys and girls love these video clips "Les aventures d'écolo-fille".   Écolo-fille is a super-hero who wants to take care of her planet.  She must decide if things that are thrown on the ground belong in recycling, composting or the garbage.

International Day of Pink!

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Wednesday, April 11th marks the International Day of Pink.  It is a day where communities and schools across the country, and across the world, can unite in celebrating diversity and raising awareness to stop all forms of bullying.

The staff and students at École Assiniboine are encouraged to wear something that is pink to school on this day.

Merci!

Mme Godin