Ramsay Kindergarten

Hello Kindergarten Families!    This week in Kindergarten we focused on the letter D! We came up with lots of words that begin with the letter D, like dog, dumptruck, dinosaur, donkey, and donuts.    This week we read the story “The Mitten”. The Mitten is a great story to practice our sequencing skills. Students worked on retelling which animals went into Nikkis snow white mitten. Our favourite part is when the mouse went on the bears nose. Ask your child what happened when the mouse went on bears nose!   Students were given their own “snow white mitten”. Our challenge was to create patterns on our mittens and make them not snow white. That way the mittens won’t get lost in the snow like Nikkis did!  We have been reviewing patterns as well. Students have been practising making their own AB and ABC patterns. We have been working on extending and identifying patterns as well. 

 Hello Kindergarten Families, It feels so good to be back!  I hope you all had an enjoyable break.  We would like to welcome Mrs. Leusink back to PM Kindergarten! Thank you to Ms. Yasin for helping with the transition this week. Our letter of the week was Gg this week!  We love that it looks like a C with a table and an o with a monkey tail.  We practiced printing our Ggs, drawing things that start with g, and stamping some g pictures into our Visual Journals. Kindergarten math continues to be all about patterns! Our students are creating their own patterns of increasing complexity.  We're also spotting patterns all around! These photos are from our PM class. On Monday and Tuesday we participated in the Rocks and Rings curling residency!  The students picked up on the rules and scoring quickly. They listened to the coaches and practiced gliding their rocks into the house (or better yet, onto the button)!  AM Class PM Class  We have a few chan...

Happy Holidays, Kindergarten Families! It has been a fun and festive week at Ramsay School. See if you can spot the activities we did on Hat Day, Sweater Day, or PJ Day!  This week we reviewed all of the letter sounds we have learned so far. We also spent some time learning more about lowercase letters and how to recognize them!   In Math, we showed off our patterning skills with a mitten colouring exercise. Students were asked to colour at least two patterns, but some just kept going and going!  In Gym the Gaga Ball pit was set up for one more week.  It was a welcome way to get us moving when it was too cold for any outdoor play.  We made snowmen by dipping Q-tips in paint! Such a fun way to work on our fine motor skills and get a little messy. Finally, the students made Centres their own this week.  Holiday cards and colouring continued to be a hit, but some students also cut out ornaments complete with string for the tree.  Our kitchen centre w...

Hello Kindergarten Families, We are one short week away from winter break!  Our Kindergarten students are buzzing with excitement.   This week we learned about the letter Nn!  We made it with our bodies (AM photos) and also found it in our snowflake poem (PM photos). We noticed that there were so many things we could draw that started with N, like nest, nail, or net! We also had a very exciting week of Gym! The Gaga Ball pit was set up for us to use! Gaga Ball is a version of dodgeball where you roll the ball towards the other players and try to hit them below the knee.  If the ball touches you below the knee, you are out until the next round. It's fast-paced and so fun! Pictures are of our AM class. In Math we continue to practice patterns. Our work is becoming more complex! We spent some time this week talking about the core of a pattern and how it is the smallest part of the pattern that repeats. We will continue our pattern work into the new year!  Phot...