Oct. 3-6

 Hello Kindergarten Families,

Can you guess our letter of the week?  Check out our Google classroom for links to a fun Aa song and an instructional video about letter formation! We practiced printing our big A and small a with our magic fingers on the carpet and on our friend's back before we tried using our pencil to make it again.  


We have also been working on phonics skills such as repeating back rhyming words ("Hat, cat. Now you try!") and segmenting and blending words.  The next time you're riding in the car, try saying simple words out loud and helping your child figure out what sound they start with!  Our class especially likes words that start with the ssssss snake sound.

We've talked a bit about why letters are important and worked together to figure out if we were holding a letter, a word, or a sentence for a class anchor chart.

Also, now that it's October, we've begun to get excited about Halloween! Mrs. Haydu carved two pumpkins that we get to watch decompose in the Maker Space!

-Mon., Oct. 10- Thanksgiving Day (No school)
-Friday, Oct. 21- Community Walk (Volunteers needed! Please email me at elhrycan@cbe.ab.ca.) 
Thank you to the parents who have already emailed. We need two more if possible!
-Friday, Oct. 28- Non-Instruction Day (No school)






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