Nov. 14-18

 Hello Kindergarten Families,

Our Kindergarten students seem to be enjoying our new AM and PM classes! It was lovely to have the whole group together for our community walk today. Moving forward, Fridays will be our Music days. The AM group will be out of the room for 45 minutes for Music and then they will switch with the PM group.  There will be plenty of space for the classroom group to play!

We have been learning all about the letter Mm this week! Mountains, marshmallows, and monkeys were on our minds. We used our bodies to form big M and little m to get to know the shapes that make the letters.  Every week, students have the chance to print the letter, draw pictures that start with it, and stamp their page with stamps starting with our letter.  If you have any stamps lying around unused, Kindergarten would love to put them to work!  Please consider adding them to our class collection!


Thank you to the parents who joined our community walk today! We did a neighbourhood loop up to a lookout and talked about the shapes we could see downtown. It was a bit chilly, but the sun was shining! 

Reminder: Parent Teacher Conferences are coming up next week. Please book a spot! We will go over the results of the Early Years Evaluation and talk about what your child has been up to in Kindergarten.  You are welcome to bring your child with you to your conference! The conference manager automatically books the meeting as virtual, but the school and classroom will be open if you prefer to visit in person. Please send Mrs. Leusink (angrant@cbe.ab.ca) or Mrs. Hrycan (elhrycan@cbe.ab.ca) an email if you'll be coming to the school. 

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