November 14th - November 25th

Bonjour chers parents,

Dinosaurs have continued to be a major focus over the last few weeks while literacy and numeracy continue to be practiced. The dinosaur theme has also been a great tool for helping the children to learn French vocabulary. The following are phrases the children have practiced saying out loud.

Le dinosaure est bleu/rouge/jaune/vert.
Le dinosaure est petit.
Le dinosaure a un long cou. 
Le dinosaure est gros.
Le dinosaure est un carnivores.
Le dinosaure est un herbivores.
Le dinosaure a 4 pattes.

I'm making a dinosaur book!

In literacy this week, we learned the form and the sounds of C, K and E. Remember our chant? It goes like this: 

Le nom de la lettre est C, C, C

Le son de la lettre est c, c, c 

The letter E is an important letter for the children to learn. The formation of this letter seems difficult for a 5 year old to learn.  Here are a few things you can do at home to pratice with your child: 

-Write the letter in the snow.
-Make the letter with playdough.
-Draw the letter in sand.
-Write the letter with a highliter and have your child trace it.
-Put shaving cream on a plate and write the letter.

During centres, the children have been very inspired by dinosaurs and are incorporating them into their play. It was very exciting to see students wanting to make their own dino books like the ones found in our class library.

Kindergarten and Grade Two/Three  Connection (Buddy system)

Having buddies  coming to our class is a very special time for Kindergarters.  Who among us doesn’t remember a feeling of pride when, as young children, we were befriended by an older child? They helped us to build the confidence and sense of safety we needed to navigate the world of school, and ultimately, the world around us.  Buddy systems promote more than just those warm feelings; these programs enhance positive behaviors in both the older and the younger buddies.

Older children love the sense of responsibility they feel for their younger buddies and are therefore motivated to be the best buddy they can be. Further, they are able to practice their own skills of cooperation and collaboration with a younger child who can learn those same skills by interacting with the older students. They have opportunities to practice taking turns, sharing knowledge, listening to each other, helping and praising one another, and completing tasks with the help of someone more experienced than they are.

Here are a few examples of things that their buddies will be doing with your child:

Reading stories

Making crafts

Singing together

Creating projets

We're making dinosaurs together. 

With our buddy class, we got to explore shapes such as circles, triangles, rectangles and squares as we made unique looking dinosaurs together (thank you to the volunteers for cutting up the shapes!).

Our students have also had the opportunity to recreate fossils as we have discussed where dinosaurs come from and how we can know they really existed. 

To the oven we go!

Now it's time to paint!

 

I wonder about dinosaurs.

                                                             I am learning to draw a dinosaur.







                                I am an artist.
     

                          I am a paleantologist                                                                


Thank you for reading!