Letters Cc and Kk

Today we learned the letters ‘c’ and ‘k’. We talked about how the ‘c’ can make an ‘ssss’ sound or a ‘ck’ sound. The ‘k’ is another one of those tricky letters to print. We will practice throughout the week and it will hopefully become easier as the weeks go by..

c dit ‘ck’

c dit ‘ck’

castagnettes, castagnettes

‘ck’, ‘ck’, ‘ck’

k dit ‘k’

k dit ‘k’

castagnettes, castagnettes,

‘ck’, ‘ck’, ‘ck’

Dump trucks and Tractors at the Annex

The school board came by today to pick up all the leaves in the school yard and the students really wanted to go outside and watch. They were in awe that such big machines were able to get onto the school grounds!

La Belle Pieuvre

My 'Songs and Poems' section of the blog seems to have disappeared and I cannot figure out how to get it back. For now, I will post links to the songs we are learning in a post.

Below is the link to a Charlotte Diamond song we have been learning called La Belle Pieuvre. Ask your child to teach it to you :)

La belle pieuvre - link

Coloring Progression

We have been focusing a lot on our coloring and drawing and talking about what constitutes good work. Coloring is something we do everyday in kindergarten and we did an activity to better understand the different stages of learning. When we learn something new, we start off rusty and then get better with practice. We created this visual together to illustrate what these steps might look like at each stage of our learning.


beginning                         developing

applying                          extending

Letter Ee

The letter of the week is ‘e’. Ask your child to teach you the sound it makes and the action that goes with it. The lower case ‘e’ is a tricky letter to print. Practice as often as you can!

‘e’ dit e

‘e’ dit e

je, je

e, e, e

Voici Pipo

I would like to introduce Pipo and his journal. Pipo is our class mascot, and he will be the one going home with a different student each week. Pipo will join in our class activities this week and next week, will be ready to move on to new adventures with you! The students are very excited to start this process. I sent home the schedule for the year yesterday, but if you have any questions, or forget the week when your child will be bringing him home, please do not hesitate to ask.

Symbol Scotch

We added a new activity in our classroom! We have been doing a lot of activities to get our bodies ready to learn, and this is a new one we added this week. It’s called Symbol Scotch. The students jump from square to square with their toes and bodies pointing in the direction of the tape. This activity helps to:

1. Develop motor control and problem solving skills
2. Improve equilibrium and barbaric and dynamic balance
3. Stimulate linear vestibular responses
4. Increase kinesthetic understanding of the body in a space
5. Increases brain stimuli through the ‘heavy work’ of jumping 

Les coquelicots

The students did a great job singing our song at the Remembrance Day assembly. I was very proud at how well they sang a song they learned in four short days. To decorate the school, each class did an art project. We painted poppies and put them up on our bulletin board. 

Remembrance Day Song

We have a Remembrance Day assembly on Thursday after recess and we will be singing this song (we have four days to learn it but they can do it!).

Here is the link to the video. They can listen to it at home and practice if you have time.

Je me souviens -link to the video

Letter Ll

This week, we are learning all about the letter ‘l’. Ask you child to teach you the sound it makes. Since we just learned it today, it may take a day or two of practice before they get it on their own. We practice every morning as part of our morning routine. 

‘l’ dit l

‘l’ dit l

enveloppe, enveloppe

l, l, l