Activity Bags

In this weeks activity bag you will find some flash cards, a booklet, and a printing practice worksheet. For the printing practice worksheet, do one line on the page every couple of nights if you can. It will be too much to do all in one sitting. When printing, focus on starting the letter from the top and working downwards, and staying between the lines. 

Solving Problems

We have been learning about fair ways to play and how to peacefully solve problems. This is one strategy I teach from the WITS program. Ask your child to explain it to you. Below is a picture of the English and French posters. You can use this language at home too!

New Song

We are learning a new Charlotte Diamond song. It is called 'Je suis une pizza'.  Below is the link to the video. Ask your child to teach it to you and to show you the actions.

Click here for 'Je suis une pizza' song

Ways to make 5

The students are learning different ways to make 5. In this activity, the students used two-sided buttons. They would shake them in their hands, let them fall, and see what combination they would get. They would then count the totals and discovered that it would always equal 5.

The Kindergarteners take over the school!

We have been doing a lot of activities around the Elephant and Piggie books. This morning, the whole school was on a field trip except for the two kindergarten classes. So we took over the school!

We put music over the PA system and played freeze dance in the hallway.

We hid Elephant and Piggie sight words all over the school and had the students go on a treasure hunt to find them.

And we ate strawberry ice cream with chocolate chips (meant to look like a pig's nose).

It was so much fun!

J'aime les animaux

In this weeks activity bags, you will find some new flash cards and a new booklet to read. The students may not know all the words and that's ok. 

If they cannot read all the words, have them point to the work 'J'aime' on each page. Ask them to count the words on each page.

If they can read the words, have them point to them as they read.

Pink Shirt Day

The students did a great job presenting the song at our Pink Shirt Day assembly yesterday. I was a very proud teacher!!

With the help of our big buddies, we decorated our door with pink shirts and wrote and drew messages of kindness and respect.

We also read the book "It's ok to be different" - "Tous différents" en francais - by Todd Parr. It is a great story about embracing our differences and treating everyone with respect. We then did a Todd Parr inspired art project which is displayed on our bulletin board.

Voici

In the book bags this week, you will find some flashcards and a 'voici' book. With the flashcards, the students can practice naming the letter, saying the sound it makes, and brainstorming words with that sound. You don't have to do all of that each time, switch it up each time you practice.

The 'voici' book may have some words the students cannot yet read. This is ok. They can identify the word 'voici' on each page and then point to letters they recognize, point to the words as you read them, or look at the picture and complete the sentence however they like. You can also count the words and letters on each page.

Happy reading!

Pink Shirt Day Assembly

During our Pink Shirt Day assembly on February 27, we are going to sing this song with our buddy class. We have been practicing actions to go along with it and we will teach the rest of the divisions next week and then do a mini 'flash mob' as a school. The words are a bit complicated for the K's but that's ok. They love the song and enjoy doing the dance! Click on the link below and listen to it together at home.

Alex Nevsky - Le monde est à nous (The World is Ours)

Crazy Hair Day

Crazy hair day was so much fun! The kids were very creative and we saw some pretty neat hairstyles. This morning we did a crazy hair day craft. They turned out super cute :)