March 20th

Dear Families,

As many of you already know I am due to have my baby in April. I was hoping to have the opportunity to say goodbye to all of you in person at the parent teacher conferences this week. Unfortunately with the unexpected news of the closure of schools I will not be given the chance to say goodbye to you or your children. 

Jivan Sekhon will be taking over until the end of the school year. She looks forward to meeting all of you ! 

I wish you and your families all the best of health and happiness, it was such a pleasure getting to know each and every one of you. I will miss all of my students dearly, please give them a big hug for me ! 

Kendra Sowinski

Covid - 19 Kid Friendly Booklets 

I have attached a link to little booklets which explain Covid-19 in a sensitive and friendly way for children. It comes in over 10 different languages.

https://www.mindheart.co/descargables?fbclid=IwAR1pK6aMfWJTQCFKnyCsjlhY1KYX8pW-RcoAOi_JCkj6Di6Q6Fr21u8xfYM

March 19th

Hello Families, 

I hope you are all doing well and keeping busy. I have attached some free online resources for Kindergarten that you can do with them.

Kindergarten Literacy

• Free Read Aloud Books on www.storylineonline.com organized by grade level. Free follow up activity guide for each book under resources. Just go to “All Books” and under each book there will be a link that says “Activity Guide".
• A great resource for both literacy and numeracy game and activities is abcya.com
• Alphabet Bingo! Great game to test out your child’s knowledge of letter sounds https://www.abcya.com/games/kindergarten_alphabet_bingo

Kindergarten Math 

• https://www.abcya.com/grades/k/numbers
• Counting to 20 can be so fun with this Jack Hartman video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVzXKfr6e8

Movement breaks

• Cosmic Kids Yoga has great movement breaks for young students: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
• Go Noodle: https://www.gonoodle.com

March 16th Update

Dear Families, 

Please continue to check the CBE website to get daily updates and CBE procedures. The translate button will change the language the site displays. It looks like this:

March 6

Friday Journals 

It has been so wonderful reading your responses from your child's weekly journals that they take home on Friday's. The kids have enjoyed doing their journal entries knowing that they get to go home and share what they have been doing with you. 

Please remember to return their writing journals to school on Monday as we use their journals for other work other than Friday journals. 

Literacy/Numeracy Centers

Every morning our class explores different Literacy and Numeracy Centers. These are some of the centers they have been busy exploring the last few weeks. 

Roll and cover numbers up to 6 using one dice

Roll and cover numbers up to 12 using two dice

Roll and Collect blocks board game

Write Around the Room

Lion and the Mouse sequencing activity

Watermelon seed counting and addition

Pink Shirt Day

Pink Shirt Day is on Wednesday February 26th. Pink shirt day raises awareness for bullying and aims to promote kindness. Everyone is encouraged to wear a pink shirt on this day !

Our school is having an assembley on Wednesday to discuss the importance of Pink Shirt Day and to promote acts of kindness.

Our Kindergarten classroom brainstormed different ways that we can show kindness. These were their responses:

Listen to the Teacher – Abir

Help mom clean up – Maya

Be nice to people – Emaleigh

Share toys - Sumeyra

Help someone if they fall – Thalia

Say kind words – Aries

Help someone when they fall down – Safi

You need to say sorry – Candice

Be kind to others – Mozhdah 

Help zip up jackets – Liam 

Open doors – Arkan

Open the door – Ayaan

Help clean up – Carter

Be kind to everyone – Emmanuel 

Help clean up – Mikael

Share toys – Reeham

February 25th

Our Kindergarten class has been busy with our inquiry unit on communities. Our Kindergarten classes took part in a mail exchange program with different schools across Canada. A few weeks ago, our Kindergarten class filled out an information sheet about our school and city community and sent it off to other schools. In turn, we have been receiving mail from various schools across Canada about the school community that they belong to. It has been a rich learning experience learning about different communities and how they might be similar or different from ours. We have been using Google Earth to search their school and see what their school looks like and what kinds of things are around their school community. It has also provided a good opportunity to talk about how mail is delivered and what needs to be included when sending mail to other places. 

Family Community Houses

Each student drew a picture of their family members and then built houses to put their pictures in. They are currently displayed on our bulletin outside our classroom - they turned out great !

February 21

Mission Impossible 

We had Mission Impossible set up in the gym for two weeks for the students to try and maneuver through the course. They had so much fun !