Special Artifact

Dear Parents,

Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the questions, “How do we belong?” and “What makes my family unique?” We are planning on having each child bring in an artifact that represents a family tradition or your family background. They will be sharing the object orally with their classmates.

This object will be left in our classroom from February 19 until approximately March 7. We will be using the artifacts to learn about the different cultures and family traditions that make up our classroom community.

Please take some time and talk with your child to select a tradition or artifact that represents your heritage, family traditions and/or special events and why it is important to your family. If you cannot find a physical artifact, your child can tell us a story or bring in a picture. 

Students will be answering the following questions:

·      What is your artifact or story?

·      What does it tell us about your family?

·      Why is it important to your family?

·      Who participates?

Some Examples:

·      I can sing a song in Spanish

·      I can teach my friends to say hello and goodbye in Japanese

·      I can show my friends how to write letters in Mandarin

·      I can Irish Dance

·      I can cook perogies

·      I celebrate Chinese New Years/Christmas/Eid/Chanukah

·      This is a (artifact) is important to my family because…

·      Sports that we like to play or watch together are…

·      Special dinners we eat together like…

·      Cultural or religious celebrations.

·      Every Friday we have Family games night.

Thank you very much for your participation!

February 18th - 22nd

This Week:

February 11 - 28 - Alien In-Line Skating (Please see teacher email for exact dates)
Monday, February 18th - Family Day - No school

Tuesday, February  19th -  Learning Commons Book Exchange
Wednesday, February 20th-
Thursday, February 21st -
Friday, February 22nd - PM class attends

Letter/Sound Learning

Learning the letters and sounds of the alphabet using the following image

continues to support children with their early literacy skills. 

Ask your child to sing our ABC song using the following image.

Last Week:

Students have been so excited to participate in "Alien In-line Skating!"
Thank you so much to our parent volunteers for making this program a huge success.


Students enjoyed sharing their appreciation and care for each other by passing out
Valentines and decorating Valentine's Day bags.

Our open-ended art centre continues to be a very well visited centre. This centre
provides students with an opportunity to explore with different mediums, to teach
a friend how to create something, and to share stories about their creations.

Our Kindergarten teaching team is happy to be participating in the Calgary City Teacher's Convention this year. We hope to engage in many sessions, and learn new ideas to bring back to our classrooms!

Important Dates Coming up:

February 11th - 28th - Alien In-Line Skating during Physical Education Class
February 25th - March 8th - Artist in Residence with Sharon Fortowsky
Thursday, February 28th - Pink Shirt Day
March 1st - NO School -Professional Development Day
March 5th - Evergreen Theatre 9:30 AM (The Three Little Pigs) -PM Students are invited to attend with their parents
March 8th - AM class attends
March 14th - Kindergarten Celebration of Learning 6:00 - 7:00 PM (All families invited to attend)
March 15th - PM class attends
March 21st - NO School for Kindergarten -Student Centered Conferences
March 22nd - NO School K-Gr. 3 - Student Centered Conferences
March 25th - 29th - NO School - Spring Break

Alien In-line skating Volunteers

We are still looking for a few more volunteers. Please consider helping out!

Thank you,

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0a4fa9ae2ca5f94-alien1

February 11 - 15

This Week:

February 11 - 28 - Alien In-Line Skating (Please see teacher email for exact dates)
Monday, February 11th - School Council/ Fundraising Meeting 6:30 PM

Tuesday, February  12th -  Learning Commons Book Exchange
Wednesday, February 13th- Sharing of Valentine's Day Cards (This is optional.)
Thursday, February 14th - NO School Teachers' Convention
Friday, February 15th - NO School Teachers' Convention
Monday, February 18 - Family Day - No school

Valentine's Day
We will celebrate Valentine's Day on Wednesday, February 13.  If your child would like to bring valentines to hand out to the class please note the following:

       1) Bring one valentine for each child in the class.  Our largest class has 21 children.
       2) Students are encouraged to only sign their name.  Cards may be addressed "To my friend". Please DO NOT address cards to individual students.  You can imagine how busy each teacher would be if they were handing out 21 valentines from each child.
       3) Please DO NOT attach food items.  Cards with food items will be returned.

Alien In-Line Skating Volunteers

We will need LOTS of volunteer help with the Alien Inline Skating program. If you have a valid police clearance we hope you will consider helping our class to get into their gear safely and quickly. Please follow the link to sign up.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A4FA9AE2CA5F94-alien1

Letter Learning of the week. Please review letters and sounds. 
(c o s v w t a d g u l e i k y)

Last Week:

We continue to learn about being responsible learners by cleaning 

up after ourselves.

We learn in many different ways in our kindergarten classrooms!

As we continue to explore and appreciate our unique characteristics we have had many

discussions about our emotions. The students were given opportunities to become aware of who they are as unique individuals and to express themselves by sharing their personal stories. 

We also did some role-playing games and made play dough emojis.

Important Dates Coming up:

February 11 - 28 - Alien In-Line Skating during Physical Education Class
Friday, February 22 - PM class attends
Thursday, February 28- - Pink Shirt Day

Volunteers Needed for Alien In-line Skating

We will need LOTS of volunteer help with the Alien Inline Skating program. 

If you have a valid police clearance we hope you will consider helping our class to get into their gear safely and quickly. 

Please follow the link to sign up.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A4FA9AE2CA5F94-alien1