Ramsay AM Kindergarten

    This Week in  Kindergarten Literacy  Letter Qq - Quilt  We enjoyed reading the story "The Quilt" by Tony Johnson. Friends shared that some of them also have quilts that were made for them by special people, often relatives and family friends. After reading the story about Abigails quilt, students were given the task of designing their own unique quilt. Their quilts are made up of unique squares that reflect their likes, special places and important people. "I drew the Calgary Tower!" - L.  "I drew the ocean and sunshine" - J. My Community - Map  In Social Studies we had big conversations about the word "community". As individuals we are part of many communities. Our first community is typically our family, then our school and other groups we are part of. We started talking about our physical community of Calgary and the neighbourhoods we live in. Kindergarten friends brain stormed important features of a community which they added to their co...

    This Week in  Kindergarten Literacy We have begun talking about our community! This week students were challenged to draw some of the landmarks in our city. Some landmarks of note were The Calgary Tower,  Saddle Dome,  Bow River, Bow Tower.  Science 5 Senses at the Calgary Zoo " Eww I smell fish, it's stinky" - E. at the penguin exhibit "My skin feels warm and sticky" - R. at the butterfly exhibit "I see a black and white monkey"-P. - Black and White Colobus Monkeys "It is loud when they talk"- Z. at the penguin exhibit  Next Week in AM Kindergarten:    May 5th:  May 6th:  May 7th: Hats o n for Me ntal H ealth - W ear your favourite hat to school! May 8th: Library Day - Please return library books to exchange!  May 9th:  NO SCHOOL - PM Kindergarten Attends 

    This Week in  Kindergarten Literacy We have been busy inching our way towards finish out alphabet exploration! We can now identify, name and say the sound for letters Hh, Rr and Ll. We only have 7 letters left and will be learning them in this order Ww, Yy, Xx, Qq, Jj, Vv and finally Zz. Take a look at some of our letter work!                             We ❤️ Reading  Numeracy We have been doing a deep dive into numbers 1-10. Not only identifying & printing the numerals, but also how to show the numbers in a variety of ways. We can show the number on a number line, on a 10 Frame, with our fingers, dominos and tally marks! We took our tally mark practice outside and counted the cars that drove by Ramsay School. Ask your child which colour car was the most popular after we collected our data.            Artist in Residence  -Heather Rozell- Next W...

  This Week in  Kindergarten     Literacy                Play-based Learning   Play-based learning offers numerous benefits, including enhanced cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development, fostering creativity and imagination and promoting a love of learning.  Literacy Letters we have explicitly covered so far in Kindergarten  Ss, Aa, Tt, Pp,Ii, Nn, Oo, Mm, Cc, Gg, Ff, Dd, Uu and Kk  Ask your child if they can:  1. Name the uppercase letter  2. Name the lowercase letter 3. Produce the sound most commonly associated with each letter 4. Bonus: Can they name the vowels? Can they say what is special about our vowel letters?  Next Week in AM Kindergarten:    March 17th: Book Fair Viewing  March 18th: Book Fair Purchasing *Optional March 19th:  March 20th: Conferences - NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN    March 14th: Conferences - NO SCHOOL  Looking forward to...

        This Week in Kindergarten                       Literacy  It is such a magical time of year in Kindergarten where we see progress come in leaps and bounds. While progress looks different for each student, it is celebrated equally! As we are approaching the final set of alphabet letters, we took time to celebrate the alphabet and how far we have come in learning about it this year! Way to go Kindergarten! Pink Shirt Day   This year, Pink Shirt Day, or Anti-Bullying Day, was on February 22. This year's theme,  Lift Each Other Up , was centred around the ideas of diversity, inclusion and acceptance. We take this day to come together by wearing pink shirts to school to show our solidarity in speaking up against bullying. In Kindergarten we each made a pink shirt day promise, a way we would show kindness to others.  Book Fair!  Ramsay school book fair is coming up next week (March...