What's Happening in February?
Themes - Valentine's Day, Winter, 100th Day, Pink Shirt Day,
Personal and Social Responsibility
- continue to work on following classroom routines and behaviour expectations and exploring more with Kindness Counts activities
Our Classroom Mission Statement:
We come to kindergarten to be happy, helpful and respectful like Superflex. We share, take turns and play with many friends.
Early Literacy
-We will learn more of the letters and sounds with Jolly Phonics program. (Nov: L, F, E, H, T, I, C; Dec: U, G S; January: N, Y, O, Q, J, D, P, B, R; Our February Goal is to finish all the uppercase letters: M, K, V, A, W, X, Y, Z)
-In our Morning Message, we are practicing sounds with a focus on the sounds in words (first the beginning sounds, then ending sounds, lastly the vowel sounds in the middle of small words).
-We will continue to practice onset and rime by working through a few rime families and breaking words apart and putting them back together.
-We are beginning to talk about characters and parts of the story. After The Mitten by Jan Brett was finished, we did a massive retell of the story. We broke it into the beginning, middle and ending. Then will read other winter stories.
Early Numeracy
- We will continue to work through the different ways to represent number to 10. We will continue to subitize Dot Collections by talking about how we see the dots quickly. The goal when subitizing is to see groups of dots and to not count the dots 1 by 1.
-We continue to talk about 3D shapes in the environment, folding, sorting, describing and tracing shapes. We are practicing ABB patterns, counting backwards and forwards to 10, and reviewing sorting concepts.
Physical Skills and Well Being in the classroom
- encouraging and strengthening pincer hand grasp (using large tweezers, placing marbles on tees, placing buttons/gems in a line formation), and scissor use.
- identifying healthy choices for morning snack.
Creative Expression
- dramatic play within our Valentine's and Winter themes. Valentine's and Winter themed crafts. Daily songs with dances and movement breaks.
- Art is accomplished through letter, Valentine's and Winter themed crafts.
Environment and Community Awareness
- participating in a variety of centers to explore properties of materials (such as sand, water, playdough, beans, rice, and many different building toys) and using a them safely and properly. We are even learning about some aspects of Space.
Citizenship and Identity
- We began Star of the Week/All about Me activities in December with Abby and Annie. Thank you to their families. This month, Gavin, Hali, Jack and Julian will have their turns.
This project is great for finding out how we are similar and unique. Thank you for helping your child talk to us!
The note is saved "Ways to help at home" if you would like to refer to it.
Technology
-We have used the Smart Board all year to show we are here, dress the bear. We are starting to use Google Slides to lead each other in practicing beginning and ending sounds in short words.
- We have learned to use Seesaw. We log in using a QR code. Find the lightbulb for our activities. Listen to the instructions and then Add Response.
Thank you for supporting us with our Seesaw activities!