February 8th-10th

It has been a short, but busy week. We got to celebrate several holidays this week: Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year. We read many stories throughout the week. We decorated bags to help organize our valentine cards. We made a dragon puppet and bookmarks. Our word work was based on making as many words as we could from the word, “valentines”. We also did a review of some of the word families that we have done this year.

^{We focused on the “count up” strategy for subtraction. You can count up to find the difference when the numbers are close together. For example, 11-9=2 count up two from 9 to 11.}

Next week, we will be practicing for our upcoming assembly in March. We will be focusing on self-control and being a good friend. Also, Thursday will be our 100th day of school and we will be focusing on many Math activities for that day. ^{WE WILL NOT DRESS UP THAT DAY, AS IT IS A SPECIAL KINDERGARTEN ACTIVITY. We are limited with some of the activities that we normally do, but I’m sure that it will be a great day!}

Please practice reading the following poem with your child. (Click on link or see blog below.) We will be reading this at our virtual assembly in February. Also, we all need a blue t-shirt to wear for a special activity during the assembly. I will post a due date once all the grade one teachers are ready. It may need to stay at the school for a few days. If you wish, you can start bringing them in now and I can put them aside for the day they are needed. Please have the t-shirts in a bag with your child’s name. We will be putting them over our uniform shirts. Thank you for your support with the assembly activities.

^{Have an awesome long weekend!}

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