Week 13 in Kindergarten!

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Dear Family,

Happy Friday! How has your week been? We’ve had another lovely week in Kindergarten and our children continued to impress us with their enthusiasm and wonderful ideas. Let’s take you through our week!

Large Group

This week, we explored punctuation marks! Our children learned about the question mark (?), which we use when asking a question; the comma (,), which gives us a little pause in a sentence; the exclamation mark (!), which shows excitement or strong feelings; quotation marks (“ ”), which show the exact words someone says; and the full stop (.), which tells us that a sentence has come to an end. We practiced recognizing these marks and talking about when and why we use them. Alongside this, we continued with our usual large group routine, including our calendar, numbers, letters, songs, and other daily activities.

Weekend review...

“On Saturday it was my sisters birthday and for her school she bought tiny candies and jelly for home” -Elion

“I stayed at my home and I sleep with my mom and I eat breakfast and I watched Tv in the morning and after that I played with boat Lego and I played with my Lumina stickers” -Samaria

“I go to one floor and I played and when it’s lunch time I ate lots of cucumbers” -Lumina

“In the weekend I was at home and then my mom said to watch my phone and then I started to play because my phone was taken away and with toys I had fun playing and when it was time to go out and my driver was there to pick us in the afternoon to eat lunch” -Gracious

“On my weekend I was playing with my other uncle I have lots of uncles and after that someone brought Indian food and we eat it at home” -Noam

“My weekend was good and somebody came like my cousins came and I had new slime and it was blue and I went to a hair salon to get my hair done and made my hair long” -Layan

“I was watching TV on Saturday afternoon after that we played then it was night and we sleep” -Lubono

“Good, I read book and I eat banana and I eat apple and I eat blueberries and I eat water melons and carrot” -Arthur

“I read book and I eat ice cream” -Omna

Literacy

Our literacy sessions were filled with digraph fun! During our first session, we played a digraph sorting game using little cups attached to the board, each labelled with a different digraph. Our children picked tiny picture cards, looked carefully at each picture, listened to its beginning sound, and placed it into the cup with the matching digraph. It was a fun way to practice recognizing the sounds that two letters can make together. For our second session, we played a digraph bingo game! Each child received six picture cards, and as we called out different digraphs, they checked their cards to see whether they had a picture beginning with that sound. When they found a match, they marked it, and the excitement grew as they got closer to calling out BINGO! It was a lovely way to practice listening for sounds while having fun together.

Math

This week, we explored fact families for 10! Our children learned that different pairs of numbers can be added together to make 10. We practiced finding these number pairs together on the board, such as 1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, 4 and 6, and 5 and 5. We talked about how even though the numbers change, their total always stays the same: 10. After practicing together, our children worked on two worksheets during each math session to find, complete, and write the number pairs that make 10. This helped them become more familiar with number combinations, strengthen their addition skills, and build a good foundation for doing mental math.

Science

This week, we explored shadows! We started indoors with flashlights and discovered that shadows appear when an object blocks light. Our children experimented by moving objects closer to and farther away from the flashlight, noticing how the shadows changed in size. When an object moved closer to the light, its shadow appeared bigger, and when it moved farther away, its shadow became smaller. During our second session, we took our investigation outside to explore shadows made by sunlight. We looked at the shadows our bodies and other objects created on the ground and noticed how they changed depending on where the sunlight was coming from. Our children also discovered that they could move, stretch, and change their body positions to make different shadows. To finish our exploration with a little extra fun, we played Shadow Tag, trying to catch one another’s shadows instead of tagging each other!

Art

Our art session was all about making and playing! Our children created their own frisbees using paper plates. A frisbee is a round, flat flying disc that we can throw and catch with friends. They decorated their paper plates with colorful marker designs, making each one their own before taking them outside to try them out. It was lovely to see their creations turn into toys they could actually play with and enjoy together!

Next week’s schedule:

Monday – Math, Literacy

Tuesday – Literacy, Science

Wednesday -Library, Math

Thursday - Science, Music

Friday - Library

Specials:

Monday- Art

Tuesday - Gym

Thursday - Ethiopian center/ clay

Reminders and notes:

• Please make sure that our children are wearing suitable clothes on Monday as we have art class and activities get messy sometimes.

• Every Wednesday and Friday is library day. Our children will be bringing home a book of their choice in their library folder, so please make sure to read the book with them over the weekend. Please return the folder the following Wednesday so they can get a new one.

• Every Tuesday, we have gymnastics, so please ensure that our children come dressed in comfortable and loose fitting sports attire to facilitate their exercise.

• Every Friday, we have football, so please make sure our children wear their football jerseys if they have them, or any comfortable shorts.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend and we’ll see you for more Kindergarten fun next week!