Copperfield Kindergarten 2023-2024

We know that winter is coming soon and we read a story today called "Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter". We drew a winter tree in the next part of our phenology wheel. Ask me to tell you what a winter tree looks like.  Reminders: - This Friday PM Kindergarten attends.      - As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every Tuesday and go outside to the playground unless it is -20 below.  - Please have an extra change of clothes in a ziplock bag in your child's backpack in case of any accidents and or excessive mud or snow.   - Thursday Dec 21. -PJ Day! Wear your pyjamas to school. No stuffies please. Kindergarten Winter Celebration Performances Kindergarten students will be having mini concerts during the day on Wednesday, Dec. 20 ·         The morning classes will perform in the gym at 10:30am ·         The afternoon classes will perform at 2:15pm.  ·   

 Today we read the story: "The Gingerbread Man" and talked about what characters are in the story.  We listened to the story and looked at the pictures to discover that characters are the people or things in the story that have role in the main storyline.  If there was a duck in the background, we knew that it was just a background picture, rather than an important part of the story.  In our visual journals we drew at least two characters that we remembered from the story.  Today we focused on using detail, colour and trying to label our pictures with the first letter of the character! We will be learning more about story elements, so please stay tuned! Reminders: -Return library books for tomorrow! -This Friday PM Kindergarten attends -Classes will be going outside for gym this week. - As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every Tuesday and go outs

This week we are taking a closer like a the letter Nn. Ask me to tell you what my mouth and tongue are doing when I make the "n" sound. We practiced printing the upper and lower case letter and drew pictures of things that started with N. Ask me to tell you what I drew. We will be reviewing the all of the letters we have learned so far and won't be introducing any new letters until after the new year. Please help me practice the letters and sounds. We have also been working on blending and segmenting three letter words using the letters we learned.  Ss, Aa, Mm, Tt, Ii, Ff, Pp, Nn Reminders: -Return library books for Thursday -This Friday PM Kindergarten attends -Classes will be going outside for gym this week. - As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every Tuesday and go outside to the playground unless it is -20 below.  - Please have an extra ch

It was amazing meeting with all of our Kindergarten families last week.  Thank you for taking the time and all the support that you provide from home.  We are so grateful to get to work with such amazing families.  Today we learned all about the number 9!  Please help me practice writing the numeral, word and representing it through pictures so that I can gain confidence and independence with all my numbers! I should be able to easily recognize my numbers and starting to get comfortable with counting independently.  Another fun and easy way to practice my numbers is to try putting objects into different groups.  For example, try making groups of 3, 5, 8 and 10 while eating cheerios :) Reminders: -Return library books for Thursday -This Friday PM Kindergarten attends -Classes will be going outside for gym this week. - As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess ever

 Today we talked about what it means to grow in Kindergarten.  We brainstormed different ways we grow, both physically to mentally and talked about what that looks like for us!  Part of growing is to never give up, even when things get hard.  This is the story we read. After reading the story, we talked about our new Kindergarten Learning Rubric.  This rubric will help us stay on track in our learning and see how we are growing this year.  We talked about how this rubric can help us to learn, grow and set goals in all areas of Kindergarten!  Please ask me all about it! Reminders: *** Please book a conference with your teacher online.  This is an important part of your child's learning and we would love to meet with you. If you need assistance booking, please call the office. - No school for Kindergarten on Thursday and Friday November 23 and 24 for Parent Teacher Conferences  - As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includ

Ask me to tell you all about the number 8. We are getting into some very high numbers. We learned that when we are showing our understanding of math in our visual journal, we need to do our very best to drawn neatly so that we can fit everything on the page and it is easy for me to count.  We started learning heart words (sight words)! Heart words are words that we know by heart and don't need to sound out. The word we learned this week is "the".  I can try to find this word in books at home or when I am at the grocery store.  Reminders: *** Please book a conference with your teacher online.  This is an important part of your child's learning and we would love to meet with you. If you need assistance booking, please call the office. - No school for Kindergarten on Thursday and Friday November 23 and 24 for Parent Teacher Conferences  - As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques

Today we did a special art project where we drew self portraits.  First, we looked in mirrors to see the different features of our faces.  Then we used sharpie to draw our faces.  Lastly we coloured on tinfoil to create a water colour print to go over our pictures.  Please ask me about my self portrait! Reminders: *** Please book a conference with your teacher online.  This is an important part of your child's learning and we would love to meet with you. If you need assistance booking, please call the office. - No school for Kindergarten on Thursday and Friday November 23 and 24 for Parent Teacher Conferences  - As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every Tuesday and go outside to the playground unless it is -20 below.  -Save The Date: Kindergarten Winter Concert AM class: Wed Dec 20 @ 10:30am PM class: Wed Dec 20 @ 2:15pm  

It was a very busy day with music, gym and buddies.  We had the chance to show and teach our buddies "Make a Monster" that we learned in math. It was our job to teach our buddies the rules of the game, how we roll dice nicely and how to draw the monster parts carefully!  We had so much fun with our buddies today.   Reminders: - No school for Kindergarten on Thursday and Friday November 23 and 24 for Parent Teacher Conferences  - As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every Tuesday and go outside to the playground unless it is -20 below.  -Save The Date: Kindergarten Winter Concert AM class: Wed Dec 20 @ 10:30am PM class: Wed Dec 20 @ 2:15pm

This week we focused on the letter I. Ask me to tell you what the action is and what short sound i says. I should be able to recognize the letter and the sound. We also practice writing the letter as well.  At this time in kindergarten, I should be able to recognize and identify the following letters: Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt, Pp, Ff, Ii If I am having difficulty with any of these, please continue to review them at home.    PM kindergarten learned about recycling and composting. We will we working on sorting our snacks and garbage into the correct bins. We have an Eco Club at our school and they will be monitoring how we sort our bins and there is also a prize to be won!  Reminders: -AM Kindergarten Attends this Friday -As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every  Tuesday  and go outside to the playground unless it is -20 below.  -We ask that parents refrain from using

Welcome back!  We hope everyone had a fun and relaxing Fall break.  Today we learned about the number 7.  We practiced different ways to represent the number 7.  Please practice writing the numeral and word with me at home! This afternoon we had our first school lockdown practice.  The morning kindergarten will talk about this on Friday.  We did an excellent job quietly meeting in our lockdown space, sitting in complete silence and waiting for the police officer and Mr. Magowan to let us know the lockdown is finished!   Here is as song that helped us learn about lockdowns and why we do them! Reminders: -AM Kindergarten Attends this Friday -Library tomorrow - please return books -As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every  Tuesday  and go outside to the playground unless it is -20 below.  -We ask that parents refrain from using the parking lot for pick up and

The morning kindergarten class attended the school's Remembrance Day assembly to honour all those who fought for our freedom.  We did an amazing job showing respect by sitting nicely and listening with our ears.  Here is a picture of our finished collaborative art piece that was displayed in the foyer for the assembly! We read Todd Parr's story about peace and brainstormed all the things that help us feel peace.  In our visual journals we drew a detailed picture and coloured it.  Please ask me about my picture! Have an amazing Fall Break - See everyone on November 15th! Reminders: -No School from Nov. 9th - 14th -As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every  Tuesday  and go outside to the playground unless it is -20 below.  -We ask that parents refrain from using the parking lot for pick up and drops offs, as it is a safety concern as students are arri

We have been busy learning our numbers. Today we focused on the number 6. We have been learning to show numbers in many different ways. Ask me to tell you all the different ways to show 6. If I have dice at home, I can use this math tool to help me subitize. Subitize is being able to recognize  an arrangement of dots such as on a dice without having to count each dot. For example when I roll a 4 I know automatically it is 4 instead of counting with my fingers 1,2,3,4.  Reminders: -No School from Nov. 9th - 14th -Service Club Students  are asked to wear their uniforms tomorrow Wednesday November 8 as we will be observing Remembrance Day tomorrow.  Veterans   Food   Bank The Veterans   Food   Bank of Calgary is a service provided by CALGARY VETERANS SERVICES SOCIETY, founded in August 2018, to serve   food   security and other resource needs of veterans from Calgary and surrounding area. The Veterans   Food   Bank of Calgary supports veterans who served in all branches of the Canadian Ar

 Today we worked on a collaborative art project for Remembrance day.  We learned about the significance of a poppy and carefully made one out of fabric. We watched the first part of this video to get a better understanding of remembrance day and why we honour this day. Reminders: -No School from Nov. 9th - 14th -We ask that parents refrain from using the parking lot for pick up and drops offs, as it is a safety concern as students are arriving and being dismissed in that area.  There are many people in the area and may not be visible. We thank you for helping us keep our community safe! -As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every  Tuesday  and go outside to the playground unless it is -20 below.  Veterans   Food   Bank The Veterans   Food   Bank of Calgary is a service provided by CALGARY VETERANS SERVICES SOCIETY, founded in August 2018, to serve   food   s

It was a very busy day with music, gym and buddies.  We had the chance to show teach our buddies the "Roll a Monster" game that we learned earlier in the week.  It was our job to teach our buddies the rules of the game, how we roll dice nicely and how to draw the monster parts carefully!  We had so much fun with our buddies today. Thank you to all those who have brought in donations for the Veteran's food drive!  We will continue to collect donations next week. Have a good weekend! Reminders: -No School from Nov.9th - 14th -We ask that parents refrain from using the parking lot for pick up and drops offs, as it is a safety concern as students are arriving and being dismissed in that area.  There are many people in the area and may not be visible. We thank you for helping us keep our community safe! -As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed properly for outdoor weather. This includes snow pants, jacket, toques, mittens/gloves. We have recess every  T

Today we had a discussion about how we are all unique and special. We all have special superpowers! Some of us were born with these and some of us learn new powers as we grow older. We read a book called "A Day With No Words." and learned about a special boy who does not speak but communicates through his tablet. He has autism. We talked about how there are many different learners in our class too and it is important to have an understanding that all brains are different and work differently. We drew in our visual journals what one of our super powers are. Some ideas were: being kind, gymnastics, helping my mom when she is sad, cleaning up my toys. Ask me to share with you what I drew today.  Reminders: -PM kindergarten attends this Friday -We ask that parents refrain from using the parking lot for pick up and drops offs, as it is a safety concern as students are arriving and being dismissed in that area.  There are many people in the area and may not be visible. We thank you

Today we learned about the number 5.  We continued to practice representing this number through picture, numeral and 5 frame.  For some extra practice, you can see what other fun ways you can show 5 with your family!  Please continue practice writing the numbers 0-5 with me at home to build confidence and fluency with this skill! We got an exciting new centre today!  It is a veterinarian clinic where we can pretend to take care of sick and hurting animals.  We are very excited to play here! -If you ordered school pictures, they will be coming home in the next few days.  -Don't forget that tomorrow is library - please bring your book back in order to take out a new one! Reminders: -We ask that parents refrain from using the parking lot for pick up and drops offs, as it is a safety concern as students are arriving and being dismissed in that area.  There are many people in the area and may not be visible. We thank you for helping us keep our community safe! -As the weather gets colde