It’s amazing to
see how quickly students are becoming comfortable with our classroom routines.
We have a wonderful group of 4 and 5 year olds who are learning to be
independent thinkers! Each day when they arrive, students change their shoes,
sign their name, take out their folders, and use the SMARTboard to move their
apple onto the tree…all by themselves! What quick
learners they are!
Students were very
excited about drawing in their fancy artist sketchbooks this week. We reflected
about our summer adventures and chose a favourite memory to draw. On the
following day, students watched me colouring MY drawing and gave me all kinds
of tips about what I was doing wrong:
“Miss Roberts,
you’re scribbling!”
“Why did you use
the same pencil crayon to colour everything? That doesn’t look good.”
“You definitely
need more colours.”
They were
thrilled to show off their colouring skills and were very proud of the pictures
they created.
On Wednesday, we
talked about letters and tried adding some to our drawings. I was SO impressed
with the risk-taking I saw. Every student attempted to add some letters to
their work. Labeling our drawings is a great first step at learning to become
writers.
We are beginning
to learn about the difference between drawing from our imagination and drawing
from something that we can look at, like a photograph. Students were each given
a photo of themselves to observe and sketch and worked hard to make their
drawings match the photos. I can’t wait for you to come in and see these!
Today for our
Early Dismissal day, the afternoon students had a chance to go for a little
nature walk in our school field and practice numbers with sidewalk chalk. They
were particularly excited about the “worm” (millipede) they discovered.
Our favourite
story that we read this week was Pete the
Cat, I Love My White Shoes. Students loved
singing along with the story. We read it on Monday and they were still singing
it today. Pete teaches us that no matter what happens, you just keep walkin’
along and singing your song…because it’s all good. (I encourage you to check it
out on YouTube if you don’t have a copy of this book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiO-xIZxmJE
)
Classroom Reminders:
(Sorry, there are a lot this week)
1. We went to the
library this week! Students will
have the opportunity to sign-out one book per week. Morning students will go
to the library every Wednesday. Afternoon students will go on Thursdays.
You are welcome to keep your child’s library book for the entire week or return
it whenever you feel you are done with it. We will not have an opportunity to go to the library next week due to the
school book fair, so you may send them back in your child’s folder any time. We
found the back pocket of our folders to be a great place to keep our books safe
and sound in our backpacks.
2. If you are
interested in ordering anything from the September Scholastic Book Order, please return order forms on Monday.
3. I am looking
very forward to meeting with each of you during our interview days next week! Interview appointments are booked
online. You can access the link from our school webpage (http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b205/).
Click the blue My CBE Account button on the left hand side of the page. You
will need to create an account before you are able to sign-up for an
appointment time. I encourage you to do this before booking begins. Please
contact the office if you have any difficulty with this. Booking begins on
Sept. 19. It is up to you whether or not
you would like to bring your child to our interview time. Students are certainly
welcome to attend, however if you have information about your child that you
would like to share with me in private, it is perfectly fine to come on your
own. Your choice :)
4. To accommodate
the many, many interview time slots we will need to meet with everyone, Kindergarten students will not have school
on Thursday, Sept. 22 or Friday, Sept. 23.
Thanks for
reading! My apologies for the lengthy post…I promise they won’t all be this
long!
Enjoy the
sunshine this weekend!
Miss Roberts
