We had another lovely week together in kindergarten. It is truly amazing to see how quickly our kiddos are becoming comfortable with our classroom routines. Each day when they arrive, students change their shoes, take out their folders, sign their name and work through some independent table activities...all by themselves! It's a beautiful thing :)

 

  

Learning to represent our ideas through pictures and drawings is a very important part of being in kindergarten. As an exciting introduction to this concept, we spent a lot of time this week talking about what it means to be an artist. Students were very excited to have an up-close look at a few of my paintings from home. 

"It looks like a sunset! I think the yellow part is the sun."

"It's almost as big as a car!"

"Wow, it's amazing."

"I see the sky at night."

"It looks like a dolphin splashing through the ocean."

"To me it looks like fireflies."

We talked about how artists become so good at what they do and learned the importance of persistence and practice, even when something seems tricky at first. This was a great starting point for our introduction to drawing. Students are quickly learning to just go with the flow when we make mistakes in our work. 

 

We practiced drawing circles, squares and triangles this week and turned each one into something neat. We learned that with just a few simple shapes, we can learn how to draw almost anything! Our kindergarteners were very excited to try out their drawing skills in their fancy new artist sketchbooks. Have your child show you some of their new drawing skills! When you are out and about, start looking around the community for things you could draw using simple shapes. 

Classroom Reminders:

1. Meet the Teacher Night is next week! You are invited to book a time to come in for a quick 10 minute chat on Thursday evening or Friday morning to tell me a little bit more about your child and how I can best support them this year. Online booking is now open. You are welcome to bring your child to this interview if you like. 

2. Due to interviews, there will be no school for morning or afternoon students next Friday, September 22.

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Have a beautiful weekend! 

Miss Roberts