Some students have shared their All About Me project. So far, we have families from Ukraine and Grenada/Antigua. Check out my new head piece! I'm all ready for Carnival.
We also began new Literacy Centers in English.
Friday is Crazy Hat day, if your child would like to participate!
If anyone is ready/willing to share their All About Me project next week, please let me know.
Please remember to send a family picture to school with your child as soon as possible. These will be returned in the New Year.
Check out our new math centers we began working on this week!
In Language Arts, we are reading stories by Jan Brett and making predictions about what will happen next, as well as discussing the beginning, middle and ending of stories. We are using the Lively Letters program to learn about letter sounds, as well as the Heggerty program to develop phonological awareness skills such as rhyming, compound words, initial/ending sounds etc.
In Spanish, we are learning these new songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu2_l2BWJAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gprQSLK-W_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJZV6333Ww
This year Dalhousie School has decided to give back to the community by participating in the Salvation Army Toy Angel Drive. This toy drive is designed to bring cheer to low-income families with children aged 0-12. A box has been set up in the main office to collect donations. If you would like to contribute please bring your unwrapped toys into the office before noon on 15 December 2022.
We are in the last month before Winter Break. A reminder that if your child will be absent for 5 days or more due to a holiday, an extended absence form must be filled out. Please email dalhousie@cbe.ab.ca to request the form and have it submitted before your child’s absence.
This week at school we started some new math centers. Ask your child what they needed to do at each center.
We also began learning about La Familia (the family). Check out the songs we are working on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smm7csgMoMs
Today in your child's backpack you will find a small piece of paper with the log in information for Raz Kids. The older students use this program mostly for Home Reading. For children in Kindergarten, we would like the children to be LISTENING to at least 2 stories a week in Spanish. This will provide extra opportunities for children to hear spoken Spanish and connect it to pictures in books. Of course, if your child is reading or interested in learning to read, they can explore the books in English and Spanish.
At our conferences, many parents have asked how they can support their children at school. This is one way to do so! :)
Please let me know if you have any difficulties logging in, questions etc.
For our citizenship and identity unit, we will be focusing on learning about how we are all unique, with different family origins and traditions. Your child will be given the opportunity to share this information with the class by completing a project at home. Your child may create a poster, diorama, book, PowerPoint presentation, video, or even bring artifacts from home as a way to share this information about themselves and their family. Use your imagination with the format and have fun as a family creating this presentation. Some ideas to include are:
Home languageCountries of origin before family immigrated to Canada, if not IndigenousSpecial traditions and celebrationsCultural clothingSpecial songsActivities enjoyed as a familyFamily membersPlease feel free to use these ideas as a starting point and adapt them as you’d like. We will be starting these presentations the week of December 5. I will send an email to you with your child's sharing day.We are starting to learn about our families and how they are the same and different.
Please send a family photo to school ASAP, so that your child can introduce the members of their family. We will need these pictures to stay at school for a few weeks at which time they will be sent home. A photocopy of a picture is just fine, if you don't want to send an actual photograph.
We released our butterflies! Ask your child to name all stages of the life cycle. huevo - egg oruga - caterpillar crisálida - chrysalis mar...
