Sra. Fredette - Kindergarten Monday/Wednesday

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

8 de febrero

This week, we have been working on some Valentine themed activities. Ask your child about the pictures below.

Today was "Wear a Pattern" day. Can you find the patterns in these pictures?

We have started a unit about Love; Loving ourselves, Loving Others, and Loving the Land.

So far, we have talked about physical traits we love about ourselves, and positive affirmations about who we are. The children are learning to use "kid spelling" when recording. They are hearing and recording the sounds they hear in words which is evident in the example below. "tes" (teeth) and "happy" (happy)

KINDNESS MONTH

Kindness Month

During the month of February, Dalhousie will celebrate Kindness Month. Kindness is a value that should be emulated on a daily basis and a goal of having this focus during February is that it instills the value on a daily basis throughout the year. It is also grounded and can be seen as a throughline in the Indigenous Seven Sacred Teachings of Love, Respect, Courage, Honesty, Wisdom, Humility and Truth. Kindness can be found in both giving and receiving and permeates through a community in a positive way. Specifically, Dalhousie will be engaging in various activities to highlight kindness:

Random Acts of Kindness: Students and staff will be asked to do random acts of kindness. This can be holding the door open for someone, recognizing someone for a specific act or saying thank you.
Food Drive: As an act of kindness and caring, we will be hosting a food drive for the Calgary Food Bank. We want to recognize that we care for other people in a way that they need it. Especially during these financial times, we want to care for those who need support in this area. Donations are appreciated and can be dropped at off in the Calgary Food Bank boxes at either the front or the back door of the school.
Valentine’s Day: This day has a tradition around showing love and care. Dalhousie students will show this by making cards for others outside of learning community and giving them to seniors, front line workers, hospital patients and others. Students will also be making cards for each other. We ask that no cards, food, toys or other items be sent from home for this occasion. Anything sent from home will be sent back. We ask that instead you direct resources that you may have used for this to our Food Drive.
Pink Shirt Day will be celebrated on February 22. Students are encouraged to wear pink to school as a symbol of kindness towards each other.

Showing kindness in various ways develops character traits such as empathy, sympathy, compassion and respect. You are encouraged to have ongoing conversations with your child around this to further strengthen their understanding.

Thursday, February 2, 2023

2 de febrero - Music room notes, important dates and information

Notes from the Music Room

Dear families,

We continue working towards a successful Spring Concert for you. I ask that those of you that look at the blogs, please help your child listen to the song El Barquito de Cascara de Nuez. I included that in the blog two weeks ago or so. I am also very excited to announce that we will have Señor Waters as our accompanist for the Spring concert! I have to say that the children are terribly excited about performing for you. I hope you can all make it to the concert.

The Kindergarten children are going to start dancing La Raspa. We have already worked on the most important part of the footwork. I am attaching a video that guides the steps but please don’t think that this is how we are going to do the dance exactly. For one I don’t call it the Mexican Hat Dance! Also, in the video they keep on saying Olé… The kids love saying olé but if there is any way that you can refrain from encouraging that, I would be most grateful. If you explore more of the videos from this channel you might find some gross motor skills for the kids that are fun and helpful to do as a family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p31lF-hY9u0&t=71s

The Grade 1 students are now learning the following Venezuelan folk song:

Con real y medio

Con real y. medio

Compré una pava

La pava tuvo un pavito

Tengo la pava, tengo el pavito

Siempre me queda mi real y medio.

Translation: with a dollar and a half I bought a turkey, the turkey had a baby turkey. I have a turkey and a baby turkey and I am always left with my dollar and a half.

With this song we start adding animals. The video below is quite fast, but the music is representative of Venezuelan instrumentation and the order of the animals is the one that we will be singing. Please don’t expect the children to sing it that fast… well, not yet anyway. We won’t perform it that fast either because otherwise the whole concert would be over in 15 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQAYYq8OBI

A reminder that February 3 (tomorrow!) is a non-instruction day with no classes for all students.

Registration for the 2023-24 school year is ongoing. If you are looking to register a younger sibling, please submit an application through the CBE website by February 14 at noon to be included in the lottery.

The next Dalhousie School Council/Parent Society meeting will be held through Teams on February 8 at 6pm. All are welcome to attend.

Friday, February 10 is Dress in a Pattern Day. Everyone is encouraged to wear their best pattern to school!

There will be no school due to Teachers’ Convention on February 16 & 17 as well as February 20 due to Family Day.

www.dalhousieparentsociety.com – check out our website for all this info and more!

dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com – email us if you have questions about anything!

Check out our Facebook and Instagram pages as well! Search for Dalhousie Parent Society – tell your friends and fellow parents to give us a follow!

Dalhousie Parent Society News

***FUNDRAISERS***

BREAKING NEWS OUR CURRENT PLAYGROUND WILL BE REMOVED SUMMER 2024! - The CBE will be ripping the current playground out. If we do not come together and fundraise to build the new playground, the kids will be left with nothing. Check out the sign up if you are interested in becoming part of the playground committee! Did you know? You will be supported by the Parent Society in your volunteer role. We have a Playground Lead who will have your back through the whole process!

PURDY’S CHOCOLATESWant to know the most DELICIOUS way to support us? Order Purdy’s chocolates from our fundraiser! From now until March 3, 2023, you can order Purdy’s treats from our fundraiser by joining our campaign and browsing the tastiest selection of Easter chocolates online. Shop gifts for family, friends, neighbours AND yourself in one convenient place. After all orders are submitted, we’ll sort, distribute, and let you know when you can collect your goodies.

What you’ll need to order:1. Our campaign number: 617322. Go to our fundraising website3. Click “Join Campaign”4. Shop, shop, shop away!

Thank you EVERYONE for your support. Even if you can’t buy chocolates from us, it would mean the world if you could share this fundraiser link to everyone you know! Happy chocolating!

MOTHER’S DAY FLOWERSVisit the website here to see what’s being offered!

***FUN LUNCH***Volunteers need to have police clearance to volunteer for fun lunch, please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com if you would like us to confirm. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! Feb 7, 15 and 21^st need some spots filled! View the sign up here.

Don’t forget to send students with reusable straws if they have ordered Booster Juice! If they show a fun lunch volunteer they will be entered to win a free Subway fun lunch on March 21.If your child will be absent and you‘ve already ordered fun lunch please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com before 11:00am and let us know if you’d like to:-Pick up the order from the office after 12:30pm-Donate it to the amazing Dalhousie staff-Have it sent home with a siblingUpcoming dates:February 8 - Boston PizzaFeb 15 – Fat Burger & Booster JuiceFeb 21 – The Saucy Bread CompanyFeb 28 – Tim Horton’s

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

1 de febrero

Here are some of the activities we worked on this week;

Creating a pattern using different sizes of corazónes (hearts)

Finding snowmen around the room that represent numbers in 10 in 3 different ways (tally marks, dice and ten frames)

Creating our own copos de nieve (snowflakes) with six arms using pattern blocks.

Matching the beginning letter sound to the picture.

Painting hearts using blanco, rojo y morado (white, red and purple) using clothes pins and pompoms.

Here is a new song we have been practicing. For those who speak/read Spanish, I know there are a couple of spelling errors in the words! It wasn't me. LOL

Thursday, January 26, 2023

KINDERGARTEN REPORTING AND ASSESSMENT

Kindergarten Reporting & Assessment

We are changing how, and how often, we formally communicate progress for kindergarten learners. Last year, families received a report card in January and June. Moving forward families will not receive a January report card. Information on your child’s progress and achievement in kindergarten will be provided through:

October: Early Years Evaluation-Teacher Assessment (EYE-TA),October/November: progress discussed during conferences,January/February: Reading Readiness Screening Tool (RRST),March: progress discussed during conferences, andJune: Progress reporting via report card.

Teachers work to plan the delivery of curriculum content in ways that are engaging, creative and inspiring and will continue to respond to the needs of students as we work through this transition together. As always, if you have specific questions about your child’s learning please connect with their teacher.

Thank you,

Katrin Lusignan, Principal

News from the Music Room, important dates and information

Notes from the Music Room

I am happy to say that we are moving along with the preparation of the music for the Spring Concert in March. Please keep an eye out for an email in the next week asking for help from our wonderful volunteer community. I will be needing help with props and other performance essentials.

The kindergarten students are learning a new song with very simple vocabulary words:

Hola amigo mio y

Cómo estás tú?

Mucho gusto

We will also be working on simple steps for the Mexican folk dance la Raspa.

The Grade 1s are learning two Venezuelan folk songs:

The first song is:

Los chimichimitos estaban bailando el coro corito

Tamboré

Los chimichimitos estaban bailando el coro corito

Tamboré

Que baile la niña tamboré

Que baile el niñito tamboré

Que baile la gata tamboré

Que baile el gatito tamboré

Los chimichimitos estaban bailando el coro corito

Tamboré

Los chimichimitos estaban bailado el coro corito

Tamboré

Que baile la vieja tamboré

Que baile el viejito tamboré

Que baile la mona tamboé

Que baile el monito tamboré

Our Grade 2 students are busy working on the instrumentation for our Guatemalan song Vamos a la Mar.

Our Grade 3 students are becoming exerts at playing all three different xylophone parts for our song El Barreño.

Our Grade 4 students are creating a very exciting instrumental accompaniment part for their song Al Tambor with the djembe drum, the xylophone and the ukulele.

The Grade 5 students are working very hard at the lyrics for the Zarzuela song La Tarantula. Please remind your child to visit his teacher’s Google classroom to work on the difficult pronunciation of the lyrics to this song. This song will be performed at our March concert as well as at the Jubilee for our Que Pasa concert in May. Details will follow in the next few weeks.

Dalhousie School News

Dalhousie students participated in a reading party today. Ask your child what we did in our class!

Families will be able to view online student report cards for grade 1-12 students on Jan. 30. Report cards for the 2022-23 school year can be viewed, downloaded and printed. Please see here for more information on how to access your child’s report card. A reminder that there is no report card in January for Kindergarten. Please see the separate email that was sent with this information.

A reminder that February 3 is a non-instruction day with no classes for all students.

The next Dalhousie School Council/Parent Society meeting will be held through Teams on February 8 at 6pm. All are welcome to attend.

Dalhousie Parent Society Updates

www.dalhousieparentsociety.com – check out our website for all this info and more!dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com – email us if you have questions about anything!Check out our Facebook and Instagram pages as well! Search for Dalhousie Parent Society

***FUNDRAISERS***PLAYGROUND COMMITTEE – we are trying SO hard to get the funding to build a new playground but we need more help! Check out the sign up if you are interested in becoming part of the playground committee! Did you know? You will be supported by the Parent Society in your volunteer role. We have a Playground Lead who will have your back through the whole process!

Don’t forget to send students with reusable straws if they have ordered Booster Juice! If they show a fun lunch volunteer they will be entered to win a free Subway fun lunch on March 21.If your child will be absent and you‘ve already ordered fun lunch please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com before 11:00am and let us know if you’d like to:-Pick up the order from the office after 12:30pm-Donate it to the amazing Dalhousie staff-Have it sent home with a siblingUpcoming dates:February 1 - OpaFebruary 8 - Boston PizzaFeb 15 – Fat Burger & Booster JuiceFeb 21 – The Saucy Bread Company

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

25 de enero

This week, we finished learning about Lunar New Year, and drew some special foods that are eaten during the celebration. Ask your child to tell you 3 foods that are traditionally eaten!