Weekly Update: Sept. 7 - 11

September is a month for practicing routines and building foundational skills. Our focus will be on building fine motor skills to help us with so many big jobs later like building stamina in printing and cutting activities and zipping our jackets. 

We continue to play and learn together. 

Tuesday: 

You may have heard your child telling you about how we are exercising our fingers during Morning Bins and practicing pre-writing lines on whiteboards. Pre-writing lines are important in helping us form letters and numbers correctly. We are also working on using correct pencil grip. 

 

Our read aloud today was:

Wednesday:

We continued our work with vertical and horizontal lines. Ask your child about which directions these lines should go when printing. It is important to follow the formation as it will help with printing difficult letters.

In math today, we began to explore simple patterns and learned a song about patterns. Some of us had a chance to share their own patterns. We will do some more next week and others will be given a chance to show their patterns. 

Thursday:

Practicing vertical lines in our printing books and colouring in the lines of our picture was our table work today. Continue practicing vertical lines on lined paper from top down at home would be beneficial. 

In gym, we continue to do different cooperative games. This will help build good sportsmanship. We have learned different types of games like 4 Squares and Freeze tag. 

REMINDERS:

• NO School for Kindergartens tomorrow. Have a great weekend.

• If you notice your child's face is blurred out on the blog, it is because permission was not granted or the Annual Authorization Forms have not been completed. Mrs. Brinson sent out a reminder email last week to have the Demographic Verification Forms and the Annual Authorization Forms (Consent for CBE Use of Student Information) filled out. It is important that these documents are filled out, so that we are up to date and for emergencies. These forms can be accessed on MyCBE. If this is your first child attending CBE, you will need to create an account. You will need your child's student number. If you are having a difficult time locating it, please email me. Once everything is set up, please go to School Engage to complete all forms. MyCBE is the portal to access school fees, bussing and to book conferences. Please bookmark this for easy access. 

• Next Week, on Thursday, September 17th we will be participating in our annual Terry Fox Run. We will be collecting donations all week for the Terry Fox Foundation. Please dress for the weather as we will be outside with our grade 3 buddy class participating in this event.

• If you haven't sent the questionnaire form back to school, please do so. The red agenda folder will stay at school and will only be sent home if there is a notice. 

• A Healthy Hunger email was sent out this week. Healthy Hunger is a fundraiser that our Parent Fundraising Society runs to help raise money to help our school. Kindergartens only sign up for treat days because they do not have lunch. On the days that your child has ordered Healthy Hunger it will be delivered to them at school.