Helping Your Child in Kindergarten
1. Ensure that your child has adequate sleep and a regular bedtime. A well-balanced diet is also essential for your child to do his/her best at school.
2. Read stories suited to your child’s interests and ability to understand.
3. Answer your child’s questions and encourage curiousity. Give your child words for things that interest him/her.
4. Take your child to various places outside the home and talk about what s/he sees, e.g. library, stores, zoo, museum, art gallery, friend’s houses, park, etc.
5. Give your child plenty of time to get ready for school. Allow enough time to dress as independently as possible. Your child is very proud to be able to get dressed independently! Help him/her think about the order in which clothes are put on e.g. legs in snowsuits first, then arms; boots, hat, scarf and mittens last.
6. Your child learns responsibility by taking care of and putting away belongings.
7. Provide your child with a toy storage area. Open shelves allow your child to get out and put away toys easily. Your child can help you label the bins!
8. Have your child keep a pair of indoor shoes at school such as Crocs. This ensures that s/he will have suitable footwear during the school year.
9. Provide materials for active outdoor play, such as balls, bicycles and scooters.
10. Supervise the amount of t.v. and media, devices, etc. your child watches.
11. Friendships are very important to development. Encourage your child to invite his/her friends to play dates.
12. Speak to me about any concerns or new problems that arise. Interviews can be arranged by calling the school office (416-394-7890).
13. Discipline: Have suitable and prompt consequences for misbehaviour. Provide explanations for the consequences and make sure your child understands. Rules should be easy to understand. Positive reinforcement works best!
14. Talk to your child about school as an interesting and fun place to go; a place where s/he will have fun and learn many new things. Reinforce learning by telling your child, as s/he talks about school, all the things s/he is learning!
15. Read with your child each day. Enjoy this special time with your child!
Yours in partnership,
Mrs. Tyndall
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Friday, September 18, 2015
Week of September 21-25
Dear Families,
It's hard to believe that summer will be over and autumn begins next week! The weather has been so beautiful!
We had a busy week in Room 166. On Monday the entire school attended the Terry Fox Assembly. Donation forms were sent home and are due by the end of the month please. Our first Scholastic Order was due today but you can send in your order forms by Monday at the latest. Pizza lunch orders are due online by September 25 for the first pizza lunch, and October 13th for the other pizza lunches.
Many thanks to Claire's dad who was our Mystery Reader this Thursday. Many thanks as well to our Grade Parents Mary (Martel's mom) and Theresa (Stella's mom) for compiling the Class Contact List and for coordinating our parent volunteers this year.
Just a reminder that your child needs TWO snacks each day. Please assist your child by explaining what his/her snacks are in his/her lunch bag. Some children are telling me their parents forgot to pack them a snack and then we find fruit or veggies in their lunch bag! We have snack at about 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. I have a water fountain in my classroom and the children can use their water bottles during outdoor play and at lunch.
PLEASE remember that we have a student with a nut and sesame allergy in our classroom. Lambton Kingsway is a nut-safe school and all commercially made products (such a protein-type bars) must have the "nut-free" logo and must not say "May contain nuts" on the list of ingredients. Any snacks that do not meet this criteria will be returned home. Thank you.
Within the next few weeks we will start our Reading Buddy program with Ms. Sunde's Grade 2 class! This is an exciting program for the children and a great learning experience and opportunity. Stay tuned for more information!
The children did a great job during our Lockdown practice. Next week the school will have a Fire Drill. We talked about these procedures and the children did a great job being very quiet and lining up. Every day the Juniors are learning more and more of our routines and I'm proud of how the Seniors are setting a terrific example for them!
This week in Literacy we "Read the Room" looking for upper and lower case letter matches; we played letter and letter sound bingo on the Smartboard (abcya.com); we "stretched out" and read three-letter words on the Smartboard; the SKs read and wrote colour words; we reviewed (SKs) and are learning (JKs) our sight words I, AM, IS and AND; the Special Person of the Day showed us how they "Fix Their Name" by unscrambling the letters.
In Numeracy we: counted (and the SKs wrote) the letters in our names; the JKs did Chicka Chicka counting coconuts; the SKs did a Number Hunt.
In Art we made Eye Spy Names; some children drew a bouquet of sunflowers in the class; made a Chicka Chicka Name tree. We will talk more about the sunflowers next week in Science.
In the Science Centre the children brought in a root from a tree in the playground; seeds; milk weed pods.
Next week we will learn All About Apples and will incorporate this inquiry into our Science, Numeracy, Literacy and Art activities. We will also examine our sunflowers more. We will start an Author Study on Laura Numeroff who wrote the wonderful books "If you Give a _____ a _______." We'll start with "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!" and "If you give a Moose a Muffin." If you have copies of Numeroff's books at your home please send them in with your child so we can read along! I have one copy of each of her books. It will be fun! Look for lots of activities in next week's and the following week's mailbags! If you remember, please send in apples, cookies and muffins for snacks this week to go with our learning!
The Seniors received their new Journals in today's mailbag. I have attached a list of 100 high frequency words as a little dictionary on the back page. I have also glued in the list of things you asked your child to write about this year, as a guideline, and a list of Dos and Don'ts (i.e. do skip lines, do use the popcorn words, do sound words out, don't write out the sentences for your child to copy from). Please return your child's journal each Monday. I am really looking forward to reading them and to seeing all the lovely accompanying pictures!
That's the news from Room 166. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Tyndall
It's hard to believe that summer will be over and autumn begins next week! The weather has been so beautiful!
We had a busy week in Room 166. On Monday the entire school attended the Terry Fox Assembly. Donation forms were sent home and are due by the end of the month please. Our first Scholastic Order was due today but you can send in your order forms by Monday at the latest. Pizza lunch orders are due online by September 25 for the first pizza lunch, and October 13th for the other pizza lunches.
Many thanks to Claire's dad who was our Mystery Reader this Thursday. Many thanks as well to our Grade Parents Mary (Martel's mom) and Theresa (Stella's mom) for compiling the Class Contact List and for coordinating our parent volunteers this year.
Just a reminder that your child needs TWO snacks each day. Please assist your child by explaining what his/her snacks are in his/her lunch bag. Some children are telling me their parents forgot to pack them a snack and then we find fruit or veggies in their lunch bag! We have snack at about 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. I have a water fountain in my classroom and the children can use their water bottles during outdoor play and at lunch.
PLEASE remember that we have a student with a nut and sesame allergy in our classroom. Lambton Kingsway is a nut-safe school and all commercially made products (such a protein-type bars) must have the "nut-free" logo and must not say "May contain nuts" on the list of ingredients. Any snacks that do not meet this criteria will be returned home. Thank you.
Within the next few weeks we will start our Reading Buddy program with Ms. Sunde's Grade 2 class! This is an exciting program for the children and a great learning experience and opportunity. Stay tuned for more information!
The children did a great job during our Lockdown practice. Next week the school will have a Fire Drill. We talked about these procedures and the children did a great job being very quiet and lining up. Every day the Juniors are learning more and more of our routines and I'm proud of how the Seniors are setting a terrific example for them!
This week in Literacy we "Read the Room" looking for upper and lower case letter matches; we played letter and letter sound bingo on the Smartboard (abcya.com); we "stretched out" and read three-letter words on the Smartboard; the SKs read and wrote colour words; we reviewed (SKs) and are learning (JKs) our sight words I, AM, IS and AND; the Special Person of the Day showed us how they "Fix Their Name" by unscrambling the letters.
In Numeracy we: counted (and the SKs wrote) the letters in our names; the JKs did Chicka Chicka counting coconuts; the SKs did a Number Hunt.
In Art we made Eye Spy Names; some children drew a bouquet of sunflowers in the class; made a Chicka Chicka Name tree. We will talk more about the sunflowers next week in Science.
In the Science Centre the children brought in a root from a tree in the playground; seeds; milk weed pods.
Next week we will learn All About Apples and will incorporate this inquiry into our Science, Numeracy, Literacy and Art activities. We will also examine our sunflowers more. We will start an Author Study on Laura Numeroff who wrote the wonderful books "If you Give a _____ a _______." We'll start with "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!" and "If you give a Moose a Muffin." If you have copies of Numeroff's books at your home please send them in with your child so we can read along! I have one copy of each of her books. It will be fun! Look for lots of activities in next week's and the following week's mailbags! If you remember, please send in apples, cookies and muffins for snacks this week to go with our learning!
The Seniors received their new Journals in today's mailbag. I have attached a list of 100 high frequency words as a little dictionary on the back page. I have also glued in the list of things you asked your child to write about this year, as a guideline, and a list of Dos and Don'ts (i.e. do skip lines, do use the popcorn words, do sound words out, don't write out the sentences for your child to copy from). Please return your child's journal each Monday. I am really looking forward to reading them and to seeing all the lovely accompanying pictures!
That's the news from Room 166. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Tyndall
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Week of September 14-18
Dear families,
We have had our first week with all the children in! This is a very busy and exciting time for the children. There have been a number of letters and forms sent home to be signed. Please make sure you send back your completed forms.
It was so nice to meet all of you! The children have been doing a great job lining up outside the playground door. Thank you so much for assisting with this transition by saying good-bye at the door. Our SKs have been doing a wonderful job making the Juniors feel welcome and helping them with routines!
When all the contact information has been sent in, Grade Parents will be contacting you regarding volunteer opportunities in the classroom. For example, each Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m. a parent volunteer is Mystery Reader. This is a surprise visit. The parent signs in at the office, the office buzzes the classroom to let us know "The Mystery Reader is here," and I send two children to the office to pick him/her up. Then the Mystery Reader reads a book or two they have brought from home to the children.
There are also volunteer opportunities to help the children in the Computer Lab and to assist on Craft Days (Halloween, Winter Holiday, 100th Day of School, etc. - see "Important Dates" column at right). The kids love to see their parents in the classroom and your time and energy are really appreciated! It is wonderful to see a child's face light up when mom or dad comes into our class!
If anyone would like to volunteer to sort, staple and stamp the Scholastic order forms each month it would be much appreciated!
This week and next week will be spent on establishing rules and routines. It will take many of the children (especially the JKs) quite some time to learn all the various rules and routines. We all learn together and the Juniors learn so much from the Seniors as well.
We are currently talking about our Names. We are also reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and are learning and reviewing letter names and sounds. The children's first work of the year is called "This is Me" and it is proudly on display in the hall bulletin board. We are also working to learn high frequency words ("Popcorn Words" since they keep popping up!) and last week's words were I and AM. We will learn two new words each week and your child will receive a copy of each word in their mailbag. The JKs are learning letter names and sounds and the SKs are reviewing sight words. We are also doing numeral review (counting and number formation) on the Smartboard. Next week we will continue numeracy and literacy activities related to the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book as well as Eye Spy letters, letter sounds, and numbers. We will also be talking about Terry Fox and will join the rest of LKS at the Terry Fox Assembly on Monday.
That's my news for this week! I'm looking forward to next week when all the children are in each day. I hope you've had a lovely weekend.
Mrs. Tyndall
We have had our first week with all the children in! This is a very busy and exciting time for the children. There have been a number of letters and forms sent home to be signed. Please make sure you send back your completed forms.
It was so nice to meet all of you! The children have been doing a great job lining up outside the playground door. Thank you so much for assisting with this transition by saying good-bye at the door. Our SKs have been doing a wonderful job making the Juniors feel welcome and helping them with routines!
When all the contact information has been sent in, Grade Parents will be contacting you regarding volunteer opportunities in the classroom. For example, each Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m. a parent volunteer is Mystery Reader. This is a surprise visit. The parent signs in at the office, the office buzzes the classroom to let us know "The Mystery Reader is here," and I send two children to the office to pick him/her up. Then the Mystery Reader reads a book or two they have brought from home to the children.
There are also volunteer opportunities to help the children in the Computer Lab and to assist on Craft Days (Halloween, Winter Holiday, 100th Day of School, etc. - see "Important Dates" column at right). The kids love to see their parents in the classroom and your time and energy are really appreciated! It is wonderful to see a child's face light up when mom or dad comes into our class!
If anyone would like to volunteer to sort, staple and stamp the Scholastic order forms each month it would be much appreciated!
This week and next week will be spent on establishing rules and routines. It will take many of the children (especially the JKs) quite some time to learn all the various rules and routines. We all learn together and the Juniors learn so much from the Seniors as well.
We are currently talking about our Names. We are also reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and are learning and reviewing letter names and sounds. The children's first work of the year is called "This is Me" and it is proudly on display in the hall bulletin board. We are also working to learn high frequency words ("Popcorn Words" since they keep popping up!) and last week's words were I and AM. We will learn two new words each week and your child will receive a copy of each word in their mailbag. The JKs are learning letter names and sounds and the SKs are reviewing sight words. We are also doing numeral review (counting and number formation) on the Smartboard. Next week we will continue numeracy and literacy activities related to the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book as well as Eye Spy letters, letter sounds, and numbers. We will also be talking about Terry Fox and will join the rest of LKS at the Terry Fox Assembly on Monday.
That's my news for this week! I'm looking forward to next week when all the children are in each day. I hope you've had a lovely weekend.
Mrs. Tyndall
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