Hello kinder-families! Thank you to everyone who came out to our parent teacher interviews this week. As a kindergarten team, we believe it is very important to come together as student, teacher, and family to have conversations about the learner profile of your student. During the interview, your child’s teacher showed you a copy of their EYE assessment, also known as the Early Years Assessment. If you have any questions about assessment in kindergarten, you can go click here and you’ll be taken to the early learning page for assessment from the Calgary Board of Education website. Please ask your child’s teacher if you have any questions! Over the month of October and beginning of November we have been exploring the changes of fall. As classes, we collected artifacts and materials from the nature that surrounds our school. Our kindergarten students put on their scientist hats and looked at seeds, pinecones, leaves, flowers, insects, rocks, and so much more. We used magnifying glasses and bug boxes to get a closer look at our items. Students chose items and practiced drawing scientific illustrations. We then explored the changes of fall. Ask your child about what changes in the fall. What colours do we see in fall? Pumpkins became the most exciting and engaging part of our inquiry. Our pumpkins were explored from the outside in. Can you child tell you where the ribs and the stem of a pumpkin are located? What about the fibrous strands, pulp and seeds? Students were able to learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin from seed all the way to a full-grown orange pumpkin! Click here to watch the video about how pumpkins are grown on a pumpkin farm As a kinder-team our next step is to begin exploring the season of winter. Ask your student about the changes of winter, ways to describe the weather, what to wear to be prepared, the animals you can see in the winter, and about our winter song and poem! Click here to see our song and poem to practice with your child at home. The ‘five little snowman’ song is set to the tune of ‘five little pumpkins’. Comments are closed.
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Edgemont SchoolSharon Hanwell, Principal Important DatesSept 29 PM Kinder
Terry Fox Run Oct 6 AM Kinder Oct 9 Thanksgiving Day Oct 13 PM Kinder Oct 16 Non Instruction Day Oct 20 AM Kinder Oct 27 PM Kinder Archives
September 2017
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