Friday 22 March 2013

Les bulletins de progrès--report cards today!



Dear parents,
Today your child received his or her first report card.  I am very proud our students’ work and am happy to see the progress they are making.  Please book a three-way conference (we encourage having your child in attendance) for next week Wednesday, March 27th if you have not already done so.  You can do this by contacting the main office (the master sheet is there).  I am looking forward to meeting with you.  I want to encourage you to look at how your child was doing in September and how your child is doing now.  All children are different and progress at their own pace.  March 27th is also our four food group day  when students will bring something for a shared snack.  It is the last day before the Easter Break.

Please note that Friday May 10th we will be having a Mother’s Day Tea for the moms in our class.  The students will send invitations, but I wanted to give you advance notice.  Please book this time off if possible.  If you cannot attend and there is a special auntie or Grandma who can be here, please arrange for that.  We will have a special program for our moms and it means a lot if you be present.

On June 21st we will be having our dad’s day.  This day is when our school wide swim is scheduled but we do not plan a swim day for kindergarten.   We will be going to the spray park on another day.  Again if you cannot make it please see if there is a special  uncle or grandpa who can attend.

*Please  note we have a new MIMI poster.  If you look at the link under MIMI Words entitled:
le supermarché you will find the words with their images and recording of the word.

I will be posting photos of our fruit salad, our soup and our still life painting soon.  Please take a look at our display in the glass case in the LRC.

Friday 1 March 2013

March is our class nutrition month--Mars, le mois de la nutrition

Thank you/Merci to all the parents who came to help out with our sledding and skating party. We had a wonderful time and managed to get good weather that day and topped it off avec des biscuits et du chocolat chaud! It is hard to believe that it is March. Here is a copy of the latest newsletter here:

 Chers parents,
Here are a few highlights from the past month:
• We have completed our work with the snowman words from our 3rd “photo de MIMI”. We will start our new poster next week.
• In math we have been counting and counting and counting. On our 100 hundredth day of school we spent a lot of time working with the concept of 100.  We have also been counting by tens!
• I hope you are all enjoying the read-at-home books, Le français…oui, oui, oui par Madame Nathalie. Great work!

What’s new in March?
Along with our new Market Photo for MIMI we will begin a unit on food and nutrition. We will learn a lot of useful vocabulary related to foods and the 4 food groups from Canada’s Food Guide.
We also plan on some very exciting “Food” related activities during the month. Please note the following dates on your calendar:
• We will be finger painting with green pudding--no date set yet.
• Wednesday, March 6th: Fruit Salad - Each child is asked to bring a specific fruit to help in the creation of our culinary masterpiece.
• Tuesday, March 12th we will be going on a walking tour of Extra Foods on Broadway
• Wednesday March 13th: Vegetable Soup – Each child is asked to bring a specific vegetable to help in the creation of another delicious culinary masterpiece.
• Wednesday, March 27th: 4 Food Group Day - We will try to have foods from all 4 food groups for our special snack that day.
• St. Patrick’s Day is nigh! Everyone is welcome to wear vert (green) on Friday, March 15th.
• Please note that The Kindergarten students will be receiving their first Report Cards this month. They will be sent home on Friday, March 22nd. Parents are invited to book a Parent-Teacher Conference. Our class conferences will be scheduled Wednesday evening 4-7pm March 27th. N.B. There will be no school for students on Thursday, March 28th after these interviews.

Your Kindergarten teacher, votre enseignante de la maternelle
Mme Wallace