March 6, 2020

Dear Family and Friends, 

This week we had a Yoga residency during gym class and we got to participate in several yoga lessons. It was a great way to start off our month of learning about Wellness. 

This week we have been focusing on how to show ourselves self-love and self-care. We read the book The Good Egg and we saw all the ways he showed himself love and we brainstormed how we could do the same for ourselves. Next week we will continue to practice lots of different ways to show self-love and how to help ourselves if we are feeling sad, angry, worried or frustrated. 

We also practiced how to retell a story and we retold the story of The Good Egg visually. Next week we will look at all the red and green choices the eggs in the story make and we will practice orally retelling The Hungry Caterpillar and The Good Egg. We will also begin to make connections between our personal story, the personal story of the egg and the personal story of the caterpillar. We will be comparing things that are the same and things that are different. 

We made individual centre time goals this week and we are working hard to achieve them during centres. 

In Math we focused on the positional vocabulary 'above' and 'below'. Next week we will focus on 'near' and 'far'. Soon we will be moving from geometry to focusing our learning on measurement.  

We can't wait to share all our learning with you at the Student Led Conferences! 

Our AM class is hard at work preparing for our Celebration of Learning. 

Please practice singing our song at home:

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

If your child volunteered to speak during the Celebration of Learning, I sent a note home in their folder with their line. Please practice saying it with them! Thanks for your help! 

Important Dates and Information

**Please read - Important information about AM Celebration of Learning**

March 13 - 10:00am - Due to unforeseen circumstances the AM Community Kindergarten Celebration of Learning date has been changed from March 12 to March 13 at 10:00am - Families are invited to attend and watch in the gym as we share our learning with the school!  

March 19 - Student Led Conferences. Please come in to visit our classroom and see our amazing learning! The students have been working hard and are excited to share their learning with you. Conference times are now available to sign up for on Powerschool. Please call the office if you need support with signing up. 

March 20-March 29 - No school for our Spring Break holiday. We will resume classes on Monday March 30. 

School Council Fundraisers: 

Chocolate Flowers and Butterflies -  School Council will be continuing to be selling chocolates for $2 each next week. If your child would like to participate please send $2 in their folder. 

CJM Merchandise - T-shirts, hoodies and hats are available for purchase to support our school. Please let me know if you need another form.