Continuing Our Learning Over The Summer!

        I can't believe we have only 5 (or 4.5 days now) The time has whizzed by! I have REALLY enjoyed my time in your child's classroom! Your child has taught me a lot about the importance of curiosity, wonder, play, imagination, creativity. Your child's sense of awe spans from the tiniest of life forms to majestic towers and explosive volcanoes! Kindergarten is indeed a fun place to be!

       Over the course of the year, your child has expanded their phonological awareness (matching letters to their sounds), vowels (and discerning when they say their name and when they say their sound) and we are now working on consonant blends (th, sh, ch).

       We have learned our numbers and matched quantities with their digit representations (i.e. 9 bingo dabbers matched with the number 9); positional words (still working on our left and rights); shapes (2D and 3D shapes);patterns & sorting objects based on size, shape, colour; organizing data into tally marks and bar graphs and simple addition (some of us have began subtraction as well).

        I am compiling resources that you can access over the summer to continue your child's learning. I am making a Google Drive folder and you should be able to access it through this blog. If you would like me to print any of these resources out for you, let me know and I can do that. I didn't want to print everything because children are at different stages and not all children may require the extra practice in all areas. Conversely, some of these (particularly the Monster Math Problem Solving) are "extra challenges". Something that we do in the class is place worksheets or tracers in paper protectors (click here to see what I mean). Then your child can use a dry erase marker over top and can practice using the same sheet.

        These are all optional and not meant to tire your child over the summer. Instead, they can be viewed as extra practice or challenges. Overall, I hope this summer gives your family the chance to soak up lots of sunshine and play together!

Here is a folder with resources to refer to over the summer!

Please let me know if you have any troubles accessing these files.