Weekly Agenda June 1-5

Here is a look at our weekly schedule for June 1-5. I can't wait to see your beautiful projects!

Weekly Agenda May 25-29

Weekly Agenda May 18-22

Dear families, 

Here is a look at our schedule for May 18th to 22nd. 

Enjoy the long weekend!

May 11-15 Agenda

Dear students and families,

Here is a look at our classroom agenda for May 11th to the 15th.

Please remember that Office Hours are on Tuesdays from 10:30-11:00 am and 1:30-2:00pm.

Classroom meetings are on Thursdays- Morning kindergarten meets at 10:00 am and afternoon kindergarten meets at 11:00am.

Have a great week!

May 4 to May 8 Agenda

Dear students and families, 

Here is a look at the activities and assignments for next week. 

Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Beaton

April 27th to May 1st Agenda

Here is a look at the activities for next week:

Have a great weekend!

Online Learning April 20-24

Dear families and students, 

It is hard to believe we are already on our 3rd week of Online Learning! I miss the boys and girls so much but I have absolutely loved seeing pictures of their beautiful work in our Google Classroom. 

Moving forward, please remember that these activities are meant to strengthen students' early literacy and numeracy skills. I do not expect them to be able to write all of the sounds they hear in words, write full sentences or always count properly. I encourage you to please let them do and submit their own work and you can show them how you would do it after they are done.

After listening to feedback, I have tried to create less assignments and more engaging activities for the students to do at home. As always, if you have any questions or need support in any way, please email me at tlbenison@cbe.ab.ca.

Here is a look at next weeks activties:

Dear students and families,

I hope you are all enjoying your long weekend. Here is a look at our schedule for next week (April 13th- 17th). 

You will notice that all of our activities next week are listed as "Assignments" in the "Classwork" section of our Google Classroom. I made the change to assignments so that it would be easier to organize our work and for me to look at your beautiful pictures! 

Please note that although they are listed as assignments there is no grade attached and uploading pictures is completely optional - although I love looking at student work and giving them feedback.

You are welcome to continue posting pictures and messages in our "Stream" section of the our Google Classroom as long as they are kind and helpful. I know that it is a great place for children to go and look for news from their peers.

Mrs. Beaton

A brief look at Monday

Hi there students and families,

Here is a brief look at the activities we have planned for next week.

Remember, we are all learning how to use Google Classroom together. Next week, I encourage you to explore the classroom and ease back into learning activities. There is no pressure to complete every activity. 

There are also some templates provided in the classroom that you can print off. However, if you do not a printer, that's ok! You can complete them on a piece of paper found at home. 

Here is link to CBE help pages with log in instructions and student/parents help if you are still have trouble accessing your account. You can also email me directly at tlbenison@cbe.ab.ca

: https://www.cbe.ab.ca/support/Pages/Google-Apps-Gmail.aspx 

Have a great weekend and I look forward to starting classes on Monday!
Mrs. Beaton

Using our Google Classroom

Dear families and students,

Thank you for all your cooperation this week as we set up our Google Classroom! 

I wanted to share with you a quick look at how to navigate the classroom and get to some of those fun activities, videos and more!

After logging in, you will see an image that looks like one of the following:

PM Kindergarten:

Or AM Kindergarten:













Above these images, you will see a toolbar that looks like this:

If you click on the "Classwork" tab

It will bring you a list of topics:

Feel free to click on and explore some of the items and links in the different topics.

For example, if you click on the "Whole Body Movement" topic it will bring you here:

If you click on "Cosmic Kids" it will bring you to a youtube channel full of fun yoga videos for kids!

You can even find a "Frozen" Yoga Story!

On Monday, our weekly activities will be posted in the "Weekly Lessons" topic. 

Please email me if you have any questions!

Missing home reading?

Are you missing getting your weekly home reading books? Me too! 

Luckily, we have access to a great site where you can go for books that are leveled for young readers as well as more detailed books with voice audio!

Here's how to access Epic! Books: 

Once you're logged on, each student will have their own picture and name. Simply click on the name (not the picture) to get into your account!

Finding leveled books: To find books that are appropriate for kindergarten reading, click on the F&P icon close to the top of the page. It looks like this:

Once there, you can start by going through some of the the Level "A" books located in the row that looks like this:

For example, you may find a book that looks like this:

That has familiar pattern sentences like this:

If some of these books seem a little challenging, that's ok! Just like when we had our home reading, try to find 2 books that you can re-read over several days and keep practicing. 

Remember some of our home reading strategies:

1. Read by memory

2. Read the pictures

3. Identify the letters

4. Recognize sight words

5. Read words.

If those books seem a little easy for your reader, you can move on to the next row. I always like to give students one book that is a little easier and one that is a little challenging! 

Looking for more? After practicing your home reading, why not explore some of the other great features. For example, if you click on the "Read to Me" icon or the "Videos" icon you can find stories with more details that can be read to you!