Wednesday, September 2, 2015

          Vista Heights Kindergarten Information 2015-16

Healthy Snacks/Lunch: Eating healthy is an important part of the student school code. Please ensure that your child has had breakfast before arriving at school.

Please ensure your child has a nutritious snack and lunch each day.

Some great ideas include, fruit, vegetables, yogurt, muffin, cheese etc. and drinks. All students are welcome to bring water bottles to school each day (with their names on them).

                    

                             Displaying good manners                 Healthy and nutritious snack

        

               We talked about what would be a healthy snack...     Ask me about it

         

We also sang a few songs about healthy snacks

Nursheen is showing us how to clean our space after finishing our snack.

Thank you!

Students are encouraged to eat their snack only and not share food due to various food allergies of their classmates. Please inform me if your child has any allergies or any other medical conditions.

Note: We are a peanut aware school.

We practiced singing a song to greet each other.... 
                                                  Ask me to show you the actions and please sing it with me....

                                               
                                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywIu30lqKA

Celebrations:

We ask parents/guardians to respect the fact that some students have serious food allergies. Please DO NOT SEND any cakes, cupcakes or other treats to school for any celebration.

*Birthdays will be acknowledged over the morning announcement and with a birthday pencil.

                                           Vista Heights Kindergarten Information 2015-16

What does your child need to bring to school?

- Backpack                                                                                

- Indoor velcro running shoes (appropriate gym wear)

- Lunch and Snack     

                                                                                                    

The September newsletter and calendar was sent home today. Please note the following days:

September 7, 2015 - no school due to Labour Day

September 8, 2015 - School Council at 6:30 - all parents welcome!

September 10, 2014 - Meet the Teachers - 6:30 - 7:30pm

September 24 & 25 - Parent/Teacher conferences

September 29 - Virtues day for students

Please ensure that you complete and return the purple Consent to Publish form attached to the calendar. This would allow us to post your child's picture on our blog. 

                     I am missing a few folders. Please return them the next day.  For some students I sent todays information in their hands.  Thank you.

Please put your child’s name on all clothing (jacket, sweater, shoes, backpack etc) and personal belongings.

From September 8th school starts at 8:50 am. After the bell rings, all Kindergarten students will assemble outside the west entrance.

School Dismissal: 3:08 pm. Please pick up the students from the west entrance. Please ensure that your child is picked up at this time. If you are unable to pick your child at 3:08, please call the office at (403) 777-6000.

Hand to hand: This is a CBE policy for Kindergarten, to ensure the safety of each Kindergarten student. Please inform me who will be picking up your child. If there is a change please update me.

Lunch schedule from September 8th: 11.45-12.30

Options- Go home for lunch: Parents pick up the students at 11:45 from the playground.

-Lunch at school: Lunch supervisor will supervise the students. Please ask the office for more information. Brown Bag available-Parents need to request for the Brown Bag Lunch.

-ESG Daycare: A representative of the Daycare will pick up the students.

-Please inform us of any other Child Care Facilities.

Kindergarten News: We will be using the kindergarten blog to ensure that information is shared between home and school promptly. Information will be posted as necessary. On occasion, your child will be bringing home the green plastic folder which will contain important information for you to review. Please check the blog and your child’s backpack each day for any updates.

Forms: Please fill out and return the package that was sent home on the first day of school. This information includes: 
                     -the media consent form

                              - school fees

                              -health form: allergies

Library Books: Students will have an opportunity to borrow and exchange books from the library (learning commons) every day. Parents are encouraged to read these books with their children each day. Please help your child establish routines to take good care of the borrowed books.

Volunteers: Parents are welcome and encouraged to volunteer both in the classroom and on field trips. If you’re interested please visit the school secretary, Mrs. Mckie to check about your security clearance.

Please visit your blog for a link to the handbook & each individual grade team’s blog

http://www.vistaheightsschool.blogspot.ca/

Handbook: http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b239/publi.htm

We read, 

  Ask me about this book
Ask me to tell you my favourite part...

Some of us were putting our shoes the wrong way and we practiced how we can tell its not right...

Ask me to observe all the shoes and tell you which ones are not worn

correctly...        Ask me how do I know

                                   If I am standing and I look down ... They should not make a 'V'

Reading a book with Mrs. Delicate our CBE speech pathologist and sharing our favourite part

Displaying good listening.... Good job Kindergarten students and today was your second day in school

          Raising our hands politely to ask questions....         Good manners Kindergarten!

                                                 Ask me about it...

                  Some learning tasks and routines of the Kindergarten community...

Ask me to tell you what we did at these centres..

Ask me to tell you how we sorted these names....

Ask me to find my name...

Ask me how we shared the play dough

What do we need to do before we go to another centre...

                      Lined up after our recess time....  Ask me what we did....

Thank you Kindergarten helpers for holding the                 Being safe and holding the sides to go up

door for your friends and showing the virtue of courtesy

Ask me the rule for the slide.....        up the ladder, down the slide

and I have to wait for the person in front to reach the end of the slide...

We looked for shapes on the playground..... Ask me what shapes did Myron and Ahmed find..

Finding circles....

Ask me to find different shapes in these pictures...

London is showing us how to get down safely....   Thank you!

                   Sometimes we feel scared on the bridge so we hold the chains to balance...
                                                    Thank you Nursheen!

         We don't go in if we are not in a straight line             Holding our out door shoes and waiting ..
             Ask me to draw a straight line for you

                      Myron is showing us how we put our shoes against the wall. Thank you!

             There was a discovery made by Lucas at the painting table and was so excited to share it
               with his friends..... Ask me about it.  Lucas said, " I mixed yellow and black and made                            brown." We were all excited for him and went over to his centre to celebrate with him!

Kindergarten cooks at work... making pizza...

Lots of sharing and community building skills were being displayed..

 Ask me what kind of pizzas did we make...

Kindergarten artist Ruby explaining what she painted. "I made a rainbow."

                 

                  "I made my mom."                                     " I made a rainbow."

 Creative art work....

I value the child as strong, capable and resilient; rich with wonder and knowledge. Every child brings with them deep curiosity and potential and this innate curiosity drives their interest to understand their world and their place within it. I am excited to provide your child with meaningful experiences, opportunities for engaged learning and foster independence. I look forward to a great year of partnership with you in helping your child learn, grow and blossom to be successful.

Please feel free to contact me anytime by email: almalik@cbe.ab.ca or by calling the office 403-777-6000.

Thanks,

Mrs. Malik