the -at word family

We are learning about rhyming and we started by reading the Cat in the Hat and learned about the -at word family. bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat and sat. At home, make up rhyming games with your child. Point out rhymes you hear around you. Kids love rhymes and having a firm grasp can really help them with their reading and writing skills.

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Miss Mynes

What a day!

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped me take the children to The Name of the Tree. The children loved the play (and the adults had fun too, I think). The play is based on a book. Next time you are at the public library, look it up - I'm sure your child would love to hear the story again. The children were all so well behaved - a fantastic day all around.

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Miss Mynes

20 Minute Clean Up

This afternoon, J.G. Workman P.S. will be participating in the 20 Minute Clean Up. I will be absent, unfortunately. The occasional teacher will bring the children outside, along with the rest of the school to pick up trash and clean up our school yard. The children will be given plastic gloves and bags. Feel free to send gardening gloves with your child if they own them. I'm sad to miss this activity. The kids always have so much fun and feel so accomplished when they look around at how much better the school yard looks.

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Miss Mynes

Family Fun NIght

Thanks you to all of you who came to Family Fun Night last night. The school really felt like a community and there was smiles all around from adults and kids alike.

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Miss Mynes

Today

Today we started out 3D shape unit! Sphere, cone, cylinder and cube!

The morning class is in library and the afternoon class will be working on spatial awareness with an obstacle course in gym.

Today our riddle was about chicks (they come from eggs). Thanks to all of you who have returned your field trip forms.

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Miss Mynes

a little about our day

This week, we are learning about things that come from eggs. Today, we are working in our writing folders or journals. The morning class will be doing an obstacle course in physical education in order to improve our body awareness. The afternoon class has library.

Thank you to those of you who have returned the field trip form. The Markham Theater plays are usually really terrific. I look forward to having all 31 students joining us for this fun life experience. I need volunteers so hopefully 5 of you are able to come with us.

Have a great day,
Miss Mynes

supporting our future students

For those of you who have little ones who will be in my class next year, here are some accomplishments they can achieve before their first day of school.

- recognize specific books by cover
- pretend to read books
- understands that books are handled in particular ways
- enters into a book-sharing routine with primary caregivers
- vocalization play in crib gives way to enjoyment of rhyming language, nonsense word play, etc.
- label objects in books
- comments on characters in books
- looks at picture in book and realizes it is a symbol for real object
- listens to stories
- requests/commands adults to read and write
- may begin attending to specific print, such as letters and names
- uses increasingly purposeful scribbling
- occasionally seems to distinguish between drawing and writing
- produces some letter-like forms and scribbles with some features of English writing


These are things children should accomplish between birth and 3 years old. It creates a firm base of literacy skills, preparing them for the accomplishments expected in kindergarten

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Miss Mynes