Back to School August 12, 2020

Good morning everyone! I am sure many of you have been following the “Back to School” plans set out by our provincial government. It is an exciting time, but also a nervous, and perhaps worrisome time. I want to let you all know that I am here for you if you have any general questions- I cannot tell you who your child will have in the fall, and there are parts of the plan that I am still learning about. I wanted to share the governments plan here on the blog:

https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/information/education-and-lifelong-learning/back-school-faq

If there is anything I can do for you, please reach out and let me know!

Enjoy these last few days of summer!

Carrie Marshall

June 19 June 19, 2020

This is it KD. The last “day school”. I have no assignments for you, other than to enjoy your summer. Maybe you could read a little and write a little each day? Maybe you could count some and make some patterns in the sand? Those are just some suggestions, but most of all, I want you to have fun!

Parents, I want to remind you of Monday at 9- there will be a drive through to pick up your child’s belongings. If this doesn’t work for you, please let me know and we will arrange another time! And please bring your child with you- we want this to be a fun time of celebration for everyone!

OK, I would like you to watch our video today. It is something special I put together to remind us of all of the fun we had all year! Thank you for being just the best class a teacher could ask for!

I love you all! Happy Summer!

Ms. Marshall

June 18 June 18, 2020

One more day girls and boys! One more day! Another short video today- because, I am realistic and I know it is way too nice to be inside! Here is your To Do Today list:

• Watch the video (it’s short, I promise!)
• Write about letter Z
• Read for at least 5 minutes
• Find something to measure and compare
• Go outside, discover the world, PLAY!

I have a fun story about an inchworm who likes to measure. It is called Inch By Inch and it is written and illustrated by Leo Lionni (remember Frederick the mouse? That author!) I will leave it here if you are interested:

Have a great day everyone!

Ms. Marshall

June 17 June 17, 2020

Good morning Boys and Girls! It’s already Wednesday! You won’t need anything for today’s video, but you will need something for math that I will explain later in the post!

Here is our book of the week:

This is a fun video- it is 15 minutes, so no pressure to watch if you don’t want to.

To Do Today:

• Watch the video
• Write about Letter Y in your Alphabet book
• Math Task of the Day: Trace the outline of your shoe/foot on to a piece of paper. Cut it out. Use your cut out foot to measure objects in your house and outside
• Read 5 minutes
• Go Play!

Have a great day boys and girls! Two more days left! I will see you tomorrow,

Ms. Marshall

June 16 June 16, 2020

Good Morning Everyone! I have two videos today- our Morning Meeting Video and a video on Long and Short. You don’t need anything for these videos- enjoy!

To Do Today:

• Watch the video
• Read 5 minutes
• Write about letters W, X
• If you can print off the bird check list, do that- but this week, keep an eye out for different birds and write down the ones you see!
• Math Task: Choose 3 different sized crayons. Put them in order from shortest to tallest. Draw a picture to represent this.

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Ms. MacDonald has a new dance video!

Have a great day everyone! See you tomorrow! 3 Days left of school!!

I miss you all!

Ms. Marshall

June 15 June 15, 2020

Good Morning KD! 5 KINDERGARTEN DAYS LEFT! Can you believe it???? Let’s have some fun this week!

To Do Today:

• Video
• Read 5 minutes
• Write letters U and V in your Alphabet Journal
• Math Task: go outside and find a stick (if you can’t, find something in your home). What can you find that is shorter than your stick? What about longer than your stick?
• PLAY!

Here is the hummingbird- ignore my poor sickly spider plant, and the moisture on the window from the rain sprinkles:

Please have a great day!

I miss you all!

Ms. Marshall

PS- Parents- If you haven’t paid for school supplies for next year, and you are wanting to, today is the deadline for that! You an go on the Hot Lunch site and pay that way!

June 12 June 12, 2020

Good morning everyone! I want to apologize. This has been a crazy week- lots of meetings and going into the classroom to organize and clean up- I had hoped to do more with Lois Ehlert this week. Unfortunately, time got away from me. We still have 5 more days after today though, so we will get there! You won’t need anything for today’s video except make sure you’ve done Q and R in your alphabet book!

Just for fun, here’s the Sesame Street ABC song we always enjoyed

Here is another version of Planting A Rainbow- our book from last week. At about the 7:30 mark the host of the video shows how to make a collage. I thought it might be fun for you to do too!

To Do Today:

• Watch the video
• Do letters S, T in your alphabet book
• Read at least 5 minutes
• Play!
• Optional: watch the other video’s posted

Have a wonderful weekend Girls and Boys! Only 5 days left of Kindergarten! Can you believe it?

I miss you all so very much!

Ms. Marshall

June 11 June 11, 2020

Good morning KD! I have a very short video today- but there is a fun math activity that you might enjoy doing, so make sure you watch it!

As I said on the video, I would like you to do some letter formation today. I am putting up a PDF with the formation instructions:

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A fun video about Heavy and Light

To Do Today:

• Watch my video
• Watch the story video
• Practice some letter formation
• See if you can make a balance like I did with a box lid and a can. See how many things you can balance, or find out what is heavy and what is light.
• Write letters Q and R in your Alphabet book
• Go Play!

Have a great day everyone!

Ms. Marshall

TD Summer Reading Club June 10, 2020

Hello Parents! This blog post is to inform you of the Public Libraries TD Summer Reading Club. It is a great program to encourage children to keep reading over the summer! I hope you will consider this with your child. And, tell Ashley, the librarian at the Stratford Library Branch that Mrs. Marshall says hello! She worked with my daughter two summers at the Cornwall Library, so I know for a fact that she is super nice! Please click on the links for the information!

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Please let me know if you have any questions!

Ms. Marshall

June 10

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I hope you are all doing well- the weather this week hasn’t been the most predictable, has it? But at least it isn’t snowing!

I was in the room yesterday, doing some cleaning and look what I found behind a stack of books! It sure made me smile!

For today’s video you will need 10 counters because we are going to have a little review of taking the number 10 and breaking it into two parts.

In the video I told you I would post an online version of our story. Here it is:

Here are photos of those two pages in the book:

And here is the example for our Math lesson:

Today’s To Do:

• Watch the video
• Read 5 minutes
• Write about letters O and P
• Math activity: 1. Choose an object. 2. Collect 10 more objects. 3. Hold your first object in one hand and pick up the other 10 objects one at a time. Write down if it is heavier or lighter than your main object (see chart above)

I think that is it! Have a great Wednesday Boys and Girls! I will see you tomorrow!

Ms. Marshall