FDK 7 is practicing our math skills, measuring our plants and counting on to see how many blocks taller they are. Retired Account - Bay Area Restoration Council Royal Botanical Gardens Viola Desmond Elementary School HWDSB

FDK 7 is learning to code and practicing our retell skills with Bee Bot. Viola Desmond Elementary School Viola Desmond HWDSB @hwdsb

FDK 7 has been having fun learning this week with some butterfly inspired learning centres. Viola Desmond Elementary School HWDSB

FDK 7 has been having fun watching our caterpillars grow and can't wait to see them transform into butterflies! 🦋 Viola Desmond Elementary School HWDSB

Thank you to all of the families that were able to attend our Welcome to Kindergarten night today at Viola Desmond. We can't wait to welcome our new JK's in September! Viola Desmond Elementary School HWDSB

FDK 7 has been having fun playing our new favourite literacy game by adding letter wands to a game of musical books! Students move around the carpet to music & sit in front of a book when it stops. As they read they look for words that contain their letter. HWDSB Viola Desmond Elementary School

📣Viola Desmond Elementary School had special guests today visiting the Kindergarten and Grade 1 classes. 👏🏼Thank you C Squad from Station 7. These Community Helpers provided us with a lot of information about their role and answered many, many of our questions! 😍 #fireprevention

We had a great small reading group today using Flyleaf decodables after finishing lesson 44 in UFLI on the grapheme CK, allowing students to apply their newly acquired phonics knowledge to this fun engaging text #scienceofreading UF Literacy Institute HWDSB Viola Desmond Elementary School Viola Desmond HWDSB

Viola Desmond is now a gold certified Ontario Eco School! Thank you to our Eco Team for all their hard work this year. EcoSchools Canada Viola Desmond Elementary School @hwdsb

After having fun exploring our community FDK 7 decided to expand our community project with chatter pix allowing students to share their learning and have fun! HWDSB Viola Desmond Elementary School

Thank you Room144 for inspiring our morning journal today! After listening to "Read All Summer" by @bsimpson042 and hearing the letters our pen pals shared yesterday we were inspired to come up with our favourite summer reading spots! Viola Desmond Elementary School Viola Desmond HWDSB HWDSB

FDK 7 was having fun coding and practicing our letter sounds with Bee Bot today. Students had fun coming up with words that started and ended with each letter Bee Bot landed on. Viola Desmond Elementary School Viola Desmond HWDSB @hwdsb

After finishing our digraph review today and our last UFLI lesson for the year FDK 7 was having fun practicing making and sounding out words we learned with digraphs at our phonics wall. UF Literacy Institute Viola Desmond Elementary School Viola Desmond HWDSB @hwdsb

We did it! FDK 7 finished 35 weeks of Heggerty and 53 UFLI lessons. So proud of our superstar kinders! Viola Desmond Elementary School Viola Desmond HWDSB UF Literacy Institute Heggerty HWDSB

Having a sound wall in our classroom this year was a great tool to support students articulation and knowledge of letter sounds/ phonemes. FDK 7 had fun practicing letter sounds using mirrors and toobaloos. #scienceofreading UF Literacy Institute Viola Desmond Elementary School Viola Desmond HWDSB HWDSB

We were excited to meet our new group of JK's today and looking forward to our first full day of kindergarten with FDK 7 tomorrow! Viola Desmond Elementary School HWDSB

FDK 7 had a great first day! Looking forward to all the fun we're going to have this school year. Viola Desmond Elementary School HWDSB

FDK 7 has been enjoying getting back into the swing of things with UFLI's Getting Ready lessons. HWDSB Viola Desmond Elementary School UF Literacy Institute #scienceofreading

Congratulations on receiving this important recognition and promotion for a truly incredible character education program. 🌟 You make a difference, thank you!