Our Week in Kindergarten November 30 - December 4

Dear Families,

Ms. Ancona added tubes and pipes to our Water Centre. We realized that the water rolls down and goes into the holes. We were trying to build a slide but the pieces kept falling over. We are going to try to make a slide that goes all the way across our water centre, but is more steady. We could build things under the slide to make it steady.


We are finished our classroom alphabet! Some letters were tricky make so we worked together and helped our friends. We liked making our alphabet because we learned so many ABC songs along the way. And we learned what vowels and consonants are! We really like our letter J (Jellybeans), G (Googly Eyes), W (Wheels), and Ms. Boag's X (X-Ray). 


Last week our Bluejays were excited to show the classroom to their families. We showed them our Too Much Glue Story, the art on our Bulletin Boards, the McDonalds, and our Cubby Area. 
This week, the Chickadees parents visited. We hope you had fun. We had fun playing and reading with our brothers and sisters, and being the teachers. Thank-You for Visiting! Come again Soon!


Yesterday we started making crowns and put stars and decorations on them. We made different crowns for different people - Princesses, Princes, Knights, Kings, and Queens! We want to learn what these people do and what they need and where they live. Next, we want to try to make costumes and maybe put on a play! We have named this story our 'Kingdom of Fantasy'! Stay tuned for more adventures.

Love, The Bluejays!

Our Co-Created Alphabet

Co-Creating Our Classroom Alphabet

While learning about sorting in our classroom one student decided that we can sort the letters of the alphabet. We began with sorting the letter magnets by colour, and then our discussion deepened as we tried sorting by letter name, upper and lower case and eventually by vowels and consonants. 







Over the next weeks, students in small groups were challenged to work together to sort 'mystery items' and try to identify the letters hiding inside each box.

Each student made a letter - with one left over for Ms. Boag! We displayed our letters                     over our word wall and best writing board.

Here is our completed alphabet!

Can you tell what each letter is made of?

Our Week in Kindergarten November 16-20

Dear Families,

We were very focused on our McDonalds Restaurant this week. We added many new things that McDonalds has and needs.

An Open and Closed sign to tell people when the store is closed so the workers can sleep, rest, have a break, and eat lunch.

Costumes that are called uniforms for  the Chefs and the Waiters and Waitresses so they don't get dirty and so we know who works there.




A big menu that shows people what food and drinks our McDonalds can make.

Little order papers so that the Waiters and Waitresses can take our orders and get the food ready for us.



Ketchup and Mustard for people to put on the bread or the french fries.
  

We read a good story Elephant and Piggie - I Will Take a Nap. Our Special Helper brought it in for us.
It was a funny story. Elephant had a dream that Piggie had a turnip head!!!
We are going to make puppets for the characters so that we can put on shows.
Maybe next week, we can read more Elephant and Piggie Books


Our classroom now has an 'Author Wall'. It is for books that the children in our class have written and illustrated. Next week, Bluejay families can come and visit to see our wall!

Love, The Bluejays

Our Week in Kindergarten November 9-13

Dear Families,


We have started a Kindergarten Band. We don't have a name yet, but we have been practicing and practicing. We have been making instrument plans and building our instruments at the art centre. More to come next week.


So far this year, we have had 4 Special Helpers for the week. Each week they bring a book from home to share with us and we've liked all of them.
We have read:
-The Day the Crayons Quit By: Drew Daywalt
-Pinkalicious By: Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann
-Boo! By: Robert Munsch
               -Doors in the Air By: David Weale and Pierre Pratt


We have started to make a pretend McDonalds in our Let's Pretend centre. We got McDonalds cups and french fry containers. We sell hamburgers and french fries (But don't really eat them! They are only yellow sponges!)


We have started to make a classroom alphabet. We made an 'A'  with ants, a 'B' with buttons, a 'C' with cotton balls, and a 'D' with dinosaurs. We wonder what we'll make next! We have also listened to letter songs on youtube that taught us about vowels and consonants. Did you know that 'A' is a vowel?
Listen Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAuIzZttP4



Love,
The Bluejays

Our Week in Kindergarten November 2 - November 6

Dear Families,
We are Back!

 

This week we were very busy.

A shoe drive has started at Black Walnut. If you have shoes that don't fit you anymore, you can put them in our shoe drive.

We got new paints for our art centre that we get to squirt out ourselves!

We have been building a lot too! Our friends made a very tall building, a fort, a house and a school that is practicing a fire drill. 



We went on a nature walk to the forest. We saw a woodpecker and bugs and Bluejay girl caught a grasshopper for us! We all brought a leaf back to school and told a story about it. Today, we are going to figure out who found the smallest leaf and who found the biggest leaf!

Love, The Bluejays

This Week - September 14-18

Dear Families,

This week in Kindergarten we went to the gym and to the library. On Wednesday, we celebrated Dot Day! We made dot necklaces with jewels. We played with pom poms.

We read the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds and Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. We used black dots to make pictures and stories for our best writing wall. It was a great day!








Here are some more great books we read this week.

We started to do some artwork for the Markham fair. We are making a farm mural based on the song '1-2-3 It's a Farmer's Life for Me!'  Find it Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr1sQ7kGYlY

We have cows, pigs, horses, sheep, fences, chickens, grass, and farmers.

We still need some dogs, mud, and a barn.

Love,
The Bluejays

PS - We are also hoping to paint faces on some harvest vegetables beginning Wednesday to enter in the School Children's Art Competition. Please send in a small vegetable (pumpkin, gourd, beet, carrot, etc) if you would like to participate.

Our First Week in Kindergarten!

Dear Families,

We are the Bluejays! We had an amazing week in Kindergarten!

The SKs played in the big yard and the JKS played in the small yard. We played tag and we played with the balls and the trucks and streamers. In our garden, we saw our sunflower bloom.

In our classroom, our favourite centre is the Snack Centre!! We also had fun at the Construction, Sensory, Drawing, Let's Pretend, and Play-Dough Centres.

We read a lot of stories together.

Love,
The Bluejays!

Welcome to Kindergarten!

September 2015

Welcome Bluejays and Chickadees to another fantastic year a Black Walnut! We are so excited to meet our new friends and see some familiar faces!

The room is ready to go too!

We will use our Blog this year as a way to communicate the highlights of our week! Be sure to check it out!

Stay Tuned...