Friday, 17 June 2016

Our Week June 13 - 17

Our year is coming to a close! Here are some stories from this week!

Graduation
The Bluejays are going to Grade 1 soon! We think we might have homework in Grade 1 but we get to go in the big kid field for recess!
We are graduating next week. Some of the Bluejays are sad and some of the Bluejays are happy. We hope to see you there!

Sorting Clay
We sorted clay on Thursday. At first, the clay was all mixed and squished together. It was very hard. We didn't want to throw it away so we decided to fix it! 
We sorted the pieces we could and then mixed the other pieces to make new colours. We have a little bit left and then we are done!

Father's Day
We are making a secret for Father's Day. We can't tell our Dads what we are making for them. It is a surprise but on Father's Day we can tell them!




Castle Making 
Our class found a game on TVO Kids called 'Castle Construction'. We printed instructions for making our own castle! We needed a cereal box, paper rolls, a background, signs, a moat, and most important - flags and a stone wall!
Now it is finished and we can play with it in our construction centre!



Play Day

On Monday we had a Play Day. Lots of people were good at blowing bubbles. We liked popping the bubbles the most. So many people loved the parachute because we get to sit inside it. Inside the parachute, it looks like it is glowing. We used the parachute to make beach balls go up into the sky. We liked Play Day a lot because it was so much fun!



Nests



Ms. Boag got a real next from her backyard. We brought it to the forest to look at. In the forest, we made nests of our own out of wood, sticks, grass, and leaves. Some of us made big nests or small ones. We did not have mud to stick the nest pieces together, but they did look like real nests.                                                                                                 



Friday, 10 June 2016

Our Week June 6 - 10

Here are some stories from the start of June in Kindergarten.

Chapter Books
We are reading chapter books together. Last week we finished 'Butterfly Battle'. Now we are reading 'Dinosaur Detective'. They are both Magic School Bus Chapter Books!

Marker Sort
On Tuesday we sorted markers into piles of 10 and put an elastic around them. We counted by 10's becaue it's faster than counting by 1's and we wanted to find out how many we had. We ended up with 791 markers! We sent them to Crayola colour cycle this week!





Lid Sort
After our marker sort, we brought the lids into our classroom. We sorted by colour and made a list of how many colours we had and how many of each colour there were. It was not easy but our friends worked together and counted each colour. Then we added them on a calculator. We counted 600 lids! 

Jiggi Jump
On Thursday we went to Jiggi Jump! We did lots of dancing and lots of running but nobody was tired because it was so much fun! We also did lots of singing! Jiggi Jump is so fun because we get to jump and dance. We got to play beach ball bop too! The girl was named Jayme but we don't remember the boy's name.

Our Public Library Visit!
We visited Ryan the librarian in our library upstairs. We learned that the has library video games, books,and movies, and we can borrow them if we have a library card!


Bye Bye Butterflies!
We released out butterflies on Wednesday. We needed to let them go so carefully so they didn't get hurt. It was a bit windy so we released them in the forest. We left them some oranges too. 

A Very Hungry Caterpillar
A soon as we let go of our Painted Ladies, we found a new caterpillar on the leaves! We named him the Very Hungry Caterpillar because he eats so much! It is a different kind of caterpillar called a Tent Caterpillar. 

We have decided to make a very hungry caterpillar show of our own. We are using play dog to make the pictures.