Dear Families,
We have enjoyed our week working and learning in Nature and learning about people and the world around us. Here are some stories.
Planting and Gardening
This week we were in charge of Black Walnut's Butterfly garden. It was our job to water the garden, pull out weeds, and water our trees. We planted new plants (sedum, chelone, violets) and put wildflower seeds into the garden. While we were digging we looked at plant roots and leaves and we found many many worms!! We painted new rocks to decorate the garden too.
Ms. Boag also taught us a new tag game called 'seed tag'. The person who is it is the gardener and when they touch someone they become the planted seeds. You are back in the game when someone taps you on the head and pretends to water the plants.
Outdoor Classroom Day
On Wednesday we celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day. First, we watched other classes celebrate Outdoor Classroom day by looking out our window and then it was our turn! We read a story, did a math scavenger hunt, and went to the forest for 'sit spot exploring'. This is when you sit queitly on a special mat and look and listen to the forest around you. We used nature frames to take pictures of special things we saw in the forest.
Nature Walk
On Friday, we went to the forest for our nature walk. We took tarps, mats, and ropes out with us and tried to build shelters and forts. It was hard work since it was a little windy but we had a lot of fun!
Ice Cream Shop Update
We are continuing to create our classroom Ice Cream Shop. This week we added some server uniforms so our clothes don't get dirty and we added a cash register and money so that people can buy our ice cream! We learned about the penny, nickel, quarter, and dime and practised counting by 1s, 5s, 10s, and 25s.
Celebrating Ramadan
A beautiful pretend Mosque was donated to our school to help celebrate the month of Ramadan. We went to look at it and learned about Ramadan and Mosques from 2 Grade 5 student experts.
Beanstalks
Last week we planted bean seeds. On Friday, we were excited to see that our beans are growing! We have very tiny beanstalks growing in our K-Pen. Maybe they will be as tall as they sky after our long weekend!
Dear Families,
It has been a wonderful week in Kindergarten. We have been watching our tulip plants slowly begin to bloom this week! We think they are beautiful! It is a great time to be learning outside so we are excited that next Wednesday it will be 'Outdoor Classroom Day' at Black Walnut. We will get to go outside and try new things!
Here are some stories from the week.
Book Fair
We went to the book fair on Tuesday. We all looked at the books and then we made a list of the books we would like. Some of us visited the book fair during the week and some of us went with our families.
Moving in May
Every day in May we are counting how many people in our class walked, biked, used a scooter, or drove to school. We get points for anyone who walks, bikes, or uses a scooter to get to school. This week we got 111 points! We got tattoos and postcards. Our daycare friends all go for a walk before the school bell.
Mother's Day
Mother's Day is special because we all love our families so much! This week we painted pictures of our Moms for Mother's Day. We also wrote messages to our Moms. We all decorated flower pots for the spider plants we have been growing and watering. We like our plants because the leaves look like spider legs!
Planting
We have special planters called 'Caja Planters' outside in our kindergarten area. We have planted bean seeds in them. We hope that they grow soon!
Ice Cream Stand
We made an ice cream shop in our classroom. We use play-dough as the ice cream. We have different ice cream flavours. We have chocolate, vanilla, rainbow, lemon, and cinnamon. We are practising being the server and taking orders and money from our customers.
