Our Week - May 13 - 17

Hi Families,

It's hard to believe that it's already time for the May long weekend! We did not have outdoor day today. It had been rescheduled to Friday June 7th.  

SK Families please check your e-mail next week for your invitation to this year's SK graduation.

Here are some stories from the week.

Rover
This week we found out that our Rover has been recalled! We cannot use him anymore this year. We sang him a goodbye song and wrote him a goodbye letter. Now we have a whiteboard to write our morning message on. It is fun to write our own message each day.
                        

Books 
We are becoming authors in our classroom! We made a list of topics that we know a lot about and we've started to make our own books. Some of us have painted pictures for the pages and some of us are drawing pictures that we have looked at from books and photos. We sort the pages to decide which order they go in and we read and edit our story to be sure it makes sense. When we finish we get to be the teacher and read our stories to the class. 
                  

Kingdom
We have some new blocks in our construction centre that gave us a great idea to make a Kingdom! We have castles, horses and a carriage, knights and dragons, and a king and queen. We've made a plan of the things we know go in a kingdom and now we are starting to make the kingdom ourselves!
         

Dominos
We got a new box of dominos and we're using them to make mazes. We like lining them up to see them fall. We are trying to see how long of a domino line we can make before it falls.

A World of Kindness
We needed a reminder this week of what it means to be kind and be a friend. We read the story A World of Kindness and talked together about ways we show kindness to others. We realized that we all have something we are good at and something we are still learning and we can show kindness by telling our friends that we are proud of them!
                   

Nature Walk
We have started learning about circles and cycles and the important symbol they are to the Anishinaabe people. We see a circle on our clock to tell the time of day and we talked about the circle of the day. We wake up when the sun is rising and go to school and eat lunch when the sun is high in the sky. On Thursday, we went out to the forest to continue our learning. We got into 4 groups and explored the forest in 4 different directions - East, South, West, and North. We slowly walked away from each other and collected things as we travelled that we brought back to our circle to share at the end. Can you think of a circle or a cycle in your life?


Tulips
We visited the school gardens this week and were so excited to see more tulips growing! Now we have red, yellow, and white tulips! We spent time outside creating kindness rocks and left them in the garden to help make it beautiful. 


Birds
We have been watching out our window as more and more birds fly around. We started a list earlier in the year of birds we have seen but have added 5 new birds to our list this week! We started to research these birds and have drawn and painted amazing pictures. We even found a special egg shell on the ground outside and we figured out from our research that it is a robin's egg shell!