Our Rainy Week In Kindergarten! October 28 - November 1

Hi Families,

We had a wet week in Kindergarten with a lot of indoor recess time but we showed Ms.Boag and Ms. Ancona how kind and responsible we are! We took time to enjoy nature, got mail, made a book, continued subitizing, took care of animals, and celebrated our friends achievements and Halloween!
Here are some stories from the week.

Leaf Pile Jumping

We went out to the forest on Wednesday - even though it was raining - and had a great time! We read the story Leaf Jumpers and decided to make our own pile of leaves. It was really hard work! We had to keep scooping and piling a long time! When our pile was finished, we took turns jumping into the leaves - they were so crunchy! It was so much fun! We brought leaves back to our classroom and made our own nature rainbows in our nature journals.
          

Chicka Chicka Letter Exchange
We have been working for a number of weeks on a special letter - the letter P! This week we mailed our letter P art to 25 different schools across Canada as part of the Chicka Chicka Letter Exchange. We now get to wait and see what schools will mail us in return!
We already got our first letter. It was the letter H! We made predictions of what we thought would be inside our envelope. When we opened it we saw that the letter H was made into a horse and a house! This letter came all the way from Alberta!

                      

Ratuki
We continued subitizing this week with a new game called Ratuki! We were introduced to a new way to make numbers called tally marks. We had to match number up to 5! Ms. Boag is teaching us a game to play with these cards.


Kinder Star

On Thursday, we had our first Kinder Star assembly. We will have one each month to celebrate student achievements. Each month 3 friends will get an award - Good Friend, Responsibility, and Try My Best. We also had 4 extra friends who got an award from the Markham Fair! We watched Mrs. Harcharik's class perform 2 songs and NEXT MONTH, we get to perform at the assembly!


Halloween
In the afternoon, we visited classes all around the school for our Kindergarten parade. 


We all dressed up for Halloween and took photos of our costumes. We are going to make a class book and write about our special day!

After the parade, we got to eat some yummy and healthy snacks. We had fruit, vegetables, cheese, and crackers. Thank you for sending these yummy snacks! We also got to play Trick or Treat and put special loot bags into our back packs for home!

When our snacking was finished we joined the other Kindergarten classes for a dance party! It was exciting to see all our Kindergarten friends in their costumes. 


We Scare Hunger
The W.A.T.CH club at Black Walnut counted and sorted our canned food donations today! They will be delivered to the Food Bank next week! Way to go Wolverines!

Worms
On Friday, we opened up our Vermi Composter. When we closed the composter at the end of September, we knew it was filled with newspaper, dried leaves, some food scraps, coffee grounds, and red wriggler worms. But when we looked inside today all we could find was our worms and dirt! Somehow the food is all gone and now there is dirt! We will have to investigate this some more!