Our Week - October 22 - 25

Hi Families,
Here are some stories from our week.

Bus Safety

On Tuesday, we went to the big gym with all the primary classes for a bus safety presentation. We met a special new friend named Buster and he was a real bus (or maybe a robotic one)! He moved and talked and his lights turned on and off! He taught us about how to stay safe on the bus and when waiting to get on a bus. Did you know there are zones around the outside of the bus where the bus driver can't see you? It's true!





Take Me Outside Day
Wednesday was Take Me Outside Day and we spent almost the whole day outside! We walked to our favourite woodlot and saw lots of leaves falling. We even saw a mouse, squirrels, a chipmunk, snails, and a very fuzzy caterpillar! Here are some of the activities we did!


-Outdoor Yoga
We went onto the school field and found yoga stories on the fence. We stood in a circle and followed 3 yoga stories - Autumn Yoga, Thanksgiving Yoga, and Halloween Yoga.
       


-Nature Numbers
We visited the forest and found nature items like leaves, sticks, moss, rocks, and more! We sorted them into piles. We used different items to create numbers and we made it all the way to 20! We are going to make a class book of these numbers so stay tuned!
               
-Scavenger hunt

At the end of the day we went on an Autumn scavenger hunt. We had to look, listen, feel, and smell different items and then we had to collect things. We looked at leaves falling from a tree, listened to leaves crunching under our feet, smelled a cedar tree, and felt the bark on a maple tree. We worked with a partner to collect different items and put them in a paper bag.



Leaf Man

After Take Your Class Outside Day, we had a lot of left over nature items. We read the story Leaf Man and used these items to create our own characters. We made turtles, ladybugs, people, ducks, fish, and more! We wrote stories to go with these characters.



Restaurant Food Sorting

We all took a vote and decided that we will turn our Let's Pretend Centre into a Restaurant. We made signs for all of our food and dishes so that we can sort them when we tidy up. It also helps us to decide what to order when we can see all the examples.


Tiny Polka Dots

We are learning to subitize in Kindergarten which means looking at a set of objects and knowing the amound right away. We have been practising using dice and ten frames. On Friday, we learned the game Tiny Polka Dots. We each got a card with a number set and we had to find someone with the same number. Sometimes the numbers looked different - they might be dots, a number, a word, or fingers on a hand - and we still had to find a match!