Our last week of 2019! December 16 - 20

Hi Families,

We hope that you have a safe, restful, and happy winter holiday! We will see you on January 6, 2020!

Here are some stories from our week:

S.T.E.A.M week
We participated in S.T.E.A.M week by doing 2 special challenges. Our first was the ramp challenge. We needed to make the longest ramp that we could that a ball could roll through. We worked as a big group and our ramp was amazing!

Our next challenge was a parachute challenge. We used napkins, tissue paper, and plastic bags to make our parachutes and we tested them out in the stairwell.


Holiday Surprise
We worked very hard to make our families special cards and a special gift. We hope you are surprised!


Peter and the Wolf
A woodwind quintet came to perform 'Peter and the Wolf'. Each instrument was a different animal in the story. We like the flute because he was the bird and he tweeted very high notes. 


Kinder Stars
We had our December Kinder Star awards on Thursday and 3 more friends got their awards! Congratulations! Ms. Sindhwani's class did a great dance and they were wearing shiny tinsel!

Pajama Day 
Friday was pajama day and even Ms. Boag and Ms. Ancona had pajamas on! We all relaxed with our stuffed animals and we even had had a pajama day picnic. Ms. Darlow took us outside to go sledding for gym - sledding is just our favourite!!

Goodbye Friends
Ms. A our student teacher finished her placement this week and went back to her school. We learned so much from her and wish her the best! Our favourite was her counting game race to 10! We had to roll the dice and move the puppets along the track to get to the end. Each time we moved we had to add 10 a different way. So if we were on number 5 we would say '5 and 5 more makes 10'!

One of our Chickadees finished the week and is moving to a new house - we will miss you!!!

Our Week in Kindergarten - December 9 - 13

Hi Families,

Our Winter Break holiday time is nearly here! If you are going away on vacation before or after the winter break and your child is going to miss school please let us know in class and also let the office know.

Here are some stories from the week.

Letter M and N
We got 3 new Chicka Chicka letters this week! We now have 13 letters!
Our letter M was covered in marshmallows!

Our letter X looked like an X-Ray!

Our letter N was a nest!


ABC Learning
We have been playing different alphabet games with Ms. A including a mitten search, and a letter sound listening game. We each got a bean bag with a different letter and when we heard our sound we clapped. 


Making Numbers
We have been making numbers in different ways including making sets and tally marks. This week with Ms. Boag we started to make the number 5 or 10 using the smart board. We are learning that we can make the number 10 in a lot of different ways!


How to Be a Good Friend
We talked together this week and made a list of different ways we can be a good friend. We are all trying our best to be kind and to make new friends.

Bird Feeders
We visited the birds in the forest again and gave them sunflower seeds. We also got 4 new bird feeders to put around the school for the birds to have something to eat. We hope they visit the bird feeders so that we can watch them eat!


Dress Up Challenge
To help us practice getting dressed for the winter, we had a special challenge. Ms.Boag moved our coats and snow pants into different spots all around the room and we had to search and find them! It helped us to get ready really fast!

Winter Concert
Thursday afternoon we went to the big gym with the rest of the school to watch the Junior classes perform in the winter concert. They danced, did a play, played the recorder, and performed in the band. Our favourite performance was when they played 'Jingle Bells' because we got to sing along!

5 Little Monkeys
We love telling stories and singing stories too! We have a new felt board story called '5 Little Monkeys' that we can retell using the felt pieces. We like to sing the song too and pretend to be the doctor. It is helping us to learn how to count backwards 5 - 4- 3 - 2 - 1! Our favourite part is chanting 'no more monkeys jumping on the bed'!!

Our first December Week! - December 2 - 6

Hi Families,

It is hard to believe that December is already here! Thank you to all the families that participated in the Fresh from the Farm fundraiser and who joined us at the Black Walnut Movie Night last night. It is because of supportive families like you  that we have such a fantastic school!

Here are some stories from the week...and one from last week!

Making Crayons
Friday afternoon we made our own crayons! We peeled the paper off old and broken crayons and put the pieces into a mold. Then we put them in the oven so they melted together. When the wax cooled we took the pieces out of the molds and had new crayons! 


Book Fair
On Monday, we visited Ms. Dias in the library to see the book fair! There were so many books and we each got to choose 3 to go on our wish lists! Some students were so excited that they got to buy a book! 


Sledding
After another great snow we went sledding again! We got some new green sleds and they go super fast! Ms. Boag, Ms. Ancona, and even Ms. A had a turn on the sleds too!!
We have no photos this week because we were too busy having fun!!

Making New Numbers
With Ms. A this week we learned about making new numbers! We used the sets on the dice and counted on to add the 2 dice together to make a new total. 


Letter C
We opened another letter this week and it was the letter C. Each time we open a letter the Bluejays make predictions of what the letter may look like and we are starting to get very creative. We used to make 1 prediction and now we are making many! 
    

Our Letter Cs were a cat and a caterpillar. I wonder what we will get next?!
           

Feeding Birds
We went back to the forest to check on bird feeders and we were so surprised!! Most of our bird feeders are gone, some are still there but empty, and only 3 are left with food on them! We talked together about where the bird feeders may have gone. Here are our predictions:

-They fell off the trees and into the snow
-A bird ate all the food and the string blew away
-An animal like a squirrel took them off the tree and took them home to eat
-They blew away


I Like Stories
We talked together about things that make us happy and the things that we like. We each made an I Like story and we are going to put them together to make a book. 

Special Art!
Crock-a-Doodle came to our classroom on Friday and we all got to paint a special shape. The helpers are going to take them to a special oven to cook them - we are so excited to see how they look!