Our Month - January 15 - 26

Hi Families,
With last week's P.A. Day, we did not get a chance to blog. So get ready for lots of stories this week!

Patterns
We have been challenging ourselves to make patterns in different ways. We used different materials in the classroom, our bodies (movements), and made different sounds to make patterns. A group of Chickadees even made a pattern dance for us!

Fishy Friends
We took a close look at our fishy friends - they got so big!! We decided to measure them using whiteboards and different math materials. It was interesting to see that we got different measuring numbers when we used different materials. 
This week, we emptied out the water from their tank and we noticed that our fishy friends all got smaller again!
                  

Dentist Office
After our visit from the Dentist we decided to create a Dentist office in our classroom. We made a waiting room for our animal puppets and a dentist chair with tools. We enjoy taking turns being the doctor, nurse, or secretary. 

                        

Baby Beluga
After listening to the song 'Baby Beluga' we used scarves to dance like the ocean waves. This gave us the idea to make a theatre where we could dance and sing and retell our baby beluga song. We made puppets and a beautiful ocean. 
                           

Surveys
In January we are learning about surveys and asking questions. Each morning our class has a new question. We all get to make our mark/choice and then we interpret the data we have collected. Some of us have started to create our own surveys too!
                     

Happy and Angry
As we continue to work on our Resiliency strategy of 'Reframing' we read the story 'Finn Throws a Fit!' Using Finn's feelings we created a story panel to explain our own feelings. We decided that being angry feels like a storm and being happy feels like a sunny day!




            

Scientists in the School
On Thursday, we had the amazing experience of learning through the Scientists in the School program. Scientist Cori came in and with some wonderful parent scientists we learned about different scientists in the world. 
Ask us what these scientists do:
-Paleontologist
-Chemist
-Meteorologist
-Marine Biologist
-Astronomer


               

Crazy Hair Day
Friday was crazy hair day and hat day. It was so much fun to see everyone's creative hairstyles!

Happy New Year! January 8 - 12

Hi Families,
Happy New Year! We are excited to be learning in 2018!


Beautiful Junk
Some friends brought Beautiful Junk collections to school this week. Each friend sorted their junk by colours or by 'things'. Then then put the junk in our art centre colour bags. We will use this beautiful junk to create wonderful things!
 

Fishy Friends
Ms. Boag brought us 4 new friends for our aquarium. At first, when we put them in water, they were very small . They have been changing all week and now they are a LOT bigger! Everyday we have asked questions and made predictions and we check in to see what we have learned. 





Bollywood
On Tuesday, Puja Amin came in to teach us Bollywood Dance. She told us that this dance comes from India and there they speak Hindi. We had so much fun jumping, clapping, turning, and moving. 

Dentist
On Wednesday, we all went to the little gym to visit the dentist. We had to open our mouths so that she could count our teeth. She used a little mirror. Some of us thought we had 100 teeth - but we didn't have that many!

Play-Dough Art
One of our friends brought in lots of new play-dough for us this week. She brought in 8 colours!! We used these colours to make play-dough art. We used plates and lids to support our pictures and put plastic on top to keep them from getting too dry. We wrote stories about our play-dough too. We made ocean stories so that we could decorate our aquarium.
     

Our last week of 2017!! December 18-22

Happy Holiday Everyone! We made it!!

A few things have been sent home for you to enjoy with your students. 

-Beautiful Junk Project - collect small items to add to our classroom art centre
Lids, feathers, jewels, rocks, string, small pieces of wrapping paper

-Holiday Journal - Take time to write and read together this holiday. We hope the students will share their journals the first week back in January

-Shoes and Clothes - check your children's clothes and shoes and please don't forget to return them in January!

Makerspace Adventure!
This week we went to the school's Makerspace! It is in the Library and Ms. Dias taught us how to use it. We made art, we built with Lego, we did Yoga too!



Holiday Cards
We made everyone a special surprise for our families! It is a card! Be sure to check our backpacks!
                                

Bye Ms. Coutinho!
Wednesday was Ms. Coutinho's last day in Kindergarten! She went back to her big school! She really surprised us when she gave us a book. It was all about us! It was so funny!
We will miss you!! Thank you for everything!
 


Winter Art Day
On Thursday we did had Winter Art Day. We went to all the Kindergarten classes and we did lots of stuff! We really liked watching the Paw Patrol movie! We got to make puppets and snowflakes too!
        

Big Buddies
We love our buddies so much that we made them holiday cards. We were excited to say Thank you to them. We were very surprised when they made surprises for us too!




Pajama Day! Hooray!!
What a relaxing way to end December! We had so much fun dancing and playing in our pajamas! It feels so cozy!
                             

Our Week - December 11 - 15

Hi Families,

December is nearly at an end! Just a reminder that next week the Kinder Star Assembly is on December 20th at 9:50am. And Friday, December 22nd is PAJAMA DAY!!!


Aquarium Reporters
We made a plan for our aquarium to decide where everything should go. We even brought out some new ocean animal puppets to use to move and tell stories. 
     

This week we became aquarium reporters! Small groups researched different ocean animals and made them homes in our aquarium. We looked in books and watched video clips to learn what each animal needed. We then reported to the class what we found out.
Did you know?

Stingrays hide in the sand!
                          

Clownfish lay eggs in anemones and their eggs are clear!

Turtles lay eggs in the sand!
                        

Dolphins swim using their tails and they swim with their family. 

Starfish have a mouth in the centre of their body on the bottom!    
                     

At an aquarium, the workers have an important job of cleaning the water tanks! They use scrubbers, water vaccuums, and nets to get the job done!
                  


Snow and Indoor Recess
We were so excited to have a snowy day on Wednesday! It was a beautiful day to play outside and have fun!
We also got to have indoor recess this week because it got VERY cold! We also had a recess dance party in Mrs. Harcharik's room!
                           

Gingerbread Houses
Ms. Darlow is helping us to make our own gingerbread houses from cardboard. We are making plans, working as a team, and creating beautiful structures.
                            

Sphero Maze
We had so much fun making coding mazes last week that we decided to make another one this week. We brought out Sphero - a round rolling robot - to try to move him through our maze.
                            

Water Experiments
We learned this week what happens when we put salt in water. It dissolves and disappears! We explored snow and water during our nature walk and tried melting and painting snow!