Hi Families,
It is hard to believe it is already May! And it has been quite a rainy start! Please remember that we go on nature walks (outdoor learning) 2 times a week so be sure to send your child to school in rain boots as we go rain or shine!
Also, we have had a date change for our Welcome to Kindergarten night for any new JKs joining our classes. Please be advised it is now on June 13.
Here are some stories from this week...
Find it!
As we continue to learn about measurement we played the game 'Find It'. The teacher calls out a challenge like 'find something longer than your foot' and the kids have to look around the room, find and measure something, and bring it to the carpet.
Kinder Stars
Tuesday was our April Kinder Star assembly. We are always excited to see our friends win awards!
Visiting the Garden
Instead of going on a nature with Walk Ms. Darlow, we visited our school's butterfly garden. We helped to dig the dirt and pull the weeds and of course we all looked for more worms! We see some of the tulips that we planted starting to grow! It is so exciting!
Seed Paper
One of our Bluejays made seed paper with her Sparks group and she brought in the materials to teach us how to do it. She was the teacher and ran the whole centre! First, she showed us an example and how to make it and then she used a checklist to make sure everyone got a turn. We made one seed paper to take home and another to plant in our garden. All you need to do is choose a sunny spot in your garden, cover the paper with a little dirt, water it, and wait! Hopefully something will start to grow soon!! Thank you so much to our Bluejay girl and her family - we had lots of fun!
Plastic Bag Challenge
On Wednesday, our plastic bag challenge finished. It was our job to count all the plastic grocery bags that were brought in. We all made piles of 10 and put them into a big bag. Our school collected 916 bags! Ms. Boag took them to Walmart to be properly recycled.
Alectra
On Thursday, Blair from Alectra electrical safety and conservation came to visit the school. He taught us about how to be safe around electricity and the importance of saving electricity.
Nature Walk
We went on a rainy nature walk Thursday to the forest and the kids that were wearing boots got to jump in puddles! We walked very quietly through the forest and we could hear the rain and birds singing. We tried whistling to them and they sang back to us! We also saw a woodpecker!
Movie Night
Some families came back to the school last night for our Movie Night. We had so much fun eating pizza and watching How to Train your Dragon.
Star Wars Day
Friday was Star Wars Day (since May the 4th is a Saturday). We made Yoda and Princess Leia crowns and did Star Wars yoga! May the 4th be with you!
Hi Families,
We hope you enjoyed your long weekend together. Please check your child's folder for information on our upcoming Movie Night on May 2nd. The kids are very excited!
Here are some stories,
Earth Day Garbage Pick Up
On Tuesday we celebrated Earth Day. Mrs. Darlow took us outside on our nature walk to do an Earth Day scavenger hunt! We also worked together to pick up garbage and help the Earth! We wore gloves and used tongs and had to sort the litter we found into garbage and recycling! We also worked on a school mural of our butterfly garden. We found different flowers and put them on the mural.
Mystery Bags
Ms. Tamaki made us mystery bags to go at our measurement centre. They are all closed and have different things inside. We had to measure them using our hands and a scale to find out which one was the heaviest and which was the lightest.
Rhyming Pop
We have been playing Rhyming Pop this week! We have to look at the picture on our bubble and find a partner who has a match! We are becoming rhyming experts!
Ms. Tamaki
On Wednesday, it was Ms. Tamaki's last day. We have loved having her work and learn with us and we will miss her a lot! She gave us each a tub of play-doh and we gave her a book that we made!
Piggie Rhymes
We read The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs and made our own pigs. We gave our pigs a name and then made a silly rhyme to match.
Puppet Show Movie Theatre
Since next week it is Movie Night at Black Walnut we decided to turn our Puppet Show into a puppet show movie theatre. We have made tickets, a popcorn machine, and a juice machine.
Jump Rope for Heart
On Thursday, we went outside to skip for Jump Rope for Heart. We did really well and were so excited when we learned to skip for the first time. We got to dance, play with chalk, and use hula hoops too! Black Walnut raised over $5300.00 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation! Way to Go Wolverines!
Reading Rhymes
A Bluejay brought in a story to read to the class. She chose it from her house because it was full of rhymes! She sat in our teacher chair and read to us!
Worm Saving
On Friday, it was raining again. We went outside to look for worms that had come out of the ground. We found the biggest worms ever! One was as long as Ms. Boag's rain boot! We brought them inside and gave them some dirt to sleep in. We gave them some cucumber and some banana peel too in case they get hungry!
We took some out of our dirt and put them onto brown paper so we could measure them. One was 8 cubes long, one was 10 cubes long, and one was 12 cubes! It was a great day!
