Student created LOVE Poem

Love

Elijah loves writing.

Selma loves her bicycle.

Kaylo loves playing with his Ipad.

Ahmad loves his Ipad.

Ella B. loves all her toys.

Gracie loves Flordia.

Lucas M. loves cars.

Angel loves babies.

Nisjeta loves her Mom and Dad to make a brother.

Cristian loves his mom.

Izabel loves her Mom.

Kyiah Muise loves her Ipod.

Laila loves her Mom.

Cameron Loves games.

Haven Loves cats.

Hamzah loves cars.

Lucas loves monster trucks.

Ally loves snuggling her dog.

Evelyn loves painting.

Farah loves letters.

Adrian loves play dough.

Holdyn loves going someplace with Nana, Daddy, Dom and Adria.

Ella W. loves playing in the park.

Rowan loves riding his bike.

Noah loves his Mom.

Lucas loves cars.

Abby loves playing art.

Written by JK/SK    Taylor and Zilio's Class

February KinderNews

February, 4, 2013

Dear Parents/Guardians,

We had a very busy January.  The students have been taking care of the animals in the Vet Centre creating and sharing puppet shows with our new theatre and have been building structures using a variety of materials.   Thank you for all the donations to our Vet Centre and the various art supplies. 

This month we will be furthering their inquiries, as well as focusing on personal hygiene and exploring money.   The students have requested to change the Vet Centre into a Supermarket.  We are looking for donations of: empty food boxes, cash registers, children grocery carts, money tray, grocery flyers, reusable shopping bags, and old phone books.

Please remember that with the cold weather upon us, children must be dressed warm because we will continue to have outdoor learning twice a day, unless the wind shield is too low.    Windsor weather changes very quickly, please send your child with a warm coat, snow pants, a hat, mittens, and boots every day.  Also, they must have shoes to wear indoors.

Many students have been sick with the flu and colds.  If your child is sick with the flu or flu like symptoms, please do not send them to school.  Sick children don’t have energy to learn, and they infect other students and staff.  

 IMPORTANT DATES

·       February 4^th - Report cards go home. 

·       Thursday, February 7^{th –}Parent-Teacher Conferences Please call the office if you would like to meet with us.

·       February 8^th - PD Day (NO school for students)

·       February 14^th –Valentines’ Day

Wear PINK, RED and WHITE DAY!    Currently, we have 28 students in the class.  If you child would like to send Valentine’s to their peers, feel free to just write  ‘From your child’s name’.   This makes it easier for your child to pass out their Valentines.    

·       February 18^th - Family Day  (NO SCHOOL)

·       February 20^th - Kindergarten Open House for 2013- 2014 Registrations from 4:00pm till 5:30pm

·       February 21^st – 100 Days of School

Students are to bring in a collection of 100 items.

(i.e. pennies, cheerios, pebbles, Lego pieces, ect.)

·       February 22^nd – Community Visitor from the Windsor Humane Society visiting the classroom

Your Partners in Education,

Mrs. Taylor and Miss Zilio

January 7, 2013

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Happy New Year and welcome back! 

December Pajama Day

 

Hope everyone had a safe and fun filled holiday!  We are looking forward, once again, to working and playing together with the students to help them continue to learn and grow.

·        We will be exploring 2D shapes and 3 figures.  Students will identify shapes in in the environment and create figures using various materials. 

·        Some students have showed an interest in basketball.  We will continue to learn more about our favourite players through read-alouds and utilizing the smartboard for research. 

·        Our Dramatic Art Centre has been transformed to an Animal Hospital.  Students will learn how to care for animals and use specialized language that may be heard at a Veterinarians Office.   Donations are always accepted and appreciated, items that we are looking for are clean stuffed animals, doctor tools, bandages, x rays,   Q-tips, new tooth brushes, small blankets, small animal crates. 

REMINDERS:  

 Please remember that with the cold weather upon us, children must be dressed warm because we will continue to have outdoor learning twice a day.  Students need a coat, snow pants, a hat, mittens, and boots.  Please remember that they also must have shoes to wear indoors.

On Friday, January 25^th, we would like to invite all kindergarten students to wear a hat to school for “Kindergarten Crazy Hat” day.

 

Friday, Jan. 18^th - Professional Development Day (NO School)

Monday, Feb. 4^th – Term 1 report Cards go home

 

Your Partners in Education,

Mrs. Taylor and Miss Zilio

News..

The Dress Shop have been very a huge success.  Students love to wear costumes, hats and high heels while learning.  Thank you for all the donations of clothing and costumes.

This week we made popcorn with Mrs. Kelly's class.  The student's are learning how to retell steps.  We used pictures, best guessed spelling and oral language to retell the steps of making popcorn.  You can practice this at home by retelling how to get ready for school or after reading a book ask your child to retell the main parts in the story.  

Next week:

• Students will continue to learn about patterns.  They are learning to create and extend colour, shape, size and directional patterns.  A favourite read aloud is called Pattern Bugs by Trudy Harris. 
• Students will continue to learn about the importance of healthy eating, and learn about the 5 food groups.  Please remember to send healthy choices in your child's lunch.
• Book orders were due on Friday.  I am extending this till Monday morning-- December 10th.  Last chance to order before the holidays! 

Things to discuss with your child about this week's learning experiences!

• Many students have been very creative with boxes, making doll house, kites, vehicles and the list goes on.
• We baked mini pizzas with Mrs. Kelly's class.  Next week, students will retell using pictures and oral language the steps of how they made their pizza.
• Working with numbers 1 - 10.  We asked students to show us different ways to represent a number.  For example: 5 , your child may print the digit five, spell the word five, draw 5 hearts, make a tally with 5 sticks, clap 5 times, or find 5 items.  Practice this at home with their favourite number. 
• A few students have been interested in Micheal Jordon.  On the smartboard, we read his bio, the students were interested to see how tall 6"6' really is.  We measured using large paper, two students drew a life size picture of Micheal Jordon.  Other students wanted to trace their own bodies and color themselves.
• We received a class computer that will remain in our classroom for the remainder of the year.  The computer has been a very popular spot in the classroom.  The students play games cooperating together to share the computer. 
• We are continuing to practise to indentify letters and their sounds.  Students had opporunities to practise writing their letters and numbers using finger paint, flour, sugar, playdough, shaving cream, and gel bags this week.  Continue to practice letters and sounds at home on a daily basis. 

A few Learning Expectations that were met this week:

 

Personal and Social Development

2.5 interact cooperatively with others in classroom events and  activities

 

Language

    2.8 demonstrate knowledge of most letters of the alphabet in different contexts

   4.2   demonstrate an awareness that writing can convey ideas or messages

    4.3 write simple messages

    4.5 experiment with a variety of simple writing forms for different purposes and in a variety of contexts

 

Mathematics

1.7 demonstrate an understanding of number relationships for numbers from 0-10 through investigation

    1.9 use, read, and represent whole numbers to 10 in a variety of meaningful contexts

NEXT WEEK,  our house centre will be changing to a DRESS SHOP.   We are asking for donations of adult gently used dresses, costumes (no weapons), costume jewellery, shoes, plastic hats, and purses.  Your donations will be appreciated by all the students and staff.

A great way to start the week....

What a great way to start the week...

Students collaboratively built this amazing structure.

(a school)

Student created graphs of their 'Most favourite' and 'Least favourite' holiday wish list.

These students were not afraid to get messy with shaving cream.  Tomorrow shaving cream will be added to the large textile bin.



Many students were using the large tweezers to sort beads. 

Physical Education is every Monday. 

Please send appropriate shoes with your child. 

Activites to try and talk about at home...

 

 

Miss Zilio and this boy made an airplane out of pipe cleaner!

What else could be designed using pipe cleaner?

 

 

 

Hot Wheel Ramps were new to the classroom this week. 

Students created various designs throughout the classroom.

 

 

Washing and caring for babies.

 

 

 

Ms. Brown played dominoes with the students.  Together they created domino letters and numbers, then watched them fall.

 

 

 

Spin Painting

Students created 'masterpieces 'using spinners.

 

Some students wanted to make tracks with cars in the paint!

 

 Ask your child about 'Elastic Painting". 

Sorry I have no pictures, I have had some camera problems this week :(

 

 

This girl created an 'attendance folder', inside she made a grid (similar to what we use). Pretending to be the teacher and using the pointer at the easel happens often during Learning Centres.

Play school with your child at home, listen to their words and hear what they have learned!

 

The Aerob-a-thon was a huge success. 

 

 

 

Our Aerob-a-thon took place on Friday, November 9th from 2:00 until 3:15 pm. Thank you to those families who took the time out of their busy schedules to raise money for our school and our classroom. We truly do appreciate it! A portion of the money will go to our classroom for supplies!

Our friends had so much fun dancing outside with the whole school. A special thank you goes to Mrs. Murray and Ms. Foris for coordinating the dances and the Grade 7 and 8 girls who lead us on stage!