A Marvelous Monday

Independently, Gracie wrote a book.

Lucas, with the help of Lucas drew a dump truck!

Students played with cooked spaghetti.

 

 

 

Students had cold hands after playing with ice cubes and digging treasures out of the coloured large cubes. 

 

Ahmad made a tiny ladybug and wrote about it! 

 

 

 

Plasticine/ Modelling Clay

 

Abby created a polar bear out of plasticine.  When asked, "What do you know about polar bears?", she replied, "They like to eat fish and live in the Artic."   I asked her to describe the shapes on her creation, she explained that the head was a sphere and the legs were rectangular prisms.  

 

 

Lucas excitedly ran over to me and said, 'I made me!"

Gracie made herself.

 

Other friends made turtles, leopards, snakes and airplanes. 

Ask your child if they visited the table with the colourful plasticine. 

What did they create?

Did they work with a partner?

What shapes were in the creation?

 

 

 

 

 

Responding to the story 'The Dot' by Peter Reynalds

Collaborative Art

Painting Dots

 

 

 

 

All the Friends who signed up for sharing today all choose to sing songs.

1. Abby sang her ABC's and tracked her print using a pointer.

2. Angel sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

3. Hamzah made up his own song called "5 Little Cars". 

He used the song 5 Little Ducks as his inspiration. 

4.  Kaylo sang 5 Little Frogs.

 

The students are getting excited for the Spring Concert.  Don't forget to Save the Date -- May 28.

 

 

We had a Marvelous Monday!!!

WORKING TOGETHER

 

Visual Arts

Curriculum Expectations

Arts -    V3 use problem-solving strategies when experimenting with the skills, materials, processes, and techniques used in visual arts both individually and with others

Personal and Social Development-   Identify and use social skills in play and other contexts

Parachute Games



Curriculum Expectations

Health and Physical Activity-    Participate willingly in a variety of activities that require the use of both large and small muscles

Personal and Social Development-   Identify and use social skills in play and other contexts

Personal and Social Development-   Demonstrate self-reliance and a sense of responsibility

 Textile Table

 -- Moon Sand--

4 cups flour

1 cup baby oil

Curriculum Expectations

Personal and Social Development-   Identify and use social skills in play and other contexts

Health and Physical Activity-    Develop control of small muscles(fine motor control) in a variety of contexts 

What did you learn at school today? -- At home discussions

We have had a very busy week. 
Browse the pictures below and read the captions with your child.  Your child can recall and discuss what he/she participated in last week and what he/she learned?  

Mathematics

We placed the dyed noodles in a variety of containers to continue practising measurement.  Ask your child to talk about other items that were measured and what tools were used to measure with (feet paces, links, ruler, tape measure)? 

Language Arts

Throughout the week the students listened to various nursery rhymes.   Recognizing letters in print and letter sounds was one of the main learning expectations.  We also talked about letter formation, and that some letters have straight lines and some letters have curves.   Students were given opportunities to explore printing their names using pudding, yarn and glue. Some of the Nursery Rhymes we explored this week were:

- Mary had a Little Lamb

- Hickory Dickory Dock

- Row, Row, Row your Boat

- Humpty Dumpty

In the picture above, the students were on Day 3 of creating Humpty Dumpty using paper mache.  They started this process using a small balloon to keep the structure in the shape of Humpty Dumpty.  Then, they used torn newspaper paper, glue, and flour mixed together.  The students had a great time and their characters looked great!!

 

Popular Centres

Building Blocks

This week the students built buildings, castles, and dinosaur homes out of our foam blocks.  They discussed how tall their buildings were.

Doll House

SMARTBOARD

We are happy to announce a great new resource to our kindergarten program -- an interactive smartboard.

A New Look

We have changed some of our classrooms around.  Our carpet is now located in the middle of the room.  This allows for the tables to be spread out for quiet and more focussed learning.   

Rainbow Rice

Rainbow Rice

Last week, the students dyed white rice. The students followed the recipe with Ms. Palmer, and had opportunities to measure and stir the ingredients together. The colours of the rice created rainbow rice!!!

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The Recipe

Mix the rice and rubbing alcohol together, then add the food colouring. Pour the rice onto tinfoil to lay flat. Wait one hour or more for the food colouring to dry. Then, have fun exploring with a new textile.

List of Materials:

1 cup of dry rice

1 teaspoon of rubbing alcohol

3-4 drops of food colouring

bowl

spoon

tinfoil

The students explored the rice with a variety of tools throughout the week.

Stay tuned to see the pictures of our Rainbow Noodles that the students dyed on Friday.



Learning through Inquiry

Students using clay to practise letter formations.

SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

What students observed:

Robert noticed the tornado was 'spinning'.

Tristan observed the water raining down the side.

Aaliyah saw bubbles.

Aidan said, "It's making circles."

Jamie saw sparkles.

Joey said, "It looks like a storm."

Robert observed that there's more water at the top.

Tristan shared that if you see the circular motion, that motion is called an undertow.

Lily said, "I see a tornado."

Gage said, "It's leaking."

What student's observed experimenting with colours:
Nour said, "I mixed red and yellow.  I made orange."
Lydia mixed red and blue to make purple.
Tasha mixed blue and yellow, she made green.

Building Centre

Elijah said. 'Look, I built a tower."

Haven-Taylor responded, " I helped, we did it together."

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Textile Discovery

 Shaving Cream Experience

Jolie, one of our daily writers!!!

What are you looking at?

Lucas replied," I am looking at the world."

 "Mrs. Kelly, take a picture of Me!!!"