This afternoon we watched the clouds outside. Some friends saw a dog, a castle and a shark in the clouds!
One friend said...look, I see a turtle in the clouds!
Even Ms. Hutchinson came to watch the movie with us!!
This afternoon, we had the grand opening of our new movie theater dramatic play. This afternoons movie... Curious George!
Practicing printing our names between the lines, writing our numbers 1-10 and writing some French popcorn words.... We are ready for Grade 1!!
Outdoor learning with our Grade 6 friends!
Fishing for letters
Beat the clock
Can you say all these letters in less then 3 minutes?
This afternoon, we worked together as a team to get Jake the pirate to his special treasure!
Stay tuned.... more friends will be doing this activity tomorrow afternoon
Here are some pictures of our workshop with Starr Gymnastics last Friday!
We are working on our number recognition and our problem solving skills
We worked together to get Jake the pirate to his treasure!!
Building math sundae's!
Building spring objects
with math manipulatives
The fine motor challenge!
Can you sort the balls in the tubes while only using one hand?
Writing our numbers and letters in glitter!!
We are learning our farm animals in French. Here is the song we are using to teach us our French vocabulary |
After learning farm animals, we learnt how to make a simple graph. We rolled the dice and placed the number of animals in the graph. Here is what we noticed... |
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Discovering different ways we can represent numbers 1-10
Fine motor and math
Identify the number and put the beads on the pipe cleaner
Lots of good learning happening in the classroom this afternoon!
Playing in our new dramatic play!
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Creating a spring pattern! |
Recreating famous structures with blocks |
Our SK students practiced subitizing and simple additions |
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This afternoon we had a building challenge!
Mission : save the bugs
Use the cups and popsicle sticks to build a bridge! The bugs will use the bridge to help them travel from one side of the city to the other
This building activity helped the students problem solve and work together as a team!
Subitizing game!
Roll the dice and use the tweezers to put the pompoms in the cup. It is a race to see who can fill up their cup first!!
Creating our own Earth with loose parts
Learning about the Earth! Here are some things we know about the Earth
Thursday afternoon, the Grade 6 students set up centres in the gym for us. The students had a blast playing and spending time with their Grade 6 buddies.
Subitizing BINGO
This afternoon the students created art by recreating a flower display that was on the table
Creating spring things with loose parts!
"I made a flower" "Look at my butterfly"
Alphabet SPLAT!
Listen to the letter sound and jump on the letter!
Our students are exploring writing in French. Some students are copying French vocabulary words and other students are using learnt sentence starters to write simple French sentences.
We are getting ready for Grade 1
Today we learnt what a sentence is. We learnt a sentence begins with a capital letter, that we need finger spaces between our words and that it ends with a period!
We will be practicing writing sentences in French by learning sentence starters and new vocabulary
This morning, Miss. James took us to the gym
We had a lot of fun exploring different centres
We practiced a lot of great skills during this centre
1. Cutting and gluing
2. Sorting Easter pictures
3. Writing our names
Spring has arrived in our classroom!
Thank you Miss. Mariah for creating this wonderful sensory bin for us
April Newsletter
Today we built more Easter egg towers with different loose parts
Exploring with Easter eggs and loose parts. We are building towers and making the eggs balance
Today we did an Easter craft with Miss. Mariah
Using manipulative to help us do Easter additions
Subitizing: Roll the dice and place the number of gems in the Easter egg
Cut the numbers 1-10
and glue them in the correct order
Creating an Easter egg pattern on the smart board
Showing kindness and being a caring family member!
Exploring numbers through play!
This morning, we worked in teams creating leprechaun traps. Thank you Miss. Mariah for organizing this fun activity for us
Crazy hair for crazy hair day!!
This afternoon we learnt how to sort. We practiced sorting with friends and Mme. Robichaud
Miss. Mariah made some green playdough with us!
Catching leprechaun coins in the water!!
Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!
We celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday by doing different Dr. Seuss themed activities.
A big thank you to Miss. Mariah for organizing this special day for us!!
Working on additions sentences with bubble gum machines!
Recreating famous castles!
Practicing letter formation and sounding out French popcorn words
While playing the blocks, a friend found a block and said "look Mme. Robichaud it is petit." Her peer said "look Mme. Robichaud, I found gros!"
Sorting objects that we found in the classroom. Some friends got a "petit" toy and some friends got a "gros" toy
Working on our fine motor skills. Making cheerio necklaces!
You will find the necklace that your child made in his/her lunchbox
Playing with numbers and 10's frame
Helping friends identify lowercase and uppercase letters!
We had an exciting afternoon in kinder! We went to the gym, we had a special visit from Ms. Scherf and her dog and we explored healthy life skills by looking at germs on our hands and how to properly wash our hands!
Reading buddies with our Grade 5 friends
Exploring height and length
Some of our SK friends are learning how to do simple additions!
Identifying letters and matching uppercase and lowercase letters
This afternoon, we made our own Valentine's Day treat bags.
We love writing on the smartboard! JK students practiced writing their names. SK students practiced writing their numbers 1-10
How many hearts tall are you??
Alphabet hunt!
Find the matching uppercase and lowercase letter
This morning, we practiced writing Valentine's Day words in English with Miss. Mariah
Keep updated on our learning by looking at our French Newsletter!!
Playing with numbers and hearts!
Doing Valentine's Day art with Miss. Mariah!
We enjoyed working with pastels (you can see the evidence on some of our faces!)
Building math snowmen!
Place the heart over the correct letter. This activity targets listening and letter recognition
Exploring writing in French with Valentine's Day vocabulary
We are continuing to work on subitizing
JK's working on subitizing on the Smartboard
SK's working on creating simple addition sentences on the Smartboard
Exploring letters and identifying familiar letters.
"Look! There is the letter S"
We are loving our new dramatic play! Thank you for your hard work Miss. Mariah
This afternoon we learnt how to use our fingers to do simple additions
We had special visitor in K2!
Do you want to build a math snowman?
Playing with 10's frames!!
Our JK students were able to roll the dice and put the correct amount on the 10's frame. Our SK students worked on simple addition sentences (eg. 6 boats + 5 chickens = 11)
Today, Mme. Robichaud let us pick our own table tops!
We suggested the table top activities that we would like to see and voted using tally marks
Colouring in the snow!
Today's daily message ... We are getting really good at tally marks!
An extension to our dramatic play... creating a shape pizza!
Working on number recognition
Our new dramatic play is open
Welcome to Pizza Pizza!
During our daily message, we identified a popcorn word, identified familiar letters and learnt how to do tally marks
We are able to extend a pattern....next step : create your own pattern!
Playing the beebots and practicing our number recognition
Exploring board games with friends!
We learned how to play BINGO at circle time and then we played ABC BINGO in French with Mme. Robichaud. It was lots of fun!
This afternoon, Miss. Mariah made play dough with us!
Don't forget to go see our January Newsletter!
New centres to start off the New Year!
- Block match
- Create your own sensory tube (with pompoms and alphabet letters) and play "I spy" to find the letters in your tube
New routine during afternoon circle!
Identify French popcorn words in the daily message/question and answer oui or non to the question
I hope everybody had a great Christmas vacation.
I just wanted to share some pictures of our workshop with Ray's Reptiles. The children had lots of fun.
A big thank you to Ben's parents for organizing this wonderful activity!
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Santa came to read us a story this afternoon!
This afternoon, we watched a short video and created our own nativity scenes!
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Miss. Mariah reading us a story near the fireplace
Listing items that are (chaud) hot and (froid) cold
Creating caterpillar patterns
Learning how to ask questions!
We get to sit in the special rocking chair and friends get to ask us questions.
A friend asked : What is your favorite lollipop?
Dressing Santa to get him ready for Christmas!
Learning two new French words (froid et chaud) and sorting clothing items on the Smartboard
Making Christmas light patterns with Miss. Mariah
Writing our names independently with magnet letters
Identifying uppercase and lowercase letters
Using the light table to create our own Christmas light patterns
Miss. James is teaching us how to make a musical pattern
Extending Christmas patterns on the Smartboard
Learning how to make a pattern
We had a lot of new centres to explore today!
- Create your own snow globe in the sensory bin
- Write the French Christmas words
- Colour the mittens with pastels
IMPORTANT NEWS!
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Our December self-portrait
Don't forget to go see our December Newsletter!
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This afternoon, Mrs. Langdon came to read us a Christmas story!
Miss. Elfie had a special request, she wanted us to transform our dramatic play into her cozy nest. We are exciting for her to come tomorrow, so we began to transform our classroom by adding some Christmas spirit.
Today was a very exciting day! We got a special delivery from the North Pole!!
Important news
Our Advent project this year involves our students helping to collect items for our church's Christmas hampers. We have been asked to collect cans of fruit, vegetables, soup & beans and Christmas cookies and crackers.
The school will also be collecting new and gently used socks, hats and mittens.
Please send these items to the school with your child. Thank you for your generosity!
Small group work with our SK friends.
We practiced writing our numbers and exploring 10 frames!
We have new toys on our back carpet and in our sensory bin.
Thank you Miss. Mariah!!
This afternoon, we started to write our letters to Santa!
Dress up the children in their winter clothing so they can go play outside!
We learnt the
letter T in French
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We made shape monsters with Miss. Mariah!
Alphabet match game. Match the uppercase letter to the lowercase letter
This afternoon, we continued to play with the BeeBots. Today, we had to make the BeeBot travel in the shape maze. Every time it passed a shape, the students had to say the shape in French and the colour of the shape in French.
Sending some get well soon wishes to one of our classmates!
This afternoon the students were singing Christmas songs. We decided to have a Christmas dance party - here are a few snapshots!!
Working in teams to make BeeBot do the colour maze!
Playing with shapes in French (carré, triangle, rectangle et cercle)
Exploring shapes and colours with our ten frame
Our imagination is the beginning of creation.
Using straws to build cameras and taking pictures and "selfies" of each other!!
Practicing our fine motor and playing with shapes
Sorting primary colours!
We visited the book fair today. Your child will be bringing home their wish list. We will be going to purchase our books on Wednesday, November 8th. Please send cash or cheque with your child if you wish to buy a book.
Exploring 2D shapes
Our circle time activity with Miss. Mariah!
We are practicing letter recognition and letter sounds
We are starting to recycle in the Kinder pod.
Today, we learnt what goes in the Black bin
Don't forget to go see our November newsletter! |
Is the letter A in your name?
We are creating a math wall in our class (we will be finishing it on Monday). We were very excited to help Mme. Robichaud create this wall! We are also very excited to see our pictures up the wall.
We are now counting to 20 in French!
Happy Halloween!
CTV News came to our class to see all of our amazing costumes.
Watch us live tonight on the CTV news at 6:00pm
Working in teams to correspond the correct number to the correct amount
Identifying the letter A and S.
What sounds do those letters make?
This afternoon, the Grade 6 students came and taught us how to use robotics! This was so much fun...There are so many neat things we can do with our new robotics!
We learned the letter A in French today! |
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Spell your name on the alphabet mat!
We loved this activity.
Here is a snapshot of our amazing day at the Proulx Farm!
Making pumpkin play dough with Miss. Mariah!
Today we had a shared snack with Miss. Mac's class. We had salsa, avocados and tostitos! Yumm.
We had this snacks because we have learnt the letter S, A and T....this snack represented the letters that we have learnt since the beginning of school.
This afternoon we had lots of fun playing with numbers!
Introduction to 10 frames!
This afternoon, the Grade 6 students helped us finish our art project!
Co-constructing a pumpkin number line.
Today, the Grade 6 students came in our class to help us with an art activity. They will be back tomorrow so we can finish the art project! We had lots of fun.
Placing numbers in order
Working on our fine motor skills
Roll the dice, count the amount on the dice
and show the correct amount with the bugs!
Is the letter S in your name?
We learned the letter S in French today! |
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Happy thanksgiving!
We hope you have a great weekend with your families
Recognizing numbers and placing them in proper order!
We are working on counting to 5 and associating the correct amount to the number
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We love the Pete the Cat books
This activity works on our fine motor...Help Pete find his missing buttons!
Don't forget to look at our October newsletter |
Helping Miss. Mariah transform our dramatic play area into a Toys "R" us
Our new afternoon sign-in routine
Every afternoon we sign in by writing our names in the orange duo-tang and putting the duo-tang in the white bin!
Fishing for numbers
Terry Fox fun!
DON'T FORGET!
Tomorrow is crazy sock day for Terry Fox.
Don't forget to donate your toonie for Terry and to send your child to school with a water bottle!
We are using puzzles to help us write our name!
Please send your child to school with a water bottle. It is important to stay hydrated in this hot weather!
Today, we spent the afternoon in childcare. We are very lucky that they allowed us to play in their air conditioned room and play with their toys!
We are practicing writing our name. Everyday we write our name in the orange book. Our goal is to be able to write our name independently by December!
Enjoying our first time at the gym!
We played freeze dance.
This afternoon, we went over the procedures we must follow if ever there was a lockdown in the school. We will continue to go over these procedures for the rest of the week.
Making predictions : will the apple sink or float when we put it in water?
Here are the songs we sing
at our daily circle
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Dear parents,
Please read the note that was sent home in Mr. Zippy and please wash your child's blankets and return them to school.
Thank you!
Finishing our week with Cosmic Yoga
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