Thursday

The children had alot of questions about snow today.  We actually had a water table full of snow with one side packed and one side full of fluffy snow.  The children wondered which side would melt first. They also had some great wonder questions about snow and the water table.

We worked on sorting today in math groups.  We sorted ourselves in some groups and we sorted ourselves in many different ways.  In another group we looked at attributes and used our knoweldge of same and different to make groups.  It was a lot of fun seeing the different ways we can sort.

We are also nearing the end of our diaries.  The children have really enjoyed this activity.  We may be able to send them home to share if everyone is really careful as they are not laminated. 

We will be sending home our Eric Carle books starting today!  Please be gentle with our books as we spent a lot of time on these and everyone is so proud of their work. 

Also please remember to send in extra mitts for your child as many of the children have wet mitts even before school starts. Just make sure you tell your child where you are putting the extra mitts so they know where they are.  Thanks for your help with this. :)

Inclement Weather Day

Sorry ...buses cancelled...school open.

Tuesday

We had Inquiry Buddy work today!  It was great fun! We had the buddies come up with questions together and they came up with some great questions.  Your child will come home with their work tonight that shows what they did with their inquiry partner. 

In gym we played hot beanbag and we had to get rid of all of our bean bags over the volleyball net.   It is really hard to throw a beanbag over a volleyball net.  Everyone was a great sport.  The team with the fewest number of beanbags on their side won.  So we were at times coutning beanbags up to 26.  We are such great counters. 

We are still reading our book from yesterday.  A-Z Animals. 

We are also still looking at numbers from 0-10 and how they look with dot plates, five and ten frames, on rekenreks, and even just what the numeral looks like. 

Also we will be starting sorting activities.  We have sorted things in the room already, but we are really going to be looking at sorting rules.  :)

Have a great night and Wednesday looks like it will be a white winter wonderland. :)  

Monday

Thank you for sending in snowsuits for our little freinds.  Also as extra help please practise putting on and taking off snowsuits with your child.  The more they do on their own, the better it is for the children at school.  I know it is tricky and hard for them, but the more practise they get,  the better they will get at this skill.

Today we worked with illumniations for math...it is a great site that allows us to practise with five and ten frames.  I will send the links here in case you would like to practice at home:

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3564

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3565

 The first link is for 5 frame games and the second is for the 10 frame games. 

We also read the book:

We are also still working on our diaries.  Last week we missed a few days and we talked with the kinders about how that is like a real diary.  You write some days and then not others. 

Friday!

Happy Friday everyone!

Today we had Mrs. Manwell come visit us for about an hour and we learned about Rekenreks.  It is another tool for us to use when learning about the value of numbers and how to visualize numbers without having to count everytime.  When we look at certain groups of numbers our brains subitize for us.  So that is why when we look at the dice we learn that those patterns are a certain number.  There are lots of activities that use rekenreks.  If you would like to ever use a rekenrek I can send one home and you can practise with your child. Lots of activities can be found if you google rekenrek or pinterest has alot too.

Today we read:  

It is a book for the WITS program that we use at school.

The strategy that this book teaches us is to ignore.  In the book, Rodney Rat has trouble with his speech and he is teased by the school bully.  It is a story that teaches how how to deal with those bullies.  Ask your child if they remember anything about the book. 

We are still working on our diaries.  They have been alot of fun!

In gym today we used scooters and they were a huge hit!  Ask your child if they remember what colour they had. 

I'm away. No posts today.

Wednesday

What a beautiful day! Thanks for sending hats and mitts, it helps keep them nice and warm at recess time.  Please remember to label hats and mitts as they get mixed up easily and the young children at times don't remember what they brought to school. 

We are working on our new class book.  It is an Eric Carle book.  We are hoping to get it finished up soon.  It has been a long process, but well worth it! Look to see it come home shortly.

Ms. Manwell is in today and helping with some math assessment.  We will be looking at the children's knoweldge of numbers and what numbers mean to them. 


Busy day...remember to check out twitter for pictures of the days events.

A Windy Tuesday

We are still measuring in school!  We will be looking at using scales this week to see if things are heavier or lighter.  For some this will be the first time they have ever seen scales or used them.  It will be fun to teach the kiddies how to use them and discuss heavier and lighter.  We have also been using measurement in the sand and water tables.  It is great seeing the little kinders measuring and using non standard units of measurement. 

We are still working on our diaries.  We have some group diaries on the go and we have some personal diaries being made as well.  :)  It is great to see such an interest in writing.

Reading Buddies was great fun today!  We enjoy reading with our friends from grade 4/5.  It is amazing how well we work with our older friends.

We also created a puppet show today and I am hoping to get it uploaded to twitter today.  Check it out!  They had a blast doing Little Miss Muffet. 

Have a great Tuesday Evening! :)

Monday after a long weekend

Wow...what a windy day!  Today we looked at measruement again.  We created a stick of 10 unifix cubes and then figured out things around the room that are shorter or longer than the stick of 10.  It was great fun!  We actually made a chart to show our findings.  I will tweet the picture on twitter. 

We went to see the Grade 4/5 creations that they made about animals. It was great to see what other classes do.  It was fun to see that big kids create just like we do.

Since we are reading Doreen Cronin we decided as a class that we will try to make a diary for the week.  Doreen Cronin loves writing in a diary and we thought we would try.  We are making three diaries for the class.  I can't wait to see how they turn out!

Check out twitter to see other things that we learned today. :)

Thursday...tomorrow is a day off for students

Today we had a great morning. We sang, we danced, and we played.  We also did so many other things too.  We looked at numbers, looked at letters, sight words and we had fun!  And that was just the morning! 

We went to the book fair as well and some little friends got books.  Remember the book fair is open when there are parent teacher interviews on. :)

Yesterday, Mr. G read the book Diary of a Worm,  by Doreen Cronin and the kids loved it!  Today we will read another one of her books!  It is Diary of a Fly.  Great books! :) Ask your child if they remember what a diary is. 

Have a great long weekend and see everyone Monday.

Tuesday

Ms. Hebert is here today so we got extra stuff done today!

In math we measured ourselves today!  We used coloured blocks and counted them.  We are all around 7 or 8 blocks tall.  Mrs. Pole is taller though.  :)  All groups got a turn today in a small math group and enjoyed the learning.

We are also reading Doreen Cronin books.  Google her and see how many books she has written.  They are all alot of fun. :)


In the sand table today we had a swimming pool.  Thank goodness it wasn't outside as it is cold out there!  We also worked on sharing today as it is tricky to share toys that are so much fun.   

A new week...

Happy Monday!  Today has been a mixed up day!  We had a Remembrance Day Ceremony this morning and it was so well put together!  Thank you to the Grade 5/6 class that orgainized it.  We all wore our poppies and listened very carefully to what the older students told us.

We read....another Eric Carle story today:

We also worked in our journals today and are working on spacing, and getting our message to match our pictures. :)

Have a great night.

It's Friday

Welcome Ms. Hebert!  It is so nice having you here! 

Today we looked at 101 questions again and we came up with some great questions!  It is amazing how far we have come with our questioning skills! :)

We worked with dominoes today and played Domino Parking Lot.  It is tricky adding all those dots.  If you want to play grab a set of dominos and print off a sheet like the following:




They have to put the domino in the proper parking spot.  Great practice adding and counting.  Another great activity is just playing with dice!


We are still reading Eric Carle. We love his writing!

Miss Shelly has us nearly all orgainzed.  It is so wonderful, and wow the classroom is beginning to look great!

Have a great weekend everyone! 

Thursday

Today we are still organizing the room.  Thank goodness for Miss Shelly.  She is a super organizer, she keeps me on my toes.  We are nearly done and new pictures are being taken so the Kinders have a guide for clean up!

Today we did measurement again!  Take a look at Twitter for pictures of the activities.  We had great fun!

We also did the letter Ee today, and Miss Shelly worked with a small group doing word families and others did ipad activities.  Busy times in Kindergarten.

We are so excited for tomorrow when we get to meet Ms. Hebert.  It will be great to have another set of hands in the room. :)

We are still working on our WITS program at school. And it goes rather nicely with our classroom program...STOP, TALK, and FIX IT.

Wednesday

Today is a dreary day, but the kinders have been wonderful!  We are working on mesurement still and wow we had some great investigations today. We learned that you have to have the same starting point when you measure or you can't measure properly. Also at the water and sand table we are measuring with measuring cups and measuring spoons.

Our letter of the day is Ii and we also worked on the words play, go and do.  Here are the links if you would like to practice with your child.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec0KCT_HyNE&safe=active

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZsORjBDGzc&safe=active

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hfw5szYDEY&safe=active

We are also looking at our pumpkins...they look gross!  We are learning about decomposition.  Wow these pumpkins are teaching us a lot.  Along with Sid the Science Kid who taught us about mushy bananas and decaying pumpkins. 


Have a great night and we look forward to Friday when Mrs. Hebert joins our team.  :)

Tuesday...busy day!

Today we started orgainzing our room with the children.  So far the kiddies have tried to help keep the room tidy but it is a difficult job.  So we are trying something new.  So here's to hoping that this new strategy will work.

In math we also worked on measurement and we tweeted our findings of shortest and tallest.  It was alot of fun trying to line up in order of how tall we are.

Also we learned two new colour words...check these videos out.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPIXADaOoM&safe=active

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy-Ydp2Hul4&safe=active

Please remember to send in your yellow sheet to request an interview time.  Thanks

Monday Madness

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the first Monday of November. Today we had a great day!  The weather was nice, our friends are nice and we are working on our WITS!

In class we worked on writing, reading, letters and sounds, and sight words.  And we also started looking at measurement.  A few groups talked about what we can use to measure, what measurement is, and we even tried to do some measuring.  It is really tricky! So review with you child things that we could measure.  This is a great dinner table conversation.

Our pumpkins that we made into an experiment are doing great.  They are actually starting to mold, and well that was not part of the experiment.  :) But nothing is happening with the seeds or sprouts yet.  But we will have patience. 

We are still reading Eric Carle and we are making a class book.  We can't wait til we can get it together and send it home so you can see their great work.


Hope everyone has a great night and keep up the great work.

We made it!

I hope everyone had a great Halloween.  It was a super busy day yesterday and today has been a little calmer. 

Today we praticed our letters and sounds while dancing and then freezing.  We did this game for a number of songs.  It was really cute.  I will upload a video to youtube today.

We also worked with our pumpkins again. We looked at the pumpkin that has a sprout in it and we will try to transplant it and see what happens.  We are also going to try to grow pumpkins from our pumpkins.  So we will fill them with soil and see what happens.  Should be interesting.

Have a great weekend.