What a Gloomy Day!

Important news about the geckos.  They have food today!  Mrs. Pole quickly went to Rick's Hobbies in town and bought crickets and mealworms.  If there is anyone who would be willing to help with the purchasing of food for the geckos please let us know.  Rick's Hobbies has all we need in town, so if it is possible to share in this job...that would be great.  We could make a list of volunteers and assign weeks.  Thanks so much and we appreciate all your support.  If you wish to help just write us a quick letter in the agenda. :)

Today we started out investigation about questions.  We will be looking at how to ask and answer questions.  It is really tricky!  Tonight ask your child something they wonder about and see if they can come up with a question.  Start with ....I wonder...this helps children lead naturally to a question. 

We did some more tidying up today.  But we were REALLY loud.  Indoor recess didn't help our loudness either.  We also did our first fire drill.  We did great, but some of us did find the alarm rather loud and some of us thought that the noise went a code red drill.  But that is why we have practices.  We are so proud of how well they did.

Happy Monday Everyone!

Here is a catching tune the kids enjoyed today...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54m6XOpRgU

Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well here we are at the end of another week!  Wow time is flying by.  Today we did some house cleaning in the room.  We are having trouble keeping things clean and put away properly.  So today we moved around some centers and we put some toys away.  We will bring some things back out when we show we can be responsible.

Patrick, a JK student in the room, and his mommy and daddy provided us a link on you tube that showed us video of certain jobs being done on their farm  It was too cool.

Here is the link to Lindmilk Farms.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BarendvL

The children are so excited to watch and we are learning so many different words and we were asking questions. Wonderful!

Terry Fox run....AWESOME, and we watched a video about Terry Fox.  Miss Shelly and I realize this is a very hard concept for the child to get, but we just gave them a brief introduction.  So please talk to your child about Terry Fox as they might be confused and have questions when they get home!

Have a great weekend.

Taking on a new role...

Today I became the student for awhile while one of my students taught!  This was so much fun and so rewarding for the class.  Patrick, a JK student in the room, taught us about harvesting and packing corn.  So here is the truth, I know nothing about farming!  Yup truth be told! So Patrick started explaining to us why he was away yesterday and he told us about packing corn.  But since I don't even know how the corn gets off the field we had to start at the beginning of the harvest.  (not even sure that is really correct so bear with me!)

So we found a great video on you tube that should how farmers harvet corn...so take a look...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tu_bFde6Ww

Then when we watched a video about packing so I could understand a little more...here is what Patrick says packing is...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSo0gDARjU&safe=active


This is not exactly how they do it on their farm but he said it was close enough! lol

So I think I am getting a better idea of harvesting, and packing corn...what I still have a few questions.  So we are going to try to answer my questions.

This is something that is going to be a focus at school:  How to ask a question that we want answered.  Amazingly, making a question up is something that is very difficult and a concept that is very difficult for children.  We always think that kids ask a lot of questions, but if you just ask them to ask a question say about geckos, you will be surprised to know they will likely give you a statement. So that is one of our goals, work on asking questions around science and technology.

Inquiry Buddies

Today has been a busy day.  We worked with our inquiry buddies and answered our shark questions that we prepared last week.  We displayed our answers to the questions in many ways.  We used the following ways to answer the questions:

*pages on the ipad
*slideshows
*pic collage on the ipad
*notes on the ipad
*Word
*and some of us made posters.

It was great fun.  Some of us even made videos.  Here are two links of  kinders that used videos to answer their questions.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_8W7E77ek4&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI5v2OhLKas&safe=active


What great fun we had.  :)

Today we also had to feed the geckos and clean the cage.  We also invited the Grade SK/1 class to our room to take a look at our new friends.

Busy day!

French Songs

Thanks Miss Shelly for taping this....

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o17gvAlqQDo

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SJQnD_TtgRs

Thanks Madame Howard for singing with our friends.

Tuesday

Just to note we do have another case of chicken pox in our room.  So just watch your child for spots or fevers.  Ms. McGregor is sending home a note with all relevant information. 

Today we had our second CODE RED and the children did great.  We have a few things we need to work on, we forgot to shut the ipads off and they were making a lot of noise and Mrs. Pole forgot to shut the computer screen off. But we did great.  Our SK's were great at helping the JK friends remember where to sit.  :)

Today we had the ipads going, we did chalk and sock and we learned the letter n, and we make letters with craft suplies.  So all in all a really busy day! :0)

In gym we learned colours while running around the gym to the Imagination Movers.  Watch twitter to see pictures and a French Video.  I will also provide the link later to the you tube video of the kids singing in French class.  :)

Hope everyone has a great night and it is wonderful that the kinders are doing so well.

Don't foget to ask your children about Sharky and Snowflake, our geckos.  They are sooooo cool!  

Our Geckos have arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well what a great Monday!  Today thanks to Gabriel and his mommy and daddy we have two classroom pets.  We have two Leopard Geckos.  And I must admit that they are really cute!

Here are a few links that shows the great fun we had this am! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBHbD4bCMI&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfjuOlDqHG0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDQI1GhVi4&safe=active

Sorry the quality isn't that great today...but it is still cute to watch. 

So our girl Gecko is pregnant and will lay her eggs in February and we should have babies by around April. :)

Stay tuned for the names of our new classroom pets.  I can just imagine what great interest these new pets will create! :)