with Ms. Lai & Ms. Loungsay
Diwali is also known as the Festival of Lights! We learned Diwali is India’s biggest holiday of the year! Diwali is a 5 day celebration. People decorate their homes and meals are shared with families and friends. They also celebrate with fireworks and gifts are given to children.
Diyas are small type of lamp or candle holders lit on Diwali.
We painted poppies on our hands
We also read “The Peace Book” by Todd Parr and talked about what gives us peace.
I feel peace when I am…
“loved”
“loved by my mom”
“with my brother”
“with my family”
“playing with my friends”
“playing with my mom”
“with my teachers”
“my dad carries me”
“getting hugs”
“nice”
“kind and sharing toys”
“with my cats”
“watching T.V.”
“with my hamster”
“at a park”
Division 12 had an eventful Halloween! We had princesses, superheroes, video game characters, scary witches, vampires, black cats, a giraffe and even a Starbucks mocha frappuccino, enter our classroom!
We created some fabulous art, including these friendly zooming ghosts!
Every year, we look forward to the creative and humorous jack-o-lanterns that are created by students and their families. They were on display outside the front entrance of the school. During our afternoon parade, we had a chance to walk by and view them.
We read a funny book called, Room on the Broom. We then watched the Knowledge Kids’ movie with Ms. Gourlay’s class. We noticed and compared the similarities and differences between the book and the movie, and noticed many interesting elements that were added to the film-version.
The school-wide parade was fun and exciting! We ended in the gym for a dance and sing-a-long. It was a fa-BOO-lous and spooky day with many treats!
Making connections; ask your child:
What was a favorite costume that you saw and liked?
What is your favorite thing about Halloween?
Our class has been learning about apples this term! Here are some highlights from our apple exploration.
We used our sense of smell, sight, touch and hearing to explore the apple trees in our park.
“The bug is eating the apple!”
“Ew! The apple smells bad!”
“This one is rotten.”
“The tree is bumpy.”
“I hear something inside!”
“I hear nothing.”
We used our sense of taste to find out which apple is our favourite – red, yellow or green.
“The red one is crunchy and hard.”
“The Green one is very sour!”
“The yellow is really good!”
We found out most people like the red apple! It’s a tie for the green apple and the yellow apple.
We did an experiment to see if the apple will sink or float. The predictions were 10 for it will sink and 5 for it will float! We were pretty excited to see it float!
Making colour patterns with apples
Making art with yarn
On Orange Shirt Day, we learned it is a day to honour children that have survived residential schools, and to remember the lives that were lost. Our class read a story called “I Hope”, which captures the adults’ hope for children. After the story, we brainstormed “words of hope” that will make all children feel safe and respected in our school community. We then created stitched hearts to honour the hearts of all children, especially the Indigenous children and families.
Terry Fox is a symbol of hope in Canadian history. Through books and discussion, Division 12 learned who Terry Fox was, why he did his Marathon of Hope, and why we do a Terry Fox Run every year at school.
We had a wonderful start to the school year! September was full of school events. In our classroom, we read stories and played games. We are learning how to write our names “the kindergarten way,” starting with an upper case letter followed by lower case letters. We are learning routines and school procedures, and most importantly, we are having fun!
