Month: October 2025

It was a fun and busy day at school today!

Thank you to all parents who came to cheer at the parade outdoors and who contributed to the items for the class party! Everyone had a great time!!

You might wonder what happens during literacy stations. We do them 3 times a week and it usually starts with a phonics lesson at the carpet. Then students go off to do different activities.

Kindergarten students right now are working on the letters of the alphabet (both upper and lower case) through a variety of hands on games and on fine motor skills such as making straight and curvy lines and printing upper and lower case letters.

Grade 1 students are working on their spelling packages that have a variety of activities with 5 sight words. When finished with those, they can play different hands on games that reinforce the sight words as well as games with a focus on phonics.

Below are some pictures of some of the activities students work on during literacy stations.

We have been talking about different types of weather in Science. We talked about what clues we see in the sky and around us that helps us know what the weather is like that day.

After listening to a song about the weather and seeing non-fiction images about each type of weather, students drew what they learned about it. We have some pretty amazing artists and here are some samples of today’s work.

Continue reading “Weather ☁️☀️🌤️🌧️❄️💨🌈⚡️”

Today our class did an art workshop with Arts Umbrella and it was fantastic! They brought posters with images to inspire students and did a quick demonstration of how to sketch and colour sea creatures with oil pastels.
Students had about one hour to create their art pieces.

Here are some photos from the workshop and art work was sent home today.

You may have heard that we go to the library on Mondays for story workshop with Ms. Papapanagiotou. What does that look like?

We work with loose parts to inspire our imagination. We have talked about who can be in a story and today we talked about creating the place where a story can happen. In partners or small groups, students agreed on a place and then used the loose parts to create it. At then end, we went around to all groups and they shared their story settings. We had a castle, a house, a beach, a forest, a houe on a mountain and a couple of hounted houses for Halloween.

Part of the Kindergarten and Grade 1 curriculum is creating and sharing stories orally. We will be focusing on the oral language component before moving onto writing stories.

Here are some pictures from the creating and sharing process from today.

Today we went outside to observe, investigate and collect fall leaves. We read a non-fiction book about fall and why trees lose their leaves. We looked at the trees, we saw all the leaves collecting around the playground area and each student brought back to class two different leaves. We then compared the leaves and talked about what we noticed. We sorted the leaves by colour and then put them in order from smallest to biggest. Check out some pictures below.

*We were inspired by the picture book “The Leaf Thief”. Ask your child who is the leaf thief!

This week, we read the book “Our Class is a Family” and discussed how we want to treat each other and make each other feel at school. We created and signed a class poster that we are committed to treating each other like family.

Students also drew a picture of themselves at school with people from our classroom community.

Today we did counting collections in Math. Students got a bag with random items, organized them and counted the items.

It’s an easy activity to do at home with items in your own house (Lego pieces, paper clips, rocks, pasta, beans, elastics, etc) and muffin tins or ice cube trays to reinforce counting numbers and one-to-one number correspondence.