December

December was a short and busy month! We had a fun few weeks of Christmas events, stories, and art projects. From Twin Day to PJ Day, door decorating, ornament-making, and Santa and Mrs. Claus visiting us at our pancake breakfast, we have not had a dull moment!

Happy Holidays to you and your family! Wishing you and your family a restful and joyous season. We will see you in the New Year on January 6th!

Having fun with patterns

 

Morning Exploration

 

I Am a Story!

 

Game Day! We have been working hard learning how to share with one another. We are learning to think of others, take turns and follow the rules.

 

Christmas Art

 

Cookie Decorating

 

Pancake Breakfast

 

 

 

November

Sorry for the late post!

In November we talked about the importance of Remembrance Day. It is a day to honour soldiers, veterans and families who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom. Each class made a wreath for the wreath laying ceremony at the assembly. We talked about why the poppy became a symbol for Remembrance Day and we made our own representations of poppies.

 

Here is an invitation to create poppies with loose parts:

    

We painted poppies on our hands

 

We also read “The Peace Book” by Todd Parr and talked about what gives us peace.

 

We recited a poem at our Remembrance Day assembly. Thank you to Ezra’s mom for recording their performance.  We will email you the video 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September and October

 

The Kindergarten year is off to a busy start! We have been learning, playing and establishing our classroom routines.  It has been great to see friendships forming among the children as they get to know each other! Here’s a little glimpse of what we have been doing.

 

 

Learning to recognize and write our name

 

We learned Terry Fox is a Canadian hero who raised millions of dollars for cancer research through his Marathon of Hope event.  Our class participated in the event by running around our field and raising money for cancer research.

 

For Truth and Reconciliation Day, we learned the day honours the children who never returned home and survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.  We also learned a Powwow dance and saw a Powwow performance.

 

Playing with numbers 0-10

 

Learning about pumpkins

 

Ask your child to share their Leaf Man story with you.

 

We had so much fun at the pumpkin patch! Ask your child to share their favourite part of the field trip with you.

 

 

 

We had a great time celebrating Halloween together! Thank you for all the yummy treats!

 

Jack-o-lantern art

 

Halloween Stations

 

What will happened to Candy Corn when we put them in hot water, vinegar and Bubly?  Ask your child about the candy corn experiment.

 

 

 

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

We had a fun day at Aldor Acres! For many of us, it was our first time riding a school bus. At the farm, we saw goats, donkeys, ducks, sheep, bunnies, emus and more. There were even some newborn piglets! The huge piles of hay were fun to jump in. We took a tractor hayride to the patch and picked our own pumpkins to take home.

Fun Fact – “Al-Dor” Acres is named after the owners, Albert and Dorothy!

Ask your child, what was his/her favourite part of the day? Let us know in the comment box below!

Some of the photos were taken by our parent volunteers. Thank you again for joining us and helping to supervise the children.

All About Plants

Our kindergarten class has recently been learning about plants. We have been learning all about the different parts of a plant, how they grow, and the importance of plants in our world.  We had such wonderful time exploring and discovering the wonders of nature!

We can plant flowers!

We can draw flowers!

We can make an observational drawing and make predictions!

We can examine different seeds and match the seed to their fruit/vegetable!

We can take care of our plants!

We can tell you the life cycle of a plant!

We can tell you the name of plant parts!