Month: November 2020

School-wide Write: What is your Superpower?

For our school-wide write, we read a picture book called, What is your Superpower? by Aviaq Johnston.  In this story, a girl named Nalvana discovers that anyone can have superpowers. She has friends with super speed, friends with super strength, and friends who can do all sorts of amazing things. Nalvana discovers that she herself has a unique superpower that is even more powerful than strength and speed. Please ask your child to tell you more about this story.

The story is set in Nunavut and is written by a Canadian Inuk author. There is a glossary provided, as there are Inuktitut words that are included in the text of the story.

 

For the write, students were asked to respond to the question: “What is your superpower?”  They were asked to draw a picture, adding colors and including as many details as possible. Kindergarten students are not expected to write in complete sentences. They may write using “kid-writing” (e.g. invented spelling), writing any phonetic sounds or words related to their picture. Some may write random letters that represent sounds or words that are mispelled.

 

Your child’s writing sample has been uploaded to their blogfolio. Over the next week, I will also leave a comment on the post, highlighting what I have noticed about their writing and giving them a suggestion on how to improve their writing.

The Leaf Man Goes Where the Wind Blows   

 

 

The story Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert is about the Leaf Man drifting around and it visited many places and saw a lot of animals.  We don’t know where the Leaf Man is going because it goes where the wind blows.  After reading the story, we went on a nature walk and created our own leaf person or creature.  As the children were building their leaf person/creature, we heard some interesting stories of where their leaf creations have gone and what they have seen and done! A few leaf people went to the North Pole to look for Santa.  Another leaf person went to outer space.  And then a leaf butterfly was too sticky, so the wind couldn’t blow it away!  We also had a leaf family hanging out at the park! These leaf creations can be anywhere.  Look around next time when the wind is blowing.  You might see a leaf person drifting by.

 

A Halloween Mystery

On Halloween, a bumble bee came to our classroom. But where was Ms. Loungsay?

We also had other visitors… a pirate, a fireman, Elsa from Frozen, a unicorn, super heroes and more… But where were the kids from Division 10?

We created a class book all about our costumes!

 

While we were not able to welcome parents and pass around treats for one another like other Halloweens, our school still managed to celebrate with some fun festivities. We had an outdoor costume parade and went to view the amazing annual pumpkin carving contest. Our students did a wonderful job!

Apples Taste Delicious!

We have been learning about apples this term. Here are some photos from our apple tasting experiment in October. Students sampled three varieties of apples – red (Royal Gala), yellow (Golden Delicious) and green (Granny Smith). Students chose which color apple they liked best. We created this graph below. For some fun photos of your child eating the apples, please log into your child’s Blogfolio.