Category: Literacy

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.

 

 

 

Quails

Division 10, 11 and 12 have been learning about quails! We learned baby quails are called chicks.  We also learned about the basic features of quails and their life cycle.

Fun fact: In the wild, the female quail lays the eggs and the male bird sits on them to keep them warm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We named the chicks Rose, Blossom, Tulip, Sunflower, Petals and Daisy.

Signs of Spring

We kicked off our spring nature walk by looking for signs of spring in our Parkcrest Forest.

     

In Story Workshop, we built a spring scene and then we wrote about what we can see, hear, smell and touch in spring.

 

Art inspired by the cherry blossom trees in our park.

February

Division 12 had a busy month learning, playing and exploring! Here’s a little glimpse of what we did in February…

Reading in the Dark

 

Over and under the Snow- In Story Workshop, we created our own Over and Under the Snow stories.  Please ask your child to tell you their story.

 

We went on a nature walk to look for homes animals could hibernate in during the winter.

 

We made birdfeeders for animals that adapt to the weather in the winter.

 

We went to our forest to look for animal tracks.

 

Valentine’s Day Fun!

 

“I Am From”- we each wrote a poem about things, places and words that are important to us. Some of us shared our poem to the Parkcrest community at our Celebration of Learning assembly.

Welcome to Division 12!

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!