Our school Christmas concert is coming right up! We will be making dog headbands next week, so we wanted to give a few weeks notice that your child will just need to wear “dog colours” (brown, beige, black, white) for the concert on December 10 (rehearsal) and 11 (during the day and evening performances).
The song we will be singing was attached in an email sent out to all parents.
We will introduce the song to the kids this week and will begin practising next week. If you are able to play it and sing along at home, that would be great too!
On December 10, both K groups and the grade 1’s will be going to Garden View Village to sing Christmas songs to our Senior Friends. Here is the list of songs we may be singing so that you can practise at home:
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
Santa Claus is coming to town
Up on the housetop
Frosty
Jingle bells
The 12 days of Christmas
Oh Canada
The Snowball song (link to youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQoJCpGoL2o )
Deck the halls
Winter wonderland
We wish you a Merry Christmas
Thank you for your support!
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
All About Bats!
Batty Patty came to teach us All About Bats today! She was very impressed by everything we already knew about bats! We loved looking at her pictures of bats, and listening to the audio recording of a bat using echolocation. We also loved exploring all of the bat materials in the classroom! Some questions that can be discussed with your child at home:
What do bats in our area eat?
How many times does a bat flap it's wings in one second?
How does echolocation work?
Which bat could sit on your thumb?
What do vampire bats bite?
What do we do if we find a bat?
My Not-A-Box at Garden View Village (blue group)
Today at Garden View Village, we reread the story, "Not a Box" and created our own pages for a class book. We took these pages downstairs to explain to our Senior Friends. They loved seeing our drawings and hearing our descriptions of our pictures. We then did a little "finger song" with our Senior Friends and then went upstairs to explore some table centres. Dianne, Donna and Thelma joined us for all of the fun upstairs!
Amazing journals!
These just HAD to be celebrated! The blue group started the day off with journals today, and did an amazing job adding details, adding letters in the words in their pictures, and reflecting on their work!
"portal to neverland" "sun" "bird"
"snail" "Sydney" "Taylor" "sun"
"octopus" "castle"
"robot" "mom" "you" "Ryker"
"sun"
"robot" "person" "crushing monster truck"
Monday, November 10, 2014
Peace Is...
Our Kindergarten students brainstormed about what "Peace" is. These responses, along with cloud art and "peace sign" pictures of each child, were displayed at our Remembrance Day assembly today.
Peace is… finding animals in the clouds
Corbin-
making new friends
Katy-
making animals free
Dylan-
being a good friend and being respectful
Georges-
bringing people to your house and letting them have lunch
Kate-
swimming with a life jacket on and making sure you are safe
Gavyn-
keeping your hands to your own body
Nova-
being nice to everyone
Marshall-
letting a shark go if you catch it
Shaylyn-
playing nice with a friend
Wyatt-
peace and quiet
Fox-
being nice to someone
Isaac
W- being quiet in the library
Bryce-
sharing your toys
Kristen-
helping your mom and dad
Taylor-
watching it snow
MJ-
being kind
Sydney-
playing with your friends
Neilah-
watching the clouds
Isla-
spending time with your family and having a quiet dinner together
Colton-
no fighting
Aiden-
sharing your breakfast with people
Tumelo-
laying down and relaxing in the sun
Claire-
sharing food with your friends
Emily-
colouring with my brother
Isaac
Y- sharing everything you have with other people
Jaia-
sharing a toy with someone
Alexis-
sharing stuff with others who come over
Erin-
when you go for ice cream and you share it with a friend
Lachlan-
having a picnic with people
Jaxson-
no war
Phoenixx-
being quiet
Harlow-
sitting on the couch near the fire
Max- using my colouring stuff
Max- using my colouring stuff
Sophia-
playing nicely on the playground
Kaden-
making crafts
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Mystery Reader Surprise!
We had such a special Mystery Reader surprise today! Based on the clues (man, almost hairless, spends a lot of time at city hall and is related to two people in the class), we guessed that it was Aylan and Max's grandpa, Ron McRae!
opening the door for our special guest!
We had a lot of questions and comments for Mr. McRae ("Do you get to make up all of the rules?", "Are you the principal of Mrs. Bancks?", "Are you in charge of the whole city?"and my personal favourite, "My mom votes for you!").
Mr. McRae read an awesome book that made us laugh so much!
At the end of our visit, he invited us all up to have a field trip to City Hall, and told us that we will even have a chance to sit in the Mayor's chair! We are already thinking about a field trip plan :) Thank you for the visit, Mr. McRae. We can't wait to see who our next Mystery Reader will be!
First Garden View Village Visit (Blue Group)
We had such a wonderful first visit to Garden View Village. Our lovely senior friend, Dianne, was waiting with open arms when we arrived. She was so excited to meet all of us! We had our snack, and then created cloud art based on our idea, "Peace is... looking for animals in the clouds".
When we finished our art, we went on a tour upstairs to see more of the building. We were really respectful of this being other people's home, and loved looking at all of the displays our senior friends had outside their rooms. Marshall's mom then read us a story about peace before we went downstairs to meet everyone at coffee time. We brought a lot of smiles to the faces of our senior friends at the table, and we enjoyed talking to them about our art.
We even had a little family reunion! Thelma was so excited to see one of her grandchildren!
We had a great time and are already excited about our next visit!
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Enhancing Fine Motor Development at Home
At the beginning of the school year, we spend a great deal of time working on fine motor skill development. We do many activities using a variety of materials, including pom poms, tongs, clothes pins, egg cartons, scissors, beads, pipe cleaners, cups, string, etc. These are skills that all Kindergarten students can be practising at home as well! After discussing fine motor skill development with a number of families during our interviews a couple weeks ago, we decided to post some ideas here. We have found a lot of great websites with lists of awesome fine motor skill activities, many of which can be done with items found around the home or purchased at the dollar store. If you feel like your child could use some extra practise at home, please check out the following websites or ask us for more suggestions!
Thank you for your support!
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