Our class is now complete!

We had our 22nd student join our class today, marking our class as FULL! We celebrated with an outdoor adventure, as students were very excited to show him our adventure packs and a few of our special places. As they filled him in about our class and the many activities they have enjoyed this year, I was struck with just how much this class has learned and how cohesive they have become as a group! We were able to go a fair distance from the school and take part in a listening walk, moving quietly and listening to all of the sounds around us. We came across a new special spot, and immediately embraced some time for a precious mindful moment in nature. Some students drew pictures as they sat, while others just took in their surroundings. Of course, there were lots of movement opportunities too, as we ran up and down the hills and explored our new "beaver dam/spaceship"! 

Ask your child to tell you all about our newest classmate!

Inventing, creating, experimenting, exploring, MAKING!

We had a special treat at the beginning of the week: James Rota and James Farmer from the Dynamiters came in to read to us! 

We then had a couple days of Maker Day projects, working with various materials to create structures. Our first school-wide Maker Day was a huge success, so we are hoping to do a few more throughout this year. Ask us about the groups we worked with in our classroom and in the gym, as well as the supplies we used and the structures we created! 

November Adventures

It's been incredible watching students' skating abilities improve over the past three weeks! We tried a few different skating stations this week, and the K's skated for the whole time without any bars! Thank you again to all of the parents who have been able to come out and help!

 Students just completed a learning sequence focused on the story, "To Market, To Market". We were working on connecting to a story, predicting what might happen next, and identifying our favourite parts. We read the book over a few days, so students were able to draw their connections and predictions as the story developed. Students also participated in acting out the story! Ask your child which character they were during our role play, and ask them explain what happened in the story.

Crazy Hair/Hat Day was a huge success on Friday! We had so much fun checking out the funny hairstyles and cool hats!

During music class this week, Miss Lizzy read us one of our favourite Pete the Cat stories, and she was surprised by how well students knew the story! We also learned about a half note and that it represents two counts in music. We practised clapping a variety of rhythm patterns, and these patterns can easily be used as an engaging car game!

We have also been learning so many of the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. We have now learned: M, A, S, N, T, I, P, R, G, H, O, D, B, L, C, E, F, and W. We played around with W words this week, creating a variety of W pictures on whiteboards. Ask your child to teach you the "ABC sounds" song. If your child needs a prompt, the song goes like this, replacing W and /w/ with each letter and sound of the alphabet:

W says /w/, W says /w/,

Windy worm, windy worm, 

/w/, /w/, /w/. 

We also went for a fun walking adventure to the Lions Club Park on Friday. We inspected the beautiful frost on the grass, and enjoyed playing at the playground!