Thursday January 28, 2016.

We had a terrific Thursday!

Today we:

• Had an honesty assembly in the gym (honesty was the January character education trait)
• Had free-play
• Had small group journal writing
• Had gym with Mr. Norris
• Had Grade 8 inquiry buddies-and tried some coding activities!
• Learned a new game (mystery frog), sang some songs, and read the January poem

Please remember there is no school tomorrow for students as it is a P.A. day! We hope you have a great 3-day weekend!

We sent home a February newsletter and calendar today with each student but did not attach a class list of names to use in case your child wishes to hand out Valentines.

Here is our class list: Kindergarten Class List 2015/2016


Here are some pictures of our journal writing from today:

Thank you for a great week! See you on Monday! 

Wednesday January 27, 2016.

We had a wonderful Wednesday!

Today we:

• Had outdoor play
• Mrs. Robbins came for math (temperature)
• We had number sense small groups 
•  Had Free-play
• Had literacy
• Learned a new song- "the penguin song"
• Had library- *please note, our library day will be Thursdays starting next week due to the change of the 5-day cycle as a result of the P.A. day this Friday (please return all outstanding library books so your child can sign-out new ones!)

Here are two links to addition/subtraction songs with embedded questions:

When you subtract with a pirate song

When you add with a pirate

Here is a number sense song the kids love!

The Big Numbers Song

Here are some pictures of our learning:

Some of our pattern worms!

"I have eleven links. I subtract four and have seven left over."

"I used my mittens to help me count."

Tuesday, January 26, 2016.

We had a great day!

Today we:

• Had outdoor playtime with the other Kindergarten classes
• Learned a new poem for January
• Shared interests and ideas for our mini inquiries
• Brainstormed possible resources for information about our inquiries
• Had math with Mrs. Robbins (temperature)
• Had free play- and re-opened the sand table!
• Sang some new alphabet and letter sound songs
• Clapped syllables for our names and for the month of January
• Had our reading rainbow ceremony!

Here are some pictures of our learning from the past couple of days:

Students ideas for inquiries

What are some resources we can use to gather information?

"I made an AB pattern."

"I made an ABC pattern."

"I made two AB patterns."

"I made an AABB pattern."

"I made an ABB pattern."

Welcome to our new class blog!

Hello Everyone,

We hope you all had wonderful weekends! Welcome to our new class blog. Our blog is another way we can share our learning with you at home and provide information and updates to you. We will continue to use ClassDojo, as well as our blog to communicate with you. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the very warm welcome I received this past week- it was a fantastic first four days and I couldn't be luckier to be in such an awesome class with such a great partner- Miss Justus. She has ensured that I am up to date with knowing important information about your children, and has helped familiarize myself with the daily routine. I have loved getting to know each of your children, they are so sweet, and I can't wait for what's in store for us! Miss Justus and I are busy planning and have lots of exciting ideas that we can't wait to implement! Stay tuned for updates throughout the week.

Thank you again,

Ms. Rose