The last 2 days!

Yesterday we enjoyed the beautiful weather by spending some extra time outside. The students enjoyed extra time playing in the sandbox and had lots of fun using the scooters and bikes.

Today we had fun learning some new whole group in the gym. We are working on how to be safe in the gym by making sure we are aware of our own space and the space of others.

We joined Mrs. Foster’s class to learn about the Blue Zone. If we are in the Blue Zone we might be feeling sad, tired or sick. If we are in the Blue Zone we are not going to be ready to learn. We need to get ourselves to the Green Zone to be able to learn.

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Gym and Zones of Regulation

Today we went to the gym for the first time. We will have gym every Day 1 and Day 3. On these days we will share our gym time with Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Donald’s class. After we came back from gym we joined Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Donald’s class to begin our lessons on the Zones of Regulation. We learned today about the Green Zone. Being in the Green Zone means we we are happy, we are smiling and we are ready to learn! We talked about how we need to be in the Green Zone on the carpet and during work time!

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A Busy Monday!

We could tell that everyone rested over the weekend because the students all came in this morning eager and ready to learn! We started language jobs this morning. This is an opportunity for students to work in small group on language based activities. We are focusing on the letters and sounds if the alphabet during this language job rotation. After the students completed their jobs they had free choice activity time. This is a wonderful time for students to begin to develop new friendships.
We introduced the idea of Bucket Filling to the students (there is a link to the Bucket Filling website under links for parents). We talked about ways we can fill someone’s bucket (help, share, be kind) rather then dip someone’s bucket (be mean, take something, unkind works).
We finished our day with math jobs. Students had the opportunity to work and explore different math manipulatives.

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A Few Pictures!

Here are a few pictures of our last couple of VERY BUSY days! We hope that everyone has a restful weekend and enjoys some wonderful family time!
If you do not see your child’s picture on the blog it is because you have not returned the yellow ‘blog permission form’. As soon as we get this back we can add pictures of your child!

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Music Monday

Today we had a great time joining the school to celebrate our love of music by participating in Music Monday! It was wonderful to hear the school coming together in one voice!

Reminder tomorrow is the ‘Book Sale’. If any families are interested in purchasing books, please send money with your child tomorrow and they will attend the book sale with a grade 5 student. Please make sure to send the money in a clearly labelled Baggie.

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Friday News

The last 2 days during our outdoor exploration time, we have been talking about and looking for signs of spring. The common comment I heard from the students was there was “Lots of garbage’. We talked about what we could do up make this better. We decided that we would go out today and try to clean up the yard by picking up some garbage. This fit in well with our celebration of Earth Hour today, where all lights, computers and radios were turned off from 2-3. Think about celebrating Earth Hour tomorrow with your families.

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Back to routine!

We trust that everyone had a wonderful March Break! It was so much fun to hear of all the exciting adventures. We started Monday morning by writing about these adventures. Everyone had such great stories to share.

We have started to talk about situations in our lives that make us feel and unsafe. Yesterday with our buddies we drew pictures and wrote about times we felt safe and unsafe. We will continue to focus over the next few weeks ways we can be safe (at home, at the park, swimming, etc).

We have started a new unit in math on 3D shapes. We are using lots of great math words – sphere, cylinder, cone, cube, pyramid, prism, face, edge and vertices. The students are spending times during their math jobs exploring, building and examining these shapes that are ‘fat not flat’.

If you have any ‘recycled’ 3D shapes that you would like to donate to the class (paper towel cylinders, empty boxes, cans,etc) we would love to have have them to create using 3D shapes at our science table.

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Another Busy Monday

Yesterday was another busy Monday and we can’t believe that we had to turn our calendar to March. March Break is just around the corner, Easter will be here before we know it and soon enough we hope to start seeing the signs of spring. As we start moving towards the end of the year our Senior Kindergartens will be preparing for their transition to grade one and our Junior Kindergartens will be preparing to become Seniors. Please remember to continue to help your child develop their independence my making sure that their communication bags are sent daily and all forms of communication are sent in the bag (notes, money, forms, home reading folders, etc). This allows your child to be independent in making sure items are seen. We do not have time to check 26 backpacks every morning.

We have started ‘mystery star’ of the days. Each morning we pick a mystery star. The students share great things about that person and we work on making sure the go home with a ‘full bucket’. Are star yesterday was Simon.

Our new language jobs focus on ‘All About Me’. Math jobs are focused on patterning. Science we have been mixing primary colours and finally we continue to write in our journals.

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