Our Kindergarten Blog
2024-04-17
Fruit Loop Patterns
Today we talked about patterns. We are making AB, AAB, ABC and lots of other patterns. I can show you the patterns I can make at home. Gingy sent us an email. He sent us a box of fruit loops. We made fruit loop necklaces. There might not be any fruit loops on my necklace when I get home. We are bringing home a new book. We are getting very good at reading our little books. We made bbok marks for our parent volunteers. We want to say thank you for all that our volunteers do for our school. It was a fruity day in Kindergarten.
2024-04-15
Our Five Senses Paintings
Today we used water colours to paint beautiful pictures. We talked about the five senses. We pretended we were inside our paintings. Mrs. Kitson asked us what we saw, smelled, tasted, heard and touched inside our painting. We used our imagination . We learned many new words to describe the five senses. Mrs. Kitson read us the book, The Magical Garden of Claude Monet. We looked at many of his paintings. They are beautiful. We are bringing home a 5 senses book. We had a painting kind of day in Kindergarten.
2024-04-08
The Little Red Hen
Today Mrs. Kitson read us the book, The Little Red Hen. We used a mortor and pestle to try to grind the wheat. We made buns. We watched a different video story about The Little Red Hen. We talked about what was different and what was the same about the stories. Mrs. Kitson also read us the book, The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza.Ask me about the stories. We are bringing home The Little Red Hen book. It has a lot of words so you can read it to us. We can read the part that repeats. We like making voices for the characters in the book. We are also bringing home a sequence sheet. We played two fun numeracy games. We are learning how to play fair and how to win and lose. We watched on TV the solar eclipse. We also watched a virtual field trip explaining all about the eclipse. It was a tasty day in Kindergarten.
2024-04-05
Playing Board Games
In the morning we practiced reading our little books. We read books with the vowels, a, e , i , o and u. We are bringing home the book, Rub a Dub. Mrs. Kitson said it is really good to re-read our little books. We made words on our own white boards. We listened for beginning and ending sounds and listened carefully for the vowel sounds. We met a new Kimochi. Her name is Huggtapus. Ask me about our new friend.
2024-04-03
Making our Marble Maze
Today we made our own marble maze. We talked about the different ways to make things move. We talked about what things move when you push and what things move when you pull. We talked about the vowel sound, O. We are bringing home a book. We like to read our books to you at home. We played a math game. We continue to practice subitizing. In the morning a para olympic athlete came and talked to the whole school. Her name is Lisa DeJong. You can see her snowboarding in the video. We touched a silver olympic medal
2024-03-20
Happy Late St. Patrick's Day
Today Gingy sent us an email and told us his leprechaun friend, Larry was late coming to our classroom. He was busy playing with some of Gingy's friends. He left gold coins all over the floor in The Maker Space. He messed up the Maker Space too. He sent us a funny book about a leprechaun that got lost in the school. He also sent us a special treat. We had fun working on special St. Patrick's day activities. We went to the gym and played with the badminton raquets and baloons. It was a happy green day in KIndergarten.