Important Dates!

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Monday, February 4th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.

Tuesday, February 5th:  Music for the afternoon class.
Early dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

Wednesday, February 6th:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Thursday, February 7th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Mme Godin is attending a Fine Motor workshop in the morning.  Mme Pegler is the substitute teacher.

Friday, February 8th:  Music for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!
FLASHBACK FRIDAY!  The children may dress up like a person from another decade.

This Week in Kindergarten!

We started off the week with most of our friends at school but as the week progressed and it got colder the classes were smaller and smaller.  Practicing to print the number 5 on Monday.

Printing the letter M and circling all of the upper-case and lower-case Mm's.

We played Winter Bingo.

And spent lots of extra time at discovery centres and play time.

The boys and girls were making letters with transparent jewels.

Using magnetic lines, curves and shapes to make pictures, designs, letters, etc.

Playing a Math game with Mme Scarpino.

All of the boys and girls enjoyed recreating these images with the tangram shapes.

It was fun to watch the children use their imaginations with the magnetic pieces.

Helping out our friends.

We also played lots of interactive games on the SMARTboard.  The boys and girls really enjoyed this patterning game.  Hopefully it warms up over the weekend and we can all get back to our usual routine.

Important Dates!

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Monday, January 28th:  Music for the afternoon class.

Tuesday, January 29th:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Wednesday, January 30th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Mme Godin is attending a Kindergarten Professional Development Workshop in the morning.  Monsieur Blemenschein will be the substitute teacher.

Thursday, January 31st:  Music for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!
Wear your Jets gear or anything blue, white or red to school today!

Friday, February 1st:  Inservice Day (No school for the students!)
Teachers will be attending a division wide professional development session entitled "Challenging Learning" with James Nottingham.

This Week in Kindergarten!

Mme Page was at our school with us for one last week.  She played some games with the children to find the number that comes before and after a given number.

I observed the students working alone to see if they could show me 5 different ways to make the number 5 with our problem solving activity from last week.

The boys and girls also drew a person during Learning Centres this week.

We practiced printing the number 4.

And Mme Page taught us a new game called "Splat!" First, we had to count the number of dots on the SMARTboard.

Then Mme Page clicked on the board to see if we were correct.  The correct answer appeared on the top right corner of the screen.  Together we said:  "3, 2, 1, SPLAT!" and a black blob covered some of the dots.  The children had to figure out how many dots were under the SPLAT.

We were able to check our answer by clicking on the SPLAT to see how many dots were hiding under it.

The children continue to use the Handwriting Without Tears materials to make people.  It is very exciting for me to hear the children name the body parts in French during Play Time.

These boys decided to use the magnetic lines to build a person.

Practicing our letter sounds.

We used the magnetic lines to make the letter N.  We also formed them in the air with our magic pencils and erasers.  Then some of the students came to print on the whiteboard.  And finally everyone printed the letter N in their letter booklets.

Hard at work printing the upper-case N (N majuscule).

Mme Heather from la DREF ( French library for teachers at l'Université de Saint-Boniface) spent the day reading books to the entire school today.

Mme Godin's morning class joined M. Charrette's class to listen to some wonderful stories.

A book about a green monster.

The afternoon class also enjoyed all of the books that Mme Heather shared with us on Thursday.

There were many indoor recesses this week.

On Friday, the boys and girls brought their "stuffies" to school.

The children enjoyed playing with their "stuffies".

Our "stuffies" also went to Phys. Ed. during the afternoon.

They also enjoyed snack time.

As well as creating at the art table.

Winter vocabulary!

Please take some time over the next few weeks to practice the new winter vocabulary (C'est l'hiver).

Important Dates!

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Monday, January 21st:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Tuesday, January 22nd:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Early dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

Wednesday, January 23rd:  Music for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!

Thursday, January 24th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Friday, January 25th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Today is "Lazy Day"  The boys and girls should wear comfortable clothes (we always do) and let's get cozy by bringing a STUFFED ANIMAL to school.

This Week in Kindergarten!

Hard at work on Monday morning, practicing to print the letter H correctly.

The boys and girls also circled all of the upper-case and lower-case Hh's on other side of the printing page.

Mme Page has been in our classroom all week.  We took the opportunity to divide the class into two groups to do some problem solving activities.

The boys and girls had to wait patiently for their turn to print their names on the paper.

The problem that Mme Godin's groups were solving consisted of finding different combinations of mittens.

If there were 5 mittens in the Lost and Found box, how many could be purple and how many could be pink. 

Mme Page was teaching the children about ordinal numbers (premier, deuxième, troisième, quatrième et cinquième), first, second, third, fourth and fifth.

Mme Godin also taught the boys and girls a card game.  Don't roll the number 6 on the die or you have to put a card back in the middle of the pile.

The children took turns solving the problem using fun foam mittens and demonstrated their learning by colouring the mittens on the paper.

They had to look carefully at their friend's response so that they could find a different way of showing their answer (4 purple mittens and 1 pink mitten, 2 purple mittens and 3 pink mittens, 5 pink mittens and 0 purple mittens, etc.)

Mme Jewers, our school division's occupational therapist gave a pencil grip demonstration on Thursday.

Some of the childcare workers from Assiniboine Children's Centre and Discovery Daycare joined us for this special presentation.

The boys and girls were taught a trick to hold their pencil correctly and they used special flip crayons to trace rainbow lines.  We also learned a song to help us hold our pencils correctly.  Mme Godin will translate the song into French over the weekend.

Spirit Fridays (and one Thursday)!

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Just a reminder that the grade 5 "Student Voice" has planned special dress up days for the next few weeks.  A note was sent home with your child last week.

This Friday, January 18th is Book Character Day!  Your child may dress up as a character from a favourite book.

Friday, January 25th:  Lazy Day!  The children may wear their most comfortable clothes to school today.  (NO PYJAMAS!)  They may also bring a stuffed animal to school.

Thursday, January 31st:  Jets Day!  The boys and girls may wear their Jets gear or wear something that is blue, red or white.

Friday, February 8th:  Flashback Friday!  The children may dress up like a person from their favourite decade.

Thursday, February 21st:  The boys and girls may dress up as a Voyageur (more information to follow).

  If your child is not comfortable dressing up for some of these Spirit Days, they do not need to.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Mme Godin