Lucie Lutin!

Bonjour les amis!  Look who Mme Godin found sitting in her Christmas tree when I went to put the Christmas lights on early this morning.  It's Lucie Lutin!  She wanted to let you know that there is only 1 more sleep until Christmas!

I hope that you and your families all have a MAGICAL CHRISTMAS SEASON!!!

Mme Godin

This Week in Kindergarten!

On Monday, the boys and girls wore something white to school.

They also made these very special snowmen.

The top snowball was for the head and the other snowballs were for each letter in your child's name.  Some snowmen were very tall and others very short.

On Tuesday, we wore something green to school.

This little girl even had a special green Christmas tree made with elastics in her hair.

The children decorated green Christmas trees (les arbres de Noël verts).

The afternoon class wearing green.

The boys and girls were able to decorate their trees with buttons, feathers, stickers and jewels.

On Wednesday, we all wore red to school.

The afternoon class counting down the sleeps until Christmas during Calendar Time.

The children made red Santas (les pères Noël rouges).

We spent lots of time creating special crafts this week.  We also did some Christmas themed activities on the SMARTboard.

Putting the pictures in sequential order to show us the steps needed to make cookies.

We also played Tic-tac-toe.  The boys and girls are getting much better at using strategies to block their friends in order to win.

The students decorated reindeer antlers at the start of the week. They were ready to be made into crowns on Friday morning. The children also had a variety of games and activities to choose from on this special last day of school before the winter break. There were Christmas puzzles on some of the tables.

A large Christmas tic-tac-toe.

Smaller tic-tac-toe games.

Roll a Christmas tree.

Christmas bingo.

Printing "Joyeux Noel" (Merrry Christmas) with stamps and red ink.

Throwing snowballs in the snowman's mouth or stomach.

Jingle bell toss.

Pin the carrot nose on the snowman.

The ingredients for our magic reindeer food.

The children had to guess behind which ten-frame the Christmas ball was hidden.

Taking turns mixing the reindeer food.

Making Christmas cards.

Who will win, "le pere Noel or Nez-Rouge?"

Throwing the jingle bells into the tree made of cups.

Trying to be the first to get all of the parts to build a Christmas tree.

The afternoon class mixing the magic reindeer food.

Bingo.

Tic-tac-toe.

Helping our friends.

Trying to get all 5 jingle bells in the cups.

The boys and girls were very busy and enjoyed all of the different activities.

The afternoon class only discovered Lucie Lutin after recess.  She was hiding in the bathroom with a small gift for all of the students.  There are only 4 more sleeps until Christmas!

Lucie Lutin!

Lucie Lutin was hanging onto the globe today.  She told us that Santa would be delivering presents all around the world very soon!  There are only 5 more sleeps until Christmas!!!

Lucie Lutin!

Lucie was sitting with Santa on a balance scale today.  The boys and girls decided that Santa was heavier than Lucie.  She asked us to sing "Le père Nöel" with her.  There are only 6 more sleeps until Christmas!!!

Lucie Lutin!

Lucie Lutin was hanging from the bulletin board under a big green and red hat.  She wanted to know if we were all wearing green today?  Lucie's hat, scarf, mittens and shoes are all green.  There are only 7 more sleeps until Christmas!!!

Lucie Lutin!

Wow!  Lucie Lutin was very busy last night.  She made a beautiful snowman craft with all of the letters in her name on each snowball.  Lucie still had Mme Godin's black marker in her hand.  All of the boys and girls made a name snowman as well.  There are only 8 more sleeps until Christmas!!!

Lucie Lutin!

We were quite surprised to find Lucie Lutin's message to us up on the SMARTboard.  Our sneaky little elf was sitting way up high on the projector.  She was very happy that today was Friday.  We wonder what she will be up to on Monday?  There are only 11 more sleeps until Christmas!!!

Important Dates!

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Monday, December 17th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
Wear something white to school today.  We will be making a snowman craft.

Tuesday, December 18th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Wear something green to school today.  We will be making a Christmas tree craft.
Early dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

Wednesday, December 19th:  Music for the afternoon class.
Wear something red to school today.  We will be making a Santa craft.

Thursday, December 20th:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Friday, December 21st:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Wear something brown or beige to school today.  We will be making magic reindeer food and reindeer antlers.

This Week in Kindergarten!

This second last week of school consisted of lots and lots of practicing for our Winter Concert!  I am sure that you are all very proud of your children.  They did an amazing job!!!

Mme Jewers, our school division's occupational therapist came to do a scissor demonstration for both kindergarten classes.

She taught the students a poem to remember how to hold their scissors correctly and we played a cutting game.  "Two fingers on the bottom, my thumb is at the top.  Open up the mouth and CHOP, CHOP, CHOP!"

Counting sets of Christmas objects and practicing to print the numbers correctly.

Tic-tac-toc!

The art table continues to be one of the most popular centres during play time.

Matching letters on Santa's beard.

Creating at the block centre after the afternoon concert on Wednesday.

Putting together some large floor puzzles.

Building with the large lego.

Mme Godin added lots of jingle bells to the magna tile centre.

And lots of cookie decorating!

We ended our week making Santa puzzles!  One more week of school and it is WINTER BREAK!!!