Class photos and retakes!

All boys and girls will be receiving a class photo in their ziplock bags today.  The class photos are free of charge and yours to keep!  If you are needing a photo retake for individual photos, please check off the box RETAKE REQUEST on the order form that you received earlier this week and return to school on retake day.  

PHOTO RETAKES WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH AT 1:00 p.m.

Anyone from the morning class needing a retake will have to come back to school with their child at 1:00 p.m.  Please stop by the office to sign in and they will direct you to the photographer.  If your child comes to Assiniboine Children's Center, try and make arrangements with one of the child care workers to see if they can bring your child for his/her retake at 1:00 p.m.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Mme Godin

Halloween Vocabulary!

Please take some time over the next few weeks to practice the Halloween vocabulary.

HALLOWEEN PARTY!!!

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The boys and girls may wear their Halloween costumes to school on Monday, October 31st.

Please no weapons or plastic princess shoes as we will be playing games (after recess for the morning class and before recess for the afternoon class).  There will be students from grade 5 helping us with our special Halloween games.

I will also take the morning class to show their costumes to a few of the other classes in the school (a mini costume parade).  The afternoon class will participate in a costume parade in the gym at 2:15 p.m.  Any students from the morning class wishing to attend the costume parade may join us with their parents in the gym at 2:15 p.m.

Due to multiple allergies and intolerances in the classroom, students will bring their regular snacks from home for our Halloween party.  THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING!!!

Mme Godin

Important Dates!

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Monday, October 24th:  Music for the afternoon class.

Tuesday, October 25th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!
I will be attending a kindergarten workshop today. The topics we will be discussing are:  Intentional Planned Play-Based Learning and Infusing Nature, Sustainable Development and Indigenous Education through Inquiry.
Mme Pegler will be the substitute teacher.

Wednesday, October 26th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.

Thursday, October 27th:  Music for the morning class.

Friday, October 28th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

This Week In Kindergarten!

This week's Discovery Bins included, pine cones and rocks.  The children were free to explore these materials as they wished.  Some children made patterns, others made shapes and some made faces.

Sorting Halloween erasers.

Building structures for Halloween characters.

More beautiful rock and pine cone creations

The boys and girls continued to build with craft sticks and clothespins.  They made houses and incorporated some Halloween manipulatives to their creations.

Sifting through the sand to find hidden Halloween jewels and pumpkins.

Halloween lacing cards.

Halloween puzzles.

Putting the correct amount of Halloween erasers in the jack'o'lanterns.

What a beautiful house made from craft sticks and clothespins.

Hard at work in our colour booklets.

Le soleil est jaune (the sun is yellow).

One of the resources that we use from the Handwriting Without Tears program are these special magna doodles.

The children are using wooden magnetic pieces to make the letter L.  We repeat the following "grande ligne" (big line), "petite ligne" (small line) when forming letters.

The boys and girls also had to circle upper-case and lower-case Ll's on the SMARTboard.

Printing the letter L in our letter booklets.

Placing the numbers 0 to 10 in order.

The boys and girls drew trees (les arbres) and had to rip small pieces of construction paper to make colourful leaves (les feuilles).

Lloyd made his name out of craft sticks.  Our names begin with a capital letter followed by lower-case letters.

A student from the afternoon class made a haunted house (la maison hantee) with a bat (la chauve-souris), a moon (la lune) and a pumpkin (la citrouille).

Important Dates

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Monday, October 17th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!

Tuesday, October 18th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Early dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

Wednesday, October 19th:  Music for the morning class.

Thursday, October 20th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Friday, October 21st:  Inservice Day (no school).
Teachers across Manitoba will be attending SAGE conferences.  I will be participating in the following workshops:  MAKING PROBLEM SOLVING FUN AND PRIMARY MATH PLAYGROUND.

This Week in Kindergarten!

This week's Discovery Bins, included, putting the lego in order from 1 to 10.  Some children went all the way up to 20.

This little girl was very proud of the task she accomplished.

Creating with clothespins and craft sticks.

The children used their imaginations and created many interesting things.

Lacing cards.

We will continue to further develop this skill over the weeks to come.  There was no heat in the school on Tuesday, so many children kept their coats on.

Building with foam cubes.

Sharing with our friends.

Hard at work in our colour booklets.

Printing the number 1.

Drawing a tree.

We use lines and curves to help teach the children to draw people.

We have spent lots of time exploring the outdoors these past 2 weeks.  "Les feuilles" (leaves)

We noticed that many trees (les arbres) had no leaves.

The afternoon class found a little friend one day.

Les branches (branches) et les feuilles (leaves).

This tree does not have leaves, it has needles (les aguilles).  It stays green in the fall.

The leaves fall to the ground.

We noticed all of the beautiful colours outside in the fall.

Les racines (the roots).

Extending patterns.

We also enjoyed some extra playtime outside.

Going down the slide.

Running with our friends.

The morning class made beautiful fall trees.

The afternoon class made beautiful fall trees.