Remembrance Day vocabulary!

A short Remembrance Day slideshow (le jour du souvenir).

Important Dates!

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Monday, November 11th:  Remembrance Day! (No school!)
                         Le jour du souvenir!  

Tuesday, November 12th:  Music for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please remember all library books!
Just a reminder that both groups 1 and 2 may bring Show and Tell for this week because of the long weekend.

Wednesday, November 13th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
TIA with Monsieur Joseph for both the morning and afternoon classes.  The children are encouraged to bring a water bottle to school for this activity.

Thursday, November 14th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.

Friday, November 15th:  Music for the afternoon class.TIA with Monsieur Joseph for both the morning and afternoon classes.  The children are encouraged to bring a water bottle to school for this activity.
Spirit Day - "Cozy Day"!  The boys and girls may bring a stuffed toy to school.  Please remember your child's stuffy must be small enough to fit in his/her backpack.

This Week in Kindergarten!

On Monday, we started our Hip-Hop classes with Monsieur Joseph.

He told us that we were SUPER HEROES IN TRAINING.

We have 4 super hero powers.

Number 1 is laser focus - making quick eye contact with the teacher.

Number 2 - Listening ears (we have the ability to change our ears into tall rabbit ears or large elephant ears in order to listen carefully to instructions).

Number 3 - Copycat skills - copying exactly what Monsieur Joseph does.

And number 4 - Statue (we jump, put our feet together, hands to our sides and we can hide in plain sight of everyone).

This was a mindfulness activity (breathing in and out for four counts lasting 3 minutes).

Copying Monsieur Joseph's moves.

We also did some isolation activities, focusing on a different body part each time.

Free style dance.

More isolation activities.

Playing the X and O elimination game.

Our next two sessions will take place on Wednesday, November 13 and Friday the 15th.  You may send a water bottle to school with your child on these days as we are working very hard.

Last week we painted paper plates.  This week we ripped small pieces of black construction paper to make beautiful poppies (les coquelicots).

The morning class' poppies.

The afternoon class' poppies.

Using our Handwriting Without Tears materials in preparation to begin our letter printing booklet.

We also used these materials to make a person and learned a new song so that we don't forget any body parts when drawing a person.

Encouraging the students by reminding them that if we can draw lines and curves we can draw a person.

The morning class hard at work drawing a person.

And the afternoon class drawing a person.

Our first "Spirit Day" was colour day.  It was fun to see everyone wearing blue.

The afternoon class all in blue wearing their poppies (les coquelicots).

Important Dates!

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Monday, November 4th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
The Integrated Arts for both the morning and the afternoon class.  The fall artist at our school is dancer, Joseph Sevillo.  The children will have 3 sessions over the next few weeks learning all about Hip-Hop dancing!

Tuesday, November 5th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Early dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

PHOTO RETAKE DAY:  I sent a note to my morning class in regards to retakes which will take place at 12:45 p.m.  Parents of morning students wanting a retake will have to stop at the school  office and they will direct you to the photographer. Don't forget to check off the Retake request on the order form if you are needing a photo retake.

Wednesday, November 6th:  Music for the afternoon class.

Thursday, November 7th:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Friday, November 8th:  Inservice Day (No school for students!)

This Week in Kindergarten!

We started off the week trying to match the jack'o'lanterns (les feux follets).  We had to look carefully at the eyes (les yeux), the noses (les nez) and the mouths (les bouches).

Practicing our cutting skills.  The children had to cut the jack'o'lanterns and glue them in order from the smallest (petit) to the biggest (grand).

Playing some Halloween math games on the SMARTboard.

Identifying numbers on dice, 10 frames and fingers.

A game to help us name all of the colours in French.

The boys and girls had to count sets of objects and put an X on the set that had more than (plus que).

Setting up the Halloween centres on Thursday morning.

A bean bag toss.

Tic Tac Toe!

A build a monster game.

A math game with spider rings.

Another tic-tac-toe.

And yet another one.

And lastly Halloween Bingo.

The children were very eager to start playing games after recess.

Having so much fun playing with friends.

Almost got the bean bag in the ghost's mouth.

Throwing rats in the numbered jack'o'lantern bins.

Throwing hoops on the witch hats.

The player with the most spider rings wins the game.

And the afternoon class playing Halloween games.

Lots of fun was had by all!!!

Counting spiders.

Another tic-tac-toe game with a friend.

How many hoops can Batman get to land on the hats?

Where should I go play now?

The morning class walked from class to class to show their costumes to the other students and the afternoon class had a costume parade in the gym.  We all had a great time!

Please remember to check all labels when sending treats for snacks!!!  It is okay to send a small Halloween treat with your child's regular healthy snack, just no suckers or hard candies.