Time flies when learning is fun!

This week we have seen a lot of interest in Dinosaurs and in Ice and Snow.

The dinosaur research team has been investigating what the world may have been like for dinosaurs and creating a "Dinosaur World" in our sensory bin.

We looked at books about dinosaurs that we found in the school library or that friends brought from home.

We made a list of all of the things we thought our dinosaur world should have.

We started to use materials from the art studio to create the trees and plants that the plant eating dinosaurs would need. We looked at at cone and used it to help us make a volcano. We saw the circle shape on the base and cut a circle from paper which we wrapped around itself to make our cone shaped volcano. We use lots of glue and tissue paper to make the outside of our volcano rough like rocks on the surface of a mountain.

After the glue dried we started to paint it to look like rocks and dirt. We mixed colours and some of us noticed we "invented" a new colour that we had never seen. It was a mix of brown, grey and black and we tried to create a name for our new colour. "Brack"

We have experimented with snow and ice and wondered about how long it would take to melt. We collected snow from outside last week and left it to melt over night. We saw a lot of dirt left behind in the bucket of water. It was a great reminder not to eat the snow that was on the ground! Yuck!

We melted ice cubes and used salt to make ice cubes stick together. We had fun watching the ice slip around like "skaters"

Winter Day and Hockey Jersey Day

Thursday January 15th (tomorrow) will be Hockey Jersey or Winter Day.  Students are invited to support a favourite hockey team, their own hockey team or to dress in cool /cold winter colours.

We talked about what colours make us feel cold or cool and looked at some winter pictures. We saw blue, grey, purple, silver, and white in the pictures and thought those colours would be good choices to wear.

We are looking forward to a fun day celebrating school spirit!

Welcome!

  Hello families,

Happy New Year and welcome back to school. We hope you enjoy this addition to our kindergarten program and it allows you to take a look through our window into the learning happening in our classroom. We will also post classroom and school reminders here as well. A note asking your preferences for checking/receiving notifications about new blog posts will come home Monday. If you choose to subscribe to our blog you will receive email notifications when new posts have been added. 

We are excited to start this new portion of our journey and hope that it can be the beginning of conversations at home about learning taking place at school.

Sorting our garbage.

Reading with friends

Sorting and counting buttons