Halloween Party

We enjoyed a great party! Thank you volunteers for assisting in the classroom and sending in our party food.
Monday, November 2 - letter P - Reid, Salah, Jasper and Max

Pumpkin Carving

Please remember to wear your costume for our Pumpkin party to school tomorrow. As we have lots of great food for our party, you do not need to send a snack to school.

Today, we sequenced the story Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington. Everyone cut out six pictures, and glued them in sequence for how a pumpkin seed grows into a big pumpkin. 

 

Monday, October 26th

Letter of the Week - Ii
Please remember to wear your costume to school this Thursday, for our Pumpkin Party!
PD Day this Friday October 30th, so no school for students.

Pumpkin Party

On Thursday, October 29th the Kindergarten class will be having a Pumpkin Party. We have some exciting pumpkin activities planned for our special day. This year, our students will be decorating a cookie and enjoying some healthy, party food. Students are welcome to come in costume, but please keep it practical for the school environment. No weapons of any sort, please!

October 23

This week we carved a two pumpkins for our class Jack-o'-lanterns. As we worked we discussed shapes and the parts of a pumpkin. Today, we labeled the parts of a pumpkin and I am so impressed with everyone's growing innitial letter sounds! For snack we enjoyed some yummy pumkin seeds that Joanne our parent volunteer made for us. Our snack lead right into our story about seeds and our search for seeds outside. Everyone was able to find seeds, which we collected for further study in the classroom. We finished off our FAF with some time on the playground, which was a lot of fun!

This week letter T

Today, we shared our objects that started with the letter 'T'.  Next we learned how to draw pictures of our letter 'T' objects and sounded out the words so that we could print them. Our printing practice for letter formation went well.
Always start your letter from the top!
Tomorrow is Treat Day, so please remember to bring your 25 cents.

October 16th

Fabulaous morning!
Great time at Big Centers!
We had a lesson at the amphlitheater in Whispering Woods about weeds. Tessa from the Calgary Zoo taught us how to identify weeds and how to dig them up and pull them out. Everyone did a great job of identifying weeds and digging them out. We put them in a composting bag.

Our First Fire Drill!

We had our first fire drill today! We did an excellent job of lining up quietly (despite the very loud alarm) and lining up to walk outside to our meeting place. 

Computer class is going well where we are getting better at logging off and on our desktop computers. We have our assigned computers in the learning commons.  Star fall is a fun way to practice our literacy and numeracy skills. Our buddies from the portable and room four are very helpful in helping us to learn how to use a desk top computer.

Today we received our own mini backpacks and mugs for our FAF's! A big than you to our Dr. Coffin parent council for sponsoring this fantastic idea for our adventures outside!

FAF October 9th

We went outside on a scavenger hunt. We were looking for fall artifacts. We found prickly bushes and plants, crabapples, pinecones and colorful leaves. Some leaves were still green.
We ran outside on the field and then we had snack.
Finally we enjoyed exploring some new 'big centers' such as Home Living and trains.
Happy Thanksgiving!

October 8, 2015

We have an enjoyed a great week of getting into our 'Letter of the Week' routine.  Our first Fun Lunch is on Thursday, October 22. Kindergarten students who are staying at school for Fun Lunch will need to be picked up at the kindergarten door at 12:15 pm. Today, we gave each student their Fun Lunch order form. Please ensure that your son/daughter returns their order in a labelled envelope or that the money is attached to the order by October 16th. Your son/daughter is more than welcome to bring their own lunch on Fun Lunch day as an alternative to the pizza lunch.
Tomorrow is F.A.F. so please dress for the weather.

October 2 Fresh Air Friday

Today, Kindergarten really enjoyed their time outside! We followed up our lesson from yesterday about the parts of a tree. We looked at the trees outside and identified their roots, trunk, branches, leaves/needles, bark and fruit (pine cones and crab apples). Next we sketched the Ornamental Crab Tree at the front of our school. Our students sketched excellent, detailed pictures of our tree!

Our Terry Fox run was a great success! Kindergarten ran 190 laps which contributed to the Dr. Coffin's total laps.
1058!
To date we have raised $1500.00. We are getting close to our goal of 2015.00. Donations will be collected until Friday, October 2nd.

Thank you to all of our helpers!

Tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday or FAF so please dress for the weather. Kindergarten has just started our study of Trees. Let's see what we learn about our trees in our outdoor spaces. Please note that we are not venturing into Whispering Woods as we are trying to avoid the wasps in the area.