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Wednesday, May 6

2009-05-06T16:03:00.003-06:00

I think we finally have the calendar figured out! Please have a look at your child's revised calendar that came home in their Blue Books today. May is such a busy month and the scheduling has been hectic but I think it is all sorted out now. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions about the activities taking place in May.
Just a reminder to all the mom's! We will be having a tea in your honor on Monday the 11th. Mark your calendars to be there as it will be a lot of fun.

2009-04-15T16:32:00.001-06:00

Just wanted to thank Mr. Lunty and Mr. Swaren for being such good sports and letting the kids jump all over them. At one point I heard a student say "This is my BEST year ever" as they were playing with dads!

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

2009-04-15T16:26:00.002-06:00

What a fun day! We had our first session with Trickster and the kids had a ball! We worked with Cari to learn our script and actions for the Friday night performance. Our story revolves around Easter and rabbits visiting our room. To find out more, you'll have to come the final show. It is at 7pm here at the school in the gym. We worked on printing numbers 7 and 8. All through the year we have been printing all the numbers but now we are fine tuning all the details. In math we are starting to explore the concept of more and less by comparing quantities. After a break enjoying the fresh air, we printing Mr. Rr. I hope everyone had a great Easter and is ready to get back into the swing of things. Just a reminder that all the kids have school on Friday with Mrs. McMahon!

April 8, 2009

2009-04-08T16:11:00.002-06:00

Holy, I can't believe we are in April already and I didn't post anything in March! I'm sorry!
Today was a busy one. We started the morning with our usual routine and then added some Easter excitement by making rice krispie nests with our Grade 3 buddies. Eating the nests and the chocolate eggs was definitely the highlight. We met Mr. R who likes to "rip rubber elastics".

After enjoying the beautiful weather at recess we headed downtown to the Public Library for Story time. They have been so generous to invite us down for a great reading and sharing program. Once back, the new hit in our room is the workshop. With the money donated at Christmas time, we bought a number of power tools for the kids to enjoy!

I can't believe it will be a week before we see each other again but I hope everyone has a Happy Easter and a great long weekend!
P.S Ask your kindergarten student to do the Easter Bunny Hokey Pokey with you for some fun over the holidays.

Pink Shirt Day!

2009-02-25T17:10:00.004-07:00

Pink Shirt day was a success!! The hallway in the morning looked like a sea of pink. Once we were done admiring everyone's pink clothes we moved on to learning our new letter person! Today we met Mr. Gg. Mr. G has gooey gum in his hair and may very well be a cousin to Mr. J as we learned when we were making our word web. Due to the cold weather we decided not to go skating and instead had an afternoon filled with library, BINGO and a Kindness assembly.
We talked about what a Bully is and what you can do if someone is bullying you. You should be very proud of your children as we had over 150 entries in our Random Acts of Kindness draw. As most of you know, the field trip to TH Ranch on Friday has been rescheduled until March 13. Have a great evening!

February 23, 2009

2009-02-23T15:57:00.002-07:00

Sorry it has been so long since my last post! We had an exciting day today. We reviewed all of the letters we had learned up until now and did some more exploring around the letter Dd. Everyone did a great job of printing both upper and lower case letter D. After snack, we worked on our letter recognition by splitting into two groups to play BINGO. Your children are doing such an fabulous job of learning how to sign on to the computers. After only two times on our own in the computer lab, they are able to get themselves signed in. The Grade 3 class was kind enough to let us join them in the Big Gym where we got to play games that they had invented. The kindergarten kids had a great time.
**Just some reminders for Wednesday. They have moved our hot lunch to this day and it is also Pink Shirt Day. Your kids will have notes to explain each of these events more fully. Have a nice evening.

February 9, 2009

2009-02-09T17:48:00.002-07:00

We had a great day in Kindergarten today. We learned about the letter Ll. Mr. L has Lovely Lemondrops on his shirt. In the afternoon we headed down to the computer lab to learn how to sign in with our "super secret" passwords. We spent some time in Tux Paint where the kids has a lot of fun designing art work and discovering how the program worked. The day ended with exploring the classroom with magnifying glasses.

Wednesday, January 29, 2009

2009-01-28T16:10:00.003-07:00

PJ Pattern Party was a success!! Our grade 3 buddies joined us in the morning to make pattern necklaces with Fruit Loops and string licorice. Then they helped us play alphabet BINGO. The afternoon saw skating, Pattern Party Popcorn and center time. We are currently working on letter Uu. Miss U has an umbrella! It would be great if you could point out words around your house that start with the letter U! Report cards went home with your kids today. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Have a great weekend!

Friday, January 23, 2009

2009-01-23T15:45:00.002-07:00

Today was a good one! I got to teach today as Mrs. McMahon is still out with a back injury. Mrs. Sveahun and I had a great day with the kids. We were able to spend some time in the computer room with the Grade 3 kids and while half of us were doing that the other half did a winter craft. The afternoon was spent playing soccer and trying to set a world record. The entire elementary was spit up into 5 groups. Each group had to read 5 Robert Munsch books in the same order in 30 minutes. We had some fabulous guest readers who would have done Robert Munsch proud. I hope everyone has a great weekend and we'll be back on Monday.

January 14, 2009

2009-01-14T16:02:00.003-07:00

Hello! Today was a great day in Kindergarten. We finished up our printing of the Letter Ii. The rest of the morning was consumed by a science experiment about icebergs. We froze water balloons on Monday and then peeled off the plastic. We put our "icebergs" in an aquarium to see how much of the ice was on top of the water and how much was below. The kids all predicted that the ice would sink but much to their amazement, it floated.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

2009-01-07T15:42:00.003-07:00

Happy New Year!! I hope everyone's holiday was great and that Santa was good to you all. January looks to be a busy month. Lots to learn and it sounds like we will be skating once a week. In school today we reviewed the letters we had learned up until now and introduced letter Ii. Miss I has itchy skin because she has chicken pox. We talked about New Year's, made 2009 hats and counted down to the new year. The afternoon saw us at library and then reflecting on the best part of 2008. All of the kids have school on Friday with Mrs. McMahon and our newsletter and calendar will go home on Monday.

December 17, 2008

2008-12-17T16:03:00.002-07:00

Merry Christmas!! Today was the last day of kindergarten before the holidays and it was full of Christmas Fun! We started the day off in the typical way and right before lunch Mrs. Fink brought in a Gingerbread house to be decorated. We worked on printing the letter Ee. For the small letter e we talked about playing baseball. You start by hitting the ball straight out and then you start running the bases 1, 2, 3. You have to make sure that second base touches the straight line. The afternoon started with library followed by a surprise craft that you parents will be receiving today. Then on with the party.........
I hope you and your family have an excellent holiday season and we will see you at the Christmas Concert and then on January 7, 2009!

December 10, 2008

2008-12-10T16:07:00.000-07:00

Big day today! We met with our Grade Three buddies in the computer room to explore some Christmas activities that were on Mrs. Coutt's website. If you get a chance, check it out. It is great! After lunch, we headed out on a field trip to the Public Library for their Christmas Story time. Once we had finished reading, the kids got a chance to decorate a huge Christmas card. We have added Mrs. Claus's kitchen and Santa's Workshop to our center circuit. They are hugely popular and the kids are having a blast. I hope this entry finds you well on your way to completing your Christmas preparations.

December 8, 2008

2008-12-08T16:25:00.000-07:00

Today in Kindergarten we met the Miss E. She likes to exercise! You may have noticed that the letter A was also a Miss. The vowel letters are Miss and the other letters are Mr. We colored Miss E and put her in our Alphabet Books. On Wednesday we will work on printing upper and lower case letter Ee. After lunch we learned about Madison's favorite things as she was our really great person. Then we focused on introducing the number three. Although most of the children are able to recognize with ease the numbers 1-5, I am working with having them see the number many different ways. We saw it in dots on dice and made the shape in play doh and with Wikki sticks.
Just a reminder to send your child's hat with them to school as soon as possible for the Christmas concert. They do not have to be purchased. Any hat from home would do just fine.
I hope everyone has a great evening.

December 3, 2008

2008-12-03T16:00:00.000-07:00

December 3 and we finally have a little bit of snow (and a cold wind to go with it). Today we focused on printing on the upper and lowercase Bb. Everyone seemed to have a really good grasp on it. We reviewed our numbers 1-10 and practised counting up to 10 and back down to 10. If you get a chance to practise with your child, have them count to 10 starting at a number other than 1 and the same with counting backwards. This really reinforces number fluency. A art project was sent home to be decorated with whatever you can find around the house. I am working on the interim reports to be sent home with your child next week so keep and eye out for them in the Blue Books! Have a great weekend everyone!

December 1, 2008

2008-12-01T15:57:00.001-07:00

We kicked off December in good fashion! After review the letters we have learned already:
Mr. T has tall teeth
Mr. M has a munching mouth
Mr. N has a noisy nose
Miss. A goes AAACHHOOO
Mr. H has horrible hair
Mr. F has funny feet
we learned about Mr. B who has beautiful buttons. There was lots of singing new winter songs today and we started practising for the Christmas Concert (Wednesday, December 17 at 7:00 in the Community Hall). New calendars and newsletters went home today as well as permission forms that must be returned by Wed. December 3.

Wednesday, November 26

2008-11-26T15:47:00.000-07:00

A beautiful day outside and a very productive day inside! Today we reviewed all of our letters M, N, F, T, A and H. In math we used unifix cubes and dice to reinforce recognition of numbers 1-5 and then played go fish again using numbers 1-5. After library we had an Expect Respect assembly with the rest of the Elementary School. Miranda and Austin were in the spotlight for demonstrating caring behaviour.

Monday, November 24

2008-11-26T12:59:00.000-07:00

Today was a great day! We continued learning about the letter A. Printing the lower case a proved to be a little tricky. We had a lot of fun at our math tables. Number 2 was the star number and we made 2 out of marshmallows, wiki stick, playdough and traced the number 2 with crayons and in pudding bags. The kids loved hearing about how they got their names in Social.

Welcome to Koolkinderkids

2008-11-23T20:45:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!
This has been a long time coming and I hope it will give you some insight as to what your children and I spend our day doing.
I am striving to write a short message on it everyday after school. Of course there will be days when I run out of time but I hope to update it as soon as I can.
Here's to trying out this new technology!!
Sincerely,
Jill Price