Winter Concert

WINTER CONCERT.....Take a sneak peak at the Kinders singing at the afternoon performance today!!
See you at 5:30.. concert at 6:00PM






Reminder from the Parent Council

• Pictures with Santa Friday Dec. 4/15
• 5:00-7:00 p.m.
• Large Lunchroom - 2 pics for $5.00

I Love to Read

Today we had an assembly to kick off I Love To Read month. We had a visit from our friends from Boston Pizza. They presented our school library with a cheque for $500 to congratulate Stevenson school for reading so many books last year. Way to go, Stevenson!

Our Kindergrten class performed at the assembly. We did a sound story for "Pete the Cat". The class has been practicing very hard with Ms. Rempel, our music teacher.

Here's the video from our morning assembly to kick off I LOVE TO READ month

We like to share our weekend news. This is what one of our students independently wrote about today to tell us about something that happened this weekend. 

Check out.... how the picture matches the story, people pictures with bodies and clothes, the capital at the beginning, punctuation (!) at the end, finger spaces between words, matching letters to sounds, letters sitting on the lines, /g/ hanging down, and the sight words. 

Winter clothes movie

What do you wear in the winter?  This is what kids from Room 7 had to say about that....



Today we read and discussed this story "Don't Laugh at Me" by Steve Seskin & Allen Shamblin. It has a very powerful lesson about being tolerant of others and treating others with respect... no matter how different they might be from you. Bullying others is not acceptable, and there is no need to laugh at others or call them names! 
A very good book for families to read together and discuss.

  We brainstormed what we know about Kind Kids.  We will add to it as we come up with new ideas.

Sharing time....W is for.... wheels, water bottle, Winnie the Pooh, walkie-talkie

S-A-N-T-A

We have learned a little song called S-A-N-T-A and wanted to share it with you..... 

We spent the afternoon practicing in the gym.... it is our concert day tomorrow!!

  Sharing Time this week..... share  anything you like... just tell us what letter it starts with

Rectangles

Here's a video we took last week of our class singing The Rectangle Song....

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day!  All the lights were turned out in the hallway and classrooms, making it a dark day at school. We spent some of the day outside to take advantage of the natural light. Here we are playing Earth Day bingo.

  We also did some reading and singing outside.

    We also had gym and recess outside!

 We only have one little window in our room, so it is very dark in our class. At the end of the day we found a brighter space to read a couple stories about Earth Day. The elevator area provided just the spot for that!

We also spent a couple periods in the Science Lab. It has nice big windows to let in the sunshine!  Three kids remembered their Sharing today.

  Please do your part to help our Earth!!

Spring Break News

We wanted to share our writing about what we did at Spring Break....and thought we'd try it this way....

   Sharing time ----- something with a secondary colour

Colour songs

We have been singing some colour songs this year. Here are three of them that we wanted to sing for you. Maybe your Kinder child will sing the other ones for you at home!

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We used clear hair gel and food colouring to experiment with another way of mixing colours. It was interesting to watch the colours blend together. Can you guess which 2 primary colours are in each of the bags to create these secondary colours?

   Sharing time today……

Kinder Polka

   Ms. Rempel, the Music teacher, has been busy teaching the Kindergarten classes a new dance. Check out the video on her blog.... Ms. Rempel's blog (click the link).  The first part of the video is from the Room 8 Kinder Class, then the second party of the video is from our class, Room 7.

Ms. Rempel has also posted some other activities that Room 7 has been up to in Music Class. Check out her other blog posts, too!

  Sharing time---------- W is for wand...... can you hear the /w/ sound?     

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Mrs. Grant went to a Kindergarten teachers' meeting in the afternoon so we had a substitute teacher after lunch. We played rhyming Bingo and also practiced our dance with Mrs. Hardy. We will get to perform it at the dance-athon next Wednesday. 

Yesterday baby Jacob and his parents came to visit our classroom. We thought baby Jacob looked bigger than the last time we saw him, and now he can do some new things that he couldn't do when he last visited.  Pictures to follow soon.