Gym and Mat Man

This morning we had gym class before lunch. I stopped by the gym and snapped a few candid photos of the Kindergarten classes.

We have been learning about "Mat Man" this week. We have learned to include a body, along with the arms, legs, head, face.......

.......... no more drawings of arms and legs sticking out of the head!!!

....Building mat man on the Smart Board

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!!!!!

Rainbow Names

This is how the rainbow names turned out. Everyone did an awesome job with their names. We also counted how many letters were in our names and how many  parts (syllables) each person has in their names. 

        Here's a few more photos from the first day of school....

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At Stevenson School, we believe that fun, quality literature fosters a life long love of reading. Please help us fill our library with books that will impact every child in our school. Know that Stevenson staff and students are grateful for your help.

We Share (Almost) Everything...

Today we read the story We Share Everything, by Robert Munsch.  We thought it was pretty funny!  Then we put on our "thinking hats" and thought about things that we DO share in Kindergarten and also things that we DO NOT want to share in Kindergarten.  We talked a lot about germs and how they can be spread. 

(Parents:  We still have many kids who need reminders to wash their hands after using the bathroom......please help your child develop the habit of always washing their hands after using the toilet! Thanks)....

We like playing at Lite Brite.

This purple sand is pretty cool!

"Listening to Reading"

Music

Today was our second music class. Our music teacher's name is Ms. Rempel.  We go to music every Day 5 and Day 6. It is a lot of fun in music class. Ms. Rempel also has a music blog. Check it out here -- Ms. Rempel's music blog  or you can find it also by clicking on the  Site We Like Page at the top of this blog.

We start off our mornings by signing in on the Smart Board.

For now, we are learning to find our own name from the mixture of names, and then sort our name into the circle for the "boy group" or the "girl group".

OUR job today helped develop our fine motor skills. We had to rip up paper into little pieces.......

...... and then glue the paper onto letters of our name. 

After finishing our job, each person got to dig around in the treasure chest and look for a little treasure!!!

Centres

We started off the day with a school wide assembly today. We listened to the announcements from Ms. Couch, sang O'Canada, and watched the video of our school song. 

We had fun at centres today!  While we were playing, we were also learning how to .....co-operate, share, listen to our friends, take turns speaking, work together, speak in an "inside voice", be respectful and keep our hands and body to ourself,  etc. ............. We were also  working on developing fine-motor skills, pencil skills, literacy and numeracy skills, and the list goes on and on and on........

Welcome to Kindergarten!!

We had a very busy - and wonderful- first day of school!
We learned all about "CHECK 5" (ask your child to teach you, too). We had recess, centre time, storytime, sang some songs and fingerplays, and more!  Check out the photos..... they each tell a story!

Arriving at school for the first day!!!

Learning how to line up ....... then going for a tour of the school.

One more sleep until the first full day of Kindergarten!!!

Welcome to Kindergarten!!!

It was nice meeting some of our new students today. I look forward to meeting some more tomorrow.

First full day of classes is on Friday, September 6th. Looking forward to our new group of Kinders. We currently have 23 students registered in this class.