The students are getting very good at saying the French Fall words and acting them out. Please ask them to show you the words citrouille, pomme, rateau, je saute dans les feuilles, ecureuil.
Some students made fall pictures out of pegs.

Some students pretended to plant pumpkin seeds in our pumpkin patch, watered them and are waiting to see them grow!

I liked making a safe place place for our block person.

I liked couloring a leaf picture, by rolling the dice and coloring the matching number.

I liked making pumpkin in the playdough centre.

I liked working on the paper mache pumpkin.

I liked eating snack!

I liked playing outside at recess.

I liked playing at the train set.

I liked making turkeys.

I liked making puzzles.

First Learning Commons Visit

This morning, we went to the Learning Commons to take out one book to bring home. We can keep it at home for one week. We will return to the Learning Commons next Tuesday. Please return the book next Monday in the ziploc bag provided. Thank you Miss Rose for helping us scan our books out!

We started making papier mache pumpkins. Some of us are very sticky! 

We have new playdough today! Thank you to our parents who are providing us with fresh playdough. The students love it! They think it smells very good!

We are adding to the pumpkin patch. We will post pictures later!

This afternoon we went to the gym for a <Caught You Caring> Assembly. We listened very well!

Students' comments from today's activities:

I liked cutting a pumpkin. (craft)

I liked playing at the playdough center.

I liked making the papier mache pumpkins.

I made pretend chocolate with the playdough.

I liked playing outside at recess.

I like the lite-brite - I made <un arbre>.

I liked going to the library.

I looked for treasure in the sand at recess.

Reminders: Please return the pink Terry Fox permission forms. Thank you!

Playdough Recipe

Playdough Recipe                                                     

 

Ingredients

1 cup of flour

1/2 cup of salt

2 tbsp. of cream of tartar

1 tbsp. of oil – not sesame or peanut oil

Food colouring

1 cup of boiling water

Directions

Mix all ingredients except the boiling water together into a large mixing bowl.

Add the boiling water and mix well. (Note, the food colouring will mix in better if added to the boiling water.) Please take care when using boiling water around children.

Stir well until the mixture is well combined.

Roll it out on a flat surface and you are ready for some playdough FUN!

***Please note: Due to a rainy forecast for tomorrow, the Terry Fox Run has been moved to October 6th, with a rain date of October 8th.***

For Mystery Monday, we looked at some poppy seed pods from Mme Chantal's parents' garden. The students were very good at guessing that they were from flowers.  This lead to an early discussion about Remembrance Day and how poppies grew in fields after the war. Once again the students suggested that we should plant the seeds! We also talked about plants needing water, sun and soil. Now, we have not had much luck with any of our plantings so far so we have decided to only plant half of the poppy seeds and keep the other half to plant in the Spring, just in case...

We will be changing our Dramatic Play Area to a pumpkin patch this week. We had a brainstorming session to figure out what we would see in a pumpkin patch.  The students decided we needed to include a scarecrow, some pumpkins and gardening tools. We are looking for old Daddy/Grandpa/uncle clothes to dress our scarecrow. We will be making paper mache pumpkins so we would also appreciate old newspapers or flyers. Thank you so much!

Here are some new learning centers we explored today:

Here are our Pumpkin Patch signs - citrouilles a vendre!

Some of the students' comments from today's activities:

- I liked playing in the pumpkin patch.
- I liked making the turkey.
- I liked playing in the water center.
- I liked the playdough.
- I liked playing outside at recess.
- I liked making a pumpkin with the Lite-Brite.
- I liked playing with my friend outside.
- I'm excited about making a scarecrow in the classroom.
- I liked making the pumpkin patch.
- I liked playing in the gym.
- I liked looking at books, sitting on the couch!
- I liked playing with the trains.

Apples, apples everywhere!

Our class smells like a cozy kitchen with this wonderful apple sauce cooking. We all had a chance to turn the handle on the apple peeler. Some students helped with the measuring cups and spoons. Thank you for bringing in so many apples! The apple sauce is delicious! La compote de pommes est délicieuse!

Apple Sauce Recipe                                                       

20 apples

1 cup sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

2 cups water

2 tablespoons lemon juice

Thank you to everyone who attended last night`s Program Night. 

You will find the Terry Fox Run pink permission slip in your child`s communication book tonight.

Please sign it and return as soon as possible.

Here are the students`comments from today`s activities:

I liked doing yoga in the library.

I liked the apple sauce.

I liked building a reading castle.

I liked making the apple sauce.

I liked playing Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

I had fun at school.

I liked delivering apple sauce to the teachers, Mme Parent and Mrs. Hoban.

I liked playing at the space station.

Here is our reading castle:

Have a great weekend!

We had a busy day in Kindergarten. It was our gym day and we played ball and hockey with pool noodles. We had a fun time on the climber and in the sand. We read many books. We worked very hard to get our class ready for our parents' visit tonight.

Tomorrow, we are making apple sauce, don't forget to bring your apple!

Students' comments:

I made a leaf.
I played at the playdough.
I played the dice game.
I liked drawing pictures.
I liked painting.
I liked playing with the car on the blocks.
I used pastels on the brown paper.
I put stars on the constellations on the light table.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015

We have been very busy building with blocks today! We made houses, tunnels, ramps and roads.

We have also been extending Fall patterns:

We also did a lot of painting! You will probably see those beautiful paintings at home soon!

We made up a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom game with gears, magnetic letters and the book.

We also listened to a beautiful story called "Tap the Magic Tree" and made our own magic trees!

Here are some of the students' comments from today:

I liked painting.

I liked playing with the blocks. I made a house.

I liked colouring my magic tree.

I liked playing at the playdough centre.

I painted an apple tree.

I painted peaceful music!

I made patterns!

I liked doing other crafts.

I played with the train set and the blocks.

I painted a heart and a rainbow.

I had fun in the gym!

I painted lines!

We made a castle together.

What an exciting day in Kindergarten! We all smiled and looked wonderful for our pictures. We are learning some French Fall words like: une pomme (apple), une citrouille (pumpkin), un arbre (tree), un rateau (rake), des feuilles (leaves). We also sang some French songs.

Some comments from the students today:

I love school!
I made Easter eggs out of playdough! (worked on fine motor skills)
I learned how to say apple in French!
I made ice cream with playdough.
We learned a farmer song.
We made a puzzle together on the carpet.
We learned how to say a baby turkey - a poult!

Class reminders: Program Night on Thursday night, from 6:30 to 8:30, for parents only. This evening is to give you information about what we do all day in kindergarten.

Please send in apple sauce activity permission form by tomorrow. Thank you!

We continued our Fall inquiry this morning with Mrs. Melissa. She brought in some apples that had just fallen from the apple tree in her back yard. We wondered if these apples also had seeds in them. We cut some of the apples in half and found some smaller seeds in the core. We decided we should try planting those seeds too!

Class reminders: Tuesday, September 22nd is Photo Day. It is also the last day to send in Scholastic Book order forms if you are interested in ordering books.

Some of the students' comments from today's activities  and learning centers: 

I made apples in the playdough center.

I learned about the different planets in the space station.

I used fall items to make a pattern.

I made cookies in the playdough.

I made a road, ramp and castle with the blocks. The car went faster on the ramp.

I had fun in the space station and drew a picture.

Welcome to our classroom blog. Our goal this year will be to send out a simple blog every day highlighting a few of the children's favorite activities of the day and what they learned from them.

Here are some of the highlights from the first two weeks of school.
We have had a focus on the start of Fall, particularly crab apples and apples and the differences between them. The children wondered where they came from and if they both had seeds. We also discussed the different kinds of apples there are, how some are sweet and some are sour, and how we know if they are ripe.  We are now attempting to grow the apple seeds and two acorn seeds together in class (fingers crossed).

Next week we will continue our Fall inquiries and continue entering into the exploration of space. Within the classroom we have begun to work with the children to create a space station and they are certainly blasting off into their new school year.