Calling All Letter Experts! Let the Detective Work Begin!

We have been working hard on learning all about our first set of letters Ss, Aa, Tt, Pp, Ii, and Nn and have learned a song and action to help us remember each one.



Now I have a mission for you at home.  We are trying to find as many different things around our house that begin with each letter.  However, you do not need to bring them into kindergarten.  Instead, leave us a comment at the bottom of this post to let us know what you find for each letter.  We will collect them all and turn it into a special project!

Let the letter hunting begin!

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! The Blue Group is Getting a New Friend!

Monday will be a very exciting day for the Blue Group Kinderkids.  We will be having a new friend join our class.  We look forward to meeting Haroon and showing him around our classroom! It's sure to be a fun filled day!

PJ Day in support of the Janeway Hospital

Jamarama was a huge success! We wore our PJ's today and collected money for our  Children's Hospital.

We can't wait to find out how much we raised! Thank you to all for your support! 

What a Reader Does

We are working on touching each word carefully - one by one - as we read a line of text.  One of our kinderkids wanted to show the world how great she is at touching each word as she spoke it! Great job K.

The Book Fair is Here!

Ms. Warren is explaining our book fair to the kinder kids! We are getting ready to make a wish list with our pod six helpers!

Our gym looks very different with all these books here! Let the exploring begin!

Tweet! from Kindergarten

We have been hearing some tweeting sounds in our classroom lately and have finally discovered where they were coming from Twitter!

We love to share what we are doing with the world through our class blog, but now we have found another way....Twitter!

On Monday, we received a tweet from a mystery kindergarten class @FraziersFriends . We enjoyed asking and answering questions to find out more about our new friends!

We look forward to getting to know many new friends around the world.  If you are on twitter, we'd love you to follow our tweets @MDEKinderkids .

Rainbow Roll and Write

We learned how to play a new game today.....Rainbow Roll and Write!  We are becoming experts at making letters! Do you have a favourite way to practise your letters?   Leave us a comment to let us know what it is!

PJ Day is Coming on Friday

Our Field Trip is Going Ahead

We just spoke with Heidi from the Pumpkin Patch and we are a go for our filed trip.  The weather is supposed to clear in the afternoon - so fingers crossed that the showers will be ended by the time we get there! Be sure to have the kinders come dressed for wet weather....it will likely be muddy....but fun!

Just a few reminders...

- no morning classes tomorrow.  All kinders will meet at 12:25 in the front of the school to board the bus.  We will not be meeting in the kindergarten classroom.

- no school bags or snack bags are needed.  We will be having a snack of hot chocolate and apples at the Pumpkin Patch

- each child should bring a reusable shopping bag to carry their pumpkin. Please make sure that the bag is clearly marked with your child's name.  I do have some extras...if you are in need of one please let me know.

Thanks to those who were able to volunteer for our trip. If you have a camera I would love for you to bring it along.  We will be divided up into 2 or 3 groups - so I may need your help capturing pics of our kinderkids exploring!  I will have a card for all volunteers with the names of the kinders in your group.  We'll get our groups together at the patch.

See you soon!

How A Pumpkin Grows

Tomorrow we will be going on our very first field trip! We get to visit a Pumpkin Patch. We found a video about how pumpkins grow.

 

We learned...

Big machines had to clean the pumpkins.
People were harvesting pumpkins.
Pumpkin pie looks yummy!
Pumpkins grow from a seed.
You need special machines to turn a pumpkin into a pumpkin  pie.
Bees have to come to the yellow flower to make a pumpkin grow.
Pumpkins have to have a bath just like us.

We wonder...

Will we see a yellow flower tomorrow?
Will we see a big machine harvesting pumpkins?

Our Sharing Soup

Did you hear about our Thanksgiving Celebration? After reading the story Stone Soup, we decided to have our own harvest by bringing in some of our favourite vegetables and working together to make our own "Sharing Soup". It took us a few days, but we did it! There were vegetables of every kind. We even had alphabet noodles mysteriously appear in our bowls! Today we looked at some of our photos and talked about what happened step by step. We added our voices to the timeline below to tell a little of our story. Be sure to click on the speaker sign below to hear our voices! Tomorrow we will try to write the recipe to share with you.We hope you like it!

Our First Field Trip is Coming Soon

It's almost time!  We hope that the weather will cooperate on Friday and our trip to Taylor's Pumpkin Patch will go ahead.  All kindergarten classes will be travelling to the Pumpkin Patch together in the afternoon.  As a result, there will be no morning classes on Friday.  All kinderkids will instead come for the afternoon session. We will meet at the front of the school to board the bus at 12:25 p.m. Just a reminder that the children will only need to bring a reusable shopping bag to hold their pumpkin.  No schoolbags or snack bags will be needed. 

Thank you to all those who sent back their slips for volunteering.  We will be sending home additional details (and a map) later this week.  

We Are Thankful

Thanksgiving is coming.  Today we talked about all that we are thankful for.

Zarif is thankful for food.
Elsa is thankful for parties.
Kaleigh is thankful for celebrations.
Eva is thankful for bowling with her family.
Hannah is thankful for her Aunt Kathy.
Riley is thankful for riding his scooter at the skatepark.
Isabella is thankful for Thanksgiving.
Shelby is thankful for birthdays.
Jade is thankful for Howie the cat.
Noah is thankful for playing laser tag with his family and friends.
Rasil is thankful for playing at Halloween time with her brother.
Lydia is thankful for Valentine's Day.
Julia is thankful for having sleepovers with Nadia, Malcolm and Sophie.
Bridget is thankful for family.
Lauren is thankful for her room in her house and especially her pink curtains.
Leah is thankful for birthdays.
Matthew is thankful for his dog Gracie.
Mrs. Fennemore is thankful for all her kindergarten friends.

Nathan is thankful for his dogs Max and Zoe.
Elsa is thankful for birthday parties and making friends and kisses for her sister.
Kaelie is thankful for presents.
Logan is thankful for his Nanny.
Samantha is thankful for love for Mommy and Daddy.
Ali is thankful for the 8 people in his house.
Michael is thankful for playing with his family and giving them snuggles.
Angelina is thankful for birthdays.
Lily is thankful for Valentine's.
Maria is thankful for her cat Sheba.
Jasmine is thankful for birthdays.
Brianna is thankful for her dog Gage.
Anya is thankful for Halloween.
Xavier is thankful for his dog Zoe.
Sophia is thankful for Halloween.
Aiden is thankful for trick or treating on Halloween.
Corinne is thankful for Valentine's Day.
Sulafah is thankful for Halloween.
Carter is thankful for Mommy!

What are you thankful for?

We're Going To A Pumpkin Patch!

To coincide with our unit on Pumpkins and Fall, we have decided to visit a pumpkin patch in Foxtrap. Our field trip has been confirmed for the afternoon of Friday October 18th.   Please note that ALL KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN WILL COME TO SCHOOL FOR THE AFTERNOON SESSION ONLY on this day. There will be NO morning classes.  The cost of the field trip is $7.00 per child. This should be returned to school along with the permission slip you received on Friday by Tuesday October 15^th.

As we will be outside for the field trip, we ask that all children come dressed appropriately (warm clothing, mittens, rubber boots, etc.).  Should the weather not be suitable on the 18th, an announcement will be posted on our blog and all children will attend their regular morning or afternoon session.  

Please note that a snack will be provided at the pumpkin patch.  School bags will not be necessary on that day. 

We would love to have a parent volunteers to help with a small group of children.  If you are able to meet us in Foxtrap and volunteer for the afternoon, please indicate on the slip and return at your earliest convenience. 

Fire Prevention Week

Next week is Fire Prevention Week. We have been learning about our fire escape plan at school. Do you have your escape plan made at home? Sparky has some great tips for you!

We love to read

We are learning how to be great readers in kindergarten! We hope you enjoy our September Poem!

 

 Do you have a favourite story or poem? Leave a comment to let us know!