Happy Hanukkah!

Today we talked about the Jewish celebration Hanukkah! We are creating special fabric menorahs to light up our classroom.  We hope you like the clips below as much as we did!
Happy Hanukkah!

Celebrations

Today we met a new friend, Ruth.  She told us all about celebrations that were important to her.  She asked us about our favourite celebrations.  Here's what the kinderkids had to say:

Ayden likes to celebrate Valentine’s Day and Easter.
Addison likes to celebrate Christmas.

Grayson likes to celebrate birthdays.

Lucy likes to celebrate Valentine’s Day, Christmas and Easter.

Erika likes to celebrate when a new baby is born like Rachelle and when people get married.

Seth likes to celebrate Halloween, Easter Valentine’s Day and Christmas.

Sreya likes to celebrate Easter.

Ayham likes to celebrate Halloween.

Natasha likes to celebrate birthdays and Eid.

William likes to celebrate Halloween.

Audrey likes to celebrate Halloween and Christmas.

Miley likes to celebrate birthdays.

Aiden likes to celebrate Christmas, Halloween and Valentine’s Day.
Leo likes to celebrate Christmas and Easter.
Anna likes to celebrate Easter.
Grace likes to celebrate Christmas and Halloween.

Charlotte likes to celebrate Christmas and summer.
Ciara likes to celebrate her birthday because it is after Christmas.  She has cookies and plays hockey on her birthday.
Jake likes Halloween and Christmas and his birthday because he has a bouncy castle.
Haydn likes to celebrate Halloween.
Paul likes to celebrate Halloween and his birthday.
Brooklynn likes to celebrate Halloween and Christmas.
Liam likes to celebrate his birthday, Halloween and Christmas.
Charlotte likes to celebrate Halloween.
Jerry likes to celebrate Halloween, Christmas and birthdays.
Evie's favourite celebration is Halloween, Christmas and birthdays.
Logan likes to celebrate Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and his dad's birthday.
Avery likes to celebrate Mother's Day, Valentine's Day and Christmas.
Maria likes to celebrate Mother's Day, Leprechaun Day, Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine's Day.
Kingston likes to celebrate Halloween and Christmas.
Brayden likes to celebrate his daddy's birthday.
Zachary likes to celebrate Christmas at the supermarket.

 

What do you like to celebrate with your family?  We would love for you to tell us!

 

Let the Countdown to Christmas Begin

What a day for a tree lighting ceremony!  After a practise with Mr. House for our upcoming Christmas Concert performance, we headed outside to join the rest of the school for MDE's annual tree lighting ceremony! The sun was so bright we weren't able to see the lights on the tree but it didn't stop us from enjoying the singing with our friends.

If you are passing our school in the evening or wee hours of the morning, you'll spot the lights.  Aren't they pretty? 

What are your favourite ways to decorate for a holiday? Leave us a comment to let us know!

We Love Celebrations

Today we met a new puppet friend named Ruth.  Ruth told us about special days her family likes to celebrate.  Here are some of our favourite celebrations. 

Mason and Liam like to celebrate birthdays.

Brooklyn and Mrs. Fennemore like to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Naomi likes to celebrate Canada Day.

Carley likes to celebrate Mother’s Day.

Cameron, Brooklynn, Lucy, Kaziah, Kherington, Joshua A, Grayson, Kaiden, Keysler, Tyler, Joshua P. and Rida like to celebrate Halloween.

Rida likes to celebrate Eid.

Matthew, Zayde, Yaman, Peyton, Elizabeth, Jordyn, Ethan and Katherine like to celebrate Christmas.

Sophie, Tiffany and Jackson like to celebrate Easter.

Omair likes to celebrate Father’s Day and Eid.

Sonya likes to celebrate Grandparents Day.

Andie likes to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Michael likes to eat cake at celebrations.

Nathan likes all celebrations.

 

What other celebrations are special for your family? 

Our Grade One Day :: Blue Group

 Today was our grade one day! We came to school for the full day!

We worked so hard. First, it was Bridget's birthday! We sang the birthday songs to her. Then, we picked the helper. Next, we practised our poems.  Finally, we went to visit grade one.

We sat with the grade ones and Ms. Vatcher and Ms. Mullins read us a story called The Balloon Tree by Phoebe Gilman.

We blew up balloons and stapled them to the wall to make our own Balloon Tree!

It was snack time so we came back to kindergarten for snack.

After snack we asked questions to the Student of the Week and then we made a story for the Student of the Week.

Finally it was lunch time! We went to the grade one classroom to eat our lunch. When we were finished, we went outside to play with the grade ones.

After lunch, we went to music class and then we went to gym class with the grade ones!

It was a lot of fun!

Riley liked playing outside the best.
Hannah liked all of it!
Lauren liked all of it the best and especially blowing up the balloons.  Some of the grade ones popped their balloons.
Jade loved all of it.
Kaleigh liked blowing up balloons.
Haroon liked playing in the gym the best. Red light and green light was awesome!
Leah liked all of it!
Gerard liked music class the best. He also liked going to grade one. 
Eva loved everything and loved it when her friends played with her.
Bridget liked all of it the best.
Jackson liked a little bit of the music but did not like gym all that much.
Isabella loved it when we went outside to play with our friends.
Rasil liked all of it the best.
Julia liked playing with her friend Malcolm.
Shelby loved all of it!
Elsa liked all of it too.

Mrs. Fennemore says we were fabulous grade one boys and girls.  We are ready for grade one!

 

Happy Love Day!

Love Day came and love certainly was everywhere!

Love is...

Love is delivering love notes to friends!

Love is creating masterpieces that make people smile!

 

 

The Red Group even found signs of love in a special snack!  The Blue Group will have to wait until our 100th day to find theirs! 

Love is playing games with friends!

Love is listening to a story. Thank you to a Pod Two friend for reading to us! 

We hope you earn your reading badge! :)

Love is reading your love notes form friends!

Love is Kindergarten!

The First Day of Christmas!

The Twelve Days of Christmas have begun!

MDE kicked off it's first day of Christmas today with a tree lighting ceremony!

We sang songs and enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate !  Thank to all the parents for getting our tasty treat ready for us!

This is what our tree looked like tonight!

We also started our countdown to christmas chain!  The kinderkids did a great job creating these all on their own and counting to make sure they had just the right number.  Tomorrow we will start our countdown!