MDE Winter Olympic Day

After a couple of delays, we finally were able to get outside to enjoy an Olympic Winter Fun Day! Ms. Waterman planned lots of fun activities for us! We ran, laughed lots, and most importantly, we worked together with our kindergarten friends! It was an awesome day! Here are some snapshots of our fun! We hope you like them!

 

On Wednesday February 26th we will be celebrating our 100^th day of kindergarten!  We will be completing all sorts of fun activities that day and will require your help with a couple before the big day arrives.  Here are the details:

Collect a set of 100 items.  Please help your child fill a bag with 100 like items and bring them to school.  Examples could be 100 cheerios, 100 pennies, 100 paperclips, 100 pieces of macaroni, 100 buttons, etc.  The possibilities are endless however the 100 items should be something that we can keep at school as we will be weighing them, building with them, and using them for a variety of projects.  To help with the counting, we sent home a workmat which will help your child count 100 items.  Counting sets of 10 is easiest by placing ten on each circle of the workmat.  Our focus is on 100 being made up of 10 sets of 10. This will make their counting much more manageable.  Please send in your filled baggie by Monday February 24th.

Dress for the day!  Have a discussion with your child about how they would look if they were 100 years old.  Would their hair be the same?  How would they dress? How would they walk?  Would their eyesight be the same as it is now? Use your imagination and come to school dressed like a 100 year old!   

And it's another closure...

NLESD just announced that schools are closed for the morning. Updates will be made at 10:30. Stay tuned...

Schedule Changes :: Please Note

• Outside Olympics Day has been rescheduled for Monday, February 24^th. If the weather cooperates this time and it goes ahead as plannedthe kinderkids will need to come dressed for outside play. As a result of the rescheduling, the kinderkids will come in their regular session rather than all attend in the afternoon. Please make the adjustment on our class calendars to avoid confusion.
• The extra school closures this month means that our 100^th day of school has been delayed.  It will now be Tuesday February 25^th.  Again, please make adjustments on your February calendar to avoid confusion. 
• Thank you to those who sent in family photos.  If you have not yet sent in photos of family members, please do so by Friday, February 21^st as we will be beginning our activities then.  If you do not have photos, a drawing of family members will be fine.   

 

School Closure & MDE's Olympic Fun Day

Due to the lunchtime weather forecast, there will be no kindergarten classes today....on Love Day of all days...can you believe it?  We will have to hold our Love Day activities for Tuesday. And to add to Tuesday excitement...

It's Coming!  On Tuesday, February 18th we will also be holding our very own MDE Olympics. All kinderkids will need to come dressed for outside activities as we will be spending most of the session outside!  Be ready for lots of fun!

See you all on Tuesday!

Janeway Day and Love Day - A Perfect Combination!

Any donations for the Janeway Children's Hospital can be sent along on Friday. :)

Winter Olympics at MDE

It sure was a very busy afternoon in Kindergarten.  Both groups came together for MDE's Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games. Loud, exciting times....some days just have to be like that!

Before heading to the gymnasium for the celebrations, we talked a little about the Olympics and shared some of the things we already knew.  Kindergarten has been assigned Luge as a sport of focus and we quickly learned that this was a sport that we knew only a little about!  While we will be exploring all aspects of the Olympics we will especially be focusing on this sport! The Sochi Olympics has a brand new Luge event - Relay.  We watched a video clip about it.
We look forward to learning a lot about the Olympics over the next few weeks...we'll try to share as much of it as we can with you...both in pictures and in words!