Cranston Kindergarten : Monday March 13

Dear Mom and Dad,

This week at school we continued to learn about penguins and the blue/yellow team went to the zoo for the penguin program. We had some visits from some sneaky leprechauns in our classrooms this week, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Get us to tell you about the fun things we did.

Team Wonder:

We had a fun-filled week continuing our work with patterns, penguins, and snow. We started our week with a winter walk being detectives, looking for patterns and animal tracks in the environment. We saw a lot of patterns and followed deer tracks on our walk; we even found deer hair. We brought some artifacts back to our classroom so we can continue to take a closer look with our magnifying glasses at our wonder wall. Get me to tell you about some of the things we saw on our walk.

We have been learning a lot about penguins in our classroom and we learned even more when we went to the zoo for the penguin program. We learned about the four different penguins that are at the Calgary Zoo; they are the Gentoo penguins, King penguins, Humboldt penguins, and the Rockhopper penguins. We learned about what penguins eat, what some of their predators are and some of the adaptations they have for life in the cold. We also were lucky enough to see the King penguins walk we really enjoyed seeing them waddle past us. Some of us also had a chance to see Grace feeding baby Edward, she regurgitated the fish she had just eaten for him, it was pretty cool.

We had a surprise delivery this week in our classroom, it came all the way from Antarctica. We were accepted into the "Antarctica Penguin Patrol" program and received our very own King penguin to take care of in our classroom. We are busy giving him everything he needs to be happy and healthy everyday. Ask me what our penguin needs in order to survive. Also, we still need a name for our penguin, see if you can come up with a name fit for a King :)

Yellow and Blue Team

We started off the week by learning the letter “Mm”. We sang the “M” song, walked around like monkeys, sounded out the letter, and even made the letter M with partners. Check out the pictures below. Guess if we made capital M’s or lower case. We have continued to work closely with patterns in math.

Throughout the week we read many St. Patrick’s day books and learned about leprechauns. Ms. Cvach has been followed by a leprechaun for many years. He follows her to every school she teaches at. We began to worry that the leprechaun may visit our classroom this week. So as a class we decided to catch that sneaky leprechaun. We designed two traps to catch the leprechaun in hopes that he will lead us to his pot of gold. On Friday morning much to are surprise the leprechaun had been in our classroom. And he made a HUGE mess, knocking over chairs, hiding shoes, and leaving footprints everywhere. He set off our traps, but was no where to be found. Looks like the leprechaun was way to cleaver for our traps.

We all dressed in green and brought a really cool green snacks. We were really excited that the leprechaun left some gold chocolate coins to enjoy. Check out our traps below.

On Thursday we had a beautiful sunny day at the Zoo full of excitement and incredible animal sightings. We focused on the animal’s enclosures and needs. It was really interesting to learning about what each animal needs to stay alive and happy.