Friday April 28, 2017

Hello everyone

A few housekeeping items:

Thursday May 4 is our Arbor Day celebration from 6-7:30. You are invited to come tour our classroom and school to see what we have been up to lately :) You will not need to stay for the hour and a half as it is an "open house" format so come when it suits your schedule.

Field trip: We have our Butterfield Acres field trip at the end of May and are requesting volunteers. Please sign up on the blog schedule if you are able to join us. 

Our school has been hatching trout! They are almost ready to be released and you are invited:

This week news:

Ms. Manneck was back this week to finish up our penguins. We created a King Penguin and a Rockhopper Penguin out of paper mache. In making these, we had to pay attention to detail and know what the physical characteristics a penguin are and how each of these penguins is unique.

We also began some new learning centers this week. These centers mostly focused on reading and math concepts to prepare us for grade one. We did some rhyming, letter sound matching, math skills, printing and drawing.

We are continuing with nursery rhymes to help us read common words such as come, down, fall, the, it etc.. We are having a lot of fun acting and re-enacting the stories.

Love,
Kindergarten

A few pics from the week:

Friday April 21 2017

Good afternoon everyone,

Our bean observations have been going very well. Hopefully your plant has found some dirt and you are able to watch it grow.

In our day count we are now up to 128! Wow! That is a lot of days in school.

For homework this weekend, we are wondering if you can reply to our blog question...

In the 128 days you have been here, what have you enjoyed the most? What are you the most proud of? Write your idea in the comments section and we will share on Monday together.

FIELD TRIP SAVE THE DATE:

We are going to Butterfield Acres on May 29th for AM class and May 30th for PM class.
These field trips are full days therefore on May 29- no school for PM class and on May 30- no school for AM class. We are looking for volunteers on these dates. If you are able to join us, please email us and enter your name on the blog schedule. This farm has many animals that children are allowed to pet so the more volunteers we have the better. Thank you :)

MAY 4- ARBOR DAY

May 4th is our Arbor Day celebration. In Kindergarten we have been learning about how things grow. We are growing marigolds, peas, beans, and dill. We have also grown taller and smarter ourselves. Kindergarten students have also grown in their independence as they are doing more things for themselves. It is exciting to see how all the children have made new friends and new accomplishments.

Please come on the evening of May the 4th to see some of our learning about trees, ourselves, plants and art.

Our Dance was excellent! Well done everyone! It was great to watch your dance with AJ.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs. Kenna and Ms. Cvach

Thursday, April 13

Hello Parents!

HOME READING:
This week we began home reading. It is so fun to try to figure out new words! Please remember that it is not necessary to rush through the levels as even A/B books have some great vocabulary to learn from. If you would like a harder level though, simply send your teacher a note or an email and we are happy to reassign if appropriate :)

BEANS!!
Our beans have sprouted and are growing very quickly. We are looking at them carefully and sketching changes with our scientist mind. Watching carefully allows us to notice even the smallest details.

PLANTS!
In our room we have plants growing and today we noticed they were bending towards the light! When we turned the plants around... they were bending again! They must really love the sunlight.

SAYING GOODBYE
We said goodbye to our chicks and Ms. Manneck this week. They will be missed very much! Ms. Manneck promises to visit and we are able to check in on our chicks with the farm owners to see how they are doing. It was a great learning experience.

NURSERY RHYMES
Nursery rhymes are helping us to read because we say the stories all together and notice how the letters and words fit together. Last week Humpty Dumpty fell (poor thing!) and this week we learned the story of Little Boy Blue. (He's a bit of a sleepy head!)

NUMBERS
We continue to explore numbers to 10 in a variety of ways and look at REALLY BIG numbers like 124 with our day count.

DANCE PERFORMANCE
Lastly, we have been dancing with this cool instructor named AJ in our gym class. We have a hip hop dance to share next Wednesday, April 19th. Parents are welcome to attend our performance. The AM class performs at 8:15 and the PM class will perform at 1:50.

CLASS PHOTO DAY- APRIL 19TH!

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY APRIL 14th or MONDAY APRIL 17th

beans in our bags

Humpty Dumpty can try!

bean observations

buddy readers

the letter L- literacy

Friday, April 7, 2017

Hello Parents of Blue and Yellow team!

We have made some adjustments to our blog and now the information will only pertain to our 2 classes. As our classes have travelled in some unique learning directions, our blog will reflect the learning happening in Ms. Cvach and Mrs. Kenna's classes.

Please click on the link to the left if you would like to volunteer for any dates.


News this week...

Our chicks arrived from Ms. Manneck's farm on Monday. All week we were patiently waiting and then finally on Thursday they began to hatch. Here is a video link to chicks hatching in an incubator that is very similar to ours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLH91zzsXQ

Math games!

Our chicks! First day!

life at the farm

engineers at work

We will continue to have the chicks in our classroom until next Wednesday. 

In class, we have focused on the letter N and discovered many words that begin with N. In our journals we drew nests with eggs. 

We are now at the 120th day of school! Wow, time flies!! In Kindergarten we are growing in many ways and we have planted seeds. The class will be watching the sprouting and recording observations.