Dec. 12 - 16

Kindergarten News:

Literacy:

This week in Literacy we started reading our Twelve Day of Christmas books.  Each day we unwrap a new book and then read our story.  We have had lots of fun and laughs reading our new collection of books.  Thank you to  Ms. Tucker for wrapping and selecting our new books.

We have also been helping Elfie, who leaves us a mixed up message every morning to unscramble.  

I can learn to read messages from left to right and top to bottom.  

I can learn about periods and capitals in morning messages and books.  

Our Robert Munsch book this week and next week is Finding Christmas.  We had Mrs. Montgomery our Kindergarten Strategist visit us on Tuesday and read the story to us.  She also brought a game for us to play.  We have presents to hide then we need to give clues to a friend to find the presents we hid.  I can use prepositions to help my friends find the presents.  Example:  The present is under the table.  

We continued working at our stations this week.  We made Santa puppets, did cutting activities, printed the letter "Ii", and worked on patterns at our Math station.

Math:

Continued to work on patterns, counting forward and backwards. Playing card games to match number and learn what number is greater and less. 

Centres:

Our postoffice centre was very popular.  We even made cards for our buddies on buddy day.  We had Buddy day on Friday and watched the movie: The Grinch, from 1962.  The students were very excited to watch a movie then have time to talk to their buddies and play a few games in the grade six room upstairs.   
The Light Table, magnifying glasses to look for Elfie, as she moves around the room, Lego, Playdoh and tub toys, blocks and puzzles were centres that were explored this week as well. 

Music:

Ms. Dafoe was teaching us a new song and we played some games in music as well as singing our favourites Head and Shoulders, Shake our Sillies out, Good Morning song in three parts. 

Gym: 

We used the parachute this week and played games like popping popcorn, making igloos, cat and mouse.  The mouse is under the parachute the cat is on top of the parachute and has to try and catch the mouse while the rest of us shake the parachute to save  the mouse. 

Upcoming Dates:

Dec. 19 - Festive Hat Day

Dec. 20 - Festive Sweater Day

Dec. 21 - Winter Solstice Day

Dec. 22 - PJ. Day.  Last Day of School until January 9th, 2023. 

Happy Winter Break to everyone!  We hope your holidays are fun, merry, and restful.  See you all in the New Year!