June 19 - 23 ~~~~~ Pirates, Shining Waters and Field Day!

Special thank you to Logan and Jeremy for taking the time to show the kindergarten students all around the Fire Department.

We went to visit Mrs. Yeo’s grade 8 class and read our guided readers to them.  The grade 8”s thought the kindergarten students were great readers.  Thank you to Mrs. Yeo for the freezie treat!

On the way to Shining Waters!!!

Special thank to my volunteers: Erika, Robyn, Jamie, Brent and Lesley!  I truly appreciated your help.

At Shining Waters!!!

On the way back to school from Shining Waters!  Needless to say there were some tired kindergarten students.  Several had a little nap on the way back to the school.

To Say thank you to Ms.Johnston, and the grade 4 students for being our book and computer buddies we made sundaes

We made some awesome looking pirate hats … we just had to use the glitter one more time! 😊

Ms. Waite was in on Friday and the children got to make a spyglass.  Every pirate needs a spyglass to find the island with the treasure!  Thank you, Ms. Waite for sending me the pictures.

It was also the fun outside field day.  Mrs. Martin, the kindergarten students really had fun!

June 12 - 16 ~~~~ The Pirate's Continue

Dig into the treasure dish and pull out a piece of gold.  Record the sight word that is written on the gold.  If you do not know the sight word ask a friend.

You each have your own pirate ship, put a piece of treasure into the ship and record what you have in your ship … let’s hope your pirate ship does not sink!

Treasure chests with gold in them.  You place the correct amount of gold on the treasure chest and also find the letters for the number word and add to each treasure chest.

Create your own pirate to go on our pirate ship, named Letty Head Head! All the students offered a name I recorded the suggestion, put them in a container and drew out the name! The students could use a picture of themselves for the face or draw a face their pirate.

Our pirate ship has been invaded by 15 little pirates!!!

Some learning centre pictures!

When I grow up pictures!  In the class 6 students plan on being a teacher, 2 students plan on being Drs., 2 students are planning to be Police Officers, and the other students plan on being , a person who watches TV with a Computer, a Mechanic, a Race Car Driver, a Princess, and an Explorer.

Partner reading… one person read the other listens.

Then they switch.

Freezie Day!  Thank you MS. Waite for sending me the pictures!

Parrot Art - Ms. Waite did with the class.  The parrots are awesome!

June 5 - 9 ~~~ Week #1 of our Pirate Theme

Our display table … the children enjoyed decorating the table with my pirate theme items.

Day 1 … the outline of the pirate ship is ready to begin it’s transformation throughout the next few weeks of school.

Clipboard cruising for our sight words written on treasure chests.  When you are finished turn your sheet over and draw a pirate ship.

Roll and Graph which pirate picture will race to the finish?

Pirate puzzles using numbers 1-10  and 11- 20.  Also some clothespin clipping ~ count the number of items on the card, clip the clothespin on the correct number.  Let Mrs. D., check your work.

Pirate playdough mats, creating gold coins, coconuts, parrots, sharks and Jolly Roger Flags with playdough.

Our pirate ship at the end of week #1. It has tissue paper water and the children all participated in painting a part of the ship.  I painted the flags as they were up high.

Creating our own pirate masks.  Lots of color and cooperation going on here.  The children helped each other cut out the eye opening. I put elastics on the back and we went to visit a few classrooms and sang our Pirate song … What Do You Do With A Lazy Pirate?

Mrs. Dickieson was back to visit.  Lesia Holmes is retiring and your children created a book for her of all the things it is OK to do when she retires.  Mrs. Dickieson read the book OK by Amy Krouse Rosenthan prior to the children drawing and writing what it will be OK for Leisa to do after retiring. The pictures involved, camping, golfing, eating cake and ice cream to name a few of the ideas.

A few learning centre time pictures!  The pirate display items are a huge hit.  The children are enjoying pretending to be pirates!!!

We all had a turn to “Walk the Plank” we were careful not to fall in the ocean with the sharks!!!

Before home we went outside a few minutes early and had a game of Duck Duck Goose where we had lots of room to run.

May 29 - June 1 ~~~~ Frogs and Butterflies!

Frogs, bugs, a long and a pond.  Collect a combination of ten frogs and bugs. Turn a number card over.  Example # 8 is turned over this student decided to put 4 frogs on the log and 4 frogs in the pond.  Learning that 4 and 4 make 8.

Roll and build.  Roll two dice count the dots, put that many cubes together, find that number on you card and place the tower that number.Counting to determine how many are in a number and number recognition.

Designing your own artistic butterfly!  First color to decorate, cut out and put together.  Lots of beautiful colorful butterflies!

Butterfly symmetry - Look at the design on one wing of the butterfly and see if you can make the other wing look the same.  This can be quite difficult to do.  Many times the colors and shapes are correct but they are not in the correct place on the wing.

Our Class Timeline -  We looked at many of the different things that have occurred this year.  When you look at it at a glance … it shows how busy we have been.  We discussed what we had worked on and then I asked the students to choose one event and write about it in writer’s workshop.  It was very interesting to see who wrote about what event.  The students asked if they could go to the timeline to see the words to write.

We planted some Scarlet Runner bean seeds when they are up  I will send them home.  Just cut the bottom out of the cup and plant.  Plant it by a pole and it will climb up it and you will have some beautiful Scarlet flowers!

Susan Rankin from the Dept of Forestry was in and did an amazing presentation for/with the students.  She had an actual stuffed beaver and had a river, pond, and branches to dam off the pretend water and the children helped to make the beaver’s den.  She also gave each child a nickel with the beaver on it!

A few pictures from learning centre time.

The Spring Concert!!!  Your children did an amazing job of singing.  I was very proud of my class!