Mother's Day tea!

This is just a reminder to please send back the RSVP's as soon as possible for the Mothers Day tea that we are hosting on May 9th at 1:00 pm in the school gym  

We look forward to hopefully seeing all our wonderful mothers!!! :)

Happy Earth Week!!!

We hope that everyone had a great Easter weekend  :)

Tuesday was Earth Day!  We spent the entire day with the lights out to help conserve energy.  We also did a great job to wear blue and green to represent water and plant life.

We have also been talking about recycling and how to recycle the items we bring in our lunch everyday. 

 We also talked about how we can recycle items to make new things.

On Wednesday we dressed in white to represent air  :)

D.R (SK) is reusing his yogurt container to make a space ship!

We also did some great writing and picture drawing this week :)

S.O was labeling various items on her picture.  She also wrote " I have lots of patterning in my picture".

R.D drew all the characters of Lego Ninjago 

C.S drew Iron man and Batman  :)

R.D started writing rhyming words!  Great work. 

S.B and C.C playing in our sensory bin.  Some of our students had the chance to go next door to Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Moore's classroom to visit the chick eggs in the incubator.  The baby chicks should be hatching within the next week! 

M.R made a 3D shape :)

On Thursday we had the Junkyard Symphony come to our school and perform for us. They showed us how we can reuse many materials to make music.  We also wore brown on Thursday to represent earth. 

In this picture our very own H.M was chosen to be the cheerleader and hold up a box of Cheer.  Every time she held  up the box we all had to cheer  :)   She did a great job!!

On Friday we had a special presentation to from John Smith from Connecting Countries to thank us for participating in the Potty Dance and raising money for the Chaka-reli school in Kenya.   We also had a visit from Jason Pottinger who plays for the Ottawa Redblacks football team and he also brought along Big Joe their Mascot.  They came to our classroom also where we had a chance to say hello :)  We also wore red, yellow and orange to represent energy!! 

*** Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far to our classroom gift basket for the school fundraiser :)  Just a reminder that our theme basket is "Home Spa". 

We hope you have had a great weekend!

See you on Monday  :)

Happy Easter / Joyeuses Pâques

We have had a great week so far!!! We have been talking a great deal about the meaning of Easter. 

We were writing down the story of Easter and had the children tell us the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday! We did a great job. 

E.S drew a picture of Jesus

We did some great art work and writing this week!

We have also been making Easter crafts to take home!

S.O made an Easter bunny basket to put her treats in

Painting with cotton balls!

We made Easter eggs out of yarn and paper mache materials  :)   It got very messy, but we sure did have fun!

We used wet chalk to draw on our foam Easter eggs

Squeegee art using shavign cream and paint :) 

Since Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Moore's class are currently incubating chick eggs we decided that we would put little eggs and chicks into the bin. We have had many friends talk about the baby chick eggs and we are very excited for when they hatch. 

Friends were sorting the various Easter erasers, and also counting them and putting them in the appropriate Easter eggs.

Here A.T is matching the upper and lower case letters! 

We were also searching for site words at this fun center and putting a bear marker on the words that they found! 

E.L and F.C were making shapes with the pipe cleaners and Popsicle sticks

A.T organized the alphabet in order while playing with the alphabet puzzle! 

We also talked about measurement.  Friends were measuring height and the width of various objects in the classroom.  We were also measuring how tall we were :)

T.H noticed that the pink grass buddy was the shortest and that the yellow grass buddy was the tallest. (measuring how tall the grass is)

On Wednesday we had our Potty Dance.  We had such a great time and raised money for a great cause.  Thank you very much for the donations! 

Nos lapins de Pâques!!! (Our Easter bunnies)  

***  Reminders that next week is Earth week.  This is what we will be getting up too ... 

* * * * *TUESDAY, APRIL  22, 2014 * * * * * Wear  GREEN  to represent plant life or BLUE   to represent water WATER    LIGHTS OUT CANADA DAY

* * * * WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014 * ** * Wear  WHITE to represent AIR

* * * THURSDAY, APRIL 4   2014 * * *  Wear BROWN to represent EARTH    SCHOOL-WIDE PRESENTATION The Junkyard Symphony will demonstrate ways to recycle a variety of materials and use them to make music

* * * * FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014* * * * Wear RED, YELLOW or ORANGE to represent ENERGY

We hope you all have a great Easter weekend and see you on. Tuesday!!!   :)

Petbo Vet Clinic open for business

 We have had another great week!!!   Our Petbo Vet Clinic is now open for business and we are having a great time pretending to take care of our animals. we have une tortue (turtle), un chat (cat), des chiens (dogs), une souris (mouse), une grenouille (frog) and un alligator (allligator). 

We also had some friends make signs for our vet clinic.

H.M and S.O made our open and closed signs.

We were looking at xrays and giving our pets medicine.

Our pets were recovering from surgery. 

Our grass buddies have really been growing this week.

we enjoy keeping a log of our grass buddies to see how much they have grown.

C.C is watering the grass buddies with his mini watering can that he brought from home :)

We have been very creative making story books, drawing pictures and creating wonderful creations our of recycled materials. 

E.L made some squares using a small box.

We were proud to share that we used squares, and rectangles to build our castles, robots and dinosaur race track.  

 We hope everyone has a great weekend  :)

Shapes, Money and Veterinarians Office!

  This week we learned more about les formes (shapes). We did a class survey to see which shape was our favorite. 

We discovered that square and diamond both had the same amount with 8 each. 

We were making shapes using Popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners

We enjoyed investigating various shapes at the water table. We discovered that some shapes would float and sink, and some were smaller and larger than others. 

We were also noticing shapes in our block area! 

R.K, B.M and M.H were looking at the blocks and were deciding whether they were a flower or star shape. M.H was drawing a plan of what they were going to create with the blocks.

We had some friends make books this week :) We also had many children use our chalk board to practice writing their french words.  

 We love to see all the writing that is going on in our classroom!

A.T wrote her alphabet on the mini chalk boards. 

It's starting to look a bit more like Spring outside :) 

R.T is writing in her plant journal.  The children can keep and up to date log on the growth of their grass buddy :)

We continued to talk about the value of our Canadian money this week. Children were graphing and matching the various types of money (penny, nickle, dime, quarter, loonie and twoonie). We also had a center where friends could shine pennies with salt and vinegar. 

It was also Jersey day on Friday to help raise Money for CHEO :)

This week we finally decided on our new classroom inquiry.  Many of the children have been showing an interest in animals and taking care of animals.  We are going to change our dramatic play area into a veterinarians office!  We look forward to seeing what we will create in the upcoming weeks!!!

We hope everyone had a great weekend. 

See you on Monday :)