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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Snowy Tuesday!


 I hope everyone had a great long weekend! It was nice to hear what students did over the weekend!
This is how our Tuesday went:
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Poem practice
- Lunch and recess
- Math - students worked on numeracy today. They were encouraged to cut and paste placing the numbers in correct sequence.
- Language - students worked on beginning sounds and building short words.
- Lunch and recess
- Centers
- Pack up











Thursday, February 11, 2016

Happy Valentine's Day

What a great day!
- House game in the gym
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Practiced poems
- Lunch and recess
- Math - students sorted, graphed and counted the heart candies and also made patterns with heart stickers.
- Story time
- Lunch and recess
- Valentine's card exchange
- Pack up
 









Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Happy Wednesday!

This is how our day went:
-          Gym class

-          Snacks and circle time

-          Phonics song and practicing writing the letter Y.

-          French class

-          Lunch and recess

-          Reading buddies

-          Valentine’s Day story time

-          Language/Valentine’s Day – students talked about what are some things they love and then they drew a picture of it and wrote the name of the person/thing.

-          Language – students had to cut and paste beginning sounds to match with the pictures

-          Lunch and recess

-          Math/Valentine’s Day – students made heart patterns

-          Centers

-          Pack up
Have a great evening!

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Happy Pancake Day

Here is our day:
- Pancake eating contest
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Phonics songs and poems
- French with Mme. Jessica
- Lunch and recess
- Story time
- Language -students learned name, sound and formation of the letter J and then participated in reading groups.
- Math - Students used blocks to build patterns
- Lunch and recess
- Music with Mrs. Kerr
- Story time
- Pack up
Have a great evening and enjoy the snow! :)
 
 








Monday, February 8, 2016

Happy Monday

Hello! I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!!!
Here is our day...
- Gym with Mr. Slick
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Practiced poems
- French with Mme. Jessica
- Lunch and recess
- Story time
- Language - students learned name, sound and formation of K and then practiced writing upper and lower case K. Today we also learned a little bit about Kangaroos.
- UOI/Arts - students created a "jar" with insects...take a look:




- Math/UOI - students sorted different types of animals into the correct group and also counted them.
- 2nd lunch and recess
- Music with Mrs. Kerr
- Story time
- Pack up

Have a great evening everyone!
Here are the reminders for this week:

-          Tuesday, February 9th – Pancake eating contest between the houses

-          Thursday, February 11th – Re-registration forms are due (in order to guarantee your child’s spot for next year, you must submit the re-registration forms no later than the 11th)

-          Thursday, February 11th – Spirit Dress Up Day (wear pink, red or white)

-          Friday, February 12th – PD Day, no school

-          Monday, February 15th – Family Day Holiday, no school

Friday, February 5, 2016

Happy Friday!

A little bit chilly, but we had a great day!
- Gym with Mr. Slick
- Pancake Breakfast/snack and morning circle time.
- Poems
- French
- Lunch and recess
- Show and Tell
- Math/UOI - students had to cut and paste in order to complete the insect pattern.
- Language - we read a story about a caterpillar.
- Lunch and recess
- Pack up
- Music with Mrs. Kerr

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Happy Thursday!

We had a fun day!
- Gym with Mr. Slick
- Morning circle time and snacks
- Language - practiced the poems
- French class with Mme. Jessica
- Lunch and recess
- Math/UOI - students had to cut pictures of 'insects homes' and 'not insect homes', then they sorted and paste in the correct box.
- Language - we worked on beginning and ending sounds. Students participated in centers where they used magnet letters in order to find the beginning and the ending sounds in short words.
- 2nd lunch and recess
- Pack up
- Centers: alphabet puzzle, blocks, stamps, math manipulatives to sort and make patterns.

Have a great evening everyone!












Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Busy Wednesday

Awesome weather today!!
That's how our day went...
- Gym - no gym today as Mr. Slick had a field trip with the older grades, instead we danced and sang in the class :)
- Morning circle time and snacks
- Language/UOI - we talked about our unit on animals and reviewed what we already have learned about insects. Students then completed an activity where they had to draw the picture of 4 insects and then write (more like copying from our insect list) the names.
- French with Mme. Jessica
- Lunch and recess
- Story time with Ms. Reta (our wonderful TA)
- Math/UOI - we played a game where we sorted together as a class places where insects live and places where insects can't live, after sorting we counted them. Next, we made pattern caterpillars where students used stickers to create a pattern.
- Language - we practiced the poems
- 2nd lunch and recess
- Story time
- Pack up
- Music class with Mrs. Kerr
- Pick up time

Have a great evening everyone and enjoy the weather!

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Happy Tuesday!


Here is our day:
-          Gym with Mr. Slyck
-          Snacks and morning circle time
-          Literacy activity – students learned the phonics song for Freddy Fish and then traced and wrote the upper case and lower case F.
-          French with Mme. Jessica
-          Lunch and recess
-          Math/UOI – students worked in groups in order to sort insects and not an insect. Everyone did a great job participating!
-          Language – we practiced the poems, students participated in reading groups and we completed a couple of worksheets where students had to identify the beginning sound of each picture.
-          2nd lunch and recess
-          Pack up
-          Centers – students rotated between 3 centers: blocks, playdough and drama area.
Have a great evening everyone!






 
 

Monday, February 1, 2016

Happy Monday!


We had a great Monday!
We started with our new schedule today as it follows:
Gym with Mr. Slyck
Snacks and morning circle time.
Literacy Activity/Phonics: students sang our phonics song and practiced writing the letter G.
French with Mme. Jessica
Lunch and recess
Language: we practiced the poems and students worked on "en" and "ed" ending sounds. They were encouraged to sort the pictures along with the word into the correct box. We practiced reading the words: bed, wed, hen, red, men, fed, pen and ten.

Math/UOI: we watched a short video about insects and then students cut and paste insects and not insects.
2nd lunch, recess, story time, pack up
Music with Mrs. Kerr
Pick up time
 

Have a great evening everyone and enjoy the sunshine!!!