Busy day of discovery!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend :)

We have a scholastic book order with no name on it, if you ordered this book and have not received it yet, please let us know:

 Our class is busy making plans before building or making things. 

G.F. and M.D. both made plans and built interesting structures in the block centre

Q.G. got an idea from one of our books about dough sculptures:

Today was Secretary's Day, our class made cards for Ms. Bell and Ms. Fenn in our office :) 

A.H. enjoying the Ripley's book in the book centre

A.J. is looking in the recipe book for ideas of what to make in the home centre.

There are lots of new manipulatives at the light table and science centre, the class has found many ways to use them:

We also continued our Earth Day discussions, today we talked about different ways we can help the environment. Some of our suggestions were: planting trees and flowers, making sure we put garbage where it belongs, recycling paper, using compost, walking instead of driving and lots more!

When Will It Be Spring?

There is an important notice in your child's bag today about Fifth's Disease.  There has been two confirmed cases of it in kindergarten (but not our class)

Yesterday we said another sad "see you later" to one of our ECE students Amena.  She has been in our class since January and we, as well as the class, have loved having her in our class.  She has promised to come back and visit though :)

 During centre time, I received a letter from two girls in our class.  Apparently we need a new computer! :)

 We are lucky enough to have Mr. Campbell back while Mrs. David is celebrating Passover. We read a story this morning, appropriately titled "When Will It be Spring?"

 In the afternoon, we worked on some adding and subtracting:

 

 

We also read "The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)" and talked about co-operation

The story inspired G.D. and L.M. to make pizza at centre time!

Please check the classroom announcements!

Pink Day

Today our classroom was a sea of pink! So many students had something pink on (including ties or bandanas). We also offered students pink buttons for anyone who wanted to wear one, so that everyone was included!

Take a look:

A reminder that tomorrow is International Day of Pink!

We had music this morning, some of our class got to play the instruments to "Aikendrum" and we came up with our own words to the song; see if your child can remember some of the yummy things we came up with.

We also sang a song about a man named Joe who works in a button factory. There's lots of fun actions to go along with this song:

After lunch, we did some graphing of our favourite ice cream flavours. We got all sorts of neat flavours from the class, mint chip, bubble gum, cotton candy, even Spiderman ice cream! We had so many neat kinds of ice cream that we had to come up with an "other" category! Of course, we also got some old favourites like chocolate and vanilla :)

 A.J. and C.B. were busy cooking in the house centre:

M.D. was busy balancing and measuring in the math centre:

 L.M. was making pictures on the light table:

There was also something exciting going on right outside our classroom! For International Day of Pink tomorrow, the GSA of Earl Beatty was busy putting up all the pictures our school has done for our "Wall of Pink".  We took some time to go out and look at all the different things our school stands up for or against.  They were also really excited to find their own pictures! :)

Here is a link to an article about International Day of Pink from TDSB

Happy Monday!

We hope you all had a great weekend. It was a busy Monday in our class today!

C.A. & B.W. built a ramp and tested how far the cars would travel on it.

 G.D. & R.T. were using one of our art books to come up with ideas of things to make

Q.G. and G.F. were busy learning about dinosaurs

M.D. and M.R. were problem-solving the best way to make tunnels in the sand.

J.M. made a snail out of play-doh, she said it was "super easy" to make :)

M.D. made a plan at the block center, and here is what he made:

Even Olaf from Frozen made an appearance in our class today!

Tomorrow morning there is Dental Screening happening at our school.