Ruth King Kindergarten Div 12

Hello!

We finished up our measurement work this week with learning how to use ruler! A higher grade level achievement, was a lot of fun to measure things in our room.

We went over the letters G and H, reading our tracing books and adding to our letter book.

We practiced our drawing with bunnies and chicks!

We created a nice Easter bunny picture, using a paint background.

On Thursday we dyed some eggs and made baskets with our big buddies. The dye was not the best… Only red and purple worked. Next time paint! Everyone had a lot of fun, we ended the day with extra center time and bunny hats!

We have been learning about throwing and catching in gym this week, working on tracking objects through the sky.

Pizza and coffee orders went home for fund raising. April book orders are due next week, and May forms will be sent out soon.

Next week we will start learning about plants by growing beans, and our chicks will be hatching the week after. So much going on!

Enjoy the long weekend, and see you Tuesday.

Hello!

Welcome back! Hopefully everyone had a fun two weeks off. We got right back into it this week, with some new letter word.

We have started using printing and home reading letter books. We practice our printing on the lines, then read the simple sentences. This week we have looked at reading the words “I”, “am, “the”, “is”, and “little”. Each book adds a new word to practice, and will take us into June with our letters.

We have also started putting together our letter booklets. You will be able to see these during our open house next Thursday.

We have started looking into measurement this week, reading the book “Inch by inch”. We went around the room measuring things with our own “inch” work. We have also started looking into using different units to measure.

We made x is for x ray, and y is for yellow and yoyo. Almost finished off our alphabet art!

Next week we will be hosting an open house on Thursday, from 1130 to 1230, and 430 to 630. Come by to see what we have been working on, and some learning stations to participate in.

Enjoy your weekend and see you Monday.

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It was great to see everyone at Gokdstream today. The field trip was a lot of fun, and our first real look at the beautiful natural world around us in Victoria. We went on a scanvenger nature hike, checked out the nature house, and had bannock and hot dogs for lunch. A couple hick ups, but overall a good learning experience.

We spend most of this week learning about bears, and talking about our “best hunt” at Goldstream. We didn’t find any bears, but saw a lot of other cool things.

Our KWL where we shared what we know about bears, and what we wonder about them.

And our best drawings.

We made some b is for bear art, and we will be using the pastels to draw more bears, and share our learning to put up on display for next week.

We worked on our 6, 7, and 8 number sheets, and spent more time with our independent writing.

Next week we will finish our work on bears, and report cards will be sent home. Thursday is the PAC luau dance in the evening, and Friday is sports jersey day. Should be a good last week before spring break.

Have a good weekend, and remember to set your clocks forward an hour on Sunday.

Hello!

With the snow last week, not much happened with the one school day we had school, so one post for two weeks.

On Valentine’s day, we made huggable hearts and painting some snowy winter trees. They are on display on our window, for the community to see.

This week we talked more about healthy eating choices. We learned about different vegetables and fruit, and how we should be eating a balance meal, so treats are okay, but only a little bit at a time. We had a race to 100 this week with our healthy eating habits, it was a close race, but healthy eating won!

We also made V is for veggies and W is for watermelon art. I know the V has some fruit on it… We ran out of vegetable cut outs…

We also worked on our family booklets, with almost everyone finishing up their homework. We only have one more page to complete before we share our families with the rest of the class.

We started our independent writing journals, by using our sounding out powers to spell words independently. At first there was a lot of uncertainty, but after some experimentation, many of the students persevered. We will be doing more journal and independent writing in the next few weeks.

We started officially looking into shapes this week, talking about the properties of each, and where we see them in real life.

Friday was 100’s day! 100 days in school, and to celebrate we worked on many 100 day activities. We made h is for hundred, gluing 100 pieces of paper into an h in groups of 10 (so much work). We also made 100 day crowns, and worked on 100 day mazes. During our Friday hustle, the other K teachers led the school through 100 exercises, it was a lot of work.

As we are halfway through our kindness month, our class has started the 100 acts of kindness board, open to all K students, to show all of the kind acts that happen in our class. Lots of swing sharing going on. We will see if we manage to get 100 before Pink shirt day.

A field trip form went home today about a trip to Gokdstream park, for some nature exploration and bannock bbq. It will give us a chance to learn more about the natural world around us, as well as experience some traditional aboriginal food. Should be a fun time, as long as it doesn’t rain too much.

Have a good weekend, and see you Monday.

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We have 2 new students, one last week and one on Wednesday. Although we also lost one who moved into the interior. Lots of change.

We worked on the letters o, u, l, f, and b this week, spelling words like fit, bun, ect. Next week we will start looking at specific two letter sounds, and practice more writing.

Our class made g is for giraffe and g is for fish art.

We have started looking at simple addition into what makes 5. We started making block towers of 5 using two colours, most make pattern towers which showed 3 + 2 = 5.

We have been learning so much about penguins, next week we will display our learning for the school to see in the hallway.

On Friday we learned about groundhogs day! We made weather predictors to show whether we believe the groundhog will see its shadow and hide for 6 more weeks of winter, or come out in the clouds to start foraging in the spring.

Next week we will look into Chinese New year, finish up our penguin work, discuss family differences and tranditions, and work on Valentine enveloped with our big buddies.

Speaking of Valentine’s day, I will be sending home a list of names in the class. If you choose to send cards, make sure everyone gets one.

Should be a fun week ahead, hope you have a good weekend and see you Monday.