Thursday, 28 April 2016

Friday Update April 29

Just a reminder that there is no school on Monday!  I will see the students back at school on Tuesday, May 3.  It has been another full week of learning!!!

Our explorations and activities included…
*Continuing to work on Mango and Jelly’s play space. Our path changed a little bit as some of the students wondered what it would be like to create an imaginary world for the guinea pigs to explore in addition to the real one!  They were excited to start this, and it was an amazing relaunch to an already awesome project that the kids have had going.
*Jasper’s mom came in to make Anzac day biscuits with our class.  The classroom smelled wonderful and the kids enjoyed tasting them!  Thanks Fiona!
*We were painting together and a couple of the kids were upset that they had dripped on their painting—I showed them how you could fold the ends of the paper together and smush the paint to make a new painting! This led to an impromptu lesson on symmetry and so many of the students wanted to try it out after!
*We had a counseling lesson with Mr. Pearson on Honesty
*The students did some AMAZING drawing and writing with me. Sounding out words and labels, fine motor control—I was almost in tears at how proud I am of my class!!!
*Jimmy and Shayne started a word hunt with the letters in all of our names that enticed the rest of the class.  For awhile it was loud and noisy as many students were frantically looking around for different words and letters, but so so great!
*Our Pre K team of teachers have spent a lot of time and effort over the year to reinvent some intentional and purposeful learning spaces around the ECC, and it looks amazing! This morning we spent some time in some of the new spaces—it was a big hit!
*The civil defense was here doing a course with admin in the high school, so there was a bright red fire truck sitting outside.  Of course we had to go investigate! The men were incredibly nice and answered all of the student’s questions.
*All of the Pre K classes walked down to watch a Kindergarten Assembly this morning. We watched one of the kinder perceptual motor classes (the kinder version of Move and Groove) perform Under The Big Top, celebrated birthdays and danced around to a fun song.


SAVE THE DATE:
PRE-K CELEBRATION AND PORTFOLIO SHARING
The children have been working hard all year, and would like to celebrate!
Please join us to help celebrate our accomplishments, share our portfolios, and watch a slide show of our Pre K experiences.
Friday, May 20, 2016
8:15 am
E104 (our classroom)
*Please let me know if you CANNOT make it

Upcoming Dates and Things to Remember:

*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*Check the blog for pictures from this week!

*Friday, May 2nd:  Labor Day—NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, May 19th:  Pre K Visits KINDERGARTEN! (Students only) We will walk to the primary and visit kindergarten rooms, play on the k playground, listen to a story read by Mrs. Cuthbert (PS Librarian) and have a snack in the primary school cafeteria.
*Friday, May 20th: CELEBRATION/PORTFOLIO SHARE starting at 8:15am(Parents are highly encouraged to attend this day J)
Magic Show-Date TBD (Students only) We will walk to the primary school, have an opportunity to play on the kindergarten playground, watch a magic show and enjoy a popsicle.
*Monday, May 23rd: Vesak Day—NO SCHOOL
*Friday, June 3rd:  Last Day of School!—11:30am dismissal

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