Week of May 1-5

Dear families,

This week was all about how plants grow and building structures. Thank you for sending in snacks with seeds - the children planted several different kinds of seeds in our "Kinder Garden:" tomato, cucumber, strawberry, avocado, pepper, pear, blackberry, sunflower, apple, and watermelon! They each planted a sunflower seed to germinate in the classroom, and planted more sunflower seeds and pepper seeds in the Kindergarten garden. Fingers crossed! The children also completed a picture of a plant, drawing the flower, seeds and roots, and then labelling the parts. WE watched a short video about how plants grow, and a Peep and the Big Wide World video about Peep and his friends planting a seed.

It's been a very rainy and wet May so far, so we learned a poem called "Water" (the children filled in the blanks) and another called "Rain." They also drew a picture of themselves playing outside which we are then covering with "rain" by using a marble and gray paint!

With their Reading buddies, the kids completed two adjective charts about Living and Non-Living things.

They have also been working very hard on Mother's Day gifts (shhhhh!)!

The popcorn words of this week are LITTLE and OUT.

Thank you so much to Elea's mom and brother who were our mystery readers this week! Thank you as well to all the parents who volunteered for next week's field trip to the Science Centre!

This week the children really enjoyed building structures from a photo of a famous structure in the world, and then drawing it and writing about it. In the Computer Lab with Miss. Santiago, the children made pictures out of 2-D shapes. We then read the book "Scribble" by Ruth Ohi, and the children embellished their 2-D shape pictures to make it a more detailed and colourful picture. Then they wrote about what it is on the back of their drawing. These are on display in the school hallway.

We also reviewed our numeral formation on our mini dry erase boards, and spent Friday working with various manipulatives (stones, blocks, rocks, beads, etc.) to do some simple addition (i.e. ___ + ___ = 6; 6=___ + ___).

Next week we will start learning all about Canada to celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday this July.

That's the news for this week. I hope you have a nice weekend!