November 20-24

It was wonderful to meet with so many families during conferences this week and share all about the amazing things the Kindergarten students are learning.  The students were so excited to have a chance to share their journals, pictures and art creations with their families.  I want to send out a HUGE THANK- YOU to the families who visited the book fair and completely blew me away with their generosity in blessing me and our classroom with so many beautiful books.  I was speechless and I thought my heart was going to explode with happiness when I had new books delivered to the classroom.  I can't wait to share so many new stories with the kids in the next weeks:)

 This was another short week, but we had lots of new things happen in our classroom!

This week we welcomed Mr. Arcila to our classroom.  He is a practicum student and is learning all about teaching and learning in Kindergarten.  He will be with us until mid December, and then returning in the Spring to spend more time with us.  As you'll see in our pictures from this week he has been very busy with the students, and has even had a chance to visit the "Kindergarten Hospital" for a check up:)

We also had our first snowfall- we loved watching it out the window as it fell in the afternoon and couldn't help but jump into our winter gear to make snow angels, create foot print tracks in the snow and slide down the hill.  Thank you families for continuing to send lots of great winter gear to make sure we can explore outside!

This week we also wrote our very first sentence!  We learned the difference between letters, words and sentences and we discovered that "sentences make sense!" and letters work together to make words, and words work together to make sentences!  It was very exciting as we used word cards and our own ideas to create our own page of an animal book.  Our illustrations that went along with our sentences were probably our most detailed and colourful drawings yet.  

Our word of the week was "Observe" which was perfect as we began learning more about our 5 senses.  We read about how our eyes work, and how our sense of sight help to keep us safe, and help us learn all about the world around us.  We went outside on a nature walk and took "pictures" with our "Eye Cameras"  to record some of the cool things we could see around our school.  We came back inside and created our own poster about all the things we could see with our amazing eyes.  We had lots of fun playing "Optometrist" giving each other pretend eye exams in our Hospital center.

In math, we continued to work in our number journals and practiced representing the number 6 in lots of different ways.  We also played some math games to continue to develop our subitizing skills. 

Next week we will continue to learn more about our senses, introduce a couple more letters, write more sentences in our journals and continue to work on developing our number sense. 

Here are some pictures from our week!