December 11-15

 Hello Families!

These December weeks are so full of excitement as we approach our Winter Break.  We have had another busy week in Kindergarten.  After watching the sunrises out our window this week, we planned our own Sunrise Sensation morning on Friday- to attempt to watch the sun come up on the front lawn of the school.  As it turned out, we instead had the experience of navigating those moments when "what we have planned, doesn't happen how we planned it"- as the sky was so foggy that the sun was not seen at all.  We talked about how there are just some things that don't go according to plan, but we can still make the best of it- and make another plan.  We still had lots of fun rolling snowballs, singing "Oh Mr. Sun" and making snow angels instead- and all agreed that the next time a sunrise is starting off beautiful we would "jump into action".   

We will also cross our fingers that the PM class has a clearer morning when we try to watch the sunrise next friday morning!  

In Literacy we have been loving our "Post Office" writing center- creating lots of cards and letters for our friends and teachers in the classroom, and in the school.  At the end of the week we loved walking around the school to deliver our "mail" and make people smile with our thoughtfulness.  We also learned all about the letter B, and practiced printing letters and reading some beginning words using the letter sounds we know already!   We also enjoyed another round of "Kinder Theatre" acting out the story of "The Gingerbread Man".  Reading and then retelling stories are a favourite activity in Kindergarten- we practiced making predictions, talking about characters in a story, and noticing the differences between fiction and non-fiction stories.

In Math, we worked on representing the number 9 different ways, as well as playing 3 new math games.  We love practicing subitizing and comparing numbers through games.

In Science- we continued to learn about the 5 senses, and focused on "Touch" this week.  We played a guessing game with our "Feely Box" using descriptive words to talk about what different things felt like.  We came up with so many great words like "squishy, mushy, freezing, bumpy, silky, smooth and squiggly".  

Here are some pictures from our busy week!