Mrs. Rupert: May 6-10

Hello Families!

The sun is finally shining again and we are flying through the month of May!

Our field trip to the Farmyard will be happening in just a few weeks. Thank you to families for returning the field trip forms so quickly! We spent some time looking at the Calgary Farm Yard website this week, and began to plan out our day of fun and the students are counting down the days on our classroom calendar.

This week we had some last fun with our ducklings and baby gosling Nibbles, before they returned to the farm. We noticed how quickly ducks and geese change and grow. It was very clear that they were needing way more space than the Kindergarten room could offer. We did enjoy our last days together. This week we were able to let our feathered friends go swimming. It was very funny to see a swimming pool in the classroom. We even made them a waterslide. This week we also made special oatmeal with peas for our ducklings to try. As they get older, they start to eat more and more things. Our goose Nibbles was quite the "Silly Goose" this week as he joined us for walks in the hallway and to the Library. It was especially funny when he would start running. We'd call him a "Goose on the Loose." We have learned so much about animals, how they grow and move and change. We were all able to write our own Duck or Chicken Fact this week to add to our picture wall. All students were able to share their ideas with their peers and worked hard on getting their fact down on paper

We have shown great care, kindness and responsibility in taking care of our classroom animals. I have been so proud of the Kindergarten students and how they have shown such compassion and awareness over the last few weeks. We are hopeful that we may get a visit from our ducks/chickens or goose in the future- and we will definitely be updated with pictures and stories as they continue to grow at Mrs. Rupert's friend's farm.

Our word of the week was "Imagination"- using our minds to make-believe, come up with new ideas, and use magic to make our ideas and stories extra exciting. We have been reading different Fairytales this week and we see how you need "imagination" to see the stories in your mind, and to play along with the stories too. We have learned some elements of fairytales- like characters, settings and problems. We loved retelling the story of "The Three Little Pigs". We did drawings of the characters and some of us were able to participate in a Big Bad Wolf "Will it Blow" science experiment- to see if items are heavy/light and whether they could be easily blown by the Big Bad Wolf.

We also worked hard on creating special cards for our mothers for Mothers Day. Students were eager to write a special message for their special person and we shared lots of wonderful things about our Moms during carpet time this week.

Lastly, as the end of the year approaches I did want to share some Graduation Information.

There will be a Kindergarten Graduation taking place on June 26th.