Tuesday February 16

Today we welcomed Mrs. Molyneux into Mrs. Mask's classroom. She is a 2nd year St. Marys student teacher who will be with us until April 29. 

We learned a new math game. We used 15 cards (no face cards) and had to sort them into piles based on the suit of card. We counted how many we had of each suit and then had to place them into a graph in the order from smallest to biggest. We then compared our graph of the suits and looked what which had to most, the least, equal amounts?

We did writing in our journals. We are getting very good at using the word wall to help us make sentences. We are working on adding more details to our pictures and colouring in the lines nicely.

We review rhyming words and played some rhyming games. We looked at the "en" word family. What words can you make ?

The PM kindergarten finished up their penguin information booklets. We learned about predators and then decorated the front of the booklet. 

We had gym and played relay races and fruit basket game. 

This Friday is a PM Kindergarten day. 

We will be starting this project tomorrow :)

Please send your child to school on Tuesday February 16 with 1 box (a shoe box or a clean pizza box).  Please talk with your child if they want to make a winter scene for their penguin or a warm climate scene for their penguin.  After your child has decided which scene they would like to build, please include some of the following items that your child could use to build their scene that correspond to the season (warm or cold) that your child will be building.  Please label your child's box with their name and put their additional supplies inside.  Please do not send the items early to school as we a limited storage space.  Thank you!

Some examples of additional materials could include: styrofoam, pompoms, cotton balls or cotton batting, jewels or gems, foam snowflakes, small toy penguins, small rocks, buttons, egg cartons, clean bottle caps, construction paper, cellophane paper, be creative when looking around the house for additional materials.

At school each child will be making a plasticine penguin to add to their scene.  Students will also have access to paint, glue and additional supplies at school to use.