Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Terrific Tuesday! 

Today we started our day reviewing our morning meeting routine. We started our morning message and enjoyed singing our old songs! After we did this, Ms. Gray taught us a new poem. The poem was about shapes! She said it would be helpful later...

During our inquiry into language arts we learned the blend for the long o sound. We brainstormed words that have OE and put them into complete sentences. We watched a video that helped us... this video was not as silly as the other ones... It was not catchy.

For Gym today we were in Ms. Bannon's room for go-noodle! Gym was cancelled... we miss Ms. Yustin! She has been helping with all the other exciting things happening in the school! She's awesome!

During our inquiry into math we started our new unit!! We practiced our poem that we learned and we started talking about all the different shapes that we know. We walked around the room and did a "write the room" activity where we find shapes in the room and write the object's name down. After this we learned how many sides and corners each shape has. When we met back on the rug we went around in a circle and shared our findings!

During our UOI we introduced summer! We talked about when summer began and what exciting thing was happening THIS summer! (Ms. Gray's baby!)... Then we talked about all the different things that we like to do over the summer with our families. We realized that the temperature in summer is very HOT because we wear our bathing suits instead of our snow suits!

After Recess, Snack and French we worked on our journals. We wrote about our favourite summer activity and snack! Lots of our friends enjoy ice cream in the summer just like Ms. Gray! :) 


Spelling words are on the blog -- sent the words home today...
1. Time
2. House
3. About
4. Your
5. Day
6. Made
7. Came
8. Make

Words of Week 

      1. canoe 2. toe 3. doe 4. August 5. sauce 6. author

Reminders/Announcements

1. Sent home spelling words - Spelling test @ end of month

2. I will send home measurement math test tomorrow.

3. PLEASE SAVE & SEND IN PAPER TOWEL ROLLS. 

We are using these for an art project on Monday. 

4. May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

5. May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

6. May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

7. May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

Monday, May 13th, 2018

A CASE OF THE MONDAYS!

All of our friends must have had a busy weekend! We were all VERY tired today!

This morning we went to the Wizard of Oz performance! We got to watch the older grades perform and we were very intrigued. It was nice to be in the audience of the performance at the dome and experience things from a different perspective. Our friends were VERY well behaved and if all goes well this week with following directions and making green choices we will have a celebration of our awesome week on Thursday.

After the performance we had lunch and then worked on some Math! During our inquiry into Math, we took our pre-test for geometry. We are going to be learning about directional words: left, right, above or below. We are also going to be learning about 2D shapes and 3D shapes. Ms. Gray is VERY excited to teach the kiddos her new poem that she typed up! :) We are going to have so much fun learning about shapes this unit!

After Math, we reviewed the blends that we worked on last week. Ms. Gray wanted to be sure that because we did 3 last week that we were able to retain the sounds and everything that we learned. She was ecstatic that our friends remembered so much! We practiced saying the blends and coming up with some words.

After this we had recess, snack, and French.

After French we wrote in our journals about the Wizard of Oz! We really enjoyed the play and most of our friends loved the part where the Wicked Witch of the West melted!!

Word of Week 

1. canoe 2. toe 3. doe 4. August 5. sauce 6. author

Reminders/Announcements:

May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

Friday, May 10th, 2019

Fun Friday!

Today we worked on our phonics blend PH! We are catching up to the other S.K. classes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvp4Ybx0W4 We really enjoyed the video that we watched to discover new words with our blend. 

During our inquiry into Math we completed our Measurement Math Test! We did a great job! We all finished fairly quickly and Ms. Gray is looking forward to marking them over the weekend. 

During our UOI we worked on a special project for our Moms! We are excited to show our families our hard work... and Ms. Gray hopes that you are all very pleased with the project! :) 

At the end of the day we got to participate in Fun Friday! We worked so hard all week and Ms. Gray was SO impressed with all of our growth over the last few months that she wanted to celebrate! 

**Ms. Gray did not take pictures today!! :( I am SO sorry. This is a very, very rare occasion. I was consumed by the project today... I will try to not let this happen again.**

Reminders/Announcements

May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

May 9th, 2019

Thursday!

Today we started our day off by listening to a very interesting song for the blend WH/wh... because the song did not LIST the words, our friends were a tad confused because they needed to REALLY pay attention! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTs-16veCfQ After this we worked on our phonics journal and a new worksheet where we had to identify "nonsense" words. Nonsense words are fake words that don't make sense. We will continue to practice this!


GYM, RECESS, AND LUNCH.

During our inquiry into math today we reviewed for our math test! Ms. Hackett gave us Candy Bucks if we got answers correct. Lots of friends were able to recite the definitions from the Measurement Unit! Ms. Gray was very impressed! Lots of hard work happening in S.K. :)

During our UOI we did an art project! We have been working very hard to make our work look very presentable and beautiful for our families. We are very proud of our work!

After recess, snack & French we had some time to work on our journals! Once we were all done with our journals we had some time for read-to-self! Ms. Gray let us have free-time/helper time. Friends who helped organize the classroom got stickers!!! :) We sure love getting stickers!

Reminders/Announcements

May 10th - TOMORROW - Measurement Math Test

(NEXT COUPLE WEEKS)

May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

May 8th, 2019

Happy Wednesday! 

Today we started our day off with phonics and reciting our poems. We brainstormed some words that have the blend EW/ew and worked in our phonics journals! We are getting used to having Ms. Gray back!

During our inquiry into Math we reviewed for our Math Test. Math Test Friday!! An additional packet was sent home for extra practice if needed. This is optional, however, it will be good practice for the exam. During our UOI we worked on a project! :) I don't want to say too much more than that! Ms. Gray is very impressed with our neat writing and hard work.

During our journal Ms. Gray got to hear all of the plans for Mother's Day that each of our friends have for their mommy! :) Some were VERY funny. Looking forward to sharing these with you during our next phone calls/meeting!

After this we had recess, snack and French.

At the end of the day we finished up our journals and worked on some special projects. :)

Reminders/Announcements

May 10th - THIS Friday - Measurement Math Test
(NEXT COUPLE WEEKS)
May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)
May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)
May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day
May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

May 7th, 2019

Arts Night is Tonight!

Today we had a fun day of practicing for our Arts Night! We went on the bus and got to sit with our friends on our way there. We had a great practice, watched a few of the other performances and then went back to school for some lunch! After lunch we had our real performance for the afternoon! WE DID AWESOME!!!! Ms. Gray was SUPER impressed with how well we did. She even told us that if we do as good of a job in the night performance we will win a prize!! She is still coming up with what the prize will be, but I'm sure it will be great... and not a spur of the moment decision at all. ;)

After our performance we had recess & snack then we went back to the classroom for some much needed French! Ms. Gray missed the kiddos singing in French and hearing them speak to Mlle. Jessica in French. They are progressing very well with their French!

During our journal time we wrote about what we are excited about for Arts Night! We know Arts Night will be fun because we get to perform in front of our parents and they can finally see how hard we have worked for this!

Reminders/ Announcements

May 7th- TONIGHT - Arts Night (12 noon & 6:30 pm *STUDENTS ARE TO RETURN TO SCHOOL AT 6:00PM in their costumes)
-- Students only have the one costume for the whole night --
--After the performance students will take the bus back to school. Parents are to pick up their child AT SCHOOL, they will not be allowed to leave from the dome. --

May 10th - THIS Friday - Measurement Math Test 

(NEXT COUPLE WEEKS)

May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)
May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)
May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day
May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

Ms. Gray is Back!! May 6th, 2019

I'M BACK! So happy to be back with all the kids and looking forward to a wonderful end of the year. 

Today we started our day off by showing Ms. Gray all of our new poems and morning meeting songs! Ms. Gray was VERY impressed with our memorization of all of the adorable poems. Ms. Gray watched as some of our friends recite the poems on their own.

We had lots of practice today for tomorrow's event! Ms. Gray was so excited to see the kiddos up on stage and performing so well. We have been working so hard on the performance and Ms. Gray could tell.

After Recess & Lunch we worked with Ms. Hackett and reviewed for our math test on Friday! We practiced measuring and deciding which shape was bigger and smaller. **MEASUREMENT MATH TEST ON FRIDAY!** Review packet sent home last week & Ms. Hackett prepared another awesome packet to review and prepare for the math test! This was sent home today. Ms. Gray was incredibly impressed with all of our hard work.

Ms. Gray was also very excited to meet our new friend in our class!

Thank you to all of the parents who have reached out to me over the last couple weeks while I was away. My mother is feeling stronger and doing well. Prayers and thoughts are still very welcome and very much appreciated. I also wanted to say thank you for every kind email or text message that I received while I was away. I am ready and prepared to get back into the swing of things and have an AWESOME end of the year! SK is almost over... let's make the most of it!

Reminders & Announcements:

May 7th-Arts Night (12 o'clock (noon) & 6:30 pm *students are to come to school in their costumes)
May 10th- Friday - Measurement Math Test
May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)
May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

Words of the Week:

1. Saw

2. Crawl

3. Claw

4. Whisper

5. Why

6. When