Happy Mother's Day!

I hope everyone enjoys their Mother's Day! The kinder's worked hard on their writing piece part of the gift!

If they have been talking about a "forever bouquet", its because we discussed how moms like to get flowers, but that they don't last long - but we are giving a bouquet that lasts forever.

There is a little poem that goes along with this:

Dear Mom,

I will love you forever,
And forever you will be,
The most wonderful mother,
You mean everything to me.

I thought of buying you flowers,
In the usual way, But, I knew you would prefer
A FOREVER BOUQUET!

Math

We have been practising daily counting up to 30 as well as counting backwards from ten.

This week we will continue to look more closely at the numbers 0 to 10, using the 10 frame. We have talked about adding and have done some exercises where we need to be detectives and figure out different ways to " make a number". For instance 4 can be made by 2+2 or 1+ 3 etc.
we have talked a bit about the adding and equal sign, although for now I am more concerned if they can show me different was of grouping 4 objects. 2 buttons and 2 buttons makes four buttons etc.

We made some nice spring flowers using this math concept for the number 4, 5, and 6, and will continue on with hands on activities demonstrating this concept.

Buildings and people in our community

The kinder's built their own kinder town and everyone made a building, ad well as a hose for the town. They were very creative in adding Zoo's and gardens, as well as making sure their was farmers around the town.

We will go for a quick walk this week to wrap up looking at the people and places of our community.
The kinder's have brought home their house, building as well as their "community sort"

A visit from veterinarian Dr. Regan Skelton

On Thursday and Friday we a a special guest speaker come in and talk to the class! Mrs. Skelton is a vet at the Minnedosa vet clinic, and she talked to us about what she does, how she became a vet and what kind of animals she deals with.

She brought in some dog teeth that she had extracted, as well as showed us lots of cool pictures and videos of X-rays of rocks in a dogs belly, and another dog with puppies in their belly! The kids especially liked the video of the ear mites that Dr. Regan swabbed from a cats ear!

Thank you to Dr. Regan for coming in and showing us what goes on at our community vet clinic, and what a veterinarian does, I'm sure many of the kinder's will be down for a visit when their pet heads in for their next check up!

It's Okay To Be Different

This week the kinder's read the book "It's Okay To Be Different".

We talked about how everyone is special, and our differences make us unique. The book has colourful illustrations and simple text that sends a strong message and teaches a valuable lesson.

We looked at a brown egg and a white egg and the kinder's were asked to think about how they were different or the same. The first thing noted was the color, and when asked if they were the same inside, many felt no way - the yolk would be different colours because the eggs came from different kinds of chickens, or one was cleaned, and the other was maybe dirty.

When we cracked them open, the insides were exactly the same and could not be told apart.
We talked about how people are like the eggs. We look different, and act different but inside we are all the same, and we all have feelings.

We talked about many different kids of differences, skin color, eye color, hair color, disabilities, different places we were born. - But we all came back to the egg lesson, where inside we are all the same - and it's okay to be different and like different things.


We made a classroom book , with each student having their own page where they had to finish the sentence " It's okay to ...."

We had many answers from singing in the shower, to talking different, and having a helper leg, among many others.

I am very proud of the class for the book they completed !
Ask your kinder what their page is about!

This week...

Well the first day of may is this week! I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful spring like weather we had over the weekend.... I hope it continues!!

The playground is muddy with puddles. Rubber boots will make the kinders recess time more enjoyable, along with splash pants, instead of ski pants. The students are asked to stay out of the puddles so they don't have to sit in wet clothes all day. Please have a conversation with the kids about puddle safety and reinforce the idea that even when wearing rubber boots, you can still get wet. We talk about it before every recess, but the more reminders the better!


Monday - blue class day, day 6, gym class, library day, Mrs.. Konsorada away for the morning

Tuesday - green class day, day 1' gym class, library day, Tammy visit

Wednesday - blue class, day 2' music class

Thursday - green class, day 3, gym class, special speaker - Regan Skelton- Minnedosa vet clinic

Friday - blue class day, day 4, gym class, guest speaker - veterinarian Regan Skelton

Hospital trip

Both classes had a great time at our tour of the Minnedosa hospital. There was lots of firsts, first bus ride, first time at the hospital, first time seeing the inside of an ambulance.....

A big thank you to our parent volunteers for making the trip with us as we'll as the hospital staff who planned a great tour for us. Mrs. Kreshewski and mr. Lalibertie were excellent hosts, and it was great for the kids to know that a hospital and the people are friendly and caring, and that a hospital is a place that we shouldn't be afraid of.

This week we will be making something special for the hospital and staff to show our appreciation.

Please check out the pics of our trips below:)