Hi!
It was so nice to see you at our Parent teacher Interviews last week. We enjoyed talking to you about your children and the progress they have made! I love JK for this reason, the progress is so incredible and I love to watch the children grow over the year!
Hibernation:
We began the week with a read aloud, Time to sleep. This is a wonderful book to introduce the idea of hibernation to the students as well as an introduction to the kinds of animals that hibernate. Bear decides that it smells like winter and he must tell his friends who also hibernate to start preparing for winter. Animals such as skunks, snails, ladybugs, turtles and the friends end up waking Bear at the end, who is already in his cave sleeeping! The children have been encouraged to paint any of the animals from the story at the Paint Centre. I love seeing their knowledge through their art work!!
We had Grace’s Mommy, Jenny in to volunteer today and she made toilett paper roll bears with the boys and girls. This is a craft I like to do each year, they are adorable and the children love making them! It also is a wonderful activity to further develop their fine motor skills: colouring, cutting and gluing! They are turning out great! Thanks Jenny for your help this morning! I will post a picture of our displayed bears tomorrow! (and thank you for all of your toilet paper rolls too!)
The children have been patterning bears this week as well at our math centre. We have been working on a few pattern rules this year so far at our Calendar activities and table tops and so the children were asked to make an AB pattern using any colours they want. I am very impressed with their patterning skills and more importantly, their ability to tell us about their pattern, thus demonstrating their knowledge of simple patterns!
Today was also Syena’s birthday, happy birthday to you! Mr. Kneebone made one of his special crowns for her, it was a princess crown! You are so talented Mr. Kneebone, thank you!!!!
A great day in JK! Thank you to Forrest’s mom, Jing, for your help each afternoon!
We are supposed to get some SNOW tonight, just think about the excitement that will bring tomorrow for our little children!!! Listen to the radio or check on the WEJ blog to check for bus cancellations. Just a reminder that IF buses are cancelled the school remains open! Let’s hope it is just a little dusting and it goes away by the end of the day 🙂
Night night! Thanks for reading as always!
Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂