Hi!

Oh one more thing…

I have sent the children’s blankets home to get washed.

Please return them to school on Monday January 9, 2012!

Thanks so much!

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

Hi!

We have had so much fun here at school this week! We finished up our special applesauce /cinnamon gingerbread ornaments for you, I hope you like them! We thought they were extremely well done!

The week was filled with many fun activities including:

-wearing red noses and making rudolph pictures

–enjoying a “snow day” here at school where busses were cancelled. We continued to wear our holiday hats and we ate cupcakes with Peter and his Mom, Mara! Thank-you Mara, they were delicious!!!

-wearing our PJ’s to school and watching The Grinch Stole Christmas in the gym with all of our Kinder friends

-singing our Gingerbread man song and enjoying listening to Yaki! The concert was a lot of fun! Thank-you for attending and for all of your generous donations, both monetary and non-parishable goods!

On behalf of Madame Scarfo and Mr. Kneebone, I’d like to thank you all for your generous and thoughtful gifts! It is truly our pleasure to teach your children! We wish you a happy, safe and fun-filled holiday with your family!

Happy Holidays! We look forward to seeing the children back, rested and happy on Monday January 9, 2012!!!!!!

Love,

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

 

Hi!

Just to let you know that I have had to switch our party from Wednesday December 21 to Friday December 23. It will still be from 2:30-3:45. I apologize for the inconvenience and I hope you can still make it!!!!!!

So there will be no celebration tomorrow but rather on Friday instead!!!!

See you then!!!

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

Hi!

Just a few friendly reminders…

🙂 Wednesday is our party from 2:30-3:45…all parents and siblings are welcome! Our party is very relaxed and a nice way to visit and celebrate the season together! Thanks to the families who have already sent in food for the party!

Please remember to send your child to school in a holiday hat on Wednesday!!!

:)Thursday is PJ and movie day!! Please dress your child in warm pajamas!

and…

🙂 Friday is our Yaki Concert where we will listen to music and sing our gingerbread song as a class! All parents and siblings are welcome! Please consider sending in non-parish goods for the Kanata Food Bank as well as a donation of $2 for the concert. Thanks so much for considering and for those families who have already done so!!!

…and guess what!!!!! Mr. Kneebone is back so all feels “normal” and perfect here at school except for the friends that are missing…but I know we will all be together again in January which I am looking forward to so much!

Thanks for reading!

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

Hi!

Today was a very good but quiet Monday here at school as we had only 16 friends in attendance! Many friends have already begun their holidays in warm, tropical areas and I think a few friends are, unfortunately, still under the weather. Mr. Kneebone is still away and we miss him a lot! We hope he returns to school soon but only when he is healthy and strong again!

Our day began with a read aloud, Howard B. Wigglebottom: and the power of Giving: A Christmas Story. We meet our favourite bunny, Howard B. Wigglebottom again and we see how he learns to give and think of others rather than himself. We talked about the author’s main idea and how important it is to give and how GOOD it feels to give and care for others who are in need. The children enjoyed this story and we discussed the parts of the story that we liked or thought were important. Interestingly enough, the children really liked how Howard B. Wigglebottom was able to get home and they concluded that it was unsafe for a bunny to be alone without his parents. Smart children we have!! 🙂

We  had a lot of opportunity for playing, creating and sharing with friends at play time in the morning as well as in the afternoon. As the children said, we even got to “Play in FRENCH”!!!! We are almost finished our special project for you and I hope to send them home in Mr. Zippy tomorrow for you!!! They are so pretty and smell so good!…

The highlight today was singing in the gym with Mrs. McIntyre  and the other Kindergarten students at WEJ. Mrs. McIntyre played the piano and we sang many seasonal songs together as a collective group of 120 students! WE sounded amazing and the children enjoyed singing and listening to Mrs. “Mac” play! A big thank-you to Mrs. McIntyre for sharing her musical talents with us all!

Tomorrow is “Rudolph” day…paint your nose red day!

Looking forward to the day!

Thanks for reading,

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

Hi!

I was so happy to return to school with clear eyes on Friday! I really missed the children and it was good to see everyone!I was happy to hear that the children enjoyed dressing up in their holiday colours over the week. Thank-you for your amazing participation with this!!:)

Mrs. Jazz was kind and took a picture of everyone in their stripes! Thank-you Mrs. Jazz, it made me happy to see this picture while I was at home resting!

The boys and girls enjoyed the holiday craft rotation which started right at 9:30 with making Rudolph hats with us! This hat was a bit tricky but the children did very well at listening  and following instructions!

(Thanks to all of the parents, Mr. Kneebone and Mrs. Heleno’s co-op student, Rachel for cutting all of the pieces for 6 classes!) That was a lot of cutting but so worth it! Don’t they look so cute?

The children then proceeded to the other Kindergarten classes over the day where they participated in many fun activities such as a sing a long, played “holiday bingo”, made reindeer food, listened to a holiday story and played a game and made a Christmas ornament (which will be sent home on Monday).

It was a really fun day, I think the children were tired out by the end of the day! One student said, “when do we get to play?”  We will have a lot of play-based learning time on Monday! We are working on some special gifts for you and I hope to have them completed by Tuesday!!

 

Looking onto Next week:

 

 

Monday- Sing-a-long with Mrs. McIntyre and the Kindergarten classes

Tuesday– Paint your nose red- “Rudolph Day”

 

Wednesday– Wear a holiday hat and Class Party at 2:30-3:45 (All parents and siblings welcome)

Thursday– PJ Day and movie

Friday– Yaki Performance.($2 donations and non-parish goods are welcome! Thank-you to the families who have sent these in already!)

Please Note

All parents are welcome to the attend, we will be singing one of our class songs at this time as well!

I think that is it!

Thanks for reading and for your continued support!!! Please send healthy wishes to Mr. Kneebone who is sick at home with the flu! We miss you Mr. Kneebone!

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

Hi!!

We are having our class party on Wednesday Dec. 21, from 2:30-3:45! All parents and siblings are welcome!!

We will make a special craft, sing songs and have some yummy snacks together!

Please let me know if you are able to join us in Mr. Zippy!

 

 

 

Snacks:

At our in-take interviews, waay back in September, the following families signed up to bring food for our holiday/Christmas party. If it is possible, please send in the following snack items for our party. I will supply the plates and napkins. (We will have 20 children as some of our friends will be away!)

Luke- 12 apple juice boxes

Eric-12 apple juice boxes

Forrest- cheese and crackers

Peter- sweet treat…

Katherine- 1 big bag of potato chips

Linda-1 bag of cheesies

April- fruit

Thank-you so much! It will be a wonderful gathering and a nice celebration for the children!!

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

Hi! Happy Monday!

Just a wee reminder that tomorrow is Wear Red day! We had many children dress in white today!

Also Scholastic book orders are due tomorrow, Tuesday December 13!

Speaking of  Scholastic books…

 I still have 3 books from November’s book orders that are unclaimed…please let me know if they are yours…:)

1.Oh What A Christmas

2. Clifford Set

3. Snowmen at night

Take care and hope you are having a wonderful Monday! We sure are having a marvelous Monday here in JK!

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

Hi!

This morning we continued our comparison journey of Gingerbread man stories, with the story, Gingerbread Friends, written by Jan Brett. This is a sequel to the book I read earlier this week, The Gingerbread Baby. This was a much different version and the children really enjoyed how it ended! Ask your child how this ended…(hint…Mattie made the Gingerbread baby a lot of friends for him to play with in his gingerbread house!)

 

We made gingerbread houses with the boys and girls! Thanks to our awesome “Mom volunteers” for their help, this activity went well! The children enjoyed making the houses and did very well despite how difficult it was to put the roof on! Here are some pictures for you to look at:

Using a shared writing approach, we reflected on this activity and talked about what we liked and what we didn’t like or what we found challenging. Many of the children liked the jelly beans, smarties and  using the marshmallows for snow and trees. We talked about how difficult and frustrating it was when our roof collasped or when the walls were breaking.

I believe reflection is always a good learning tool, and as a teacher, I am constantly reflecting on my practices and how to improve…I made a mental note to myself to bring more icing sugar next year and to perhaps use 2 days to do this activity which would give the house time to dry before we placed candies on it!

Thanks again to our parent volunteers for all of your help! It was smooth sailing thanks to you all!:)

Tomorrow is Friday and we have library and computers! Please remember to send in all library books!

Looking on to next week:

Spirit week:

Begins next Monday December 12 with WEAR White Day!!!! Please take a look at your calendars to help your child dress for the holiday spirit activities that we have planned for next week! Its going to be fun! Don’t worry, I’ll send friendly reminders too!

Thanks for reading!

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂

One more amazing thing to tell you about today…

Today we were invited to listen to the Senior band play their Holiday Concert  in the gym! The children enjoyed listening and watching the older students play! They did a fabulous job!

Thank-you to Mrs. Cook and her students!

Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂