Hi!
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Day 1 and we will be trying our new schedule of having library exchange and computers in the morning! I think it will work out well! Please send your child’s library book back tomorrow if you haven’t done so yet!
We will be exploring A to Zap again in the computer lab! This is a great program to continue introducing the alphabet and letter sounds in a fun way!
That’s it for tonight!
Thanks for reading, have a great night!
Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂
Hi!
On Monday October 31st, we will be celebrating Halloween! Please send your child to school with his or her costume in a plastic bag in his or her backpack. Feel free to dress your child in orange and black too if you want.
Do NOT send your child to school wearing his costume please. I ask that all swords, guns and accessories like masks stay at home so they do not get lost or broken before your “trick or treating” at night.
We will be having a Kindergarten Parade with ALL of the kinder students at WEJ in the morning! This is going to be so much fun!
Mr. Kneebone and I have some fun activities planned for our students including Halloween games and stories and a yummy snack of “orange and white” spooktacular fruit salad!!! We will have plenty of play time and a special Halloween video in the gym with our entire Kinder students to end our day!!!
Hopefully our children won’t be too tired (or wired :)) by the time they get home to you to go trick or treating with you!
Please feel free to contact us in your child’s Mr. Zippy if you have any questions or concerns!!!
Take care!
Ms. Jo-Anne (Can you guess what I will be for Halloween???)
Do you think our pumpkin was heavier or lighter than our students?
If you guessed….lighter, you are RIGHT! Today the children did some estimating “guessing” about how much our pumpkin weighed. We had all sorts of guesses from 1-100 pounds…. I explained to the children that there is no “wrong” guess, just some are closer to the right answer than others. Well…our class pumpkin weighs…9 pounds! We had one student estimate that our pumpkin weighed 10 pounds, what a close estimate!!!!
We weighed it on my bathroom scale! After we did this we decided it would be fun to see if our pumpkin weighed more or less than our friends. After weighing some of our friends who weighed between 28 and 33 pounds…we decided that our class pumpkin was LIGHTER than us! The children were really thinking about these math concepts: lighter, heavier, more and less. Super job!
Does a pumpkin float or sink?
If you said…it depends on how much water is in the water table…you are right! Using an inquiry base approach, we placed 2 pumpkins in our water table (our first day our water table was open) and asked the children to tell us what they found. Only having a small amount of water in the table, we discovered our pumpkins did infact sink. However, with many more buckets of water, we found that our pumpkins began to float.
Why???
Because…the pumpkin floats because its mass is less than the mass of water it displaces. This happens because the inside of the pumpkin is hollow. It is mostly air, which has a much lower mass than water.
Jack-o-lantern Planning with Mr. Kneebone
We also voted on how we wanted to carve our pumpkin….Mr. Kneebone cut out a variety of shapes of eyes, noses and mouths and as a group, we decided, using “majority rules”, what our class jack-o-lantern would look like. We will be doing this tomorrow once we measure the circumference or how wide our class pumpkin is. We will use pieces of yarn to do this! So much fun! We will also cut open our pumpkins at the Nature Table tomorrow and explore! Our children did not choose to go the Nature table today so we decided to wait to cut our pumpkins tomorrow!
Here are a few pictures from play time. The children are so happy and enjoying learning at our many of centres. It is wonderful to observe and hear the language that comes from play.
Thanks for reading!!!
Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂