Friday, January 17, 2025

Animals in Winter

This week was busy learning about penguins and also what animals do in winter.

We had two guest teachers for most days, while we are working on completing the Provincial Assessments for Kindergarten. Due to this, we have limited pictures from the week.

A big thank you to Mrs. Cheng and Mrs. Azzopardi for stepping in and helping steer the ship!

Please enjoy our group pictures of a life-size Emperor penguin that Mrs. Azzopardi brought in. We loved comparing our height with it. We had lots of curiosities and observations about the penguin. We had a wonderful week with our penguin guest!

Did you know?

If your child wears glasses or needs glasses now, there is a program in Alberta that provides FREE GLASSES to Kindergarten students ...click the link below to find out more!

Eye See...Eye Learn Program for Kindergarten Students

Link to our Simons Valley School calendar: Click Here

Link to schedule for Friday Kindergarten Classes: Friday Schedule

Our Emails

Mrs. Oster: rdoster@cbe.ab.ca

Mrs. Sutherland: klsutherland@cbe.ab.ca

Mrs. Wiskar: mjwiskar@cbe.ab.ca

Friday, January 10, 2025

January 6-10, 2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

The students were very excited to share their adventures they had over their winter break. This week we officially said Good-bye Autumn and Hello Winter!

Leaves fall from the trees, animals gather together against the cold, and frost creeps across windows, everyone knows—winter is on its way! This story shows a brother and sister exploring nature to find the signs of the coming season. They say good-bye to autumn and welcome the first snow of winter!

Our winter read-alouds review the seasons, remind us of fun snowy activities, introduced some winter animals, and shared the special gifts that winter gives to us including rest, waiting, remembering, and being thankful!

"Help! I'm melting!" A boy rescues his snowball again and again. He and his snowball find a way to share a whole year together and experience all the seasons.. Ask your child why the snowball feels it is the luckiest snowball of all!" Then we worked on a sequencing activity to explain the order necessary to make a snowman...

We learned about the water cycle and how snowflakes are created in the book "Little Snowflake." Ask your child which very important shape is needed in the middle of a snowflake in order for the crystals to form? How many sides does that shape have? (Hint: hexagon...with 6 sides!)

A snowflake and a child - no two are the same. Snowflakes Fall is a beautiful story of the cycle of nature and the special qualities that make each of us unique. Students created their own beautiful snowflake designs...check out a sampling of creations below:

In the book "The Snowy Day," we read how Peter got to to experience a wonderful day after a large snowfall. We discussed his winter clothing outdoors and the difference in the clothes he wore inside. We enjoyed Peter's adventure sliding down hills, throwing snowballs and making tracks in the snow. It was so hard to choose, but we picked our favourite part and drew it in our journal. We drew the snow like it was shown in this book! Ask your child what their favourite part was!

Did you know?

If your child wears glasses or needs glasses now, there is a program in Alberta that provides FREE GLASSES to Kindergarten students ...click the link below to find out more!

Eye See...Eye Learn Program for Kindergarten Students

Link to our Simons Valley School calendar: Click Here

Link to schedule for Friday Kindergarten Classes: Friday Schedule

Our Emails

Mrs. Oster: rdoster@cbe.ab.ca

Mrs. Sutherland: klsutherland@cbe.ab.ca

Mrs. Wiskar: mjwiskar@cbe.ab.ca

Thursday, December 19, 2024

December 16-20, 2024

More Gingerbread Adventures this week.....

What do Gingerbread Pirates need the most? – A Ship! We had fun making boats and testing to see how they float and move in the water!

How do you catch a gingerbread man? Here are some of our ideas…

Run really fast, ride a skateboard, jump on a bike, use a fishing rod, drive a Lamborghini, get in front of him and catch him by surprise!

Then we read a story about some creative traps to lure the gingerbread man. We drew pictures of our favorite parts of the story like the sticky icing forest, a blanket filled with candies, a train, a net, some magic blocks…We even celebrated fancy day while we learned about Gingerbread traps!

On Wednesday we had "Special Hat Day" and reviewed all the amazing gingerbread stories from December in order to vote on our favorites. We used clipboards to walk around and ask each other: "Which Gingerbread story was your favourite?" We marked down the results and looked at our graph at the end to see which story was most popular!

Gingerbread Man on the Loose in School inspired us to go on a scavenger hunt to look for a gingerbread man in our school! Everywhere we went, the gingerbread man left us clues to find him: hallways, gym, music room, library, staff room. We asked so many teachers along the way... Mr. Collins, Ms. Garner, Mr. Toews, Ms. O'Brien. They didn't have him.

Finally, we found him back in the classroom and he brought us gingerbread cookies!!