Ms. O's Kindergarten Blog

Happy Thursday!  What a beautiful day we had today!  We were very excited to spend some time outside on the old playground.  We are learning how to go down the fire pole.  Woot woot! We have been doing lots of practicing this week and completing artwork that we need for our performance pieces.  It has been a busy week but we are sure excited about sharing with you next week! Thank you to everyone who has sent back extra tickets.  We try and accommodate all of the requests we receive for extra tickets which should be going home on Monday. Just to clarify a few things about the dress rehearsals and evening performances ... Wednesday's dress rehearsal (9-10)is for the morning class and class time will be regular hours. Wednesday evening performance is for students whose last names begin with A-K. Thursday's dress rehearsal (1-2) is for the afternoon class.  Class time will be regular hours. Thursday evening's performance is for students whos...

Good morning Kindergarten parents! Last week was a busy one for a short week!  We are deep in concert preparations and will continue our practicing and preparation over the next 2 weeks.  Thank you for encouraging and supporting your child as they practice at home.  The more we practice, the more we will "WOW" you and all of our other audience members! Tickets went home on Friday with the afternoon class and will be going home tomorrow with the morning class.  In addition to the evening performances, there will be 2 dress rehearsals that you are welcome to attend.  The morning class will be rehearsing on Wednesday march 4 at 9:00.  The afternoon class will be performing at 1:00 on Thursday, March 5.  Performances should last for approximately an hour. If you have extra tickets that you will not be using, please send them back to the school as soon as possible so that they can be allocated to others that are looking for extra tickets.  Thank ...

Happy Monday, I mean TUESDAY!!! A few things before I forget ... The students are bringing home their poetry books with 2 of the songs that we will be performing at our Spring concert the evenings of March 4 and 5.  We are practicing lots in our classroom and during our time in music, however any time that you could help your child practice at home would be appreciated!  As you can imagine, it takes lots of practice for us to be able to perform in front of a crowd.  We want to do our very best!!!  There will be two performances on March 4 and 5. To accommodate all families in our gym we are dividing our performances:  The students with last names that begin with A-K will be performing on Wednesday. The students with last names that begin with L-Z will be performing on Thursday. There will be a daytime ( Wednesday 9-10am   and   Thursday 1-2pm ) performance and an evening (6:30-7:30pm) performance on each day. Tickets will be needed for t...

What a great few days we have had.  Both classes were excited to go snowshoeing for the very first time.  They were troopers ..  I wasn't expecting them to do so well and it was hard work with lots of learning!  I think they enjoyed it judging by the number of requests I have had to go again!  Our field trip yesterday was fabulous.  It is sure nice to get out of the school for our learning.  There are always objectives to the field trips and extra experiences I try and provide.  I was hoping, through visiting the florist, that it would help us set up our own flower store in our dramatic play center.  It was interesting to hear the students talk about having to put the flowers in the refrigerator etc as we were setting up our center today.  We wrote in our journals about our favorite part of the field trip and our favorite things, in order were .... 1.  Drinking hot chocolate at Starbucks.  2.  Seeing the firemen 3. ...

It has been another busy week in Kindergarten!  Here is what we have been learning ... Math:  We have continued our work on shapes, identifying characteristics that are unique to each shape.  Today we discussed how a square and rectangle are the same and different.  Each day this week we have been practicing all of the different ways to show the number on the calendar.  Today we talked about what an even number is.  Ask your child if he/she can tell you what is special about even numbers.  We have just started our learning about even and odd, so if he/she can't tell you, don't worry!  Literacy:  We have done lots of writing this week including writing about our favorite color and why we think it is best.  We started by watching the story "Red is Best".  We then watched the Flames hockey team read the story (which some of the hockey fans thought was pretty cool) and discussed why they might think red is best.  The students w...

Happy Monday!  Some of the things we have been learning in Kindergarten over the past few days ... Today we talked about triangles and what their characteristics are.  We looked a different sizes and forms and discovered that all triangles have 2 things in common - they have 3 points (vertices) and 3 straight sides.  It was more difficult discovering things in our environment that can be triangular, but the students surprised me with their thinking!  Some of the things we thought of were slices of pizza, pyramids, tents, the roof of a house, a shark's fin (and teeth), a slide, the mountains and a birthday hat.  Ask your child what he/she can find at home that can be a triangular shape?  Can they draw a triangle?  I found that some children needed support in this area today.  You can help them by drawing three dots and having them connect them, one side at a time.  Thank you!!! The morning class learned about the Subnivean Zone last Thur...

Happy Wednesday!  We have had some great learning happening over the past few days.  Here is what we have learned... - not to put lego up your nose and what you can do if you do and it gets stuck - What animals do in the winter ...  ask your child if they can describe what hibernation, migration and adaptation all mean - the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees - what the characteristics are of a circle.  Can your child give you examples of things in real life that are circular?  We are talking about 2D shapes now and will progress to 3D shapes over the next couple of weeks.  We spend a lot of time discovering shapes in our environment.  Ask your child what shapes he/she sees when you are traveling in the car, sitting at the Dr's office, waiting in line at the grocery store... - We read the story "Ten Black Dots" and created our own "dot" pictures using between 1 and 10 dots and drawing pictures around our dots.   We told ou...