A Wintery Hike!

On Thursday morning, the sun was shining, it was a beautiful cold morning and the blue class went for a hike in our forest.  Our job was to look for evidence of animals, maybe animal tracks, or maybe even animal homes.  The keen eyesight of our students spotted blue jays, a woodpecker, a nest, lots of tracks and many potential animal homes in the base of trees or amongst the dead grass and under rocks! The students returned to the class excited, but tired.

One student who was dragging behind, struggling through the deeper snow, all dressed up in snowpants was skeptical of our adventure.  He looked at Ms. Byrne, who was at the end of our line with him, and said "Ms. Byrne, are you sure about this?"😀

Christmas Baking

On Monday of this week, we did some Christmas baking.  The blue group made delicious reindeer cookies, while the green group enjoyed making and baking some scrumptious gingerbread men!

All in all, it was a delicious day!

Snowmen

What a wonderful day for snowmen making, with the green class, we made a whole class of snowmen!

What's a snowman without a "magic hat?"

Our frosty friends outside our window will be sure to keep an eye on us!

Using your WITS!

In an effort to address bully prevention, our Principal Ms. Alce held a short assembly where she quickly reviewed what bullying was and how to use a strategy that empowers children called WITS in order to deal with confrontation. WITS is an acronym.  W stands for "walking away", I is for "Ignore", T is for "Talking it Out" and S stands for "Seeking teacher help".  Each of the strategies was modelled for all the Kindergarten students.  We also review them in class on a regular basis.  We are lucky, as Mrs. Kinsman had previously introduced this approach so our students were somewhat familiar with the terms.  On an ongoing basis, when the students tell us about something they are unhappy about, we ask them if they have used their WITS!! Maybe your child has told you about it, but it is definitely a strategy that can be used outside of school as well.

In an effort to understand and address any bullying issues, Ms. Alce also mentioned to the students that if they were speaking to an adult, it is important to tell them how many times someone was bothering them.  Obviously, bullying is not an incident that happens once or twice, and before making any decisions about  consequences, it is imperative for the adult to know how often it is happening.  

Thank you so much for your understanding and support!

Last few days of Kindergarten

Thank you to everyone that joined us at our Class Party on Thursday! I think we had bellies full of ice cream and the smiles never seemed to leave the children's faces! So overall it was a great success! 

Here are a few pictures we wanted to share before we head into Summer Holidays! We hope you enjoy:)

Lily and Emery look like Twins:)

                                                     Volcano Inquiry!

Adelaide's Volcano

Tessa's Volcano

Estella, Riley, Evelyn and Sierra!

Kindergarten Fun Day!!

Kindergarten Fun Day was a BLAST! The children arrived at school beaming with excitement for this very anticipated fun day! They enjoyed a beautiful sunny day outside participating in some fun activities! Then enjoyed a nice cool freezie to end the day!

CONSTRUCTION ZONE!

BUBBLE EXTRAVAGANZA! 

PAINT BLAST!

WATER BOOTCAMP!

UP, UP AND AWAY!

GET YOUR GROOVE ON!

Jeremy enjoying the spray painting!

Musical Chairs was a lot of fun!

Look at all of our artists!

Sand castle buddies

Bubbles, bubbles, everywhere!

Hard at work!

We might have got wet but we had fun!

Update on Bake Sale Notice

We sent home a note regarding the Bake Sale to support Summer Send-Off that takes place on Tuesday, June 20th from 5:30-7:30. We just wanted to confirm if you are sending in any baked goods with your child, please make sure all baked goods are NUT FREE! Thank you!

Blue Group-Class Party!

Come celebrate the end of the year with us on Thursday June 22nd at 2:30. Join us for some ice cream sundaes, songs and a slideshow:) This notice went home at the beginning of this week! Let us know if you have any questions!

Kindergarten Outside Fun Play Day!!

Important upcoming date! 

June 15th with a rain date of June 16th for Kindergarten Fun Day!!

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask us! This note went home today in your child's note tote! 

King of ING

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King of "ing!"

If you have seen some beautiful crowns come home in the last couple of days, your child might have mentioned that they are the "king of ing!"

This week the senior kindergartens in the blue class and the green class have learnt about "ing words"

If the children write an "ing word" or use an "ing word" in a sentence, or find one around the classroom, we award them to be the king of ing! 

Maddy and Corbin working together to write their "ing words"

Finding "ing words" in our small reading books!

Working together to find and write "ing words"

Xander pointing to the word "shopping"

Working together in small groups to create their own "ing" words.