Welcome Back!

Welcome back! We hope that you all had a great March Break! We were excited to hear the kids tell us stories and draw pictures of what they did over the March Break :)

This week we have been focusing on a variety of fun activities including music, art, emotions and feelings!

Our "Kindergarten Art Gallery"

We have some fantastic Artist's in our class!

We have been talking about some famous artist's and the variety of ways we can paint and create art! 

This is one particular artist we talked about: Peter Longstaff, who uses his feet to create beautiful paintings. The kids were amazed at what he was able to create using only his feet!

So we thought why not let the kids create their own masterpiece painting with their feet!

We had fun getting our feet painted and dancing to music!

We apologize if there was some colorful socks that came home but the kids absolutely LOVED this!

Our feet are ready!!

Corbin might have been a little ticklish!

Ms. Kemp helping clean our feet!!

We got some great dancers!

We listened to a variety of music, slow songs, fast songs, silly songs, etc and let the kids draw how the music made them feel! We discussed different emotions and feelings, we talked about different colors and techniques they could use to express the way they were feeling.

It was really interesting to see how each of them interpreted the music and how it made them feel! 

This music makes me happy :)

This music makes me feel silly!

We have also read some fantastic art stories this week!

 The dot- By Peter H Reynolds

Sky Color- By Peter H Reynolds

Spot the Dots- By Peter H Reynolds

Ten Black Dots- By Donald Crews

Ish-By Peter H Reynolds

A Message from Mrs. Klein

For the parents who have not met me, let me introduce myself. I am a parent of 4 adult kids and a grandmother to 5 ranging in age from 18 months to 13 years. I have been teaching with the OCDSB for 10 years. I excitedly began as your children's teacher in January and will be with them until the end of June. My colleague Cassie (Ms. Byrne) has done an outstanding job making this an easy transition for your children. I am so enjoying each and everyone of them! If you need to contact me my email is  cheryl.lynne.mccallum@ocdsb.ca

Green Class

Blue Class

Weather!

Weather

We have recently had the children asking some questions like, "How does snow fall from the sky?" or "How come the clouds are dark today?" So we have been talking about different kinds of weather and doing some experiments to find out some answers to these really great questions!

 Our Science table, weather books and some weather sensory bottles to explore!

 We brought in a jar to do a science experiment with the children to show them how clouds work! This particular experiment uses water, shaving cream to represent the clouds, and blue food coloring to represent the rain. They were amazed to see after some time, the "clouds" (shaving cream) gets full and the "rain" (food coloring) falls from the clouds.

Some Predictions from the Blue Class: "It's going to rain"-Bridget
"The blue is going to sit there until it gets full and starts to rain."-Ivy

Patiently waiting for the "clouds" to "rain"

"Wow! Look Ms. Byrne it's raining!"-JK Group 

We had a few "scientists" in our class, draw and record what they saw!

Pet Store

Pet Store 

The children have been interested in turning our Dramatic Play center into a Pet Store!

So far we have some stuffed animals, animal hats, toy snakes, toy aquarium and some empty cat and dog food bags in our store. We are looking for a few more things to add to our kindergarten Pet Store. If you have anything that you would like to donate we would really appreciate it! For example, pet bowls, dishes, small tiny cages or animal carriers and empty food bags.

Thank you for your help!

Valentine's Day for the Green Class

The following letter has been sent home today regarding information for Valentine's Day for the GREEN CLASS! If you have any questions, just send us an email :)

Dear Green Class Families,

Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and we have talked about making Valentine's Day cards for our friends in the class to show them how much we appreciate them. After our discussion, we took a class survey, giving the children the following options:

1. Make enough Valentine's Day cards for all 31 children in the class and then pass out each valentine on Valentine's Day.  OR......
2. Make one special card for a classmate and hand it out on Valentine's Day.

The majority of the class chose to vote for: #1-Make enough Valentine's Day cards for all 31 children in the class. Therefore, we are asking all the children to bring in enough Valentine's Day cards for everyone in the class. Since we are a large class of 31 children please leave the *TO: part of the card BLANK!* This allows the children to pass out their Valentine's Day cards successfully! Keep in mind, we have 17 Boys and 14 Girls in the class. We have decorated Valentine's Day bags at school for all the children to have a special spot that will hold all of the lovely cards they receive.

P.S. Just a little reminder that the following families are signed up to send in the treats for the Valentine's Day Party: Gillespie, Gaffney, Heidt, McCurdy, Giguere, Mallett & Murray.

Thanks again for helping us to have so much fun at school

Mrs. Klein & Ms. Byrne    

Track Detectives!

Lately we have read lots of stories with the kids discovering all kinds of tracks in the snow, animal tracks, vehicle tracks, human tracks! The Snowy Day was a favourite for the kids and they got to create their own "Snowy Day" Picture using puffy paint! (Puffy Paint: shaving cream & white glue)

Some of our Snowy Day creations! 

Madame Behnke helped us make some play dough so we could explore some tracks in the "snow"

Madame's Play dough Recipe: *3 Cups flour, 1 1/2 Cups salt, 2 Tbsp cream of tartar, 3 Tbsp oil, 3 Cups boiling water.

Moose Prints........

Bear Prints........ "The Bear Prints are big and have claws!"

Horse Prints........

We were "track detectives" while reading these wonderful books!!