We had a wonderfully whimsical week in kindergarten! We exercised our imaginations this week by creating silly fictional stories. Each imaginary picture needed to show WHO was there, WHERE they were and WHAT they were doing. Children are perfect storytellers, full of wild and creative ideas. Ask your child about the imaginary story they created.

 

"One day I went to find my pet unicorn."

"When I woke up I turned into Spiderman and I went to find the real Spiderman and we fought bad guys." 

"My mom and me are in a castle and we are alicorns." 

"When Neel was at school, a cobra came into the class!"

To enhance our understanding of the letter D this week, students were introduced to an artist who is very good at using his imagination, Salvador Dali. We learned that he finds much of the inspiration for his paintings from his dreams. Children enjoyed reading stories about Dali, looking at his artwork and talking about the weird and wonderful things they could find in his paintings. We thought the melting clocks were particularly interesting and decided to create some of our own. Students learned how to use shading, highlights and blending to make their paintings look more realistic. 

 

 

 

We learned a very tricky new math game this week that made it very clear to see who has mastered the concept of more and less and is able to apply their understanding to simple problem solving. I would highly encourage you to give this a try at home to see how your child is progressing. 

You will need:

2 players and a set of number cards 0-10 

(have your child make them and practice their number printing skills!)

1. Organize the numbers into a line from 0-10

2. Partner #1 writes down a number between 0 and 10 and keeps it hidden from their partner

3. Partner #2 has to figure out the mystery number by asking questions. The only questions they are allowed to ask are:

 "Is your number more than ____" or "Is your number less than ____"

4. Partner #2 flips over numbers that are eliminated

5. When there is only 1 number left, Partner #2 says, "Is your number ___?" Check to see if your guess is correct!

Classroom Reminders:

1. If possible, please send your child to school with a water bottle each day. We often take "water breaks" throughout the day :)

2. Next week is Love of Reading Week! To celebrate our love of stories, I would like to invite some guest storytellers to come in and read to us next week. If you are interested in being one of our guest storytellers, I invite you to bring in one of your child's favourite storybooks from home to read to our class.  We would be so honoured to have you! Click HERE to sign-up for the day and time you would like to come in. We will have one morning and one afternoon guest reader each day.

Stay warm this weekend!

Miss Roberts :)