Tuesday - We glued mini-umbrella's into our ABC Book for the letter Uu. - Practice printing of all the numbers to 9. Students independently wrote numbers (see below for your child's white board). Wednesday - Big equipment in the gym (see action shots below) Visit from Baby Evelyn! Wow, has she grown! Some cool shape creations. Isla started a trend that other's couldn't resist! Friday
- We played letter BINGO on the carpet - a big hit with the kids! - In the afternoon, we went to the gym and learned a new game that used some thinking skills to decode a secret colour order. Many students said it was the highlight of their day!
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Wild Wednesday means a morning in the gym for big equipment, a visit from Mrs. Schulz for Roots of Empathy, and an afternoon visit to the Studio! It’s a jam packed day, but filled with fun! Mrs Shea shared some special news with the class during Roots of Empathy. Most have already shared the exciting news with their parents, but if they haven’t.. I am expecting a baby in July! I think it will be interesting for the kids to watch my belly grow as the months go on. They were very intrigued to hear that last week it was the size of a lemon. As you may remember in a previous post, Ben has quite the hoola-hooping skills. And it seems as though he had been teaching his friends as well! Ben held the hoola hoop up for more than 100 seconds!! And could have kept going! We have been working our way through the letters of the alphabet, and numbers to 10. Last week we focused on the letter Oo and Gg. Practice these letters and their sounds with your child to help solidify their learning of the letters. This week, we will be focussing on the letters Uu and Ll. We will also be finishing up our printing books and will be number printing experts! I’ll be keeping my eye out for backwards letters though!! This week, we are switching up the way we sign up for a Center. Usually, we just used tally marks until the Center was full, but these days we will be writing numerals instead! Today was the first day, and they did great (just some backwards numerals)! We have rhymes to help us remember how to write out numbers the kindergarten way. Here’s some examples, though I’ve made a few tweaks to better suit our class.. Please continue to practice number printing. We will be moving onto shapes (2D and 3D) for the remainder of January. If you haven’t done so already, check out our wall which explains where we’re headed in each subject area.
Welcome back! We have had a great start to the new year. On Monday Alex was the special helper and he brought his favourite Christmas gift which was what looked to me as a Furbie, but it hatched out of an egg! The kids were quick to correct me that this toy is called a Hatchimal! It was very popular with the kids, and it sounds like many have the same toy at home. We had a circle to share a story from the break. Sounds like everyone had a great Holiday. Everyone was eager to share what they got for gifts, so we wrote in our journals. It was neat to compare this journal entry to the last one we did before the break. Our last entry was what we wanted for Christmas. Our Monday entry was what we got for Christmas. Many entries were the same - Santa listened! We visited Mrs. Layte in the studio. And did the number 6 printing in our numbers booklet. On Tuesday we began our day with talking about GOALS. New Years Resolutions are common practice and I wanted to introduce this concept to the kids. Setting goals for ourselves are so important. And equally important is working to achieve our goals and celebrating them when we do! I was super impressed with the goals that were set today. Check out the pictures to see what your child wants to personally work towards! Students told Mrs. Shea their goal, which I then wrote on a post-it. Students then copied my writing onto their craft from the AM. A new bulliten board in our room. Our ‘what’s up’ board is a way to help keep us all up to speed on what we’re up to in our class. Check out this board as you enter our room to see what we’re doing in each subject area. LA and SS will be put up tomorrow. Meah’s beautiful picture and experimental writing. I’m super proud of these kids willingness to experiment with these new letters that they are learning. It’s all part of becoming a writer!!
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About Mrs. SheaThis is my second year teaching at Mamquam Elementary, and I absolutely love the school! I am a born and raised Squamish local. This is my 4th year teaching. My husband and I moved to Fort St. John for our first year of teaching, where I had my first Kindergarten class. I am married, and have a dog named Poppy! Archives
February 2018
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