Room 4 shared some very sweet valentines messages with each other today. We made gnome valentine bags to collect our cards and treats and the kids were so excited to share. Thank you for sending such cute mementos!
Tomorrow is the last school day of the week, and it is the 100th day of school! We will celebrate by doing lots of 100-themed activities throughout the day.
Everyone is excited for Valentines Day tomorrow. Students are welcome to bring a Valentine for each classmate (there are 21 in total) to put in our Valentines bags tomorrow afternoon. Bags will be sent home for students to open after school!
Wednesday is the 100th Day of School! Last year, Kindergarten dressed up as 100-year olds to mark the day and many students have asked if they will be dressing up. This year we will do a day's worth of activities that are based on the number 100, but we won't be dressing up (a whole day is a long time to be wearing a white wig and face-paint wrinkles!). It will be just as fun, I promise.
It's a short week with Teachers' Convention taking place on Thursday and Friday, and the following Monday is Family Day, so we will have a 5-day weekend.
We read "The Most Magnificent Thing" by Ashley Spires today. It is a great book to use as inspiration for our Story Workshop time, where students are invited to plan, build, create and imagine unique projects that display their talents and interests. One of our students is fascinated by the human body...check out the clay model of lungs that he created!
Today we counted loose part collections by sorting the parts into groups of five and ten. We discovered that counting by 5s and 10s helps us count efficiently (counting by 3s and 9s was not as effective, we learned as well). This is a great activity to do at home to keep young minds and hands actively thinking and problem solving. Buttons, rocks, popcorn kernels or cheerios all make great loose parts.
Valentines Day is approaching and I know that kiddos always love giving and receiving valentines at school. Students are welcome to bring in valentines to distribute next Tuesday. We have 21 students in our class, so please be sure to include a card for each student to ensure that all kiddos feel included. We will have a classroom valentines celebration in the afternoon on February 14th and will do our card exchange then, for cards to be opened at home after school
Next week will be a short week with Teachers’ Convention taking place on Thursday and Friday, and with Family Day being a holiday on February 20th.
Two items went home with students today:
First, a number practice sheet that is laminated so dry-erase markers can be used. If you don't have dry-erase markers, your child can go over the numbers with a pencil or a pen with a lid on it, just to repeatedly practice their number formation. Remind your child to form the number from the top down, as opposed to the bottom up. The more practice, the better!
Second, a brown paper bag went home with a note attached explaining our loose parts collection. If you have any small, clean items that can be used as counters, collage materials or story workshop pieces, we would be grateful for the donation. Ideas include buttons, bottle caps, milk jug lids and more. We just ask that it fit inside the bag...anything bigger is difficult to store.
There are no classes for students tomorrow...enjoy the long weekend!
Winter Walk Day was a bit of a bust! The temperature dipped to -20 with the windchill, which is the official cut off for outdoor activity at school so we missed out on our afternoon jaunt. We will try again tomorrow!
Our Snowflake mandalas are coming along...check out these beauties!
180 'school days' ago, we started our journey in Grade One together...and now it all wraps up tomorrow with our last day of school! ...
