Our Fall Hikes

 

The students in room 132 have been participating in fall hikes and scavenger hunts with Mrs. Greco and Mrs. King.  The students have been looking for the signs of fall, and each group also collected items to bring back to the classroom with them.  We used the items to talk about the changing seasons, and we also used the items to make fall art.  Photos to come...

Our Yoga Mats!



YOGA TIME!

 

 

Our Yoga mats have arrived!  And you can sense the excitement in the room!  We want to thank Mrs. Greco for searching high and low to find us mats for our daily yoga time.  The children are able to focus on their yoga practice in their own space.  We have created a class book about our favourite yoga poses.  Please watch for this class book to come to your home soon in your child's backpack.  I will add a photo of our new yoga mats once I return to school on Monday.

Our Farm Floor Puzzle

We have moved our puzzles to a new location in the classroom.  Following the move, the students have shown an increase in interest in working at this centre.  We added the giant farm floor puzzle to the puzzle centre after our trip to Knox Pumpkin Farm.

Our Trip to Knox Pumpkin Farm 

 

Wonderful fall display at the barn.

 

Petting the Pony

 

This friendly mare was very excited to see our class during the barn tour!  She leaned out and over the gate, and made our barn tour very memorable!

 

One of the cute little animals on the barn tour.  Our students were excited to be able to pet the ponies, pigs, rabbits, alpacas and kittens.

 

The friendly cows at Knox.

 

These goats arrived at Knox Farm on the very day of our tour.  They were not ready to be petted but we enjoyed looking at them.

 

 

One week old baby chicks.

 

Farmer J - our tour guide - holding one of the baby chicks.

Independent Reading - Browsing Bag Time!

Our Senior Kindergarten students have begun their independent reading time.  Our first session was an outside reading time in the Kindergarten yard.  The weather was perfect for outdoor reading, and the Senior Kindergarten students enjoyed their reading!  Mrs. Piurko supervised their reading time, and enjoyed listening to each student read to her!  We will continue our independent reading inside the school on days when the weather doesn't cooperate for outside reading.

Math Focus:

We have been learning about graphing - or as the students have been learning to call it "Data Management."  We have made a number of class graphs including:  Our Favourite Colours, Which Book Would We Like to Read First?, Which Book Was Our Favourite?, Healthy Snacks, Favourite Pets and Favourite Franklin Book.  The students have been learning about pictographs, and we will be learning about bar graphs next.

 

 Felt Board Centre

 

We have seen an increase in visitors to our felt board centre lately.  We discussed how students could use the felt images to retell a familar story or create a new story.  Here are three felt stories created in the last week: