What did you do today?

1.  Today, I made a helmet out of sticks and connectors.  (Adam)
2.  Today, I made Christmas windows.  (Justin)
3.  Today, I made a reindeer with my hand print.  I put decorations on it.  (Mason)
4.  Today, Emma and I made a house made out of Lego.  It was Santa's Claus' house.
5.  Today, we read the whole morning message.  We made Mme Carroll cry because we don't need her for the morning message.  (Victoria)

Note:
If you have empty wrapping paper rolls, would you kindly send them to school with your child?  We will put them to good use in January.  We are going to use them for a Science and Technology activity.  Thank you :)

Christmas is coming....

Today at school :

1. I went to the drawing center and I made a picture of Mary, Joseph in the stable.  I coloured the whole thing beautiful.  (Ayden)

2. I played a the building center.  I made a robot from snap cubes.  (Mikkel)

3.  I went to the play do center and I made a gingerbread man.  (Alicia)

4.  I played at the writing center . (Breeona)

5.  I went to the sand table and played with Allison.  (Parpar)

Note : Parents don't forget that our kindergarten Christmas concert is tomorrow, December 17th at 10:15 am in the school gym.  See you there !  Mrs. Mendonca

Dear Santa

Posted by Mrs. Mendonca

Today at school we wrote letters to Santa Claus.  We practiced writing some new sight words in our letter : mom, dad, me, love.  We also practiced using scissors as we cut out pictures of some gifts we are wishing for for Christmas.  We will be mailing our letters to Santa.  Take a look at some letters from a few friends in our class :

We also enjoyed some of the other Christmas centers today :

Here is one of our friends  reading a Christmas book at the reading center. 

At the dramatic play center we are retelling the story of Christmas using this wooden nativity set Mrs. Mendonca brought from home.

In the sensory bin, the friends are counting the various Christmas items.  Can you count how many gold Christmas balls are in the bin? Can you see any Christmas bows?

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I planned the pattern for my decoration and I made my decoration.  (Adam)
2.  Today, at the Art centre, I  put decorations on my ornament.  (Victoria)
3.  Today, we practised French words we can say at the flower shop:  "Bonjour!", "Merci", "Aide-moi", "fleur", "rose", "tournesol".  (Riya, Caleb, Breeona, Justin, Arjan, Victoria)
4.  Today, we explored magnets.  (Justin)
5.  Today, I drew a flower and I wrote the names of the things you need to grow a flower.  (Caleb)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Posted by : Mrs. Mendonca

Christmas is fast approaching and we are getting very excited.  The children are enjoying learning Christmas songs, reading Christmas stories and playing at our Christmas centers.  This week we read a great book called, "The Bird in Santa's Beard".  It was a great book about Santa helping out a little bird who didn't fly south with all of his other bird friends.  He needed a warm place to stay, so he got comfy in Santa's beard.  It was a great book !


We also enjoyed writing Christmas words at the writing center. We got to write on special Christmas paper and we practiced our best writing.  Here are a few friends at the writing center :

They did some amazing work.  Here are some examples from Alicia and Alrizha :

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I learned how to do patterns.  I did patterns on a Christmas decoration.  (Alicia)
2.  Today, I built some robots.  (Mikkel)
3.  This morning, I learned new French.  I learned new French Christmas words.  And I made a person with two mouths.  (Mason)
4.  Today, I colored my germ busters.  (Ayden)
5.  Today, I measured  with Lego blocks.  (Olivia)

Note:

Blankets are being sent home.  Please wash them and return them to school Monday.  Have a great weekend!

What did you do today?

1. This morning, we learned about Christmas words in French.  (Mason)
2.  Today, I played with Arjan, Caleb, Cyrus and Adam.  We made a house.  (Ayden)
3.  Today, I helped Mme Carroll put on the numbers and the houses we made.  The houses and numbers are to count down to Jesus' birth.  (Alicia)
4.  Today, we sang a Santa Claus song in the classroom.  (Breeona)
5.  Today, I made a castle with Olivia and Par Par.  We used blocks.  (Riya)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I sang a French Christmas song, "Quand le Pere Noel vient me visiter".  (Alicia)
2.  Today, we went to the Learning Commons.  We listened to music for the first week of Advent.  (Cyrus)
3.  Today, we made a Christmas tree.  (Riya)
4.  Today, we made houses that looked like the houses in Bethlehem.  We will use those to decorate our door.  (Arjan)
5.  Today, we wrote numbers on purple squares.  We are using the numbers to count down to Jesus' birth.  (Elroei and Breeona)