As part of our AHPS food drive, the kindergartens are participating in the great can race! 

We staged a mini version of the great can race in our class.

We had two cans -one of chicken noodle soup and one of pumpkin puree. One is much bigger than the other. We needed to guess - which can would roll further?

We each made a prediction with the first letter in our name.

Here are our predictions.

Here is the ramp we roll the cans down.

How far will they roll???

If you are able, could you send a can or two for the food bank?We can enter it it in the great can race!

The letter of the week is Dd.

This week we will be reading different stories about the character David. Today we read No David!

 Fun Friday!

We started the day building on our ideas yesterday around vegetable soup. (Its Vv week)

We worked together in our table groups to make vegetable soup.

We had different jobs in our group. Some were cutting out vegetables, some were in charge of gluing and some were our writers.

We are working on our sounding out or inventive spelling skills.

This soup has:

BCL (broccoli)

CLF (cauliflower)

ONS (onions)

TM (tomato)

CAL (celery)

This soup has:

AS (asparagus)

CBG (cabbage)

BROL (broccoli)

ON (onion)

All week (and into next week) we have had lots of fun in our drama centre. It is set up like a Vet's office. 

As we do every Fun Friday, we read my favourite - Elephant and Piggy! This week we read My New Friend is So Fun!

We continue to work on the "et" word family

 Can you read the words in our 'word search'?

For Vv week - we made vegetable soup.

Here is the rhyme we learned to go with it;

Chop chop chipity chop

Cut of the bottom

And cut of the top

What we have left...

We'll throw in the pot!

Chop chop chipity chop.

I was in for this soup until the last ingredient...

We read "Sometimes I Grumblesquinch."

We are reinforcing our learning about the zones.

Katie was in the green zone, then the blue zone and then she was in the red zone.

How could she help herself when she felt she was headed into the red zone?

"She could have asked for some space."

"She could have counted to ten."

"She could have gotten a sip of water."

"She could have taken a deep breath."

All great ideas!

 The beautiful spider plants in our classroom have had babies!

Can you see the babies growing from the parent plant? They get all they need from the parent plant while they are babies - but now it is time for them to grow up and to be on their own!

We took turns gently cutting each baby off of the parent plant.

We put all of the babies in water to get the roots to grow. This is our spider plant nursery.

Once the roots start to grow - we will plant them in pots.

As scientists, we are making observations and we will continue to track and observe the changes in the plants.

 For "et" week and Take-a-Trip Tuesday we visited a Vet.

After our field trip, we filled out our passports:

We read the story Ravi's Roar

Ravi gets soooooo angry! He is definitely in the red zone.

We made a chart to help us remember the different zones.

We getting so good at spotting sight words in our morning message!

The letter of the week is Vv.

We read the book "The Boy with Big Big Feelings."

Now that we know all of the zones, we are starting to sort our feelings into the different zones.
 

To help us remember our zones of regulation - we played emotions bingo.

 

Wrapping up Zz week we made some creative Z's

We counted to add stripes to zebras.

 The last of the Zones of Regulation is the Yellow Zone

It is tough to learn when we are in the yellow zone.

We read the book This Makes Me Silly.

We learned about good times to be silly -and there are lots! - and times when we need to settle ourselves down from being silly.

Continuing with Zones Week, we learned about the red zone.

 How can you help yourself if you are feeling red?

"Take a rainbow breath." (or any breath)

"Walk away - get a drink of water."

"Count to ten." (forwards or backwards)

"I am feeling angry/mad/scared when I am in the red zone."

Many thanks to Mia and her family! In honour of her birthday they donated these beautiful books to our classroom library. They are perfect for our zones week.

We read Ruby Finds a Worry and we found that in order to make our worries smaller - we just need to talk about it!

We are writing about our worries.

"Sometimes I worry about losing things."

Continuing with our Zones Week we learned about the blue zone.

"I am feeling sick when I am in the blue zone."

"I am feeling sad when I am in the blue zone."

"I am feeling lonely when I am in the blue zone."

 Book Fair!

The book fair is back at Aurora Heights! Our class will be visiting the book fair on Friday this week. I have put a flyer into backpacks today and you can also look online:https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5172977

If you wish to send money with your child to make a purchase, please place the money in a sealed envelope or ziplock bag clearly marked with your child's name and what they will purchase.

Welcome to our Zones of Regulation Week! (aka "zones week")

Each day we will be talking about the different zones and how we can help ourselves if we are in a zone that is not conducive to learning. This will help the children build a toolbox for self-regulation. We are hoping that you will also use the zones at home so the children see consistency and that they can use these tools all the time and not just at school.

Today we looked at the green zone. 

This is the ideal zone for learning.

In honour of Zones week the letter of the week is "Zz"

 We got a letter from our pen pals in Mrs. Applebaum's class!

They asked us about our favourite animal.

We took a tally - as they suggested.

"Butterflies have the most - 7"

"Blue Jays have zero."

"Sunfish and turtles have the same. (What is the math word for the same?) Hmmm... equal."

We wrote a letter back right away!