Saturday 26 May 2018

Play Time Centres!

Dear K- PM Parents,

Here are a few of our weekly play time choices during centres!


      Art and origami in progress...


     Our community planners and builders...


     Hard at work!

    

     Fun with fine motor skills...

    

    And the applications on the iPads help develop fine motor skills, listening, reading, writing/ printing & directional awareness...

  Wonderful team building activities! Problem-solving! Social skills building!

  Bravo! Way to go PM Kinders...

  ❤️ πŸ’• πŸ’– 😊 Mme Muriel Nielsen






May 22nd - 25th - Patterns!

Dear K - PM Parents,



We had an active and productive week!  Below are a few photos of the patterns we created, based on the Three Little Pigs stories we read in class, in pictures, with concrete items, or counters.  Students were able to create, then reproduce 2, 3, or 4 elements in their patterns!










    Bravo la Maternelle!

   Merci,

   Muriel

   - Mme Nielsen


Friday 25 May 2018

Chez le fleuriste! At the Flower Shop!

Dear K-PM Parents,

Bonjour! Good day!

We had a short and fun-filled week. Today, as part of our study on plants, we created beautiful roses that are on display at the front entrance!


   Here are some pictures of our art in progress!



    Wow! What wonderful art work and fine motors skills too!

    Bravo la Maternelle!  Way to go PM Kinders!!

Merci,

Muriel

 πŸ’— ❤️ πŸ’– 😊 Mme Nielsen





Monday 21 May 2018

The 3 Little Pigs Study/ Les 3 petits cochons

Dear K-PM Parents,

We have begun our study of «Les 3 petits cochons». We read several versions of this traditional childhood favorite and identified the Who? - characters, the What? - 3 types of houses. And thought about the What if? - the 3 little pig had built his house of paper? Or gingerbread? Maybe the Wolf would be too full to eat the pigs!

Then, we reread a shorter version, and highlighted all the words with the «ou» sounds in them. We played a detective game with this by looking for these sounds and circling them!  What great detective work Maternelle !

Here are a few photos of this study:



     We were in groups of two creating the illustrations to decorate our bulletin board!


     Bravo la Maternelle!  πŸ˜‰  Way to go PM Kinders!!  πŸ˜ŽπŸ€—

  See you tomorrow! Day 6 - Phys. Ed. πŸƒπŸΌπŸ‘Ÿ & Music 🎧🎹🎀

Merci,
Muriel

Mme Nielsen

Sunday 20 May 2018

May 14th - 18th Updates...

Dear K - PM Parents,

    As we continue our study of paper...it's textures, usefulness and where it comes from...


   We've had a classmate show us how to create these beautiful origami tulips and created them into Mother's Day Cards!  Merci Claire pour ton aide !


     We started our paper creations by ripping construction paper into small pieces, wetting it, then reshaping it, by covering the bottom of a plastic cup to shape it into little "bowls".

     Here's our work in progress...







    More photos to come as this project develops into little bowls!

   Have a wonderful long weekend!

    Merci,

    Muriel

    Mme Nielsen










Thursday 17 May 2018

May 7th - May 11th Updates :)

Dear K-PM Parents,

Here are a few highlights of our week in Kindergarten...







   Bravo la Maternelle !  Way to go PM Kinders!

Merci,

Muriel 

   Mme Nielsen






Sunday 6 May 2018

April 30th - May 4th Updates!

  
Bonjour! Good day!

Dear K-PM Parents,

In Science, we started our study on paper. We collected paper on terms and shared them with the class. Thank you parents for sending these people teams to school with your child and enhancing our learning!



On Friday, a classmate demonstrated how to make paper tulips! I will post these beautiful works of art on Monday! If your child wishes to show classmates "how to make" something let me know and I can organise the supplies.



In French/FranΓ§ais, we have also started a study on the "Three Little Pigs"/ «Les trois petits cochons». We viewed original versions made by Walt Disney in the 1930's and dubbed in French. I don't recall the children ever laughing so hard!! 

Here is the link of if you'd like to watch it at home: «Les trois petits cochons»:


We will be identifying common French sounds in our newest mini book of the «3 petits cochons», by using different coloured highlighters to circle the same sounds. 

In Math, we continue to work on our French counting skills 0-30, quickly indentifying base ten numbers, and playing dice games to identying numbers 1-6 and match them to the corresponding amount on a dotted dice pattern. 

Also we continue to play, share, take turns, problem-solve and socialize in our Play centres...here are a few more of the weekly photos:







Have a beautiful sunny weekend!

See you on Monday :)

Muriel 
Mme Nielsen