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/Français, 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»:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJi-6kZiMWw&t=0h0m12s 

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

April 16-20th Updates and Reminders

Dear K-PM Parents, 

Bonjour! 

This week we started our new mini centres. These include working on numbers 11-20, identifying, printing, doing 1-1 correspondence, while using play dough to shape the numbers on the cards! 

We also have two alphabet centres printing lower & upper-case, while using a highlighter/ or marker. 

Identifying specific letters: K and L in a circle, while using a bingo dabbler. Creating bargraphs by counting spring pictures, coloring in a square on a bargraph to indentify the number of items in each picture...

Groups of Ten: Reading, creating, identying groups of 10-80...some liked to go 100!  This was done by reading a big book in French on base 10, then using various counters to create their groups of ten. We also have a new mini book « Les nombres de 0 à 12» to add to our Ziplock bag with base-10 cards,  0-12 to read with the rest of our collection...

     Bravo tous les Amis !  

     Have a wonderful sunny weekend!!

Merci,

Muriel

Mme Nielsen

April 9th...April 13th Updates

Dear K-PM Parents, 

First of all, I wanted to wish everyone celebrating an April Birthday: “Happy Birthday!” Especially to our monthly class birthdays:

         

             Bonne Fête Claire! Le mercredi 25 avril 2018!! 

                                      Bravo! Bravo! 

I hope that everyone is keeping warm during this cold Spring week! In, class we have started our new calendar/ «le Calendrier», worked on counting, forward, backward, by 2's & 5's to 30. We write the date daily and practice saying it aloud with someone. 

In our new mini centres, we will be working in groups of three, with one group of two.  In our groups we continue to learn our cooperative learning roles😊 or jobs: A) the captain/ «le chef», B) the gopher/ «le Chercheur» de matériel & C) the timer/ «le garde-temps». While working in the centres, the children learn to do each job, as we rotate through the centres daily. 

Next week we will be having: 

Gym/ Éducation physique - Day 5 - Monday, April 16th

Music/ Musique & Gym/ Éducation physique - Day 6 - Tuesday, April 17th

Double mini centres / - Day 1 - Wednesday, April 18th

Library/ Bibliothèque - Day 2 - Thursday, April 19th 

Metro Commun Day - No school - Friday, April 20th 

And finally here are a few photos of our past weekly activities...

Creating, building, cooperating, sharing, problem-solving, speaking, listening, reading, and writing were part of the skills being developed during the week :)

We are also creating a “Bucket Filling Bulletin Board" similar to this one to practice our communication skills.

     Thank you and Merci! Have a wonderful weekend!

Merci,

Muriel

Mme Nielsen

April 2nd...April 6th Updates!

Dear K-PM & Parents, 

Welcome back!

Throughout the week we've returned to routines, started new centres, worked on alphabet skills, numbers: counting, writing and identifying them to 30! 

Friday, we reviewed the following stories: "Have You Filled A Bucket Today? " and "How Full is Your Bucket?"  🍿🍿🍿 and celebrated with a popcorn party... I will have some more next week when all of our classmates return :)

     Here are the links to the above video stories: 

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G3u-jUvANN8 

 

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5R6-2m_qHk 

     We also worked on a beautiful cooperative learning puzzle!   

     Here are a few photos of our new centres...

  

     Have a great weekend!

     Merci,

     Muriel

   Mme Nielsen  💗 🎉 😊

March 12 - 23 Updates

Dear K-PM Parents,

    Here are our transportation art & writing activities...

    Our new Pita Pit centre is a great success!

    The iPads continue to be of high interest to everyone...

    Building structures are always a favorite...

Drawing, cutting, stamping, glueing,...all help develop our fine motor skills!

    Creating new 3D structures with 2D magnetic shapes...

   I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful week off!

   I will see you on Monday, April 2 - Day 1!

Merci,

Muriel 

Mme Nielsen

Marvellous March 1-9th Updates...

Dear K-PM Parents,

     We've been quite busy since the beginning of March!  We have finished our rotations of mini-centres and all the children are looking forward to the new set.  The students have enjoyed the learning activities, while learning new responsibilities. The cooperative jobs of Captain, Helper and Timer lended themselves well to the smaller groups of 2's.  

🚲 🚄 🚂 🚁 ✈️ ⛵️ 🛥 🚤 ⛴ 🚀 🏁🚦🚧 🚲 🚄 🚂 🚁 ✈️ ⛵️ 🛥 🚤 ⛴ 🚀 🏁🚦🚧

     The next theme for our mini-centres are going to be «Les moyens de tranports»/ Transportation Modes.  This time I will try with groups of three!  We will work on Math concepts of: patterning (creating, continuing, identifying), counting (identifying 1-10 sets, creating sets of 1-10), area/ surface/ art( creating a vehicle using pattern blocs, covering a transportation picture using small squares of tissue paper). Fine motor skills/ Art continue to be an important part of all our mini-centres.  We will work on printing, reading, drawing and using scissors to cut, while learning the Français/ French words for different modes transportation: air, land and water ways! As part of our Science goals, we will measure (using cubes, meter rulers) make predictions, of the distance travelled by our vehicles from a ramp!  Then, creating a bar graph to compare vehicles with distance travelled! Should be fun :)

Here is a view of what we worked on, in the last set of « Les mini-centres d'hiver»...

       Bravo la Maternelle!   Way to go K-PM! 

Merci,

Muriel 🚗 🚕 🚙 🚌 🚎 🚒 🚑 🚓 🏎 🚚 🚛 🚜 🏍 

Mme Nielsen