Latest Updates...A Time to Remember

Dear K-PM Parents, ❤️❤️❤️

It has been an active first half of November. We started off by preparing our display of poppies for the VW Remembrance Day ceremony on November 10th at 11 AM.  Here are a few photos of our work in progress...

We continue to work on letter recognition in French, by reading, writing and creating our beautiful group paper-collage of «Tika Tika Boum Boum!»

Here's our collective artistic project!  I'm so pleased with the results!  They put much effort and picked partners they usually don't work with. Bravo la Maternelle! 

 

 Merci!  Thank you!

Mme Nielsen 

October In Review...

Dear K-PM Parents, 

Wow! Another month has come and gone and we have already started November! 

Here are their beautiful Halloween costumes...

And now for a silly pose...

Then, off we went to the VW's Parade of Costumes, where Gru and his Mignons were busily entertaining the crowd...

And wishing everyone a Happy Halloween...

This was only the beginning of the week!

On Friday, November 3rd we were back in the gym with the grades 1-5 for a concert by Michael Mitchell, singing along to many well-known Songs rich in Canadian historical content!

Thank you to Mme Janine Patenaude for preparing our students by practicing the songs in music class!

Now, I would like to thank all of you, the parents and grandparents, for bringing your children/grandchildren to school!  You are truly helping your child by playing this important role in your child's education and eventually future employment! 

So, you're probably asking why I'd be talking to you about future job opportunities? I'm actually taking a course in "Career Development" in order to complete a Certification in Inclusive Education. So, I was curious to see how the students felt about their future "Jobs" or "Work"? Here are the responses I received in their own words:

 

              * Helping friends

              * Café Owner

              * Substitute Teacher

              * Superstore Security Guard

              * Ambulance Driver

              * Princess/ Queen

              * Pharmacist

              * Batman 

              * Doctor

              * Lego Nynja

              * Toy Tester

              * Science Tester

              * Police Woman

              * Shopper

              * Policeman

              * Batman - Yes! We could always use more than one!

              * Doctor 

Play time is crucial to a child's development in so many areas of growth and learning. By playing Batman, a child is creatively communicating to understand the needs of others. S/he is collaborating to share ideas and problem-solving, all while critically thinking about various solutions. Now the students do not need to know all of this information, but when they are ready all of these skills will be important in the future!

Here are a few more of our weekly play centres...

 

Welcome to our VW Café! What would you like order? 

    Maybe future archeologists?

Geoboards are so much fun! Creating shapes with elastics!

Creating...

Problem-solving...critical thinking...

Communicating!

Merci to all of you who help shape the futures of our students!

Have a good weekend! 

Muriel

Mme Nielsen

Oct. 23-27th Updates and Reminders

Dear K-PM Parents,

We are quickly approaching Halloween! Please help your child dress into their costume on Tuesday PM. They may also choose to get dressed in theme colors: orange, black, white and/or purple! We will have a parade of costume-assembly in the gym on Oct. 31st at about 1:05 pm! Feel free to join us in the gym!

On Monday, October 30th, we will be craving our class pumpkin. Please ”Dress for the Mess"! Our Library will be on Monday, as Mme Rochon was away on Friday. It is also our regular gym day - Day 3 - where the kids will have a chance to explore the ”Halloween Circuit"!

Many exciting events are happening to wrap up our month of October!

Please see the following photos of our weekly learning activities and of our newly organized and creative play centres: created by the talented morning K-AM/ F. I. Teacher: «Mme Mousseau»! 

A great big bouquet of appreciation to Madame Mousseau! Merci! 

    Our build a building centre!

        Great representation !

   Neatly stored blocks!

   However, one group decided to be extra creative 

    and build the Batmobile!

    Nuts and bolts matching centre!

   The ipad centre is always a popular one!

  Choosing between Français: songs, ...

    And Français videos!

   We have many choices...Time to change centre!

   Math and creativity...

   Team work!

   Creating shapes!

   Building mosaics!

  Discovering at the sand table!

  In social studies and Math...

  We created pattern trains representing 

   the number of people in our family.

  Then, we recreated the train onto the chart...

   To create a bar graph of our families!

  Bravo!  La Maternelle!

Merci!

Muriel 

Mme Nielsen

Weekly Updates

Dear K-PM Parents,

As I reflect upon our week at school, I realized that your children have been adjusting to routines for the last seven weeks!  They seem to be quite use to our daily routines and thus, more learning is taking place!

This week we had time to create beautiful fall leaves, using markers, white glue and Jello-powder or cristals. The final results are a blend of fall colours, leaves that are textured and feel like a sandy finish, and smell delightful!

Here are our art fall projects in progress: «L'automne »

In Social Studies, arts and science, we coloured our "Family Trees" by coloring on different surfaces to create a textured tree trunk!

On Thursday, we added our "leaves" for every member of our families!

We also worked/played in a variety of centres to develop our interests, our talents, our team work, our social skills, our problem solving skills and our fine motor skills too!

Merci and have a great weekend!

Muriel

❤️ Mme Nielsen