Merry Christmas!

Hi Parents,

Time seemed to speed up even more this week... it is now Friday and the beginning of the Christmas Holidays!


On Wednesday we had our Christmas party. After a trip on the Snowflake Express (Lori the Conductor sure took us on a crazy ride to the North Pole!) we were excited to find some bells hidden under our chairs! Like Mrs. Demas said last week when she told us the magical story of the Polar Express, if we can hear the bell ring it means we believe in the magic of Christmas! A little boy during the excitement kept shaking his bell exclaiming: "I believe in Christmas! I can hear the bell!"

The kiddos did such an AMAZING job at the Christmas concert yesterday! If you happened to get a couple pictures of the whole group, would you mind sending them to me? I would love to post some on my bulletin board.

Today we ended our week by making some Christmas wreaths with our book buddies. The whole project took about an hour and we had a blast! We always have a great time with our book buddies :)

I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas holiday. Thank you for all the thoughtful cards+gifts - I am truly spoiled! It has been an excellent 2012 :)

- Christine B

Daily 5 Update :)

Hello Parents,

A couple months ago I talked to you all about Daily 5, a new centres-based literacy program.
The Daily 5 is a structured language arts program that helps students develop the daily habits of reading, writing, and working with peers that will lead to a lifetime of independent literacy.  Students will participate in one of the five activities every day:  Read to Self, Read with Someone (teacher, peer, parent, Grade 4 book buddy, etc.), Listen to Reading, Word Work and Work on Writing.

Here are some pictures to give you a glimpse of all the activities we've been doing during Daily 5:

Daily 5 not only gives the kiddos a chance to explore literacy (in terms of letters, sight words, and reading books) but it also gives the teachers a chance to work with smaller groups for interventions and more phonographics work! It has been going so well - thank you for your support and help with this new program!

(And a big thank you to Mrs. Peek for such a wonderful description of Daily 5 for kindergarten!)

-- Christine B

Jack and Jill went up the hill to...

"... slide back down!"
"... go to the wishing well."
"... run around. That's what I sometimes do."

Hello Parents!

The theme that we are talking with the kiddos about is... you guessed it! Nursery Rhymes :)  We've been having a lot of fun exploring different Nursery Rhymes and making our own rhymes.

Last week, we estimated how many cups would fill a pail. We had estimations ranging from 6 to 127! We also recorded our results by tallying up the cups on the white board. The results ranged from 20 to 22 cups to fill up the pails of water... that would have been 20 to 22 trips up and down the hill for Jack and Jill!







We are having a lot of fun talking about rhymes... try playing a rhyming game with your child this week!

-- Christine B.