coronach kindergarten

January 31

2012-01-31T13:17:00.001-08:00

Randy Ruthven does a center about categories.
Savannah is a star.

Thursday, Jan.26

2012-01-26T13:46:00.000-08:00

Letter R r

raisins

rainbow

rainbow and pot of gold

More raisins

Working on journals.

Chinese New Year Dragons.

Our day-A new science invitation

2012-01-20T11:46:00.001-08:00

Playing cards.
Fishing for magnets.
Exploring our new Magnet Invitation.

Making C c with plastercine.

I made Cody for the letter C c.
A cake.

Cute Quips;
teacher-"What begins with C?"
student-"Compromise. That's what my mom and dad do."
Another student-"Yeh,my mom and dad fight too."
student-"Water hazard.That's when you drink too much water."

Snowmen of all kinds

2012-01-18T13:27:00.001-08:00

Buster Bear comes to our class

2012-01-16T12:34:00.001-08:00

Hunting for Buster Bear.
We followed the footprints

and read the clues.

Asked some questions.

And discovered the bad little bear stuck in the fridge. He made us some cupcakes and got trapped !

We think he should be called Buster the Baker.

Our new Valentine invitation.

A little helper.

Thanks Monica. I think they loved making Valentines with your help.

Making sets of 5 with teddy grahams.

Our bear cave.

Buster Bear dates

2012-01-10T06:18:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of Buster Bear days:
Monday, Jan. 16- Savannah
Wed . Jan. 18- Braden
Fri. Jan. 20-Kade
Tues. Jan. 24-Kaden
Thurs. Jan. 26-Maia
Tues. Jan. 31-Jordice
Thurs. Feb. 2-Cody
Mon. Feb.6-Dashiel
Wed.Feb.8-Autumn
Fri.Feb.10-Trinity
Tues.Feb.14-Bryanna
Thurs.Feb.16-Hayden

It's party day !

2011-12-20T14:00:00.000-08:00

Look at us dance!

Wait until we're 16!

We have the moves!

Can I dance with you?

Icing cookies.

Decorating cookies. How many sprinkles can I fit on this cookie?

Thank you Monica for the birthday cupcakes. They were so fancy!

We love little visitors!

We had a great pizza lunch. Thanks Mrs.Dyck and Mrs. Delorme.

I can eat the whole pizza!

Thanks to our luch hour volunteers :Nikki and Kaitlyn.

Singing carols in the hall.

looking our best

2011-12-20T05:54:00.000-08:00

Didn't they do a great job at the Christmas concert?! Cute Quips:

Student-"My dog is going to be 16 carrots tall"
Student-"Mrs.Stewart you are sweetful and kindful".
Student-"I think you're 15 years old. That's old."
Student-"I was colouring with my teeth when I was born.With my lips."

The next kindergarten day is Wednesday,January 4th.

gingerbread houses

2011-12-14T14:13:00.001-08:00

The end result of all of our fun.

Many thanks to our grade ten helpers and their teacher Miss Rachel !

Serious business.

I'm done and it's time to eat.

I've enjoyed every candy I've eaten and I hope mom can get the icing out of my pants.

I just tell these girls what I want done and they do it.

If I hold this cracker long enough maybe it will stick.

It's still very serious business.

I like this icing.

Pink icing everywhere.

Miss Rachel gets into the act .

Some skilled grade 10 cookie carvers.

gingerbread girls and boys

2011-12-08T13:25:00.000-08:00

Decorating our cookies. Yum!

Thanks again to Jacquie for helping us make gingerbread cookies.
Counting to 4.
Taking turns.

Making paper gingerbread men that look like us!

Dec.5

2011-12-05T16:00:00.000-08:00

Watch out for animals on the road!

A lion.
Ladder Lock and lamb.

Reminder: Christmas concert is on Dec.19th at 7:00

Keep practicing the letters: B b,Ff ,G g, H h, J j, K k, M m, S s,
T t
Recognizing numbers 1-5,making sets of objects to 5, the terms more,fewer and the same,beginnning to count at any given number from 1-5,counting backwards and forwards to 5.

Rocks ,cookie decorating and Santa letters

2011-12-04T13:36:00.000-08:00

Thank you Jacquie for helping us with science. We loved answering questions about our rock sorting.

Thank you to the grade 11 class for helping us decorate cookies and write letters to Santa. Thanks to the Day Care for baking us cookies and providing us with this marvelous experience!

Reminders

2011-12-01T06:17:00.000-08:00

Important Dates:
December 12th library day
December 14th Christmas Concert- 7:00
December 14th Decorating Gingerbread Houses in the morning with grade 10's
December 20th Last Day of school for kindergartens and library day.

student led conferences

2011-11-29T15:38:00.000-08:00

Thank you to all of the parents who came to parent ,student ,teacher conferences. I think your children did a wonderful job.
I still look forward to seeing some of you in the next few days.

important Dates:

Dec.14 Christmas Concert and Gingerbread house decorating.

Nov.22

2011-11-22T13:38:00.001-08:00

Letter and sound G g.

gum

more gum

and more gum

Gorilla

Thank you to Bryanna's grandma. She seemed to love listening to us count and make sets of bears.

A balancing act.

A fox.

Little Red Riding Hood.

Weighing things.

We listened to the story The Mitten by Jan Brett and then we made our own mittens and animals.

Important Date- Dec. 14th Gingerbread houses -more information to come,but old Hallowe'en candy is very useful for this project.

Nov.14 and 16

2011-11-16T12:07:00.000-08:00

F is for friends.

French fries.

Fork lift.

Fence.

Friend.

Creating a starry night.

Thank you Darrell and Stephanie for helping us on Monday.

Cute Quips:
"Dad's are older than regular people."
"When my mom's dad was little it was hundreds of years ago."
" My biggest brother was born in 6002.My mom was born in 1002."

Nov. 9

2011-11-09T12:44:00.001-08:00

We love to read!

Letter J j-jet

Jack rabbit

Jelly beans

Future geologists.

-Library day is Monday.

-Interviews are Thursday,Nov. 24th. Please let me know if you and your child cannot make the interview time.

Interview times:

Savannah-5:30

Braden-5:45

Kade-3:30

Kaden-3:45

Maia-4:00

Jordice-4:15

Cody-4:30

Dashiel-4:45

Autumn-5:00

Trinity-5:15

Bryanna-5:45

Hayden-6:00

Nov.2

2011-11-02T12:06:00.001-07:00

Thank you Jaquie for helping us make salt dough. A really messy job!
We talked about how it felt,looked and smelled.

We took turns adding ingredients and mixing.

Representing the letter K and things that begin with K .

This is a kite.

Kade.

A kite.

A key.

A kitten.

The beginning of a kitten.

A kitchen.

A key.

Another

kite.

Definitely a key.

These are the letters to practice at home: K k,S s,T t,H h,B b,M m.

Thanks for the fresh playdough Jacquie! As you can see it is well used.

Interviews for kindergartens will be Thursday after school until evening. An interview time will be coming home soon.

November 2

2011-11-02T11:55:00.000-07:00

Halloween Party

2011-10-31T14:25:00.001-07:00

Thanks Leeanne! You made our party very fun and easy!

She poured ,swept and wiped everything up! Wow!

Too tired to do any tricks.

Thankyou Nicole for your help this morning.
Dashiel's pattern. It's an "up and down" pattern.

A new classmate ? He was very quiet!

carving pumpkins

2011-10-27T14:26:00.001-07:00

What stands for M m?

Motorcycle.

Moon.

Monster.

Another motorcycle.

Cute quips:

Student-"I was born in Regina.I learned to carve pumpkins in Regina."

Another student-" I learned to carve pumpkins in Africa."

Thanks to Monique and Nicole for coming in to help us carve pumpkins.

Thanks to Monique for running to get us some tea lights. Our jack o lanterns looked very spooky!

Our Halloween party will begin at 1:00,so please send your child's costume,or dress them at lunch time. If the costume requires help please have someone lined up to help at lunch time.

Also, don't send all of the extras(swords,wands,etc.,) because they might get lost in the excitement.

October 25

2011-10-25T14:45:00.000-07:00

Making patterns.

Making machines.

More patterns.

Experiments with moving objects.

Designing machines.

Note- there will be a change on the calender. The interview day will be on Thursday after school until evening.

Cute quips:

Student-"Shoes can be size 5-52."

"My shoes are size 5-30."

Student,when shown a picture of a gibbon,-"I think it's a chipmunk."

Student-"I think Justin Beiber is going to marry me because we both have brown hair."

After Thanksgiving a student shared" The turkey's head was sticking out of it's body."

Student-"A tree crashed into our roof ."

Teacher-"You would have to have it fixed."

Student-"We couldn't because all of the screws were gone."

October 19th

2011-10-19T14:24:00.001-07:00

Look at us work! We are learning letter B b and the sound it makes.

Finding B b in the Morning Tidbit.

Mrs. Jean is our community reader. We loved her stories.
Look at us move like falcons soaring.
and jelly fish floating.

Horses galloping.
Polar bears paddling.

Ants marching. Snakes slithering.

Seagulls gliding.

Reminder: some students still do not have their family and house pictures in. Please email them to me at my school email address.

Library day is Tuesday.

We will carve pumpkins on Thursday so if you can supply a pumpkin it would be great.

Thanks to Jacquie and Shelly for the pumpkins and Monica in advance for helping on Friday.

October 17th

2011-10-17T14:20:00.000-07:00

Making a moving cat.

Experimenting with how things move.

Representing B b and things that start with B.

Today we learned about the sound B b makes.
In math we copied a pattern.
In science we thought about how things moved and experimented with simple machines. Here are some of the words we used:lever,spring,switch.
In art we made a spooky Hallowe'en picture.

Our next library day is: October 25th.
Pumpkin carving :Oct.27th

our day- October 13

2011-10-13T15:01:00.001-07:00

Discovering how the overhead works.

A nice little family.

Potatoes can be so many things !

The creation process.

Making a scene for the light invitation. (overhead)

My potato is so funny!

Thanks for all of your help today Jacqualine! We loved the baby!

Making a pattern.

Writing stories-just like the teacher!

The final products. Thankyou Jaquie for all of the interesting potatoes.

Overhead stories.

This is serious business.

Looking at all of the interesting shapes and sizes potatoes can be.

Reminder:

The Lamontange fundraiser orders are due tomorrow.

Bake sale on Oct.19th-.50 an item

UNICEF pumpkins-$1.00

Thankyou to:

Jaqualine for helping today and Jaquie for the potatoes.

Today in a snapshot:

letter T t

Rhyming

Pattern making

Machines are things that have many parts and help you do work.Machines move things.

Vocabulary: lever,switch,wheel

Our Day.

2011-10-11T14:23:00.000-07:00

It's a flying carrot!

Make an outfit for your carrot.

Trace the carrot and colour your tracing.

Count your carrots.

Getting ready to have a story at our meeting place.

Monique and Bryce came in to help us. Thank you so much!

Making a pattern.

Talking about my pattern.

Examining the carrots.

We love babies!

Practicing getting our coats on.

What begins with T t?

Today Hayden brought in some fresh carrots from his grandma's garden. We thought of so many things that we could do with them. He also brought his baby brother for Show and Tell. We are learning lots about babies.

Here are some other things we are learning:

Patterns have a core and they repeat

Letters and sounds: S s T t.

How to get ready for outside by ourselves.

We have rules at school.

There are many things that move and ways that they can move: slide,roll,march,glide,soar,swim,slither.

Remember to send in money for UNICEF($1.00 and .50 for cupcakes on the 19th)

Our class needs pumpkins for the 27th.

Library day is on Monday.

October 4

2011-10-04T13:32:00.001-07:00

Clam shells can be anything you want.

Making patterns.

Letter S and things that begin with S.

Snails and snakes.

Dead line

2011-09-29T14:29:00.000-07:00

The dead line for bringing the picture packages back is October 4th.

Fall is Here

2011-09-27T14:32:00.001-07:00

We can choose a book to read.

What's inside a squash?

Autumn's photo of the squash.

Helping out.

Making a squash print.

Our classroom helper Alysha.

Painting pumpkins.

Our grade 5/6 reading buddies.

Our class meeting place in the Fall.

Making a Fall tree.

Cute Quips:
Teacher- Holding up a squash"What do you think this is?"
Student "A tuna"
Another student-"Yeh,a tuna."
Another student-"It's a squash and it's tasteless."
Another student-"Yeh. Some people like it,but I don't."

Our Good Day

2011-09-23T09:25:00.001-07:00

Bryanna's picture of the soil we made.
Acting out a story.
Thanks Monica. You kept them interested in seeds for a long time.

Making a pattern.

Measuring the seeds.

What a good place to hide.( I think Monica took this picture- so cute!)

Another story enactment.

Shaking rocks to make soil and music.

If anyone has interesting fall vegetables to donate to our classroom I would love to have them for a Fall Inviation. We'll talk about harvest , seeds , plants that are ripe in the fall and many more interesting things.

http://starfall.com/

parent volunteers and more

2011-09-23T09:19:00.000-07:00

If you would like to help out in the classroom please give me a call or write me a note.
Our volunteer time is 11:00 every day.

We will be carving pumpkins near the end of October.If you have any pumpkins to donate please let me know. I'll post the date of the carving at the beginning of October.

September 21

2011-09-21T14:35:00.000-07:00

We like gym !
Do they do this at home? I hope so because they're good at it !

Our light invitation.( a fancy term for overhead) At our soil invitation we learned that there are many types of soil.

I wonder what this could be? We are very good at sharing.

We're playing teacher again. Cute Quips:"Whenever I eat too much pineapple my tongue gets all restless"
Student, when asked about the stripes and colours on the fish that he was making- "It's a German fish because it has a German flag on it"

Reminder: The next library day will be Tuesday, September 27th
Please send in a picture of your family and your house for our family display.

Friendship fish

2011-09-19T17:21:00.000-07:00

So sorry about the sideways pictures.

Today we listened to the story The Rainbow Fish ,talked about what makes a good friend and we helped to make a group friendship fish. Drop by the hallway outside of our class to see the amazing results of this art/social lesson.

Cute quip of the day:
"Mrs.Stewart I missed you forever!"
"How's your guy?"

school tomorrow

2011-09-18T14:52:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone
This is just a note to say that we do have school tomorrow. Some schools in the Division do not,but we do.
See everyone tomorrow.

September 8

2011-09-08T15:18:00.001-07:00

It's only the 4th day and already they want a new teacher.

Exploring soil.
So much curiosity!

Thank you Jacquie for helping out in our class room. We welcome all helpers. Our center time is 11:00 every day. Just give me a call or write me a note.

Having our healthy snacks. Thank you everyone for making sure your child has a healthy snack!

Doing our work.

Ask about our new class pet-Fuzzy,Wuzzy.
A good rule for home that Mrs. Stewart learned from one of her students-"You should never swim in front of a shark when your parents aren't there."
Also a good time for bed time"5:30 or 6:00"

Reminder

2011-09-06T15:38:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder to hand in all of the forms and the SRC fees. There are still two media release forms to be handed in and until they are I can't put pictures of your child on the blog.
The permission to be assessed for speech form just went home today.

Nut Free School Reminder

2011-09-05T09:03:00.000-07:00

Dear Parents

This note is to remind you that our school is a nut free school. Please be sure to check all of the items you send for snack and lunch, especially packaged food items.
Thanks to all of the parents who helped with our walk on Thursday: Monica, Boyd, Jacquie, Nicole, Bryce and Monique.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Stewart

Our First Day

2011-09-04T13:05:00.000-07:00

Thank you to everyone for sending all of the school supplies.

Please bare with me while I learn ho put these pictures on the blog. I am a slow technology learner,but I'm trying.

We had a wonderful first day.Your children are truly amazing. They listened so well,were able to sit for stories , could follow rules and directions!Wow!

5 k Challenge

2011-09-01T17:31:00.001-07:00

I thought I said "Stay together"(This is one group running back to the school because, as the student in this picture said,"My bones are breaking". I think he was just very tired,but boy could he run!)

Exploring soil at the Soil Invitation to Learn.
How many dead creatures can we find on this 5k challenge?

More soil experimentation

Sorting shapes.

Thank you to everone for returning all of those forms so quickly. There are still some people who need to send in the SRC payment.
I'll be sending home a permission for speech screening on Tuesday.

change of plans

2011-08-31T11:21:00.000-07:00

I guess if it is raining in the afternoon we will have classes as usual,but the open house will go ahead.

Thursday information

2011-08-31T07:23:00.000-07:00

The plan for the 5k will go ahead even if it is raining.(not lightning),so send your child in rain gear if that's the case.
The fun activities will be held in the gym if it is raining. We 'll start out ahead of the rest of the school students and probably only walk part of the way.(I'll see how tired they get)
So far I have two parent helpers and more would be even better,so don't hesitate to join us.

reminder

2011-08-31T07:22:00.000-07:00

Picture day is on Tuesday. Our pictures will be taken in the morning so if you want to preserve the good clothes and shoes please send another set for your child to change into.

Show and Tell Dates

2011-08-28T11:50:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of September( and the beginning of Oct.) Show and Tell Dates:
Tues. Sept.6-Savannah
Thurs., Sept. 8- Kade
Wed.Sept.14-Kaden
Mon.,Sept.19-Maia
Wed.Sept.21-Jordice
Fri.Sept.23-Cody
Tues.Sept.27-Dashiel
Thurs.Sept.29-Autumn
Mon.Oct.3-Trinity
Wed.Oct.5-Bryanna
Fri.Oct.7-Hayden

5k challenge

2011-08-28T11:36:00.000-07:00

This Thursday is our school's 5k challenge.
Please make sure your chid is wearing sunscreen,hat and the appropriate shoes for the walk.
If you would like to join us please meet us in the kindergarten room at 1:00.
The walk will be followed by SRC organized games and a dunk tank(I beleive it will cost$1.00 or $2.00)
Our school day will be over at the usual time.
However, if you and your child are able to attend,there will be an open house,scavenger hunt ,stone painting($15.00 per stone) and barbeque from 4:30-5:30.
Hope to see everone there!

welcome

2011-08-18T12:01:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone and welcome to the first day of kindergarten!
Our first day will be Tuesday,August 30th.
Please remember to send all of your child's school supplies labelled .
Every day we make time for a healthy snack ,so be sure to send this as well.
If you plan to send your child to Day Care for lunch,or after school please send a note to let me know. Otherwise I will look for you at our special kindergarten doorway.
A kindergarten calender will be sent home on the first day. It will have show and tell dates and other important days marked.
Please remember to give me a call,email or send a note about any concerns.
I'm really looking forward to the first day of kindergarten and I hope your child is too.

Pre K Day

2011-06-14T12:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome: Maia,Kade,Braden,Kaden,Bryanna,Jordice,Ozzy,Hayden,Cody, Dashiel,Autumn, Trinity, Savannah

Next year's k's had lots of fun listening to stories,making snacks,learning games ,singing ,drawing a self-portrait and most of all playing !

The fist day of kindergarten is: Tuesday,August 30. Kindergarten will be every day 2,4, and 6.

Here is the supply list for next year:
Supply List

-2 primary pencils
-2 white erasers
-2 boxes of Crayola crayons
-1 package of markers
- 1 pair of Frisker scissors
-2 large white bond glue
-3 large glue sticks
-2 easy to open pencil boxes
-2 Hilroy exercise books
-1 scrap book
-1 1" 3-ring binder
-1 package of dividers with tabs
-1 pair of non- marking gym runners
-1 paint shirt
-1 large book bag
-1 box of Kleenex
-1 box of large zip lock baggies
-1 package of 5 oz. Dixie cups
-1 cloth bag for library books