Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Patti and Jenn would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday. Thank you for your support, cards, and presents. All the best in 2012!

Environmental Print is Everywhere!

We are asking families to start to collect wrappers and logos from packages.We are doing a logo word wall in the new year.
Examples may be:rice krispies, john deere, mc cains,pepsi,skittles,etc.
We are trying to get logos for each letter of the alphabet and trying to fill our logo word wall. You can send logos in for the month of January-

Let's continue to fill our wall. Keep up the great job Kindergarten!

The wall is getting full!

Social Studies in Kindergarten

Social Studies Outcomes:
· Begin to develop an awareness of their community
· Begin to develop an awareness of the connection between their community and others communities
·Begin to develop an awareness of maps

We are walking to the post office on December 13th. We have mapped out how we are going to get there. Look- We are walking by Liam's house!

SANTA WROTE US A LETTER......

Gingerbread House

We plan to make mini gingerbread houses next week.
Kindergarten children love to create.We can only imaging how they will design their gingerbread houses!
If you are able to send in items such as : graham crackers, icing, sprinkles,or candy.It would be greatly appreciated.
Here are our creations:

Thanks

Busy little elves

All about PEI

All about PEI

Thank you to everyone who sent in items to help us learn about Prince
Edward Island. We had a great week. We also enjoyed baked potatoes!

Fun in the Snow

Science Fun- Color Symphony

Kindergarten outcomes: - become aware of the five senses
- develop and use vocabulary associated with five
senses
We used milk, food coloring and dish soap to make a mixture of colors.

PEI Potatoes

Next week we are having fun learning all about PEI.
We are reading,singing and dancing to Stompin Tom and Bud the Spud.
On Wednesday- November 23- We are cleaning- poking and cooking potatoes
for lunch as a class. We are asking parents to send in what their child
likes on a potato.It could be butter,sour cream,chives,bacon,etc.Please
send a fork also.

Operation Christmas Child

Kindergarten is participating in Operation Christmas Child.
We are discussing needs and wants in our social studies curriculum. We plan to take this a step further and as a class collect
items to help children in need in other areas of the world such as Nicaragua and Haiti.
We are hoping to fill as many shoe boxes as possible to help others.
We are collecting items such as : crayons, pencils, markers,small stuffed animals, jump ropes, solar calculators, books, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, comb, washclothes, lollipops, t-shirts, mints, gum, flashlight or watches. If any staff, parents or children would like to bring in an item-Drop it off to Patti or Jen by Friday November 25th.
Here is Denika with an empty box. We hope to fill as many as possible. As of November 18th- The school has worked together to fill 37 boxes!Thanks