Angel fish or frog?

"We found angelfish eggs outside!"

"We need to put them in water so they can grow."

"We saved them from the cold."

(A few days later)

"The eggs turned different!"

(We talked a lot about not touching eggs so they don't smell like people. We also talked about animals that lay eggs or animals who have babies. The children were interested in looking in the Internet to see what angel fish eggs look like.)

"The water turned green, maybe they are frig eggs."

"Ah, the eggs hatched! They're frogs!"

After a brainstorming some ideas and a vote we came up with our frogs names.

Introducing....Bloop and Violet!!!

We created a feeding calender to follow also.

Pancakes

Thank you to all the St.William moms and dads who were able to come cook pancakes for our jk/sk's. Thanks to the grade 8's for helping out our youngest friends. 

As you can see, they loved them!!!

Crayons

What do you think we going to do with these crayons?

X-"we're going to make crayon hearts."

M-"put them in the oven and let them melt."

S-"cookies so we can eat them."

M-"it's going to be every colour you put in."

G-"mystery colour."

How do these melt?

G-"when the heat is stronger than the hard, it will melt!"

Centers

Here are few moments captured of the children practising some of their skills during our open ended activities. 

Center time is a great time for the children to work in small groups and for the educators to observe their greatness!!

Play dough creatures

Counting

Graphing with candy

Heart patterning

Decorating mail bags for valentines

Cutting 

Driving over letters

Identifying letters in our name

Play dough shapes

Winter patterns

Buffalo vs. Maple Leafs

Hockey day in Canada!!! 

I mean hockey day in the Mrs. L's room. 

They picked the teams, made positions, made the score board, created nets and jerseys. They made rules about sitting on the bench and you have to listen to the ref. 

Their team Jersey's with names and numbers. 

Ref dropped the puck at center ice. 

The ref is Liam and the puck... A plastic mound of rice from the kitchen center. 

X and J are sitting on the bench waiting for their shift. 

All the hockey players hung up their jersey's until the next game. 

Some wow moments in the day

Today seemed the day for team work and problem solving. 

Good job friends!!!

The children worked together to find the correct number of toys to go with their number. 

The girls worked together making this hoop into a different shape and sorted the blue tiles by shades of blue.

These ladies shared blocks from their house with the boys. Then realized their was too small. R the construction worker, had the great idea to push the walls back so that R could fit in. N tried using small blocks to build new walls since they gave the big block to the boys. 

These 2 boys were waiting for me to help them build this train track. L came to get me to show me what he and X accomplished on their own. They followed the instructions!!!!

SK graduation pictures.

On January 27th the SK's will have their kindergarten celebration photos taken. What a nice keepsake to have for your child moving on to grade one. 

Photos will probably be done in the morning. 

It is also jersey day. Your child can still have a jersey on, we can help them to remove it or put it on over their clothing. You can send a change of clothing also if you don't want dress clothes ruined. 

A cap and gown will be provided and tie is optional. The pictures look nice with or without. It is your preference.