next week

Next week, our anchor text is the book Can I Keep Him? by Steven Kellogg.  It is about a young boy who brings home a series of outrageous pets but him mom doesn't let him keep them.  We will work on our comprehension, print awareness, oral language and so much more.  If possible, visit a pet store with your child.  Before leaving, make a list of the pets the children expect to see.  Take the list and check off the animals the children actually see.  Your linguistic and naturalist learners will love it.

If you have any pet materials (animal collars, pretend bones, dog bowls and accessories, a fish bowl etc, feel free to donate them to the class.

Have a great weekend,
Miss Mynes

Cinderella

Today, the primary division will head to the Young Peoples Theater to see Cinderella.  If you have the book Cinderella at home, read it to your child tonight and talk about how the play was the same or different.

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Miss Mynes

tomorrow

Tomorrow, the primary division will all go to the Young Peoples Theater to see Cinderella.  Thank you to those of you who have volunteered to help supervise the trip.  If you are yet to return your child's permission form, please do as soon as possible as I cannot allow your child on the trip without the permission form.  If you are not allowing your child to go on the trip, please return the "NO" portion of the permission form.

Thank you,
Miss Mynes

a little about today

Today, the children see Miss McGregor for physical education.  In class, we will focus on the alliteration in Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, discuss how to predict what's coming next in the book, turn the book into a song, and act it out.  In Mathematics, we will work on our estimation skills, comparing quantities of different sized items.  Also, I will be reading with seniors and we will all write in our writing folders.

Looking for another after school activity?  Try this:

Record Achievement

You will need: newspaper, inexpensive 20x25cm picture frame and cardboard liner, discarded CD, acrylic gold paint, paintbrush, small games pieces or metal charms, clear gel glue, white paper, pencil, low-plush velvet fabric remnant, gold glitter marker, rubber cement

Spread out newspaper, and lay CD and picture frame on it (you don't need the glass from the frame).  Set cardboard liner from the picture frame aside.  Paint 1 side on CD and the frame gold.  When frame is dry, use clear gel glue to attach metal trinkets to the outside of the frame.  While trinkets dry, trace around the cardboard liner on the white paper.  Cut it out and use it as a pattern to cut out the velvet.

Practice writing on velvet scraps with the gold glitter marker.  Plan what to write, be brief.  Write the name of the person receiving the award first the then kind of award.  Brush back of velvet and the front of the cardboard liner with rubber cement.  Then put them together and let dry.  Next use rubber cement to glue the CD to the top center of the velvet.  Be sure there is enough room around the edges to put the piece into the frame.  Write information on the velvet with the marker.  Let the words dry, and put it in the frame.  Surprise your achieving friend!!

Happy crafting.

:)
Miss Mynes

a little about today

Today we began our focus on the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.  We read the book.  We stregnthened our oral language skills while learning the american sign language signs for the animals in the book.  We worked on our segmentation skills by clapping to the words of the story.  We made a class book of the story.  And finally we used magnet letters to make some of the words from the book.  The children see Mr. Baron (Miss McGregor is away) for music and physical education.

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Miss Mynes

Friday

Today is the day we are in the classroom all day.  In the morning I will read with the seniors and we will all write in our writing folders.  In the afternoon, we are going to make patterns with feathers.

Are you looking for an after school project to do with your child?  Try this idea!

A Green Valentine

You will need a table covering, small or medium size pot, potting soil, spoon or small trowel, ivy plant, ruler, a roll of florist wire, scissors and red ribbon.

Cover the table you will be working on.  Pot the ivy according to the plant directions.  Measure and cut three 100 centimetre long pieces of florist wire,  Match up the ends and twist the three pieces together into 1 strand.  Bend the twisted strand of florist wire into a heart shape, with the loose ends forming the V at the bottom of the heart.  At the bottom of the V, twist the ends together, leaving about a 12 centimetre stem to stick into the potting soil.  Stick the heart into the pot near the base of the plant.  Tie a red bow at the top of the heart.  Loosely wrap strands of the ivy around the heart.

Have fun!

:)
Miss Mynes

a little about today

Today, the students will see Miss McGregor for music and then again for physical education.  In class we will read Bob and talk about the book, we will use farm animals and props to retell the story.  We will able "walk the line", moving like the animals in the story.  It will be a great day for the linguistic, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic and naturalist learners.

Try to remember, or help your child to remember, to return their zipper folder every day.  This is how I distribute paperwork to the students and if your child isn't returning their bag regularly it may be taking a long time for you to receive important forms.

Thanks for your support,
Miss Mynes