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Missoula's, Gulliver's Travels, was a wonderful experience for this very dramatic and musical crew. They are still singing the songs they learned.

This mask inspired a wonderful craft with lots of glitter!

 Patterns are an essential part of the math curriculum. Below are examples of repeating patterns the students are able to create. We are working at 2 and 3 piece cores.

This pattern picture is so clearly  cooperative problem solving. The boys noticed a mistake as it was read and they discussed how to solve it.

Mrs. Drake took the class on a Ramble, they practiced recognizing street signs, safe walking habits and met several of the community workers.  

"The freezer at the co-op is big and really cold!"

The great big hole was very exciting and we wondered if the Ninja Turtles could live down there.

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 Prek has been very busy. The children are learning many routines.
1. Sitting together for stories and instructions
2. lining up and walking in a line
3. Serving themselves snack, sitting and visiting then tucking in their chairs before returning their dirty dishes.

All these activities require listening skills, self monitoring and patience and the students are doing great!

 Playdough offers lots of fine motor and creativity.

 Puzzles help develop fine motor and math skills.

 Dramatic play develops creative, social and language skills.

 The linking blocks had students counting and comparing numbers as well as comparing lengths. there is so much language that goes with those activities.










Helping with snack develops helpful attitudes, self help skills and motor coordination.

 These penguins let students create colour groups and patterns. Then they discussed the difference between the two. They also got to read the colours on their ice bars.



Quiet time together develops friendships.

While fishing for magnetic letters students learn turn taking, letters, sounds and colours.

Individual choice is valued and encouraged, just like making small messes in the name of learning.

Happy Thanksgiving Day Everyone!

3 Reminders for Sept. 25-29

1. Missoula will be rehearsing all week with the BIG SHOW FRIDAY EVENING!
2. Picture Day is Wed. Sept. 27th.
3. Terry Fox Run is Thurs. Sept. 28th at 2:30 all are welcome to come join us.

Project - Three Little Pigs

On a beautiful September day we 'Recycled' a large box and created a set for the story of the Three Little Pigs.

It was a lot of hard work and we even had to take water breaks but soon we had houses of straw, sticks and bricks and we even had a tree to represent the forest. Our artist had the idea to make it an apple tree because it is fall! While we were painting Mrs. Dyck told the story and sang a song and everyone joined in.

The next Kindergarten day we coloured and cut and created headbands to represent the characters of the story. Then we practiced preforming the story as a play. We did such a great job that we did a practice performance for the Grade 12 class. 

Later Mrs. Dyck read a version of the Three Little Pigs where the wolf eats the first two pigs. We like it better when the three little pigs live happily ever after in the sturdy house of bricks!

Stay tuned for more in our 'Three Little Pigs Project'

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Getting to Know Pre-K

This head band started out as a cutting and pasting picture.

It slowly evolved into this great headpiece!

Learning fine motor skills, sorting and organizing,

sharing ideas and cooperative skills are all practiced

while playing house.

When and activity is at an appropriate level and 

the student is interested their working stamina can

be quite impressive.

I loved how this activity developed into an important 

lesson. We explored how and which shapes roll.

More students joined the experiment and we went on to decide

that circles could roll and triangles can slide.

This student has wonderful special relations.

She worked independently for quite a while

creating this tile board. 

Playing at building develops fine motor skills

and just like playing house it requires 

cooperation and conversation.

More opportunities to imagine, communicate,

use fine motor skills at the work bench 

and the store

The train set is usually occupied by more students.

They work together to build, then change the tracks,

all the while talking and imagining and problem solving.

With two teachers in our class we are able to provide a variety 

of learning activities for the students.

While the room was otherwise humming with activity

these students enjoyed listening to some stories.

I loved this moment! The students are using social skills in this shopping game as well as using emerging literacy and numeracy skills.  

First we made clapping patterns. I clapped and they joined in or continued the clapping pattern. Then we made patterns with ourselves, recognizing that we can choose the attribute for the pattern. For example; boy, girl, boy, girl or short pants, long pants, short pants, long pants. Last students are asked to decide if the pieces made a pattern or not and then created patterns with the penguins.

Welcome Parents

Welcome to Kindergarten!

1. Please send a photograph or an email version of your family as soon as possible

2. We had a great first day. We played with the letter Tt,
T - Start at the top and drag it down to the floor, then drag it all the way across the top
t - Start at the top  and drag it down to the floor, then across the middle.

We also printed the number one. A straight line down is lots of fun, that's the way to make a 1!

The sooner they start letters and numbers at the top the better.

3. A small water bottle would be a great help in the classroom. It could travel back and forth in the backpack.

4. You received a lot of mail today. Please go through it and return the school forms on Thursday.
-The Chirp magazine is yours to keep but answer yes or no on the order form so that we can get the free stuff for the classroom.
-Book orders are optional, I often used them to find what my children liked then went to the public library and borrowed them.
If you do order the class earns free books so that is great too.
NOTE: I CANNOT HANDLE CASH. (Division Rule) You can send a check made out to Scholastics Canada (add up all the books from all forms) or pay on line.

3. I will ask you to download the free REMIND APP.To sign up for Kindergarten notifications, then click the link below.
https://www.remind.com/join/ddyck 
It is a quick way to send information to you. Often it will just be, "Please check the blog for pictures!"

Lara made a t!

Jax and Avery made Ts!

Gage and Paige are drawing what they saw through the microscope.

Atlee and Avery are drawing the bead sequence of their necklaces.