2021-2022 EHS Kindergarten

  We had fun seeing everyone dressed up in their costumes.  We had arrival centers and then did some Halloween art centers.  We made paint chip halloween witches, shape bats, lacing pumpkins and spiders. It was fun to see everyone's creativity! We read the story, "The Crankenstein" and  did our very own guided drawings of Frankenstein.  You can watch the story:  Crankenstein We played at centers. We hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween. :) Happy Hallowe'en ! If you would like to add some learning fun into Hallowe'en, here are some ideas below to do with your child.  1. Ask your child to sort their candy by size, shape, colour. type etc. 2. Have them count the number of each kind. 3. Have them count the number of pieces of candy in each small box. 4. Identify the letters on the package they know. Can they find the whole alphabet? Do they know the sound that the letters make?

AM kindergarten looked fantastic all dressed up for Halloween! We had a fun day at school.  Today we were Scientists and took a closer look at pumpkins. We watched a video from Sci Kids about pumpkin dissection and learned about all the parts of a pumpkin. We learned about estimation and had to estimate about the height of a pumpkin using cubes, the circumference of a pumpkin using string and estimated the number of ribs on the pumpkin. We then measured to see how accurate we were with our guesses. We worked in groups.  Our last job was to predict what would happen when we placed a pumpkin in water. Would it sink or float? We used tally marks to share our thinking. Ask your child what happened when we placed the pumpkin in water.  We read the story, "The Happy Pumpkin" and talked about jack o lanterns and the different faces. We made our own pumpkins using paper.  We had music with Mrs. Coulson.  Friday is PM kindergarten. PM kindergarten are invited to wear their costume tom

 We continue to explore Halloween and Fall at our arrival centers.  Please ask your child what arrival center they played with when they got to school. Today we watched the story Christopher Pumpkin ... however we only watched about half of the story and then we were challenged to make a prediction as to what we thought might happen at the end of the book.  We drew our predictions in our blue journals.  Once we all had made our predictions we watched the end of the story. Please ask your child what they thought might happen at the end of the story and what really did happen.   We worked on the number 7 and turned the number 7 into a road with 7 cars on it.  Please have your child find 7 items at home and count them.  Have them go on a number hunt looking for the number 7 around the house. Tomorrow AM children are invited to wear their Halloween costumes.  PM children are invited to wear black and orange. Friday is PM Friday and PM children are invited to wear their costumes.

Today we talked about making predictions. We practiced making predictions and focused on explaining why we we think that way.  We read Duck on a Bike and had to guess how the story would end. We drew pictures to share our thinking.  We learned about the letter E. We practiced printing E in our printing booklets and we drew pictures of things that started with the letter E.  Please ask your child what sound the letter E makes.  Please look at home to find things that start with the letter E. All AM and Mrs. McLean's class had music. Mrs. Mask's PM class went to gym.  We played at centers.  As a reminder, please do not park in the parking lot when picking up and dropping off your child.  We do not have any visitor parking. Please park on the road. Thank you for your assistance with this.   Halloween Dress Up AM Kindergarten are welcome to dress up for Halloween on Thursday morning.  Please no costume masks (regular Covid masks are still required) and no weapons.  PM Kindergarten

 Halloween Dress Up AM Kindergarten are welcome to dress up for Halloween on Thursday morning.  Please no costume masks (regular Covid masks are still required) and no weapons.  PM Kindergarten will be dressing up on Friday.  PM Kindergarten is welcome to wear black and orange on Thursday afternoon. Please do send Halloween treats to school.  Please have your child save their candy to eat outside of school time. Friday is PM Kindergarten. Today was a great day at school! AM Kindergarten enjoyed an outdoor presentation by Quest Theatre.  In the play the actors used a stick in 19 ways.  Please ask your child some of the ways that the stick was used.  The afternoon kids read the story  Not A Stick  and acted out ways in the classroom to use the stick. We listened to the story "Pete the Cat and the 5 Little Pumpkins" and made our own 5 pumpkins sitting on a fence in our journals.  We practiced the poem "5 Little Pumpkins". We had gym and practiced some dribbling and pas

We had fun seeing everyone dressed up in black and orange today.  We had arrival centers and then did some Halloween art centers.  We made paint chip halloween witches, shape bats, finger paint ghosts, lacing pumpkins and spiders. It was fun to see everyone's creativity! We read the story, "The Crankenstein" and  did our very own guided drawings of Frankenstein.  You can watch the story:  Crankenstein We had a special treat and movie since our school community   raised over $2800.00, reaching and exceeding our goal! We truly appreciate the tremendous support! Thank you. 

We read the story, "Room On The Broom" and talked about sequencing the events in the story.  We looked at the order in which the characters appeared. We did a cutting and pasting activity to place the characters in sequence. Continue to practice cutting at home.  Today we visited with Saa'Kokoto . Our AM kindergarten walked to Teepee Forest and our PM Kindergarten met in our outdoor amphitheater. He shared stories with us and taught us how to count and say greetings in Blackfoot. We enjoyed hearing his stories. Ask your child about the lessons from his stories.  AM kindergarten and Mrs. McLean's class had music.  Mrs. Mask's PM class went to gym.  Tomorrow is AM Kindergarten.