Back again!

Hello! I hope you all enjoyed the March Break. We enjoyed opportunities to talk about our adventures and family times over the break.

In talking with the students on Friday, several moments stood out as highlights...

1. Learning about money is fun! In Kindergarten, the learning goals are: understands that money has value, money can be used to buy things, and what a nickel and dime are. We also introduced the penny as some have seen it before.

Students sorted paper coins and counted...

Looked at real coins to see what they could discover...

And our favourite - practiced our money sense buy using money to buy our afternoon snacks and drinks from Miss Smith's Snack Store!

 

2. There is no better story than Easter. Our God talks this week focused on the resurrection and ascension of Christ, and the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. We enjoyed a new centre for explore time - the Bible centre changed to a "tomb" for the ressurection - as so often happens, the students exceeded my expectations in their expectations, and groups acted out the entire Passion Week, from the triumphant entry, to the arrest in the garden, to the trials, crucifixion, burial, and then finally... after exclamations of "One Day... Two Day... Three Day!!!" Jesus bursts forth from the tomb!

3. Our Alphabet Walk. We also went looking for letters in the objects around the school! For example, an O in the doorknob!

4. Books, Books, Books!

Now that we have created several class books together, it's time for students to make their own (JKs with 2+ pages, and SKs with 4+ pages). 

We planned what we would write about, growing knowledge through lessons and one-on-one time on letter formation, choosing what information to write, word spacing, and pencil grip!

We then got to see one of our friend's share his finished product!