Here is our last post for this school year...

 

This has been a busy school year in the Full Day Kindergarten classes. The students have enjoyed many classroom activities, visits from Yaki, Scientists in the School and Zoo Crew, and even a field trip to Corona gymnastics. To end our year, the students shared with us their favourite activity in kindergarten.

 

Green Group 

 

Sean- Lego

Isabella- Making caracters for my stories

Camille- Playing with the Little People figurines.

Olivia- End of the year BBQ

Badri- Ipad

Alyssia- Playing in the house

Ryan- Lego

Naomi- Playing with the Little People figurines

Heather- Drawing

Antonio- Playing Transformers during recess

Saanvi- End of the year BBQ

Annamaria- I like to build

Alessa- Superman bunny from Zoo Crew

Talia- Colouring

Jacob- Zoo Crew

Koren- Playing on the play structure at recess

Alexandra- Building

Sofia- Little People figurines

Tammy- Drawing horses

Christopher- Monkey bars

Luca M.- St. Rita and monkey bars

Fabiana- Monkey bars at St. Rita

Ellio- Ipad

Annemarie- End of the year BBQ

Natalya- St. Rita and the plaground

Kaylee- Playing on the snow hills during the winter

Siena- Playing on the snow hills during the winter

Summer- Playing with Pikachu

Joshua- Playing with Pikachu

Luca S.- When it`s raining I play in the mud

 

 

Red Group

 

Making Stories

We have been exploring making short stories using the  Ipad app Puppet Made With Pals. Here are some of their stories.

 

Emilia`s story

 

 

Adam`s story

 

Fabiana`s story

 

Luca S. story

 

 

 

Pokemon

 

We found out that many of our students are experts of Pokemon. They sorted Pokemons by their elements, such as water, fire, electricity, grass, dinosaur and rock. They built homes for their Pokemons and spent time playing with the many figurines.

 



Devin is building a home for the Pokemons.

Adam sorted the electric Pokemons

Luca M. sorted the fire Pokemons.

Tara sorted the water Pokemons.

Luca S. sorted the grass Pokemons.


 

Antonio, Badri and James sorted Pokemons.

Zoo

The students are also learning about zoo animals. Some of our friends turned the house into a zoo, others built zoos with blocks. They are learning to take good care of the animals that live in their zoo.

 

Josie-Ann and Summer's zoo

 

 

 

Popcorn words "je suis"and "j'ai".

The students are learning to write and read the popcorn words "je suis" and "j'ai".

 

Chiara's work

 

 



 

Emilia's work







Fashion Weeks

 

 During our two weeks on fashion, the students learned to walk the line as fashion models. Then, they decided to use the stage to perform dances and songs.

 

The students did a collage of pictures representing today`s fashion.

 

Science

The students are encouraged to explore their environment and share what they find in nature. Mme Maklin brought in a nest and students brought in flowers, leaves, pieces of an old tree to share their observation. The nest started a discussion about birds. Here is what Badri, James, Camille, Koren, Alessa, Saanvi, Aysha have to say (in French).

 

 

Click here: All about birds



Making Stories

 

Camille and Olivia`s story

 

 Before presenting their story, they were asked to answer questions. Here are the questions and their answers. 

 

1. Quel est le titre de l`histoire? The Night in the Jungle

2. Quels sont les personnages de l'histoire? Pet Shop and Little People

3. Où se passe l'histoire? In the jungle at night

4. Quel est le problème? The mean kitties capture the girls and they try to get them out.

5. Comment le problème est résolu? Super Girl helps everyone get out.

 

 

Heather, Alessa and Koren`s story

Before presenting their story, they were asked to answer questions. Here are the questions and their answers.

1. Quel est le titre de l`histoire? Jungle Girl

2. Quels sont les personnages de l'histoire? Sonia the Pink Fairy, Purple Girl the helper, Flinstone the Jungle Girl and two kitties

3. Où se passe l'histoire? Outside in the jungle

4. Quel est le problème? Purple Girl goes to heaven. Everyone is sad.

5. Comment le problème est résolu? At the end, everyone is happy and goes home.

 

In the eyes of a child, this is what we look like - from Talia

 

mudaclen

Jude

umada

mesizbancs

mesibaccs

tena

 

 Sofia decided to draw her friends. In order from biggest to smallest: Aysha, Naomi, Camille, Alessa, Talia.

 

 

 

 



 Measuring and Comparing the Length and Height of Block Structures

Devin and Luca M. built structures using blocks. They estimated that Devin`s structure was higher. After using blocks to measure both structures, they discovered that Devin`s structure was taller.


Luca M.`s structure

Devin`s structure



 

Annamaria and Alexandra built a structure. They both estimated that it would take 100 cubes to measure the length of their structure. They had fun practising counting the cubes.

 

 

Annamaria and Alexandra`s structure

 

We challenged James, Badri, Antonio and Sean to build the tallest structure that they could using the foam blocks. Sean`s structure kept falling down so James and Antonio suggested that he build a base first. James used his body to measure the height of the structures. They discovered that Antonio had built the tallest structure.

 

Antonio`s structure

 

James and Badri`s structure

Sean`s structure

All about bees:

During our inquiry on flowers, Quinn asked the question "How do bees make honey?" Adam and Tara shared with their peers what they knew about bees. We also read books to help the students gain more information about bees.

Here are what Adam, Tara, Christopher, Jevon and Siena talking about bees. Click the link below.

all bout bees

Making Stories:

 

Sofia and Naomi's story "Lost Cats"

Story video taped by Saanvi

 

Camille's story "The 4 Little Sheep"

 





Saanvi and Sofia are explaining their favourite part of a book.

 

 

 

I Can be a Scientist workshop

 

Children had lots of fun at our science worshop. Here is a graph that we created together on the Smart Board to represent students' favourite centres. We discovered that more students enjoyed the Paleontologist centre, and less students enjoyed the Float and Sink centre, the same number of students enjoyed the Meterologist and Weather centres.

 

 

I Can be a Scientist workshop



 

Today, we enjoyed a visit from `` Scientists in School``.  Here is what the children have to say about their favourite centre.

 

                                                                                       

Meterologist Centre

`` Putting the marbles in the boat.``-Kaylee
`` The boats.`` -Ouss
``Putting them in the water and making them sink.`` -Josie-Ann
``Dropping the marbles in the boat.``-Summer
``I like the toys when they float.``-Jevon
                                   

Paleontologist Centre

`` We saw dinosaur skeleton`s `` -Tara
`` I made a fossil.``- Joshua
`` I got to make a fossil.``-Zoltan

                                                    

Chemist Centre

 `` I liked mixing the colours and making new ones.``- Christopher
 ``Mixed the colours.``- Luca M
 `` My favourite part was mixing the colours.`` Fabian
 ``  I got to make different colours.``-Emilia
 `` I made two purples, and one purple and green.`` -Jermmaine
 `` They had beautiful colours.`` -Chiara
 `` You can mix colours with it.``-Natalya
 `` I liked mixing colours.``-Lucas
`` I liked mixing blue.``-Anne-Marie

Astronomer Centre

  `` I liked the tent.`` -Adam
  `` My favourite was when I put the stars on the board.`` -Luca S
  `` The stars.``-Gabriella
  ``  I put stars on the board.``-Philopatir

The children made bracelets representing the life cycle of the butterfly by using beads.

Isabella found a piece of wood with holes. She thought it would be a perfect house for ants
Her friends Olivia, Alysssia and Sofia helped her make ants.

 

For the last couple weeks, we have been learning about different cultures. In Visual Arts, the students have used water colors to decorate Japanese fans, they have used sand to create First Nations Arts and they have made a rain sticks used by the Aztecs. The Aztecs live in Mexico and used to play their rain sticks to bring about rainstorms. Here are examples of students work of Arts. You can also listen to the students as they play their rain sticks. We had lost of fun trying to recreate different rain sounds that we`ve explored on Youtube.

Japanese Fan

Sand Painting

Rain Sticks

 

 

Rain Music Green Group

 

Rain Music Red Group

After reading ``Jack et le haricot magique,`` the students planted bean seeds. Here are the steps that they followed.

 



 

Premièrement, mettre les cailloux.
Zoltan et Mme Maklin

Ensuite, mettre le sol.
Luca M. and Mme Maklin














Après, mettre les graines.
Lucas and Mme Maklin

Finalement, arroser.
Summer and Mme Maklin















How high is Siena's castle? Siena estimated that it would take 15 cubes to measure her castle. Her friend Gabriela said that it would take 16 cubes and her friend Chiara thought it would take 55 cubes.

 

 

 

The students have been reading pattern phrases and are getting familiar with the popcorn words "un, une, des." Here are Emilia and Fabiana reading:

 

 

 

Our future writers Naomi and Saanvi:

 



 

 



Today, the kindergarten children enjoyed the visit from the Zoo Crew.

 

Mario the chinchilla

"They live on mountains." (Adam)
 "He can run really fast." (Anne Marie)
 "He's the softest animal in the world." (Luca M)
 " He was furry and soft." (Kaylee)
  "He's nice, and was soft" (Gabriella)









Chili the leopard gecko

"He was picky." (Jermmaine)
"It was cool." (Quinn)
"It has a beard and it's all black when it gets angry." (Luca M)
"I liked him because he was nice." (Summer)
" It had spikes on him." (Zoltan)







Elf the guinea pig

"They eat carrots and are so cute." (Anne Marie)
"I liked him, because I liked his body." (Lucas S)
"It was furry." (Lucas)
" It laughs when you tickle it." (Luca M)
" He was big, it made noises when we touched it." (Siena)
"He could run fast" (Fabiana)







Indiana the corn snake

"Big one, like one hundred." (Ellio)
"I liked him because he was very slippery." (Jevon)
"It felt cold, my mom would never want me to have a pet snake." (Quinn)
"It did a necklace around my neck and it tickled." (Luca M)
" He was like pretend and he was nice to me. His skin was Coloured" Chiara
" It was a necklace on me, and was very cold like a leopard." (Joshua)



 

Micko the ferret

"They stink." (Luca S)

"Fluffy and cute." (Natalya)

"It's silly, and smells very bad." (Luca M)

"Stinkiest animal, he was silly." (Chris)

 

Our wheat grass has sprouted. Click the link below to hear the students describe their observations.

 

 



 

Isabella, Saanvi, Antonio, Sean and Naomi are describing our wheat grass.



 

Tara is sharing what she knows about composting and recycling.

 

 

 

 More future engineers are describing their lego contructions.

 



 

Adam

 

Joshua

 

Luca S.

Siena wanted to go swimming in a pool with her friends. Josie Ann wanted to paint the carboard blue but Siena said it would take too long to dry so she decided that it would be better to use construction paper. She made a pool with her friends Gabriela, Chiara, Josie Ann, Fabiana and Summer.



La piscine