Well here we are back in class! We’re smaller than usual as we wait for everyone to get back from vacation but that doesn’t mean the learning isn’t happening. In Phonics we’re having 1:1 lessons reviewing our Set 1 letter sounds (this week was M, A, S) and practicing our hand writing. In Maths we’re learning about 4-sided shapes. We looked at how we can put squares and rectangles together to make bigger squares or rectangles. We also looked for those 4-sided shapes in a photo walk around school! In Literacy we began our new book The Naughty Bus. We … Ms M’s Class Term 2 Week 1 Update
Wow! Did we ever have an exciting week! We learned about Diwali in Literacy (a little late for the holiday, however) and we made diya lamps and used coloured rice to make rangoli patterns. We learned about the story of Rama and Sita which the children absolutely loved! It’s fun watching children resonate with tales from other cultures. Speaking of Rama and Sita, we spent some time later in the week in IEYC digging in the dirt and found coins. As archeologists, we concluded they must have been left as a trail from Sita when she was kidnapped so Rama … Ms M’s Class Term 1 Week 13 Update
Wow, the term came back from break with a bang and swept us all off our feet! Here’s what we’ve been up to! We began our new IEYC unit Dinosaur Detectives by finding dinosaur eggs all around the classroom and we’ve been deep in dinoland ever since. We’ve got vines hanging from the doorframe, leaves on the windows, and an immense amound of dinosaur books on our bookshelves! We’ve read about the Dinosaur Who Lost His Roar and another book about dinosaurs in school where even the head teacher had turned into a dinosaur! We’ve studied opposites via dinosaurs and … Ms M’s Class Term 1 Week 11 and 12 Update
What a great two weeks it has been. So sorry I missed last week’s update. We had lots of great learning both last week and this week. Monday of Week 8 we went to visit our friends at Happy Boat! We had a fun time playing a game flipping over fall leaves and then enjoying ourselves on their indoor play structure. In Week 8 we finished up our Gingerbread Man unit doing our best to retell the story, sequence story pictures and write labels on those pictures. This week we began our new unit on Festivals! We started by looking … Term 1 Week 8 and 9 Update
It was a short week but one filled with great learning. Just a note: we will be going to visit our sister kindergarten Happy Boat on Monday morning. There is nothing special that needs to be prepared for that. We started to implement our feelings board and various calm strategies like our calm bottles. The children requested that we make one to go home as, and I quote, “I feel mad at home too, Ms. M”. To use the calm bottle, when your child is feeling a big feeling they may need to center and ground themselves they can shake … Ms M’s Class Term 1 Week 7 Update
What an incredible week we had! We started the week off with a vist from Ms Nila! She’s a dentist (and also Naka and Ayaka’s mom). She showed us how to take care of our teeth. We might have been shy around her at first but we came around and had a great time! We explored patterns in Maths and that doesn’t just mean visual patterns either. We made patterns we actions and patterns with sound. Our Maths assessment was on Thursday to see how everyone was coming along and I’m pleased with the progress this class is making. We … Ms M’s Class Term 1 Week 6 Update
Well that was a short week! It was so lovely to see the children’s smiling faces all through school as they returned from their holiday. As part of our Healthy Habits unit, our homework this week is to check and feel your heart beating through different exercises. If you don’t want to do the ones suggested in the homework pack, it’s OK! You can choose some of your own exercises. Speaking of feeling our hearts beat, that’s what we studied in IEYC the last couple of days. We did exercises and felt our hearts. We tried to take our pulse … Ms M’s Class Update Term 1 Week 5
We had such a fun week! There was so much active learning going on it’s hard to capture it all in just a few paragraphs and photos. The students really enjoyed sharing their photos and videos in this week’s Homework Sharing Time and those students who didn’t have homework to share were a little sad. This week we don’t have homework per se for the Chuseok holiday but if you could kindly send a photo or two of what you did during the holiday so the students can share with the class that would be great. If you’re taking the … Ms. M’s Class Update Term 1 Week 4
Wow! We’re really into the swing of things now! A couple reminders before I begin: Please send a full change of clothes to keep in your child’s locker. There may be a bathroom accident or we may want to play with the water trays or another messy activity. Either way, it’s best if there’s a full change of clothes in their lockers at all times. If an item of clothing comes home, please send its replacement the next day. We will be using the water table in Week 4 so please send clothes ASAP. Some students are still not comfortable … Ms M’s Class Term 1 Week 3 Update
Hello! What a wonderful and exciting week we had. Just a little housekeeping before we begin our update. LibraryWe have library every Friday with Ms. Yuli. Please remember to bring your library folder on Fridays. If you have any books from last year, please remember to send those in. If you’ve lost your library folder, let me know and we’ll get you a new one. Thanks! PEJust a reminder that PE is every Monday and students should come dressed in sports clothes and sports shoes. Classroom TemperatureDifferent people find different temperatures of the room comfortable. I try to keep an … Ms M’s Class Term 1 Week 2 Update
