Dear PHS Kindergarten Students,
We just want to let you know that we miss you and are thinking about you all the time the past few days. We miss seeing your smiling faces and hearing your wonderful stories every day. We hope you stay healthy and safe and wish you an amazing and relaxing spring break.
Love,
Ms. Khan, Ms, Bereta & Mrs. Fitzpatrick
Families, in addition to reading with your child daily, please see the link below or click here or some resources and ideas.
https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/curriculum/learning-at-home/Pages/k-6.aspx
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
Felting Animal Puppets
Both Red groups worked closely with Tracey Kuffner on Monday and the green groups worked with her on Tuesday. During this amazing experience, students worked with wool from Ms. Kuffner's farm to create hand puppets of our animals we have been researching. This includes owls, mice, foxes, bears, moles, and snowshoe hares. We learned different techniques to put the wool together and then worked together to roll our puppets on a mat. After rolling them out, we rubbed our wool fabrics together and smashed them on the table to really allow the wool to blend together. Ms. Kuffner then cut out our puppets and we were surprised with the beautiful end results of our animals the next day.
While one color group was making their puppets, the rest of the students were working on their four squares drawing that we do monthly to show our progress when writing our name, drawing a self-portrait, and drawing two other drawings. We are excited to see how much progress we have been making since September.
We found another mitten outlined by tape on our bigger carpet and we all tried to see if we could fit in it together. We were successful in doing this so we tried to see if our new puppets would fit. As we read the story, each of our puppets slowly were added on to our mitten. We also used our puppets to teach each other about our animals. We look forward to using them more and more in the future!
We also played different math games with partners.
We have also started painting a silhouette of our animals in our visual journals using paint and sponges.
Finally, another highlight of this week was that we continued to work in our animal books/ posters. We focussed more specifically on interesting facts. We learned that an interesting fact is something new that we learn that makes us say, "Woah! That is interesting!" Students used Pebble Go, books, and photographs to discover interesting facts about their animals. Did you know that bears can climb trees? Did you know that owls have silent flight, which means that they make no sound when flying so they are able to sneak up on mice when hunting?
While one color group was making their puppets, the rest of the students were working on their four squares drawing that we do monthly to show our progress when writing our name, drawing a self-portrait, and drawing two other drawings. We are excited to see how much progress we have been making since September.
We found another mitten outlined by tape on our bigger carpet and we all tried to see if we could fit in it together. We were successful in doing this so we tried to see if our new puppets would fit. As we read the story, each of our puppets slowly were added on to our mitten. We also used our puppets to teach each other about our animals. We look forward to using them more and more in the future!
We also played different math games with partners.
We have also started painting a silhouette of our animals in our visual journals using paint and sponges.
Finally, another highlight of this week was that we continued to work in our animal books/ posters. We focussed more specifically on interesting facts. We learned that an interesting fact is something new that we learn that makes us say, "Woah! That is interesting!" Students used Pebble Go, books, and photographs to discover interesting facts about their animals. Did you know that bears can climb trees? Did you know that owls have silent flight, which means that they make no sound when flying so they are able to sneak up on mice when hunting?
Friday, March 6, 2020
Our Animal Research Books and Posters
This week we truly became experts on our animals. We learned about looking closely at the pictures found in our animal tubs to gather specific information each day.
Day 1) We focussed on appearance. We asked ourselves and other peers in our animal group what the animals look like. We reviewed the word "appearance" and looked closely at how animal pictures were labelled. We used pre-printed labels, sounded out words independently, and copied print to try and label different parts of our animals as well including eyes, ears, nose, feet, tail, fur, etc.
Day 2) Students learned about the diet of their animals. We reviewed that "diet" means what an animal eats. We then looked through our resources and discovered what each of our animals eat. Did you know that a bear eats fish and berries? Did you know that an owl eats mice?
Day 3) Look closely once again at our resources, including photographs, books and videos, students then found out where their animal lives. This is called their "habitat." We learned that some of our animals live underground while some live in dens or in trees.
Day 4) We shared our findings with each other. Here are some things we have learned so far:
- "Foxes, when cold wrap their tails around themselves to keep them warm." -TJ
- "Foxes eat bunnies, mice, and eggs. Foxes make houses underground. " - LM
- "This is non-fiction information because we see what they do and not what we think they do."- BR
Day 1) We focussed on appearance. We asked ourselves and other peers in our animal group what the animals look like. We reviewed the word "appearance" and looked closely at how animal pictures were labelled. We used pre-printed labels, sounded out words independently, and copied print to try and label different parts of our animals as well including eyes, ears, nose, feet, tail, fur, etc.
Day 2) Students learned about the diet of their animals. We reviewed that "diet" means what an animal eats. We then looked through our resources and discovered what each of our animals eat. Did you know that a bear eats fish and berries? Did you know that an owl eats mice?
Day 3) Look closely once again at our resources, including photographs, books and videos, students then found out where their animal lives. This is called their "habitat." We learned that some of our animals live underground while some live in dens or in trees.
Day 4) We shared our findings with each other. Here are some things we have learned so far:
- "Foxes, when cold wrap their tails around themselves to keep them warm." -TJ
- "Foxes eat bunnies, mice, and eggs. Foxes make houses underground. " - LM
- "This is non-fiction information because we see what they do and not what we think they do."- BR
- "Moles dig lots of
holes and try and come back up to find lots of food." - LH
- "Foxes
can gobble up snowshoe hares." - SA
- "Bears
are different colors like black and brown."- HPD
Our afternoon Kindergarten students had their assembly on Friday, where they performed the book "The Mitten" by Jan Brett. We were amazed at the beautiful job they had done and were excited to see them play different characters and play musical instruments as well.
Please read your home reading book and another book daily with your child. Students will have the opportunity to exchange for a new home reading book daily when they bring back their previous book and their folders. Thank you!
We will be working with a felting artist next week. The red groups will participate on Monday, March 9th and the green groups will participate Tuesday, March 10th. We will need volunteers for those days. Please plan on staying for the whole morning or afternoon. Please email us if you are able to help out. Thank you!
We will be working with a felting artist next week. The red groups will participate on Monday, March 9th and the green groups will participate Tuesday, March 10th. We will need volunteers for those days. Please plan on staying for the whole morning or afternoon. Please email us if you are able to help out. Thank you!
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