The Kindergarten Super Stars

This week, we invited Ms. Nat’s class – the Preschool Whale Sharks to come and visit with us!

We chose a buddy and showed them around our classroom. We then had lots of fun playing together.

It was lovely to see so many of the Superstars being such good “BIG” friends, asking their preschool buddy what they would like to do and helping them to find all the things in our room.

Here are some photos of us with our buddies:

…. complete with home made billiards table

As part of new “Materials and Properties” unit, we conducted a super fun experiment which we like to call “Bounce or Break?”

The children were shown some objects made of different materials:

* 2 water bottles (1 full and 1 empty)

* A cushion

* A bag of flour

* A metal trash can

* A rubber ball  &

* A water melon

They were then asked to predict what would happen when they were dropped from a very high place …. did they think the object would bounce or break?

Then the fun really began …. all the kindergarten children gathered in the playground, and our special guest Mr. Steve climbed up the stairs to the first floor, ready to drop our objects for us…

See what happened next in the video below!!!

Inspired by all the fun we had building castles for the pirates in our toy rotation this week!

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Nothing like a little impromptu drum circle to make choosing time a little more exciting!!

(You can’t hear it over the drumming, but the kids were listening to one of their favourite songs “Dynamite” which inspired the rythm!)

Enjoy…

Some special pictures that the Superstars have asked me to share with you since being back from vacation!!

What a busy, busy, busy first week back!

We met some wonderful Grade 9 buddies who are making special books for us…

We went on a play date to visit Ms. Nat’s pre school class were they inspired us to build parachutes which we had fun testing by dropping them off the balcony…

And we welcomed the newest member of the Superstars’ class! See if your child can introduce you to her!

During our ESL inclusion time this week, we had lots of fun making play dough with Ms. Pippa.

We got to go up to the ES Science Lab so we could use the stove!

After we were done, we talked about the procedure we followed to make play dough and sequenced pictures of what we had done…

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The Superstars had a great time planning our end of semester party, here are some pictures of the process we went through to plan the party:

Here are some more photos of the planning and the party. I didn’t get a chance to take many photos at the party, so if you have any good pics, please email or send them in to share thanks!

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This week, we have been lucky enough to celebrate 3 birthdays!!!

Happy birthday to all the friends who were born in December!

How much fun is it to be a Kindergarten kid? Too much fun – check out our spontaneous choosing time dance party! The Super Stars certainly have the right moves!!

Will put up a better quality video when Mr. Steve sends us the link, but in the mean time, wanted to get this up so those who were unable to make it could share