Mrs. Smith's Junior Kindergarten: October 2014

Important Dates

May 27 - Track and Field Day - gym uniform to be worn

June 3^rd – Arts night

June 4^th – School Spelling bee (Justin, Arya, Marcus)

Parents you are all invited on June 10th @ 2:00-330pm to come and watch the JK-Gr. 2 GRADUATION!!!!! Each student will walk across the stage and receive a certificate of completion for their grade. At this time three awards will also be handed out (per grade) for Language, Math, and UOI.

(THIS IS ALSO CASUAL DAY; STUDENTS CAN COME TO SCHOOL DRESSED IN THEIR "GRAD" OUTFITS!)

For students in Gr.3-8 their Graduation starts at 5pm, everyone is welcome to attend even if they do not have a child in this grade range.

June 11th - Pirate day at the maples $$

June 12th - Summer Fair, last day of school

Day 40 (Thursday)

Halloween costumes worn to school on Fri. Bringing treats is fine as long as they are nut free and something small that does not need to be refrigerated!

Please no weapons with costumes!

We have 16 students including your child!

French - http://www.stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.ca/

Calendar - Today we learned our days of the week song, said the date and dressed Charlie for the weather.

Independent Reading - As part of our daily 5 students will look at stories, do picture walks, partner read and listen to others telling stories.

Journal -

Today we looked at our classroom pumpkin and thought of some describing words of what the inside looks like, we then wrote: the inside has/is ________________. Students had to fill in the blank some even sounded out and wrote the word themselves take a look:

Gym - sjamslovan.blogspot.com

Language -

Today we learned the letter Mm, we practised our song about it and the sound letter Mm makes, and writing it ourselves

Math -

Today we had to construct a class graph students had to tell me the parts we needed and where things went.

Music - today we learned songs about: counting to 100, the planets, months of the year, classroom rules, outside/inside voices, phonics.

UOI - Today we carved open our pumpkin to take a look on the inside

Day 39 (Wednesday)

Halloween costumes worn to school on Fri. Bringing treats is fine as long as they are nut free and something small that does not need to be refrigerated!

Please no weapons with costumes!

We have 16 students including your child!

French - http://www.stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.ca/

Calendar - Today we learned our days of the week song, said the date and dressed Charlie for the weather.

Independent Reading - As part of our daily 5 students will look at stories, do picture walks, partner read and listen to others telling stories.

Story -

Journal -

Today we looked at our classroom pumpkin and thought of some describing words we then wrote: the pumpkin is ________________. Students had to fill in the blank some even sounded out and wrote the word themselves take a look:

Gym - sjamslovan.blogspot.com

Language -

Today we learned the letter Mm, we practised our song about it and the sound letter Mm makes, and writing it ourselves

Math -

Today we had to construct a class graph students had to tell me the parts we needed and where things went take a look:

Music - today we learned songs about: counting to 100, the planets, months of the year, classroom rules, outside/inside voices, phonics.

UOI - Today we did a fun halloween craft by tracing our feet and painting them into a candy corn!

UOI Centres-

House, dress up, playdough, puzzles, Mr. Potato head, blocks. Working on sharing, manners, fine motor skills, imaginative play, problem solving and working together.

Day 38

Info- casual day tomorrow

Halloween costumes worn to school on Fri. Bringing treats is fine as long as they are nut free and something small that does not need to be refrigerated!

Please no weapons with costumes!

We have 16 students including your child!

French - http://www.stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.ca/

Calendar - Today we learned our days of the week song, said the date and dressed Charlie for the weather.

Independent Reading - As part of our daily 5 students will look at stories, do picture walks, partner read and listen to others telling stories.

Story-

Drama, Integrated Arts: www.mrmonaghan2015.blogspot.ca

Journal - today we watched a video about the life cycle of a pumpkin, then we put pictures of seed, sprout, vine, flower, green pumpkin, orange pumpkin in sequential order.

Gym - sjamslovan.blogspot.com

Language -

Today we learned the letter Mm, we practised our song about it and the sound letter Mm makes, and practised writing the letter in our workbooks. We brainstormed words that start with the letter M:

Math -

Today we reviewed how to count backwards from ten, number recognition of 1-10, and ordinal numbers example: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th.

We also reviewed graphing with a Are You Afraid of Spiders? Graph:

UOI - Today we puffy ghosts as part of our Halloween theme:

UOI Centres-

House, dress up, playdough, puzzles, Mr. Potato head, blocks. Working on sharing, manners, fine motor skills, imaginative play, problem solving and working together. Mrs.Smith bought us new dress up items: