Mme Chelsey's Blog

I hope everyone has a wonderful and relaxing break, I cannot wait to hear all about it when we come back in January. This week we have been practicing how to decompose numbers using number bonds. We looked at how many different ways we could break down each number and practiced how to fill in number bonds using dominos. This activity went home in their math bags today- we will be doing this activity on January 6th, so no need to start until we are learning online. The kids also made tree ornaments for you using Shrinky Dinks. They traced their hands and decorated them like Santa.  We had so much fun this week watching the Winter Celebration, wearing our festive wear and wearing our PJ's.  Important dates: December 18th - No school January 4th - No school  

This week we decorated our windows using a bunch of different methods like paper tearing, finger painting and tissue paper to create beautiful winter bulbs. If you are walking by our window, have your child point our their bulbs!  We also created tie dye quilting squares to represent ourselves, and show how we are all unique and awesome. The entire Tuscany School will create a piece of the quilt and it will be put together to create one giant school quilt.  We also are working on using manipulatives to figure our different ways to create the same number. For example : 3 and 3 is 6, 4 and 2 is 6 , 5 and 1 is 6. We are also continuing to practice counting forwards and backwards from 10, and using strategies to figure out what all those numbers are in French. We also filmed our Winder Celebration. The kids cannot wait to show you all the hard work they put into learning their winter poem!! We will be sharing and watching the celebration on December 16th.  From Mme Lynley: "I...

This week we have started working on  C'est l'hiver. We are practicing saying full sentences by inserting our new vocab words we are learning about winter; " Pendant l'hiver j'aime......" .  we talking about all the different things we love to do during winter like skating, drink hot chocolate, build a snowman and building snow forts.  Here are some songs we have been working on in class: C'est l'hiver La neige tombe We are also getting prepared for our Winter Celebration which parents can watch online December 16th-more details to come . We are also preparing for Deck the Windows! Keep an eye out after the 10th of December as Tuscany will decorate all the classroom windows of the school.  Before winter break, I will send out a plan for online learning and what you will expect during the 4 days online. I will give a break down of the groups and try to be mindful of siblings in older grades and their schedules as well. Please let me know if you have any...

Next Thursday December 3rd is an early dismissal day. AM will come from 8:30-12:40 no school for PM kinder. This week we had a virtual visit from Saa'kokoto. He talked about the importance of being kind towards others and why we should respect the world around us.  Does your child remember the story that Saa'kokoto told them?  We are now focusing on winter clothing as we shift into "c'est l'hiver". When you are getting ready to  leave the house, ask your child what they are putting on- what are boots, mittens, hat, coat and scarf  in French- and can they say it in a complete sentence " Je porte ...........". We have also been working on finding initial sounds in words. We have been talking about how each word has " un mot magique" and they loved thinking of words like monstre, mitaine,mardi, mains to go with the letter M. Parent teacher conferences will be open to book starting on Saturday the 28th at 10am. Please let me know if you are hav...

This week we continued our work on the different parts of the body. We practiced saying all the different body parts and  created a design plan for our own monsters using lots of different body parts. We will now construct our monsters using different materials like clay.We will then be presenting our monsters to the class using full French sentences. Once we are all done they will be bringing their monster home to show you!  Here is the song we have been working on this week: Next week, on November 25th , we will be having our Celebration of Learning! I will post some activities that we have been working on in class on the Google classroom for you to do at home with your child. For the math center, I will also be sending home a little math bag. This math bag is to be returned to school after the center is completed at home. I cannot wait for everyone to see how hard these kiddos have been working and how far they have come since September!!  November 19th - Fun Snack and...

I am asking that each student please join Googleclassroom. Here is how you get into the class: 1) Log into your child's Google account- email is on their blue folder and passwords are 12345678 2)https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h 3)Enter our class code - vxudodf 4)Please let me know if you have any questions!! This week we started learning all about body parts. We traced our bodies and practiced saying our different body parts in French, we also worked hard at adding numbers as well to form complete sentences for example " J'ai deux mains". To practice we used songs, visuals, dance/movements and picture recognition. Here is our weekly song we used to practice : Des os, il en faut We started learning how to subitize numbers 1-5. We are learning different strategies to help us quickly remember and recognize numbers in different forms using 10 frames, objects, drawings and different groupings. * Fun snack orders are due, if you are interested please send them to school. ...

This week the kids worked SO HARD on their Remembrance Day video.  We have been practicing how to do "Oh Canada " in sign language for the virtual assembly and we continued to work on discussing the importance of Remembrance Day and why we continue to honor this day each year. We also discussed Peace - "La paix" and asked the question "what does Peace mean to me?". The answers the kids came up with were amazing; snuggling my cat is la paix, reading my new lego book is la paix, baking with my mom is la paix and so many more. We also finished our vowel family!! While reading at home,  have your kids pick out all the vowels and tell you what they are in French as well as what sound they make? A message from Mme Lynley: "I have thoroughly enjoyed my first week in kindergarten! Mme Chelsey and all the kids have made me feel so welcome. I have been very impressed with how friendly and kind they are. One of my goals this week has been to learn all 46 names, ...