Elf on the Shelf.

Marshmallow in our Family Tree with his family photo.

During the month of December we had a special friend join us in our classroom - Elf on a Shelf! When our Elf first made an appearance he brought along a book that explained all the do's and don'ts of having an Elf visitor. We had a chance to name our Elf and we took a class vote (Math skills: counting, graphing!) after a few good choices we settled on Marshmallow. Marshmallow joined us everyday and we were very respectful to not touch him or else he would lose his magical powers to fly back to the North Pole! Marshmallow was funny enough to appear around the classroom and ended up in the Nativity scene, in our Family Tree (he even brought a family picture!), hanging on our Christmas decorations and even sat by the letter E one day (I wonder why?! Lyla knew it was because Elf started with E!). We loved Marshmallow and said goodbye just before the Christmas holidays. 

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to ELP3 and Happy New Year! 

We hope everyone had a restful and joyous Christmas vacation. We wanted to remind everyone that January is a wintery, snowy time and to please send indoor shoes with your child at school. Similar to December, we will ensure the shoes are left in your child's cubby so that they can easily get them everyday. Secondly, if you would like to leave an extra set of clothes in the classroom we now have a Tupperware bin set up for this purpose. This is a great option especially with the wet snow in case your child's pants get wet from slush and they would like to change into dry clothes in the classroom. Feel free to send labelled socks as well as wet feet happen often! We look forward to settling back into our routines and working together in 2014!

Welcome to our Blog!

Welcome to our Full Day Kindergarten class! Our blog will be used to capture the learning moments in our classroom and share them with you at home. Our class is both Junior Kindergarten and Senior Kindergarten and we do all our learning through the play based model. Play based learning allows us to explore and have a variety of learning experiences all in one day. For example, the Drama Centre is much more than just dress up - we print menus (fine motor skills), count (numeracy skills) and work on oral language skills. The Building Centre helps us develop our gross motor skills, oral language skills, social skills, numeracy skills (counting!) and so much more. We look forward to sharing all of our learning with you and we are so grateful to have you along for the ride to support us. Don't forget to check out all the tabs at the top of the blog where we have lots more information and great photos of our learning!

Using magnetic letters outside to make words.