Gobble, gobble, gobble

Our Fall inquiry has extended into turkeys just in time for Thanksgiving. The kinders have been really interested in learning about Thanksgiving this week from some of our story books.  Today we talked about turkeys, being thankful and learned a lot of French thanksgiving words. We also made French Thanksgiving cards, drew turkeys by tracing our hands and sang a great song called Albuquerque Turkey.  Here's the link to our song and some pictures of our creations! Gobble gobble!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwBNuxbpIJ8

C is making a Thanksgiving card with a picture of a turkey on it

Happy Thanksgiving

B's scarecrow

I decided to cut out her hand traced turkey

So colourful

B's working hard on his Thanksgiving card

M wants to add ribbon but he isn't sure how yet

M is so proud of his work!

Activity fees

We are still missing many $30 activity fees as of  October 8th.  We use this money for field trips and guest speakers to enhance our inquiry learning.  The faster we get the fee the sooner we can start planning!  A note has gone home in communication books today if we have not yet received your fee.  Thank you for your cooperation.

Kindergarten team :)

Reminders....

We are still missing many student activity fees ($30 cash or cheque). If you haven't already done so please send it in ASAP.   A reminder will also be going home in communication books tomorrow.

Also,
Milk orders are due Thursday.  No late orders will be accepted.
Scholastic orders are also due Thursday.

Thank you for everything we have already received!

Sink or Float: Pumpkin Edition

Yesterday, as we were getting ready for home time, B. asked Mrs. Meredith if a pumpkin would sink or float!  It was a wonderful inquiry question that we got to explore this morning.  We learned about asking questions, predictions and observations as we used some of our fall objects in our sick or float game.  Our first predictions was for the pumpkin.  Most of the kinders guessed that it would sink because it was heavy. E. justified this by adding "when something is so heavy it's going to sink".
Next we predicted what 2 of our gourds would To.  The consensus was that they would both sink.  We also made a prediction on our dried corn.  C predicted "It will float because its lighter than the pumpkin".  After we made our prediction we got to work testing them.  Here are some pictures of our experiment! To our surprise everything FLOATED! Stay turned in the next couple of weeks while we explore why our pumpkin floated!  Here are some pictures of our experiment! 

Our Fall Inquiry...

1. is in full swing in our room and our kinders are crazy about pumpkins!   We've been working on patterning, letter sounds and researching our questions about fall.  Next week we will be doing more with pumpkins so stay tuned!  Check out our pictures from this week below!

Reminder

A $30 activity fee for your kinder is due as soon as possible.

Thank you 

Check The Mail!

Today we distributed milk/juice order forms which can be found in your kinders mailbag!  If interested, please fill out and return to us by THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10th!  Forms will not be accepted after that day. Thanks, and thank you M!