* Reminder *
Please ensure that your child's lunches and snacks are nut free. We are a nut free school and an Easter treat in our lunches is nice but only if they don't contain nuts! Thank you!
* Spring Raffle *
Just a reminder that our Spring Raffle is on Friday. Please complete the tickets, cut them out and return with payment. It is very difficult to complete and cut out tickets on behalf of 27 children. Mrs. Meredith and I thank you in advance for your help.
* Eco Parade *
We are celebrating Earth Day on Friday, April 21st. If possible, please dress your child in blue or earth colours (brown, green, moss green, mustard yellow). The kindergarten students will participate in the parade around the school yard. Kinder's theme is "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle". We will be marching as the "Blue Box" (we will tape recyclable things to our blue clothes).
* Request *
If any of you have any old collections of buttons, wine bottle corks or other small interesting objects please send them in. We are always looking for fun things to count or use in math activities. Thank you.
Wow! The beginning of this post was announcement heavy - sorry about that. I guess that is what happens when I have been out of the room for a week - with the way the holiday fell I have been with the other class.
We had a fun day today! One of my JK friends was celebrating her birthday. We have a new thing at St. Anne, video announcements that we watch on the Smartboard. She got to see her picture and the reporters wished her a happy birthday!
Our discussion of spring led us to talking about "baby animals". That conversation led specifically to "chicks". My friends were so excited to learn that our grade 1 friends got some eggs. We went to visit the eggs today and noticed that they are in an incubator. All of my friends commented that they need to be in the incubator to keep them warm so the chick can develop - just like the daddy emperor penguin kept his egg warm between his feet. When we got back to classroom some of my SK friends drew in their journals about the eggs - each week we are going to visit the eggs and note the changes. We learned that it takes 21 days for the eggs to hatch. We can't wait to see what happens. Here is a great photo of some of my friends checking out the eggs! All of my friends got to visit and look at the eggs but I kept forgetting the camera so I only got a picture of a few.