Happy March!  Fingers crossed that Spring is on the way.  The children completed their March calendars this week and created lions and lambs as we classify the weather this month.  Hopefully there will be more lamb days than lion days.  As the weather continues to change please send splash pants or snow pants (depending on the weather) with your child.  Our playground continues to have wet spots and no one wants to be dirty or wet for the school day.  Thanks in advance.  If your child does not have splash pants, this is a great time to purchase a pair.
     We investigated "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" this week.  The drama centre had bowls, chairs and towels for beds.  The children enjoyed wearing the name of their character and acting out the story.  The Junior Kindergarten students completed work naming the characters in the story and the Senior Kindergarten students drew the characters, the setting and the beginning, middle and end of the story. Our building challenge this week was to build a bed for Goldilocks.  Goldilocks was made of paper on a recipe card, but had keys taped to the back of the paper to make her heavier.  The children were given a variety of materials including 2 paper cups, small blocks, craft foam, popsicle sticks, pompoms, chopsticks and recipe cards to build a bed.  They had to use a minimum of 2 different materials, the bed had to hold Goldilocks and there had to be space under the bed.  The students did a wonderful job constructing their beds.  We will be studying "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" this week. There will be a lot of "trip trapping' over the bridge!
     We continued learning and experimenting with 3 d shapes this week.  We built a ramp and the children took turns determining if their shape would roll, slide or roll and slide down the ramp.  We then classified the shapes in a Venn diagram.  Please see pictures to the right of the blog.  In the computer lab, the children played "What Came First?".  This game uses adventure stories to practise story sequencing and is on Book Flix.  In the gym, the children used the parachute to play Cat and Mouse and also played a game called Birds Nest.
     On Tuesday, we will be attending a presentation from the Youth Wellness Network,  entitled, "How to Become Your Own Best Friend."  This is based on extending the golden rule to treating ourselves the way we want to be treated so we can treat others the way they want to be treated.  This presentation teaches students the tools to build a stronger foundation of self-esteem and self-love.
     Miss Santiago and I would like to wish everyone a wonderful March Break.  Hopefully you will have the opportunity to spend some fun time doing special things with your family.  This is always a great time to explore a new book, a board game or just enjoy a nice walk in the neighbourhood.   Hopefully we will return to sunny warmer days!

This Week:

Monday-Library (B), Computers (A)
Tuesday-Snuggle Up Books exchanged
               Youth Wellness presentation
Wednesday-Scholastic Book orders due
                    You can order and pay online
                    Music 
Thursday-Library (A), Computers (B)
                 Return Sound Review books and 
                 Sight Word Books
Friday-Snuggle Up Books exchanged
            Have a wonderful March Break!

See everyone on Monday, March 19!