Back to school is just around the corner! If you've been following me here on the blog, or on social media, you know I've been a kindergarten teacher my entire career (nearly 20 years!). Well....some BIG news is coming...this school year I will be transitioning to the Teacher-Librarian position at my current school (half time) and another school (half time).  I'm so excited to start this new journey and share my plans with you! As I begin to think about the Library Learning Commons space, one of the areas I plan on setting up right from the beginning of the school year for the students t ..read more

Happy Father's Day to all the father-figures in our lives! Our students were busy over the past few weeks creating a poster and keychain! We also put on our Growing Celebration last Friday to celebrate all of our amazing kindergarten students! We have two weeks left of school and I'm not going to lie...this is probably THE most challenging time of the year! The weather is HOT (remember, no air conditioning in schools!), we have to start cleaning and packing our classroom and there are nearly 30 students in our classroom to keep entertained while doing that! AHHHH! Some days are mor ..read more

The final countdown has begun...only 3 more weeks left! This upcoming week we will be having our Growing Celebration! We can't wait to celebrate all of the wonderful learning that happened this year! You will notice over the next few weeks that our centres are winding down. We are starting to do end of year cleaning of our materials and finishing off any inquiries. Here's a look at our centres this week: Can you create a marble run using pipes? (These pipes were donated by a parent last year. We have used them in so many places including our sensory bin!) Spin and write the CVC word! Can ..read more

Happy June! This is our last month of school - and let me tell you, it's going to be a busy one! Here's a look at our centres this week: Can you design a bee at the Playdough Centre? Can you fix the CVC word? Which letter is missing? In our Sensory Bin, we filled it with water and these Really Big Buttons from Roylco. You can find the buttons from Quality Classrooms. We added ladles and strainers, along with these colourful bowls, for students to make "Button Soup". In our fine motor small group mini lesson this week, students drew different lines on scrap paper and will be cutting th ..read more

It's the end of May already! You can see by my weekly plans how busy this time of year gets as we start planning our fun Kindergarten Growing Celebration next month and begin to wrap up our year together. Last week we learned about Mother Mary and worked on a directed drawing of her. Look how beautiful these came out! Here's a look at our centres this week: Can you create a flower using loose parts? Download this flower poster for FREE below! Let's play "Fivezies". Roll all 5 of your die. Collect one number. Keep rolling until all 5 die have the same number. Who can do that first ..read more

It's the Victoria Day long weekend here in Canada and so far the weather has been beautiful. In fact, tomorrow is warming up so much I *may* just have to take a dip in the pool (hence why I'm posting this today and taking the next two days off HA!) Last week we explored colour mixing by introducing primary and secondary colours. We used coloured water and eye droppers to mix primary colours and see what happens! The students LOVED this! We are continuing with our Colour Inquiry by making our own paint colours using the primary colours in a squirt bottle. We also sang along to the Hail M ..read more

Happy Mother's Day! I hope everyone has a lovely day celebrating all the special people in their life! Last week we worked hard preparing our own Mother's Day books. I just love these answers! We also celebrated Catholic Education Week and our school put on an Art Show. We worked with Artist Caroline to create these beautiful paintings on canvas with a clay heart on top as the theme was "LOVE". Here's a look at our centres this week: Can you create a bridge? I love these rainbow spools from Quality Classrooms! Can you form a letter using Wikki Stix? Roll the coin die and s ..read more

This upcoming week is a busy one! It's Catholic Education Week across our board and our school is putting on an Art Show. I'll be sure to share pictures of that next week! We are also going on a field trip to watch a fun production! Last week we introduced our students to the FREE website www.sketch.metademolab.com where students can draw an image on a white piece of paper and then take a picture, upload it and watch it come to life through animation! They loved it! Mother's Day is coming up next weekend and our students will be working on these adorable books to take home...click th ..read more

Ummmm anyone else surprised by how quickly this school year is going? It's already May!!!???!!! Last week was Earth Day and we spoke a lot about ways we are stewards of the Earth. We used the ChatterPix Kids app to create public service announcements highlighting ways we can help take care of our world. Here's a look at our centres this week: Can you build a CVC word? I love using muffin tins because they are already divided into 3 sections (from top to bottom) and easily help students spell CVC words. You can download these CVC cards for FREE by clicking below! If you do downl ..read more

It's Earth Day this Monday (April 22) and we have planned a few activities around that (see below). Our grade 6 Learning Buddies spend time with us each week. This week we will be going outside with them on an Earth Day scavenger hunt! If you're interested in downloading this for FREE click the picture below! Here are a few other things you may like for Earth Day! In religion our focus is on how we can be stewards of the Earth. We will be using these cards to play a game to discuss and then we will work in groups to create posters showing how we can help our planet. In case you m ..read more