Field Trip!!

On Monday the kids helped me demolish our igloo.  The loved all of smashing and stomping! Amazingly, it only took about 20 minutes to get it taken down and cleaned up.

Bye, bye igloo!!  You gave us hours and hours of creative play and cost 

Mme Katie a small fortune in hot glue sticks!!  We will miss you!!!

 

We had such a great time at the museum this afternoon!  The kids were so well-behaved and they seemed to really enjoy the museum's attractions.  I tried to get photos of everyone, but the kids were moving so quickly that many of my pictures didn't turn out all that well.  Also, the groups were blended, so you will see cuties from both classes.

Whew!  I think they tired themselves right out!  We had a few little sleepers on the way home.

Peek at Our Week

We started our week with some colour-mixing using coffee filters and crayola markers

  

We measured out the length of a real-life-sized polar bear (2.5 m - 3m tall on hind legs)

We also measured ourselves against it

We learned about 4 types of penguins and started with a penguin sort.  We learned about the 'manchot jugulaire' (Chinstrap penguin), the 'gorfou sauteur' (Rockhopper penguin), the 'manchot empereur' (Emperor penguin), and the 'manchot adélie' (Adelie penguin).  Here we are trying to find our penguin family.  Nineteen kindergartners waddling in all directions is pretty adorable.

We noticed earlier in the week that someone was playing pranks on us.  The kids suspected it was a leprechaun.  On Thursday our suspicions were confirmed when a bunch of crazy things happened.  First, the cups we decorated for our celebration were shrunken and turned into little hats!

Then we noticed that the SmartBoard had turned green.

Someone had been playing on our carpet and left a big mess!

 

We decided we'd had enough!  We set some traps and made gold coins to entice him

When we came back, the traps were knocked around, all of the gold coins were gone and there were a whole bunch of new pranks.  Our backpacks were in the igloo, our gummy bears had turned green, the toilet water was green and there were chocolate gold coins everywhere for us to find.  It was so much fun.

Penguins!

Today we learned about which polar animals live at the north pole and which animals live at the south pole.  We also learned about the emperor penguin's (le manchot empereur) life cycle.  Then we pretended we were mommy and daddy penguins carrying our eggs and babies around on our feet.

March Vocabulary