What did you do today?

1.  Today, I made a pattern.  (Juan Miguel)
2.  Today, I played at the Blocks Centre.  I built a big castle (un château).  (Taha)
3.  Today, I painted a poppy.  (Antonio)
4.  Today, we went to the gym.  Maasai Warriors came to our school to talk to us.  (Deshmi)
5.  Today, I played with Swimetta.  I tested what floats and what sinks.  (Owen)

Note:
Please find in your child`s agenda, 2 items:
1.  Photograph proofs;
2. Permission form to walk to the Greenboro Library to visit with the professional dancers of Ballet Jorgen.

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I went to the Science Centre.  I drew a picture of Owen because he is living.  (Veeran)
2.  Today, I was playing with Swimetta on the SMARTboard.  I was sorting things that sink and things that float.  (Aniyah).
3.  Today, I went to the Art Centre and I made a poppy.  I traced a poppy.  Then I painted the centre black and the petals red.  (Lucia)
4.  Today, I went to the Writing Centre to draw a poppy.  (Andrea)
5.  Today, I read a poem called "Little Poppy".  (Sophie)

Note:
Scholastic orders are in your child's agenda.  If you would like to order, please submit your order on or before November 15th.  

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I played in the Blocks Centre.  I played with the big police car.  (Antonio)
2.  Today, I drew a picture of a poppy (un coquelicot).  (Andrew)
3.  Today, I played teacher.  (Deshmi)
4.  Today, we went on a school bus (it remained parked in our school's driveway).  We practised how to use the emergency exit.  (Naomi)
5.  Today, we learned that living things eat (mange), breathe (respire), grow (grandit) and reproduce (se reproduise).  (Sophie)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I went to the Writing Centre.  I wrote down friends' names and I drew them.  (Seanna)
2.  Today, I went to the bakery.  I pretended to make a pancake. (Aidan)
3.  Today, I played superhero letters with Mrs. Carroll.  I had to match the lower case letters with the upper case letters.  (Antonio)
4.  Today, I mixed paint colors.  I created purple.  I made purple by mixing blue and red.  (Archita)
5.  Today, I went to the Art Centre.  I created blueish grey by mixing black and white and blue. (Lucia)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I did three patterns.  I did "pine cone, green gem" and repeat.  I did "white gem, blue gem" and repeat.  My last pattern was "white gem, green gem" and repeat. (Lucia)
2.  Today, we listened to a story called Trois souris peintres" (Veeran)
3.  Today, I drew pictures and wrote words about our bakery.  (Noku)
4.  Today, I sorted living (vivants) and non-living (non-vivants) things. (Taha)
5.  Today, I drew my whole family.  (Andrew)

November Update

If you were to pass by the Yellow Caterpillar classroom these days, you would hear the children humming “L’automne est arrivé!” (Fall is here). As the season has arrived, we are learning fall and Halloween vocabulary in Language and Art, and soon we will be talking about Remembrance Day. We had fun visiting Miller’s Farm and picking out pumpkins. In class we cut up the gourds and pumpkins and the children had a tactile experience learning what the insides are made from! We also had fun picking fall leaves and replicating them with pastels in Art class. Along with that, we are learning elements of design: colour, line and texture. 

In Math we continue to do sorting and classification, as well number sense, counting from one to twenty, forwards and backwards, and skip counting by two for their better understanding.

The children are very excited to build a bakery in the Dramatic Arts area- they also look very cute in their chef’s hats. When we were brainstorming ideas about what we would need in the bakery, the kids surprised me with their vast knowledge of all things cooking and left me with the impression that they must be helping out in their kitchens at home! 

For Halloween the classroom was decorated with pumpkins, owls and monsters. In Gym, the children had fun trying to balance mini gourds on their heads.

And throwing and catching ‘ghost balloons’ in the air with their scoops.

We had so much fun during the Halloween dance-o-thon, wearing our costumes and dancing up a storm! And we ended the day with a costume parade.

We will continue to learn more things about the seasonal changes as winter is soon approaching. With that in mind, I would like to remind parents to dress the children warmly according to the colder weather.

Till we meet again!

Mrs. Singh

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I was at the Art Centre.  We mixed paint.  If I mix red and blue, I will get purple.  If I mix red and yellow, I will get orange.  If I mix blue and yellow, I will get green.  (Aniyah)
2.  Today, I played at the Math Centre.  I created a pattern.  It was pine cone, gem and repeat.  (Sam)
3.  Today, I played at the Science Centre.  I sorted living and non-living things.  (Naomi)
4.  Today, I went to the Writing Centre.  I wrote letters.  (Andrea)
5.  Today, I played a game on the SMARTboard.  It was about sinking and floating things.  The fish who talked during the activity is called Swimetta.  (Sophie)