2008

 KGC with Mrs. Sparks and Mrs. Nuria

March 6, 2009

Please view our latest Voicethread which highlights what we have learnt about Materials and their properties! We are proud of all the new vocabulary words we have learnt like transparent, waterproof and opaque! Listen to how well we can communicate our ideas!

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We have also been creating story podcasts on [|www.pinkydinkydoo.com] Ask your child to show you how to do it!

 February 8,2009

We are counting down the days to the 100th day of school with only 12 days to go! We are also looking forward to having our parents visit next Thursday for Family Math Day! We have learnt some fun games and have been practising them with each other and with our 7th Grade buddies! We can't wait to play them with you!



 November 25, 2008

KGC worked really hard at creating pictures of skeletons using the drawing tools of Kidpix on the computer recently. They chose different sized crayons to draw with, depending on the size and thickness of the bones. This required some risk taking and reflection. The children enjoyed choosing the colour for their backgrounds and labelled their pictures independently. To view the skeletons on the Bones Photostory, make sure to mute the slide below of the Buddies (click on the speaker icon) and then press play to watch the Photostory above. You will hear the children singing one of the Hip, Hop and Healthy songs that they learnt with Mrs. Hounsell in Music class! Enjoy!

Thank you to all those parents who have co-operated and participated in the House project! Remember the process of building the house with your child is more important than the final product. We will be taking a trip around the world of Kindergarten next week viewing all the different houses that have been sent in! Please take some photographs of different houses that you see on your travels when you are on winter break! Talk to your child about what what materials they are built from and why they are built in that way.

Ask your child how we sorted buttons in class this week. How many different ways can we sort them?Size, colour, appearance (shiny) and how many dots are in the middle? We used the buttons with 2 holes in the centre to practice counting by 2s to 10. The story called the //Button Box by Margarette S. Reid and Sarah Chamberlain// gave us some ideas. of what we can do with buttons. Encourage your child to ask his/her grandmother if she has any buttons to explore! 1     November 16, 2008

Thank you to everyone who participated in our end of unit evening event last week. The children were so excited to be coming to school in the dark! Thank you for your co-operation in bringing in the requested food items. We would appreciate any feedback you may have from the evening's event. We are hoping to plan more events like this throughout the year. We have completed our first Voicethread. You may not have got a chance to see it at our evening event. If you would like to view it, please send me an email ( jsparks@qf.org.qa ) and I will invite you to view it. This is to protect the privacy and security of our students.

November 10, 2008

Check out the fun we are having with our 7th Grade buddies! We read together, play games and share stories!



November 2, 2008 Thanks to the parents and nannies who accompanied us on the trip to Family Food Centre! We managed to find all the items on our shopping lists and were busy cooking and preparing various food dishes during the week. We were excited to find various 3-dimensional shapes in the supermarket! We found ice cream cones in the freezer, cylinders filled with chocolates, rectangular prisms in the cereal section, and spheres in the fruit and vegetable section. We made healthy sandwiches on our return, spreading butter on the bread and then cutting the sandwiches in half. We ate grapes, oranges and prepared Gingerbread cookies that we baked in our classroom. I hope you found the recipe to try at home in your child's folder. Thanks for your participation with the Food Diaries. We have had some interesting discussions about eating a balanced diet. Photographs from the trip will be posted soon!

October 25, 2008 KGC are looking forward to their field trip to Family Food Centre this week. Thank you to the parents who have agreed to accompany us to the supermarket. The children have decided what they would like to cook and eat and have made the shopping list. Ask your child about some of the items on the list to ensure we have a balanced diet. We will be meeting our Grade 7 buddies again on Monday. The children are looking forward to meeting them again and to hearing some more jokes, as well as being able to read stories together. Being International Week, they will be sharing something about the country that they are from. We are also looking forward to learning about different countries as we visit the Kindergarten teachers in the different KG classes this week. It will be a busy week!





Please click on the link below to view the daily schedule. Just a reminder that P.E. days are Mondays and Wednesdays, while Library is on Tuesdays.

[|KGC Schedule]

We are looking forward to meeting our 7th Grade Buddies in 7C on __Monday 13th October__! We will be reading and writing together, as well as playing Math and language games.  Please feel free to contact me on jsparks@qf.org.qa <span style="color: #ff1aa1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> if you have any questions. Please let me know what you think of the wikipage and if there is any other information that you require. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #ff1aa1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">I have posted 2 discussions. You can access them at the top of this page. I would love to hear your comments and opinions on them.

Communication between home and school is essential to support your child's learning. I am looking forward to building a relationship with you, as parents, through this wikipage and for your children to be excited to visit the page.

Kind regards, Jane Sparks

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