Our Hallowe'en Celebration!

Thank you for coming in today to see our Hallowe'en parade and to pop in to see your little ones. We do not have a class picture and we hope that someone will be able to post one here if possible. Have a safe and wonderful Hallowe'en weekend everyone!
Mrs. Kimberley and Mrs. Porto :)

Mrs. Porto and Mrs. Kimberley's costumes...

Our weekly activities!

Special notes about tomorrow and thank you everyone!

Thank you for all of our class needs! 
Thank you Avery and family for the fish.

If you are able to bring in clementines tomorrow, that would be greatly appreciated, we are also in need of at least one more pumpkin!

Reminder that our Hallowe'en Parade is tomorrow morning at 9:10am-9:30am, please come to the school at 9 or so. If you would like to pop in to our classroom afterward, please come by to see what they are doing. Our doors are open until 10am.

Class Needs!

Thank you for the pasta, feathers and stickers everyone!


We are still in need of the following:
1) Pom-poms
2) Fish food or $1 for fish needs
3) Fish scoop
4) Food colouring
5) Flour
6) Sugar
7) Butter
8) Borax

Thank you so much for all of your help!

Mrs. K and Mrs. P

Jungle Sport!

Happy Birthday Artin!

Keith's Solar System creation at home!

This is amazing Keith! We can't wait to ask you where all of the planets are located.
Thank you for sharing it with us! ;)
Mrs. P and Mrs. K

Balance, trust, co-ordination, fun! Jungle Sport at it's best!

All ready for Jungle Sport!

Day one of Jungle Sport!

Class needs!

Dear Families,
We have several FDK needs coming up and we are wondering if you could raid your homes and help us out.

We are in need of the following:
1: Fish food
2. Fish scoop
3. or $1 to donate toward fish needs
4. Pom-poms
5. All shapes of pasta (wheels, tubes, shells)
6. Beads
7. Foam stickers
8. Feathers

Thank you for your help!
Mrs. P and Mrs. K

Jungle Sport Days!

The Purple Room's Jungle Sport days are: Wednesday and Thursday this week!
Please bring in a helmet if you have one and make sure that your child is wearing pants and running shoes that day!

Thank you!

Building and playing as a group.

Our class is playing on the carpet together here. Rhys and Zach have made a space ship, a few minutes earlier they said it was a train. Who knows what it was after the picture was taken :)

Keith, Steven and Adam (at the back) are playing with waffle blocks and cars. They seem to like building cars that carry cars.

 Laurena, Avery, Elisha and Artin (bottom) are playing with blocks and animals.

Jungle Sport, clothing and a big thank you...

Please remember that next week we will be having Jungle Sport. Your child should have dry running shoes every day next week (we do not know our Jungle Sport official days as of yet). If you would like for your child to use his/her own helmet, please send it in with the name on it.

We are finding that several of our children do not recognize their own clothing yet. Please make sure that everything is labeled as we have several items that are unclaimed.

Thank you to Mrs. Stewart for volunteering each Friday morning. We appreciate your help and we enjoy having you in!

Have a great weekend everyone!
Mrs. P and Mrs. K :)

Thursday's activities...

Planet colour, cut, glue and put into the correct order from the sun.
Making play-dough.
Space-storm charts
Shape object sort and glue.
Number 1-6 count/finger count/dot numbers (small group activity).

Thank you for the small zip-lock bags and for your effort in keeping up with the blog.

Tonight the printing books are going home, only some children will have it tonight. Please check the zippy. You have until next Thursday to help with it.

If your child is not yet holding a pencil or printing his/her name yet, please practice this every day. This is a very important skill that each child needs in both JK and SK. 

Have a great evening,
Mrs. Porto and Mrs. Kimberley

Planet Home Work This Week!

We hope that you all had a great long weekend!

Please go to Youtube.com and type in "Planet Songs for kids". We are learning all about the planets for our first inquiry. These will help your child to learn some interesting facts about each one. We have been learning them in class and would love for you to join in with your child's learning.

This week is all about Mercury! If you have any books or information about Mercury, please send it in!

We are also in need of a few items this week:
1) small zip-lock bags
2) flour

Thank you,
Mrs. K and Mrs. P

A few notes!

Dear Parents,

A few messages:

1) Please insure that when dropping your child off in the morning, you stay on the other side of the gate. It can be very confusing and disruptive for the classes when parents are coming inside. If you are more than a few minutes late, please walk with your little one to the office and we will have our friends come to get them.

2) Please feel free to use our blog as a comment board, for general questions and comments. We really love getting your input.

3) If you are able to send in a WARMER change of clothing next week, please do so. We have a few children who have shorts and t-shirts as their extra change of clothing...this may be a bit too chilly.

4) We are in need of more small ziploc baggies.

5) Have a great long weekend and enjoy your family time!

Mrs. P and Mrs. K

Liam's Birthday!

Today we celebrated Liam's fourth birthday! Liam and his family were kind enough to bring in peanut free cupcakes, which we all enjoyed together. Thank you Liam! Enjoy your special day. 

Space food was a blast!

Thank you to all of our parents who helped us with the space food activity by bringing in a "space" item.
We had 4 tables set up:
1) Wow butter and honey sandwiches
2) Fruit mash and straw
3) Fruit cup and straw
4) Apple sauce and straw

Ask your child what they liked best, what is interesting about how they eat in space and who our special visitor was!

The FDK Team

Reading Buddies and Turkey Time!

We want to thank Mrs. V and her grade 3/4 class for spending a good hour with us yesterday. Your child should be coming home with a turkey that they made with the help of their Reading Buddy. Ask them all about this special time.

Thanks Mrs. V!
Mrs. K and Mrs. P

A little Lego creativity

2nd Block of Play: Building, Patterning, Space Pictures and Words, Play-Dough-Space Food!

Our Weekly Calendar of Events:

Wednesday October 7th: "Space Food" activity, please remember to send your child with one item from our space food list (posted on Monday).

Thursday October 8th: Ms. T in for Mrs. Porto for the full day. Mrs. Kimberley is in today.

Friday October 9th: PD Day: No School!

Monday October 12th: Thanksgiving Monday. No School. Enjoy your Holiday!

Please remember to send in all permission slips as soon as possible. 

See you on Wednesday everyone :)
The FDK Team

Our kids at work and play today!

Some of our Table Activities today...

Sponge painting our names
Make a pattern
Letter/word match
Journals
Letter board

Please check out all of our posts from today and please remember that we are in need of Space Food items for Wednesday!

Space Food Items Needed

Today we learned a little bit about "Space Food". We would like to make and eat some space food on Wednesday. For us to do this, we need your help.

We are in need of the following items:

1) Apple Sauce
2) Wow Butter
3) Straws
4) Fruit like strawberries and peaches
5) Honey
6) Soft tortillas 

If you are able to bring in one or more by Wednesday morning, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Mrs. Porto and Mrs. Kimberley

Some of today's Purple Room activities...

Water beads, fine motor space paint words, journals at the writing centre, design your space pizza, geo boards, letters with and without tails, letters with and without holes, making pop-corn words.

Please ask your child what they did today at one of these centres!
Mrs, Kimberley and Mrs. Porto

Making pizza, baking pizza and eating pizza!

Some of our students turned their pizza into space ships and UFO's. Others were round planets or comets! 

Today's table activities

Designing our own pizza before we make the real one this afternoon.
Geo-board designs.
Planet/Space inquiry: book look and art tables.
Cars, toys, building, dramatic centre and more!

Fine Motor

Thank you!

A BIG THANK YOU for your donations for making planet pizza this afternoon!

We had so many items brought in, please look for some to be returned if we had a little too much. Your generosity is much appreciated.

The FDK Purple Room Team :)