"A little sparkle, a lot of cheer"

This week, snow filled and covered the Kindergarten area for the first time this school year! It wasn't packing snow, but that didn't stop our students from having lots of fun.

We also turned ourselves into snowflakes and decorated our classroom door! 

Sparkle, our Kindess Elf from last year also returned back to our class! Every morning, our students are excited to locate where she is! She's been leaving us letters and asking us to do acts of kindess to spread the holiday cheer! 
So far, Sparkle has asked us to:  
1) Make playdough for our Baskin Robbin dramatic centre
2) Sit beside somebody new at lunch 
3) Write a letter to a friend in our class and to Ms.Angellotti 

In Math, we have continued to learn about patterns. We went on a school hunt to look for patterns and have started creating our own sound/musical patterns. We also created our own holiday lights pattern. 

AB pattern (green, blue, green, blue...)

Lots of patterns on the mitten! 

We also have been learning about various holidays celebrated around the world. This week, we learned about Hannukah. We learned that on Hannukah, a menorah is lit (every night for 8 days), latkes (potato pancakes) are enjoyed and games are played such as the dreidel game. 
Mr.Shulman brought in dreidel's for us to play with. We learned the different symbols on the dreidel and the Hebrew language. 
To all those celebrating, Happy Hannukah from Room 109! 

Friendly Reminders/Updates:

• Please send in extra pairs of socks with your child, to leave in their cubby! With the snowy and wet weather, our socks are getting wet at recess time.  
• Our blog has been updated to include the monthly homework and classroom calendar. Take a look at the toolbar on the top. 
• Next Thursday (December 21) is our winter concert! Our students are participating and are asked to wear a plain red shirt and black pants. Students are to be dropped off to our classroom at 6:00 p.m.and the concert will begin promptly at 6:30.Admittance is free however we will be collecting for the Vaughan Food Bank, a donation would be appreciated (i.e., canned food items such as soup, pasta sauces, hot and cold cereals, crackers, toiletry items, pasta etc...) 
• We will not be sending home our daily reading books or library books during the winter break! Enjoy the time with your families and loved ones! 

Stay warm, have a great weekend!