APRIL

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__ ** NOTICES & UPDATES: ** __

** April 25 - pictures and video of our Earth Day celebration are now posted. Click the earth below to watch. **

**__APRIL 21 - FYI tomorrow is DAY 2 on the cycle calendar.__ Also, the students will be participating in an EARTH DAY ASSEMBLY during period 3. Our class will join the other 2 kindergarten classes to sing a song about our Earth.**

April 17 - We have pictures of our Spring Craft Day. A big thank you to everyone who came along to help! Scroll down to the picture of Ryeland. Also, we had great fun with our reading buddies celebrating Spring with 2 special crafts...look for the pink bunnies further down the page under Ryeland's picture.

April 15 - updates on our Math problem, Scientist in the Classroom, Bright Eyes the Bear and our Stars of the Week are now available to view. Click on the pictures below to see more! April 14 - April Antics has been updated. Look for a Smilebox presentation of our "Math Hand Problem" and "Magnets with a Scientist in the Classroom".

April 7 - More pictures have been added to our classroom coffee and donut shop pics plus more April Antics can be found at the bottom of the page. April 6 - The April Newsletter is available for viewing. Click the link "April Newsletter pdf" above. Also, new pictures have been added to the 'April Antics' section plus new information links have been added to the "Information for Parents" section - please be sure to check out all of these new additions to our Wiki! April 6 - We continue to add more things to our inquiry on "CHANGES" - see below for some 'changes' we are making in our classroom! April 1 - Be sure to check the March calendar. There are more updates on that page. Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the page for some great classroom pictures of the children in action! April 8- 9:00 am. Scientist in School. A fun enquiry about magnets - Please note the change in time! April 16 – Spring Craft Activity Rotation. Volunteers will be needed as all 3 kindergarten classes will be making a variety of different spring crafts.

April 18& 21 – Easter weekend. No school on Friday or Monday Next month we will be celebrating Miss Brown's wedding! She is getting married on May 3rd! On **May 8** Rickson Ridge will be holding a Multicultural Event from 6-7:30pm. Our classrooms will be transformed into different countries. This is going to be a fun evening with lots to see and learn, Please mark this date in your diary!

__ ** QUOTES OF THE MONTH: ** __ //"While we teach our children all about life...they teach us what life is all about."// ~ Angela Schwindt //"Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child."// ~Joan Almon //"Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside - children have their own agendas and time scales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it, they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices."// ~Cathy Nutbrown

** APRIL STARS ** Eamon April 3 to 8 Astrid April 7 to 11 Jenna April 14 to 19 Ronan April 28 to May 2

__** Information for Parents **__ __ LEARNING GAMES AND ACTIVITIES __ For some fun learning games and activities that you can do at home with you child, please visit: [] =__ Math skills 1: Help your child learn counting and numbers __= Fun ways to help your child learn the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. (this is from an American site, but the information still applies to Canada) Click [|here] for a short cartoon video.

=__ How to help your child make (and keep) friends __=

Learn what to it takes for kids to be socially successful.
Click [|here] for more information.

=__ The power of play __=

As children slog though grueling schedules of enrichment and academics, researchers have found a connection between brain development the very thing kids are getting less of.
Click [|here] for more.

**__ OUR EARTH DAY CELEBRATION - April 22, 2014 __**

click the Earth to see more...

On Wednesday April 16th all the kindergarten classes took part in a craft day. Each room had different activities going on in it and the children rotated between the rooms throughout the day. Click on the picture below to see the Smilebox slideshow. (The slideshow may take a while to download. Please be patient if you just see a white screen to start with!)



This week we got together with our Reading Buddies from Mr. Robinson's room and created two fun Spring crafts. Click the picture below to see pictures of our morning.

__** BRIGHT EYES THE BEAR AND HER BABY CUBS ARE MISSING! **__ __** click the picture below to see more! **__



**__ HANDS ON MATH PROBLEM... __**  The boys and girls were given a challenge...they had to find out how many hands we have in our classroom. When you click on the picture below, you will see how they arrived at their answers....

**__ SCIENTIST IN THE CLASSROOM __** **__ MAGNETS - ATTRACT & REPEL __** **__ A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR VOLUNTEERS who joined us for our Scientist Day... __**


 * __OUR INQUIRY ABOUT__ **__** C **** HANGES CONTINUES.... **__

__**CHANGES TO OUR ROOM:**__ Last week our class decided to make some changes in our room. After a vote (where we learned about tally marks) we decided to change our home centre into a coffee and donut shop. On the second day, the class came up with a list of names for our coffee shop - chocolate won the vote!! If you click on the picture you will see some of our work in the planning stages of the room. The children decided on the changes and then once they were implemented, they did an 'inspection' of the 'new facility'! Stay tuned for more pictures when the coffee shop actually opens its doors to customers! __Click the picture above to see more pictures!__ __Astid's Daddy was very creative and made us an entry area for our donut and coffee shop.__  __He also brought in the wonderful 'drive-thru' window for the shop. THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. HORSLEY!!__  __We LOVE the new look!!__



__**APRIL ANTICS IN KC**__