If You Bring a Dog to School. . .

We had a class visitor today and it was a SURPRISE!!!

(Well. . . Mrs. Schenk knew who was coming. . . but the kids didn't.)

Meet "Cheetah"!

Mrs. Winter came to school today with her lovely dog Cheetah! 

We learned a lot about her dog and about dog safety.

Cheetah is a protection, tracking and obedience dog. . . and WOW! 

SHE IS VERY OBEDIENT!!!

She only does what she is told when she is told to do it. 

Can you believe that she never barks?!? 

(Unless of course she's told to.)

 Last week, we visited a dairy farm and we talked about being afraid of animals. 

Some of us expressed the fact that we were a little nervous about being around dogs.

Today we discovered that Mrs. Winter's dog Cheetah is a very gentle dog. 

Mrs. Winter taught us that it is very important to ask for permission before petting someone's dog. 

We practised today with some role-playing.

"May I please pet your dog?"

After learning about dog safety, we went outside 

so that Mrs. Winter could demonstrate some of the 

commands that Cheetah follows, such as wait, 

stay, heel. . . (She's a very smart dog!)

We threw a toy for her to fetch and retrieve and she brought it right back!

After she was done all those tricks she needed a rest, some water, and a delicious dog treat.

Some of us even fed her a treat. . . She licked the treat right out of our hands!!!

 A few of us wanted to hold the leash on the way back in to the school, so we took turns and held on tight!

It was plain to see from the smiles on the faces and the giggles all around, that everyone was able to conquer their fears and enjoy the time with Cheetah.

A big Thank You to Mrs. Winter for bringing Cheetah to JK!!!

If you bring a dog to school. . .

. . . she'll make some new friends!!!

New Centres and Our Spring Walk

What are we up to this week?

A new activity : A letter maze!

Number writing:

Find this book HERE.

Cutting, sorting, and pasting:

Picture Sorting can be found HERE.

Hunting for letters:

Search & Highlight is found HERE.

We went on our spring walk at the conservation area
and while we were there we found a lot of things that were on our
Spring Scavenger Hunt list!

The park workers were busy cleaning up
dead branches along the trail and just before
we went home we watched them cut down a tree:

 "TIMBER!"
It was quite the show! :)

Christian Education Week

Christian Education week has arrived at our school, so there are a variety of exciting activities happening. 

Wednesday is our Grandparents and Friends day (in the morning) and parent open house (in the afternoon), so we are looking forward to having some special friends come in to our classroom for a visit!

We will also be performing our whole-school production entitled, "The Race". 

Our class has been diligently practicing our songs and gearing up for the Wednesday morning and Thursday evening shows.

It is going to be great, so come on out and enjoy the show!

In between all the practicing, visitors, Easter activities and fun time with our friends this week, we are also busy with a few literacy centres to help us review some of our letters.

Making words with letter tiles

Searching for and highlighting our
latest Jolly Phonics letters

You can find this activity HERE!

Tracing, Stamping and Decorating our letters!

 

Each week we focus on a special book, and this week it is,

"Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms".

It's a sweet little story and it was our inspiration for our latest art work!

This was the motivation for our latest
Art Masterpieces!

We made our own springtime blossoms!

Painting blossoms in white and several
shades of PINK! :)

Happy April!

Spring has sprung in JK! This week we decorated our Art Gallery with Spring pictures and raindrops!

The children made wax crayon pictures of "spring things" and then we did a paint wash over the raindrops to make them blue.

The snow is melting outside and the air is slowly warming, so we went outside to hunt for signs of Spring. We found lots of puddles, mud, brown grass, buds in trees and birds chirping.

We talked about the order of the seasons and how God makes them follow one after the other. Today we traced the season words and coloured some seasonal pictures.

Here are our new math centres:

Pattern Block numbers

Finishing Patterns AB, AAB, ABB, ABC

find this activity in HERE

Playing a "Race to the Top" Dice/Charting Game

Guess who won!? :)

Some of these activities are found in my
  Spring Literacy and Math pack.

Hope you're all getting outside to enjoy the warming weather!