Bonjour!
We will be having a Power Point for Holy Thursday. I've been having difficulties uploading it but as you know, I am tenacious! Be sure to check back tomorrow for our last lessons until April 20 when we "return" from Easter break.
Here are today's lessons:

Literacy:
Outcomes:
-hears and identifies dominant sounds in spoken words.
-connects letters with sounds in words
Directions:
Have your child go on an alphabet scavenger hunt. They are to start with an object that starts with A and then B etc.

Creative Expression
Outcomes:
-experiments with a variety of art materials to create two and three dimensional forms.
-experiments with line, colour, shape, texture and pattern in diverse media to explore and express ideas.
-explores familiar materials in new ways.
Directions:
Using cardboard create a mask. See examples below for ideas.

Today's students of the day are:

                                       Daria                                                                         Elise

Bonjour!
How wonderful it was this morning to see the sun break through! Spring is coming!
Here are today's lessons:
Music
Outcomes:
-becomes aware of why and how ideas are communicated through art, music, movement and drama.
-becomes aware of how artists and musicians use such elements as rhythm, melody, line, colour and pattern to express ideas.
Mme Berko has sent us this link today!
https://youtu.be/pIT4cR_buvk 

Physical Skills and Well-Being
Outcomes:
-experiences and develops nonlocomotor skills through a variety of activities: e.g.,turning, twisting, swinging, balancing, bending, landing, stretching, curling.
-demonstrates body and space awareness when performing space awareness games.
Directions:
-Trace multiple copies of hand and feet on paper(21 in all or you can do less)
-Arrange the feet and hands in groups of three. Tape to the floor.
-Time yourself to see how long it takes you to complete 7 rows.

Here are our students of the day!
                                       Lily                                                                          Lena

Bonjour!
This week will be the most different Holy Week that we have all probably experienced. Never in our wildest dreams would we ever have imagined Holy Week with our churches being physically closed! It's up to us now to find ways to keep our Faith in our hearts and to tell the stories to our children.
Hopefully today's lessons will help:

Religion
Outcomes:
-Through Lent and Easter, to experience the gift of life in Jesus as a trace of God.
-Through Easter symbols and activities, to experience the gift of life in Jesus as a trace of God.
Materials:
-Leaf shaped pieces of paper.
Directions:
-Discuss things that we are grateful for in our lives.
- Have your child draw a picture of the things that they are grateful for.
-Make a hole in the same place on each booklet and connect the pages with string or whatever you have available.
-Have your child "read" their booklet to you.

Religion
Outcomes:
-Name the Liturgical season of Lent as preparation for Easter
The Pretzel Story
-the pretzel has a deep spiritual meaning for Lent going back over 1500 years. The pretzel is made in the shape of crossed arms, for in those days the people crossed their arms over their breasts while praying. The breads were called "little arms". later people called it a "pretzel," which we say today. Follow the recipe to bake pretzels OR you can draw and colour some.
Materials:
-package of yeast (if you do not have yeast you can substitute equal parts baking soda and lemon juice ( You can also use buttermilk in place of lemon or a mixture of milk and vinegar.) to equal the amount of yeast called for.
1 and 1/2 cup of warm water
-1 teaspoon of salt
-1 tablespoon of sugar
4 cups of flour
Directions:
-Dissolve 1 package of yeast in 1 and 1/2 cup of warm water
-Add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 tablespoon sugar
-Blend in 4 cups of flour.
-Knead dough until smooth. Cut into small pieces.
-Roll into ropes and twist into desired shape.
-Place on lightly greased cookie sheets.
-Brush pretzel with 1 beaten egg.
-Sprinkle with coarse salt.
-Bake at 425 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. -For hard pretzels, use only 1 and 1/4 cup of water and add 1/4 cup of melted butter. Make pretzels smaller and bake until brown.
The Pretzel Prayer
We ask you O Lord, to bless these breads which remind us that Lent is a special season of growth and prayer. The custom of making breads in the form of arms crossed in prayer was started to keep the purpose of Lent alive in our hearts. When we see the pretzels, help us to remember to grow in love and kindness and to pray to god each day.
Amen
Today's students of the day!
Have a blessed day

Aiden                                                                           Daniella

Bonjour!
Here are today's lessons. Hopefully they will help to keep your child engaged, learning and happy during these crazy times. Please keep those photos coming! Wishing you all health,happiness and a blessed Palm Sunday!
Palm Sunday Story Bag

Religion

-Through Lent and Easter, to experience the gift of Jesus as a trace of God.
Materials:
Gift Bag
Drawing or print out of Jesus riding a donkey
Directions:
Read or tell your child the story of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. You might want to mention that Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem on a donkey to symbolize that he was arriving in peace and not as a war-raging king who would be arriving on a horse.
Cut a "window "in the gift bag
You can print out the photo of Jesus riding into the city gates or the child can draw their own.
Colour Jesus,the donkey and the city gates.
Cut them out and glue them into the bag,
your child can add a road on the bottom of the bag as well and cut out and colour palm leaves to put in front of Jesus.

1.DIY Hallway Laser Maze
Creative Expression:
-experiment with line, colour, shape, texture and pattern in diverse media to explore and express ideas
-experiences body awareness
-explores familiar materials in new ways
Physical Skills and Well-Being
-experiences and develops locomotor skills through a variety of activities
-demonstrates body and space awareness when performing space awareness games
Directions:
Your child will pretend that they are like the spies in movies, creeping through a laser maze without touching any of the "beams"!
Materials:
-tape/string/crepe paper
-tape
Tape the crepe paper, string or tape on the wall in a zig zag pattern, back and forth, high and low, moving down the hallway. The idea is to create a maze that your child can then work their way through, like the laser mazes you often see in spy movies. Try to make the maze hard enough that your child can't just crawl under the whole thing but easy enough that your child won't be frustrated and give up.
Here's a photo to give you an idea of a potential layout.

2. Marble Box
Creative Expression
-experiment with line, colour, shape, texture and pattern in diverse media to explore and express ideas
Numeracy
-build and describe 3-D objects
Physical Skills and Well-Being
-develops fine motor skills involving finger speed, arm steadiness, arm and hand precision, finger and hand dexterity, and the manipulation of small materials
Materials:
Coffee stir sticks,craft sticks, long ,thick noodles
Tape or glue
Box or cardboard
cups or small containers
marble or small little ball
Directions:
Create a marble maze box following the photo given. The image shown was created with popsicle sticks(craft sticks) glue and tape. Drop the marble or small ball from either top corner and see which cup it ends up in.

Students of the Day!

Otto                                                                                                                 Thomas

Gustavo

Bonjour!
I've decided to add the outcomes in detail to each lesson from now on. These learner outcomes are taken directly from the Alberta Education  Kindergarten Curriculum.When planning lessons we refer to these. I thought that as parents that you might find it interesting. As a teacher I love planning lessons in which the children are learning but they are having fun at the same time!
Here are today's lessons:-

Science/Art
Outcomes: 
-determine the main points or ideas in a media presentation
-draws, records or tells about ideas and experiences
-seeks information from a variety of sources, such as people at school, at home, in the community, picture books, photographs and videos
-responds to and interprets visual images, by reviewing natural forms, everyday objects and artworks
Watch this video from the Calgary Zoo. I haven't yet mastered how to attach a link to this program yet so I'm afraid that you'll have to type the link into your browser for today. I'm working on it though!

 Draw your animal in the wild or in their zoo habitat in your visual journal.

https://youtu.be/Wr1zdplmTKs

Numeracy:-
Outcomes:
-subitize (recognize at a glance) and name familiar arrangements of 1-5 objects or dots.
relate a numeral, 1-10, to its respective quantity
-compare quantities 1 to 10 using one-to-one correspondence

Materials:
Dice
Anything that you can stack... blocks,lego,snap cubes ...
1. Children take turns with a partner rolling a dice and building a tower to match the size that they rolled.
2. Have your child place their towers in order from smallest to largest. If a student already has a tower of that size they skip their turn.
3. The goal is to be the first student to complete a staircase from size one to six.
Questions:
How do you know the order the towers go in?
Could you use towers that you have already built to quickly know how many blocks you need for other towers/
Variations:
1.Play without the dice and have students just build towers of sizes one to six and order the towers based on size.
2. Play the game with two dice trying to be the first to have a staircase of sizes two to twelve.
3. Allow building and combining of duplicate size steps. if a student has two 2s and two 3s they can combine a two and three to make their step of size five.
Our students of the day today are:

Elliana                                                                          Emmylou

Bonjour!
Thank you all so much for sending in photos of your children hard at work. I am cognizant of the fact that parents and older siblings who are using Google Classroom get first dibs on the family technology devices and take this into account when planning.
 Here are today's lessons:-
Numeracy:
Outcome: Estimation and measurement of a variety of objects
1. Discuss possible non-standard measuring devices. For example, shoes, hand span, lego etc.
2. Ask your child to pick a measuring device and then choose five objects in the home to measure.
3. Have your child estimate the measure of the objects and record the estimate.
4. Have your child measure the objects using the non-standard device that they chose.
Questions- How did you make your estimate?
                   Which object was your shortest? Tallest? How do you know?
                   What did you do if it was a little more or less than a full measuring device? (For example                      three and a half shoes)
Literacy/Health:
Outcome:Investigating nutritious foods, reasoning skills, fine motor control, creativity
Children enjoy talking about their favourite foods. Here are some guiding questions:
- Which do you think are the healthiest foods to eat? The unhealthiest? Tell me about your choices.
- What do you think would happen if you ate cookies for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Why?
- What is your favourite healthy snack? How many other children do you think would choose that?
- Discuss which foods are healthy and which aren't.
In their visual journals children are to draw a well balanced lunch or dinner. They can then discuss why their meal is a well balanced meal.
Religion:

Here are our two hardworking students of the day!

                                        Melia                                Anders                                         

Bonjour!
Thank you so much for the photos of your children hard at work on their activities.  Would you please let me know if I have permission to post them on our classroom blog when you send them .
 Here are today's lessons:-

Music: 
Today we have a music lesson from St. Luke's very own Mme Berko!

Here is the link:  https://youtu.be/I2Ix0Q1nmmE

Numeracy:
Outcome: Measuring volume

Materials: 

-dry rice,beans or sand

-measuring cups

- plastic or metal containers of different shapes and sizes

-measuring spoons (optional)

-  large shallow container (optional)

1. Pour the rice into a large shallow container and add measuring cups, spoons, and several containers of various sizes. Don't have a large enough container? Just pour rice into a container wide enough to scoop from. Setting it up on a tablecloth will help with the clean-up.

2. Ask your child which container could hold the most rice. Ask them to compare different pairs of containers to figure out which one holds the most. They might be surprised to find out that several differently shaped containers might hold the same amount.

3. Allow your child to explore on their own.

Here are today's students of the day:-

Natalie                                                                                Sophia