Rainbow Day!

This week all the kindergartens have been wearing a special colour of the day. (You can see all the pictures on the side Twitter feed)  Today was a super special day because it was RAINBOW DAY!  We started off the day by making sure everyone had a rainbow to wear.  To do this we made rainbow necklaces out of Froot Loops.

Some of us even wanted to have a rainbow painted on our face!

Then we watched a video on the Smartboard called ROY G BIV to really get us thinking about rainbows. If you would like to watch the video, click HERE.  It is a pretty catchy song, so be warned it might get stuck in your head!

Then we had a RAINBOW Challenge.  We had to be creative and find 6 items in our classroom. One needed to be red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.  It was very interesting what the the students  used for their rainbows.

To finish off the day we did some rainbow writing.  Everyone did a fantastic job drawing and writing.  

I went into a magical land.

I have my face painted.

Dance-A-Thon!

Today was such a fun day!  The whole school gathered in the gym and performed some amazing dances.  Each class had their own special dance. The kindergartens performed "We will Rock You"!  The whole crowd cheered and clapped along.  What an awesome day!

A big Thank You to Mrs. Rogala for teaching the kindergarten students such a fun dance.




The whole school worked really hard to learn 4 mass dances.  It was great to see all the kids moving and dancing together.  The final dance was a sight to see. Enjoy!

Art Club

Both kindergarten classes had the opportunity to participate in an after school art club.  Since there has been so much cold and snow, we thought it would be nice to create some cheerful spring flowers.  We used a recycled cd as the middle of our flowers and decorated them with sharpies. Then we cut out petals from fun foam. The students got to choose what shape and size they wanted to make their petals.  After the petals were glued down, the students used a variety of materials to finish off their flowers.  All the flowers turned out beautiful.  

Kindergarten is filled with artists!

The Linwood Olympics

For I love to read week, Linwood took on the theme of the Olympics.   To kick off I love to read each class could earn a medal if they read for a certain amount of time each day.  We have been reading a lot during daily 5 and during story time. We are looking really good so far!!

We also got to make our own mini torches.  First we decorated our mini cup.  Then we got to go to the fire station and add some neat looking fire so our torch really looked real.  

The whole school took part in Linwood's own torch run.  The students really thought this was awesome because they got to run in the halls.  It was great to see all the smiles and hear all the clapping and cheering!  Way to go Linwood! 

Today was the big day of Olympic events. The day started with the morning class going to the Biathlon.  The students had to run down the hall, lay on their stomachs and try to get a bean bag into a bucket.  If they missed, they had to do 5 sit ups.  Once they got their bean bag in the bucket, they raced to give the next person a turn.

Next we went to Olympic QR codes.  Each student had their own iPad and used an app called          "i-nigma" to scan a code.  Once they scanned a code, they found an answer to a question or got to watch a little video clip of the olympic games.

The third station was Speed skating in the auditorium.  The students put scarves under their shoes so they could "skate" across the polished floor really fast.

The last event for the morning kids was floor hockey in the gym.

Everyone did such a great job. And it wouldn't be the Olympics without our athletes getting a medal for all their hard work!

The afternoon started off with a yummy treat and watched some stories on the smart board.  We all loved our McDonalds parfait. Yum!

Then we headed upstairs for a "rigorous" Boot Camp.  We had to complete 10 different exercises. The students were very tired by the end, but again, did a great job.  Even Mr. Friesen got in on the action.

We then went to the hallway to do our version of skeleton.  We thought the name of the exercise was funny and even more funny because Mrs. Rogala but two little orange halloween skeletons on the scooters.  We had to have teams again and race our scooters down the hall to the next person.  It was hard to get a good pictures because the kids were moving so fast.

The last station of the day was the medal making centre.  We really liked writing the words and adding stickers of  all kinds to make are medals really special.

Shoe Store

This week we opened up a shoe store in our classroom. Students brought in all types and sizes of shoes and boxes.  Then we all went to work to create our very own shoe store.  The first thing we did was to lay out all the great things we could use.  We talked about some things a shoe store might have and where thing should go.  We made a sign and even made a special bucket for all of our inside shoes so they don't get lost in the store.

Laying out the shoes.

Then the fun began!  We couldn't wait to try on all the shoes.  Everyone got in on the action.  Ms. Dowd tried on many shoes too. We had kids working the cash register, workers helping customers, security guards and lots and lots of customers.  Next week we are going to add price tags and signs... and maybe even create our own shoe flyers.