At Our Lady of Mount Carmel, our Kindergarten Team is growing!

We have quite a few Team members and if you missed the parent night, this information may be helpful. The Teachers do not stay in the room the whole day they switch classes just after lunch time. The ECE`s stay with the children, in the same classroom the whole day.

In Room 124
Mrs. Gray Teaches English in the mornings.
Ms Charlene is our Early Childhood Educator and she stays in this room the whole day.
Mme. Chantal is the Lunch Monitor.
Mme. Morris is the prep Teacher.
Mme Pickett Teaches French in the afternoon.

In Room 154
Mme. Pickett Teaches French in the morning.
Mme. Lajoie is the Early Childhood Educator and stays with the children all day.
Mme. Leduc is our Lunch Monitor
Mrs. Gray Teaches English in the afternoon.
Ms. Jeffrey and Mme. Morris are the prep Teachers.

Parent Information:

We are very excited to meet with you for the up and coming parent interviews.  We have 59 students in our classes and we have at least 118 parents!

Mme. Pickett will be leaving us shortly and we will be welcoming a new team member.

Sensory Bin with Coloured Ice and Creatures!

I am so excited to be at Our Lady of Mount Carmel! The Kindergarten Blog will be updated shortly!

Just click below to see Our Easter Project using Animoto!

Jesus is Alive Animoto!

N's vehicle Inquiry (FR) using high frequency words with careful pronunciation.

Here is evidence of our Student Driven Inquiry on Firefighting vehicles. It began with students reading about Fire Engines, then discovering that different vehicles could fight fires. They drew pictures and labeled the Air Tanker and Tug Boat. The problem solving began when the boat house they built was too small for  J's boat. Eventually, it was decided that the boat was waterproof anyway, and the real problem was getting such a big boat into the water...so they built a ramp. M, made a floating airport for her air tanker. She needed a ready source of water for her plane if she was going to fight forest fires. K, built a firehall for his truck. M, kept reading about firefighting and A, decided to go green. He made a spaceship to collect space garbage. N, practiced her high frequency French words with an app. F.M.M. putting the article in front of the word being careful not to pronounce the h.

Some of the curriculum expectations from the F.D.K. Document covered by this Inquiry are:

Personal and Social Development: 

3.1 Recognize people in their community and talk about what they do.

Language Arts:
1.6 Use language to talk about their thinking, to reflect, and to solve problems.

Reading:
2.1 Demonstrate an interest in reading

2.2 Identify personal preferences in reading materials. ex.Non-fiction

2.10 Retell information from non-fiction.
 Writing:
4.3 Write simple messages.

Math Measurement : 

2.1 Compare and order two or more objects.

2.2 Awareness of standard measuring devices.

G3.4 Build three-dimensional structures.

Science
3.4 Explain or show how they made their structure.

4.2 State problems and pose questions

4.3 Make predictions and observations throughout the design process.

Visual Arts

V2.2 Explore different elements of design.

V3.1 Use problem solving skills and their imagination to create visual art forms.

F.S.L.
1.5 Attempt to use language to connect new experiences with what they already know.

Identifying and using high frequency words.

Our Class Kindness Project

Please click on the link and you will be able to zoom in and out as well as use the youtube links.
Enjoy your child`s work.

http://popplet.com/app/#/1609861

No explanation necessary! Kindness at St. Anthony

We are kicking off Kindness Week!  Here is a thought from Medilin.