Ottawa Fury come to visit us at Corpus!

Two members of the Ottawa Fury soccer team spent a week at Corpus Christi, practicing some soccer drills with students.  On Monday June 9th, the kindergarten classes participated in some soccer drills, mastering their foot work.

Problem At The Part - A Retell

 

One of the skills we teach with in the Kindergarten program is developing the ability to retell a story after reading.  A story is broken into 3 parts - a beginning, a middle, and an end.  In the beginning we meet the characters and discover the setting of the story.  In the middle we are introduced to the problem and the events (about 4) that help to solve the problem.  In the end, we see the solution of the story and how the problem was solved.  This is also where we have opportunity to make any connections we have to the story.

 

We used pictures from the book, Problem at the Park, to retell the story on the Go Map.

 

Here are some examples of our work!

 

 

An example of a Go Map.  This is used K- 6. :)

A peek at some of the fun we had in May!!!

Time is flying by WAY too quickly....it's hard to keep up with posting pics to keep you all in the loop.  I apologize if I don't have many words to describe our photos but, in the case, Im thinking a pictures says a thousand words!

ENJOY :)

 

 

Our garden is really growing quickly!

 

 

Classroom grocery store where students are given opportunity to play with Canadian coins and bills.

 

A couple of examples of the steller writing that has been happening in our room!

                             Measuring different stuffies using non-standard units - snap cubes!

 

Malachy found something pretty cool he wanted to share with the class!  What is it you ask? We did some wondering... in the end, we thought that it may be a moth caterpillar. What do you think?

Butterfly Release... Monday May 26th

Im a little behind in keeping my blog up to date and for that I greatly apologize!  It is time to catch you all up and share some pictures from our butterfly release.  After patiently waiting for 9 days, our chrysallis's hatched Painted Lady Butterflies. 

They enjoyed drinking orange juice in their cozy home until we released them outside in the Corpus play yard. 

 

We did some wondering...

 

"I wonder where they will fly too?"

 

And they're off!

 

 

They look similar to a monarch, but much smaller and it's colours are not as vibrant.