Our Favourite Colours

Pink was the most popular colour. 6 people liked pink the best. 3 people liked red the best. Red is the second most popular colour. 2 people each liked blue, purple, and black. 1 person liked orange. No one chose yellow, green, or brown.

Our Easter Egg Graph

19 was the biggest number and there were 19 speckled mini eggs.
1 was the smallest number and there was 1 orange plastic egg.
Yellow plastic eggs and plain jelly beans both had 6.
We found 12 kinds of eggs.
The Easter Bunny left us 77 eggs.

Barkley Comes to Oak Lake Community School

After we sang O Canada, Mrs. Williams (our secretary) buzzed our classroom on the intercom. She said, "Come to the office. There is something you should see." When we got down to the office, we saw a beaver outside on the front steps of the school. He was wearing a red t shirt. Mrs. Caldwell said we should let him in. He felt very cold! It is -28 degrees Celsius with the windchill this morning!

We were excited and happy. We brought the beaver to our classroom. We had to decide on a name. Some of the names were Buddy, Bobby Joe, Bouncy, Benny, Barnaby, and Bart. All the names started with B! We made a graph on the Smart Board and voted. 5 kids wanted to name our beaver Barkley, 2 kids liked the name Buddy, 3 kids chose the name Bart, and 1 person picked Bouncy. So his new name is Barkley the Beaver. We think it is a good name because beavers like to eat bark!







Our beaver was very cold waiting on the step!

Blogging in Kindergarten

After attending the Worldwide Microsoft Innovative Teachers' Forum in Hong Kong last week, I was inspired to create a blog for my Kindergarten class. The Kilvemnon School blog and Piggley were the inspiration for this project. My Kindergarten students and I viewed their blog, and they were very excited to get our own class mascot and have our mascot write about his adventures on our own blog.

Today we made a graph on the Smart Board in an effort to decide on our mascot. We narrowed it down to Canadian animals such as a moose, chipmunk, beaver, buffalo, and wolf.

After we purchase our mascot, our first task will be to learn how to use the digital camera. My students are only five years old, and many have not used a camera independently. Once we are able to use the digital camera, we will take turns taking our mascot home and photographing his activities. As a class we will upload the pictures to our blog and write about the mascot's visit to a student's home.

Check back over the next few days as we add our first posts!