Ms. Scott's Blog

We had an amazing presentation from the Earth Rangers on Tuesday! They always bring 4 live animals with them to show the school and talk about.

The first animal was the Crimson Rumped Toucanet named Chavez.

Next came Hugo the skunk who was fortunately descented!

The third animal was Leonard, an American kestrel, who flew across the gym on command from the presenter to the perch across the room.

Mrs. Pasiechnyk and Mr. Chris battled a couple grade 3 students in a round of trivia about the five animals the Earth Rangers have chosen this year to focus on for fundraising and habitat rehabilitation.

Finally they brought out the fourth animal, Nakiri the peregrine falcon. Nakiri also made a flight across the gym.

We started off our week with a visit from Batty Patty of CBEEN. We learned about the different adaptations of bats for the types of food they eat, the sizes of the smallest and largest bats, echolocation and how many mosquitoes a single bat can eat in an hour!

We are trying to see if we can flap our wings 20 times in 1 second like a bat can. It took us 8.5 seconds to flap our arms 20 times!Patty told us about how bats use their senses. A fruit bat will have small ears, but large eyes while a bat that feeds on insects will have larger ears in order to use echolocation.

We found out that a single bat can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour. That’s the equivalent of us eating 20 pizzas in one night!

Patty brought different stations for us to rotate through.

This one is different sets of wings for the kids to try on.

This station included preserved bats (in glass frames), pictures of bat and a bat house.

This station had various sizes of felt bats that represented the different sizes of weights of bat species. 

And this station had plastic bats for the kids to play with as well as a bat detector that helps detect, record and identify bat species.

Patty left a craft behind for us. We got to make our own little bats our of paper, googly eyes and clothespins.

Just some random pictures from this morning of what the kids do during morning choice time!

Bus drivers Glen and Wanda came to our school last Monday to talk about the different safety features of the buses and the rules to follow to help keep us safe.

We spent quite a bit of time going through our “I Am Special” booklet to help build awareness of what makes each of us special, but different. The great thing with Kindergarten is that we can make so many interconnections between subjects just through one activity. I’ve included some photos of the graphing we did using our frog name tags.

Hair Colour

Favourite Colour

Eye Colour

Number of Letters in our Names