Stevenson School Library

Stevenson School Library has had the good fortune of being adopted by Chapters Polo Festival for the 2013 Adopt a School campaign. It will run in-store from September 15 to October 5. We are looking for your help of meeting our goal of raising money for 257 books, or one new book for every student in the school. 

• Follow this link - http://bit.ly/1dql4bh - to adopt Stevenson School. This is a FREE action and will help earn books for the library. From here you can also help spread the word on Facebook, Twitter and by email. If you have multiple email addresses, you can use them to adopt more than once. 

At Stevenson School, we believe that fun, quality literature fosters a life long love of reading. Please help us fill our library with books that will impact every child in our school. Know that Stevenson staff and students are grateful for your help.

Our beautiful library.

Today students were able to choose their own library books for the very first time! Inside of their books is a green paper explaining library procedures.

Please keep your child's library books in their backpack unless they are reading them.  Whenever they are finished they can bring the book back to school. We will have library every school day 1 (it will be noted on the calendar page of the blog). Please make sure that your child's book has been returned before day 1 so that they will be able to choose a new book. 

Building, bowling and Mat Man!

Today was a busy day in Kindergarten.  We started the day with an assembly to welcome all of the new students and teachers. We also got to watch the video of our school song. Some of the students were very eager to start learning the dance moves.

You can watch the video here:

We also met a new friend today. His name is Mat Man!  We sang a song and worked together to build him. 

We forgot to take a picture, but this is what he looks like.

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Then we worked together to draw him on our smart board.

Finally, we went to our table and drew Mat Man, all by ourselves. Some of us even wrote our own names on our papers.

We also had lots of time to play and explore our classroom.  Here is what some of the kids were up to:

"I'm making a house. I'm not exactly sure what it is going to be."

"I made a snail. The flower part is it's shell."

"Look, look Mrs. Lowe. I made a sand castle with this bucket!" 

"I made some little signs."

"All I did is put feathers around and flowers in the middle."

"I'm building a house."

"We're working together to build a free education house. You get to play with toys and get candy and games."

These students set up a bowling game. They were working on helping each other count their points, taking turns, and helping their friends set up the pins.

I didn't get to ask the students what their favourite part of the day was. Could you ask them and tell us in the comments?

First Day Fun!

Today was an exciting day in Kindergarten!  The students were busy exploring their classroom, singing songs, playing on the playground and making new friends.

Here are some photos from today along with some of the student's highlights from the day.

"My favourite part was going to the playground" - Journey

"I liked going to the park" - Mia

"My favourite part was making new friends." - Danica & Cassie

"My favourite part was picking books to read" - Ella

 

"I liked singing Bingo before recess." - Chase

"My favourite part was playing with Lego." - Kyle 

  

"My favourite part of the day was seeing my brother. I saw him in the school and outside at recess" - Ethan

"My favourite part was playing with Kyle." - Dante

"My favourite part was when we were quiet and listening to music." - Elryck