kim baxendale

[South Dance @SCIdance]

Happy International Dance Day!!! #artsmatter

[Elementary Athletics @TVDSBsports]

What a great 4 days of dance! As the 44th Dance Fest finishes today, a huge thank you to the convenors, both past and present, the graphics and IT departments, the DJ and the volunteers that made Dance Fest a success! @TVDSB

[Elementary Athletics @TVDSBsports]

44th Annual Dance Fest is underway! @TVDSB

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

The weather has been perfect for polar challenges. Can you build an inukshuk? How do penguin feathers repel water? Can you make an Arctic or Antarctic habitat? Are you taller than an Emperor Penguin? All challenges accepted! @KBaxendale @masonville_ps

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

We were Engineers this week. We asked questions, imagined, planned, created and made improvements when building with boxes, blankets, paper and much more! All of the Masonville Kindies have bright futures as Engineers. @KBaxendale @masonville_ps @TVDSBKinder

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

@ESL_fairy So true!!!

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

Masonville Kindies continued to explore the pond habitat. By popular demand we studied beavers, frogs, turtles, dragonflies and the Great Blue Heron. All have been sighted and documented by students and their families. #biodiversity @KBaxendale @masonville_ps @TVDSBKinder

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

What is a habitat and which habitat is in our school community? A pond! The Masonville Kindies have completed word webs, food chains, pond drawings and made their favourite pond animal out of leaves this week. More to discover next week! @KBaxendale @masonville_ps @TVDSBKinder

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

It’s BEEn quite a week learning about bees. The Masonville Kindies are all officially Bee Experts! They took up the challenge of educating their families about bees and can even explain how cross pollination works. @KBaxendale @masonville_ps @TVDSBKinder

[TVDSBKindergarten @TVDSBKinder]

With all of the May showers, you might have noticed a lot of yellow "flowers"! Thank you @KBaxendale and @cedarhollowps for sharing your ideas about dandelions! #tvdsbkindergarten what are some other ways you are adding outdoor learning to your virtual classrooms?

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

Can you see the sorting and order rules that happened during Outdoor Ed today?
@KBaxendale @masonville_ps @TVDSBKinder

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to teacher candidate Ms. Klein read to students today in the Outdoor Classroom. She did a great job preparing students for a Spring Scavenger Hunt! @KBaxendale @TVDSBKinder @masonville_ps

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

Snowflake Sorting and Beach Going! That is how the Masonville Kindies celebrated the official last day of Winter and Beach Day on Friday. @KBaxendale @masonville_ps @TVDSBKinder

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

Couldn’t be happier! @KBaxendale

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

The weather was perfect for some St. Patrick’s Day “Minute to Win It” challenges in the outdoor classroom. Thanks @DubitskyJ for the green lids. The kindies discovered they were the quickest object to grab! @KBaxendale @masonville_ps @TVDSBKinder

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Climber Training Day! After being without a climber for almost 2 years today was the day the climbers were reopened. So proud of Ss patience and turn taking. One student exclaimed “This is the best day of my life!” @KBaxendale @masonville_ps

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

Yesterday we experimented with materials that sunk and floated in puddles. Today Ss chose materials that floated to test some natural inclines. Great discussion around why and where this water was coming from and flowing towards. @KBaxendale @masonville_ps @TVDSBKinder

[S.Sanford @sanford_music]

@masonville_ps is saying goodbye to a wonderful teacher this week. Ms. Clark has been at our school for over 25 years, taught about 500 Ss! The impact she has made will last a lifetime. Here is a butterfly display where current students have written a favourite memory about her.

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

@sanford_music @masonville_ps Sure thing Mrs. Sanford!

[kim baxendale @KBaxendale]

The Kindie Masonville Ice Cream shop is open for business! Ice cream Sundaes, popsicles and slushies made to order. Colour mixing is providing an endless selection of flavours!
@KBaxendale @masonville_ps