Ms. J Piazza

Elementary teacher, GECDSB
West Gate PS, Kindergarten

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

Today we read The Gruffalo and students were given an opportunity to retell the story through coding! @WestgateWolves

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[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

We rocked our socks for #WorldDownSyndromeDay on March 21st

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Today we started exploring the 5 senses. Students had the opportunity to go to our Tuff Tray to interact with various items and use their senses to describe what they noticed. @MrsLauraMerlo @LindsaySkene

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

A huge thank you to Joe, Puneet, Ron, Kim and Kelly from the Super Mortgage Team for the very generous donation to our snack program at West Gate. We are so appreciative! @WestgateWolves @LindsaySkene

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

Fall is in the air and in our classroom!! Students enjoyed the invitation to make apple pie in our tuff tray.

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

In GAINS students expressed an interest in learning how to mix colours. We read “Mix It Up” and then students explored primary colours. They enjoyed seeing what colours they could make. @WestgateWolves #gecdsbgains

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Our West Gate Wolves rocked the Special Olympics! Everyone did their best in the events and had so much fun. Thank you @EssexDistrict for hosting! It was a wonderful day.

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

We were inspired by Cinco De Mayo today for our GAINS cooking class! On the menu was quesadillas and guacamole. Thumbs up from all students! @WestgateWolves #gecdsbgains

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The warm spring weather inspired these beautiful button flower art pieces! It was a great fine motor activity for our students. We modified the activity for a couple that are still working on their fine motor tasks by giving them q-tips to paint the flowers. #gecdsbgains

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Our students are so focused when they participate in painting tutorials. These bunny paintings are absolutely adorable! #gecdsbgains

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

For today’s cooking class we made personal pizzas from Antonino’s Original Pizza. Our students loved rolling their own dough and picking their toppings. These kits were a hit! @antoninospizza_ #gecdsbgains #lifeskills

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

Since the change of seasons we’ve been talking about signs of spring and this lead to a conversation about birds. For our art lesson we created these beautiful, whimsical bird paintings! #gecdsbgains

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Our students enjoy drawing tutorials so we like to give them the challenge of following painting tutorials and they absolutely love it! @WestgateWolves #gecdsbgains

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

Yesterday we listened to different genres of music and discussed how the music made us feel. Then we drew a continuous line while we listened to a song and painted the spaces with water colour. They turned out beautiful! #gecdsbgains

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Yesterday we made apple crisp with leftover apples we had in our snack bin. Our room smelled so good and the crisp was delicious! #gecdsbgains @WestgateWolves

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

One of our students loves football so we went for a walk around the school so he could conduct this survey. @WestgateWolves thinks the Eagles are winning on Sunday. Who do you think will win? #gecdsbgains

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We’ve been practicing coding on paper and tried out our skills with the Code & Go Robot Mouse. They rocked it! #gecdsbgains @LindsaySkene @MikeWil03652704

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

Snowflake salt paintings were a hit today!

[Ms. J Piazza @Miss_J_Piazza]

Our students love following along with drawing tutorials so yesterday we did one that also incorporated painting. They turned out great!