Ethel Griffith

Kindergarten Teacher, Wife and Mother to 2 wonderful children.

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Rainbow day ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩ 🌈

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Look, Ms. when I put my hands like this, I can blow bubbles 🫧Creating new tools in kindergarten ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩

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Butterflies have been very popular in EYA. Today we practiced the concept of symmetry by painting one side of a butterfly outline, folding the paper and spreading the paint to apply it to the other side. ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩

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When is a skipping rope not a skipping rope? Why when it’s a fishing pole of course. Catching some sharks during outdoor learning in kindergarten @KingEdwardLions #imagination #outdoorlearning

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What a way to start the week. We have a butterfly 🦋! Students in kindergarten @KingEdwardLions are enjoying learning about the lifecycle of a butterfly.

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To celebrate the end of FitWeek EYA made and enjoyed fruit kabobs ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩ ⁦@gecdsbpro⁩

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EYA ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩ sends a big “Thank you” to Victoria Steel for donating food for our snack program 🍎🧀🍌

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A big shoutout to Ms. Ouimet for joining our class for a UFLI literacy lesson to help students in their reading journey ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩

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Sink or float? Students were challenged to build a boat that would float in water.. R reminded his classmates “if it doesn’t you can just change it!” EYA @KingEdwardLions have a #growthmindset

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Love this 💕! “After we read mine, we will read R’s”. Who knew that a book browse is an activity during free-choice play? Kindergarteners @KingEdwardLions that’s who. @gecdsbpro

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Representing numbers in the teens in kindergarten @KingEdwardLions

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With all the rain today, kindergarten decided to explore what happens to the clouds to make it rain 🌧️. Students made observations and predictions during our science experiment . We are scientists @KingEdwardLions

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We were so lucky to have had 2 special visitors today in EYA. Our school fish Blueberry came with Ms. Hughli to read the Dr. Seuss story “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” @KingEdwardLions

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In celebration of Lunar New Year students were challenged to build a dragon. R. shared his dragon during show and share. We love #STEM challenges in EYA ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩

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We had a great visit from U of W Let’s Talk Science program “Why Live Here!” We sorted living and non-loving objects and built bird nests. @KingEdwardLions

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Beginning sound match. Games help us practice what we have learned in EYA ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩ ⁦@gecdsbpro⁩

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After learning about 2D and 3D shapes EYA looked at 4 objects. Students had an opportunity to share their thinking #wodb ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩

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It’s Groundhog Day! Can you build a groundhog? Students participated in our class Lego Challenge in EYA ⁦@KingEdwardLions⁩

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Ninjabread Man for the win! EYA read 4 gingerbread man books and voted for our favourite. @KingEdwardLions