Dear room three children and teachers,
I wanted to wish everyone a terrific summer!!!! I heard you are having a celebartion for all the chidlren going to grade one that will be lots of fun. I am so proud of all of you going to grade one or senior kindergarten. I also hear you are going to the zoo this week. You might even see some Australian animals there. Last year we saw all the Kangaroos.

Below are some pictures from our houseboat trip we took a few weeks ago with some other teachers who are here in Australia on exchange. They come from Reunion Island which is near Madagascar, America, and Canada. We all had a great time together along the Murray River. 

Have a wonderful summer and I look forward to writing you more when school starts in September.


Love
Ms. Leventhal

Thank you

Dear Room Three,
I wanted to thank you and Mrs. Meredith for sending me such some of your work to see. I really loved seeing your beautiful drawing and writing and seeing all the things you love to do at Kindergarten. I am going to show all the children at my Kindy your lovely work. I am so proud of all of you. You each did a terffiic job. I miss you all lots and wanted to wish you a great final month of school. Here in Australia , we had the first day of winter on June 1. There is no snow here in winter, it is very nice out. We had a great weekend touring around the McLaren Vale area. Below is a picute of me and a cute little cat I met there. He was really friendly.
Have a terrific day!!!
Love,
Ms. Leventhal

                                                             Butterfly for Laura.

           Shadow and Brown Sugar.

  Our Writing Centre.

Our Drama Centre.

                                             

                                              

So many ?

Hi Emily: We now have 27 students in our class.
Nathan: I like to play music and dance.
Max and Harry P: I love making.  I like to crochet.  We have a crochet club after school here.  I also like making great things to make our room beautiful and fun.
Georgia S: I don't have any dolls left from when I was a little girl like you but I do have one teddy bear that is older than Ms. Leventhal.
Charoletter and Lewis: I just made new play dough this morning for our classroom.  It is very bright green. Yes we do have writing tables and we write letter also Lila and Isabella.  Nathan the class is going great we are having so much fun learning all about your country Australia.  Yes Ivy I do like cats.  I have two cats.  There names are Shadow and Brown sugar.  I will try to send a picture.
Felix we have one little boy in our class that loves to make airplanes and would probably do nothing else if we just let him make airplanes all day.
His name is Bekir. Sophia I think I would be affair of a shark.  Do you like sharks? Some Canadian animals are Beavers, Moose, Snowy owl.
There are so many.  Here is a good link to see more Canadian animals.http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/kids/animal-facts/animals.asp
Nathan I like mushy girly movies.  (yuk Ah!)  Angus I will try to post some pictures of our class for you.  Yes Laura we have lots of butterflies, in fact just last there were so many out that it seemed unusual for this time of year.  I also love butterflies.  I have butterfly car seat covers and a beautiful butterfly necklace and earrings and a beautiful stain glass butterfly that hangs in my window.  Well it was so nice to share with you all.  Please take good care of your dear teacher from Canada.  She is very special to us and we miss her dearly.  You all give her a big Angle hug for me please.  Love Ms. Dutton.  :)

Dear Room Three

Dear Room Three,
I hope you are having a nice Friday afternoon with Mrs. Meredith, Mrs. D and Ms. Dutton. Yesterday at Kindy I was showing the children pictures of our classroom and some of the great things you were working on just before I left. Like our giant Christmas tree or the menorah we made. They liked to see the pictures of our trip to the farm. Do you remember that trip? We went on a tractor ride through the scary forest and went in the corn maze. They loved to see all the leaves changing beautiful colours. After I showed them the pictures they had some questions for you. They are hoping that you will write back so they can learn about Kindy in Canada. Here are all their questions:
- How many people are in your class? (Emily)
- What do you like to play? ( Nathan)
- Do you like making? ( Max, Harry P)
- Do you like to play with dolls? Georgia S
- Do you have playdough ( Charoletter R and Lewis)
- Is it cold there? What is the weather like?
- Do you have wiring tables and write letters? ( Lila and Isabella)
- How is the class going? ( Nathan)
- Do you like cats? ( Ivy)
- Do you ever make stunt paper airplanes ( Felix)
- Do you like sharks? What animals do you have in Canada? ( Sophia)
- What movies do you like to watch? ( Nathan)
- What does your classroom look like? Can you send us some pictures? (Angus)
- Do you have butterflies ( Laura)

I know there are lots of questions but hopefully you can write us  back on the blog and I can share with all the boys and girls at Kindy in Australia. I miss you lots. Have a great weekend.
Love Ms. Leventhal

Hello Room Three

April 30th, 2012

Dear Room Three,

I hope you are all doing well. It is Autumn here now and all the leaves are starting to change colours, it is very beautiful. It reminds me a lot of home around Halloween time.  My parents came to visit and we had a really great time traveling around. I missed them so much after they left. 

Our Kindy had a renovation, we now have beautiful washrooms. We are going to be learning all about under the sea. The children are really interested in things they have found at the beach such as star fish and shells. We were talking about things that live in the sea and will be making some sea animals out of recycled materials this week.  It is interesting to learn about  sea animals they have in Australia. They  have some of the most beautiful fish at the Great Barrier Reef.

 I miss you and hope you are all doing well. Mrs. Dutton showed me some pictures of the classroom and I could see some of things you are doing. It all looks fantastic. I hope you enjoyed the pictures I sent of the Kindy. We will send you more I promise. Please write me or post notes on the blog. 

I wanted to share some photographs from my trip with my parents. Enjoy!

Love, 

Ms. Leventhal 

 Giraffes at the Sydney Zoo.

This is a model of a little Penguin which we saw on Philip Island. You are not allowed to take pictures of them as the flash hurts their eyes. We saw all the little penguins come to shore at sunset and go to their homes. They were so cute. There were hundreds of them.

 Stuffed little Penguins.

 Me and my mom on a tree top walk in the rainforest. We were almost at the top of the trees, it was an amazing view.

 My mom and I posing by the 12 Apostoles. It is a land mark on the Great Ocean Road.

 We went strawberry picking, I found these tiny ones. they were delicious.

 This is my stuffed toy he is a wombat. Each teacher who came to Australia got one, we are suppost to take him traveling with us and get photos of him. This is my wombat crossing the road in the Flinders Ranges.

 My wombat enjoying a nice sunset in the outback.

 My wombat and me taking a hike.

 Can you spot the baby Kangaroo called a Joey?

 My family and I with our new friend Ash the Koala.

 Me and my new Buddy the kangaroo.

Hello Room Three

Dear Room Three,
I hope you are enjoying your March break and are spending lots of time with your family and friends. I miss you very much and enjoy hearing from Mrs. Meredith that you are all doing very well. This past weekend we went on a really exciting trip to Kangaroo Island I got to see some of the most beautiful wildlife I have every seen. We saw seals soaking up the sun on the rocks and surfing in the waves. We saw so many kangaroos and koalas. My favourite was the white kangaroos, they reminded me of Crouton who I miss very much. I am so glad that Mrs. Meredith got the letter from our Kindy, I hope you got to see all the beautiful pictures the children created. There is also a picture of the other Kindy teachers and children. They enjoy hearing all about Canada and they really liked learning all about winter.

I wanted to share some photos with you.


 I hope to hear from you soon.
Love Ms. Leventhal

 At KIndy we have a very cute little pet a hoping mouse. 

 One of the children at Kindy has baby chickens, his mum brought them into Kindy so we could learn all about chicks.

 My new friends from Kangroo Island.

 Crouton Kangaroo.

 We had an aboriginal Australian story teller come and we painted wings on ourselves and pretended to be birds while he told us the story of the fire birds.

 This is another Kindy pet, it's a stick insect.

 We are growing corn and it is getting really big now.

 My favourite Kindy pet, Diesel the turtle. He loves to pose for photos.