After reading Peter H Reynolds' "The Dot", we brainstormed things we could draw using a dot as our starting place. The children were then each given a black dot and decided what they wanted to create with it. Here are their ideas:
After reading Peter H Reynolds' "The Dot", we brainstormed things we could draw using a dot as our starting place. The children were then each given a black dot and decided what they wanted to create with it. Here are their ideas:
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Kindergarten has been discussing how the snowshoe hares are changing from white to brown now that it is spring. We read the story, "It's not Easy Being a Bunny" which tells of a young bunny who decides to live with other animals. After trying to live with many different types of animals he decides that being a bunny wasn't so bad afterall. This illustration in the book became our inspiration for our spring rabbits art project. We used oil pastels and watercolours. Thanks for sending a container of veggies for our soup. We sang our "Stone Soup Song" as we put our veggies in (with a real stone of course) and let it cook for the day. While it was cooking we made butter by shaking whipping cream in a jar while we danced. We spread our fresh butter on buns and ate it with our soup. Yum! Morning ClassComments we heard while the children were eating (or looking at) their stone soup:
Afternoon ClassAs part of our World Book Day celebration we paired up with older grades for book buddies. Here are the photos of Mrs. Sassville's grade two class reading with our morning kiddos. Here are the photos of Mrs. Kwak's grade five/six students reading with our afternoon class. To introduce students to our storytelling curriculum, I use Jan Brett's The Mitten. We read this story twice before acting it out. We identified the characters in the story, and students chose which part they wanted to play. We pretended crawling under the tables was crawling into the mitten. As I read through the story, the actors moved into the mitten at their character's time. Half the class acted out the story while the other half observed, as the audience. We then switched roles so everyone had a chance to participate. In your child's portfolio you will find a mitten your child sewed together and The Mitten characters your child coloured and cut out. During Student Led Conferences in February one of your child's tasks will be to retell you the story of The Mitten. Morning Class ActingAfternoon Class ActingWhat was your favourite thing we did this week?
Peace Plates
Before creating our peace plates, we discussed how they should be colourful and bright. I also asked each child to finish the sentence "Peace is..." - you will see their response displayed with their finished peace plate. Painting our peace plates: Finished peace plates and peace responses: This post is a little late... but as I always say, better late than never! I wanted to thank Arianna's mom, Miss Roberta, and Zack's mom, Miss Jackie, for spending time with us last Thursday. Having an extra adult in the room gave us an opportunity to teach the children to play different board games. This is fantastic, because now the kids know how to play these games and can do so with their friends during center time with minimal adult help. Board games are an excellent way to reinforce numeracy or literacy skills while also giving children the opportunity to work on their social skills. Here are some photos from our games day. The kids had so much fun doing these! Taylor even asked me if it was a party :)
Noodle NamesFor this activity, children were given a strip of paper with their name already written on it. Their job was to cover the letters with white glue and place coloured noodles on top - creating their name written in noodles. We do this at the start of the year to familiarize children with their names - some kiddos come to kindergarten already printing their names, others are beginning to print their names, and others need practice recognizing their names. This task also gives the adults in the room an opportunity to observe a child's: fine motor skills, their understanding of left to right progression, possible sensory aversions, and letter formation knowledge. Name Sorting, Counting Letters, and Class GraphOn Friday each child was given squares of paper with the letters in their names written on them. Their job was to use these letters to build their name. Some children were able to do this without looking at their written name, others needed the support of having their written name in front of them. Both is fine, children all come in to kindergarten at different places on their literacy journey :)
Next, we glued these letters on a page to spell our names. We then counted how many letters are in our names and tried our best to print the number from looking at the ones written on the board. Today we will create a class name graph which will be displayed in our bootroom. Photos to come soon... |
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