Literacy hour

Thank you to all the moms who volunteered their afternoon to participate in our literacy hour.

The children love so much when we can have these days.

Gross motor- Bieber Fever

This just makes me laugh!!! During our in class gym time the children did some dancing to JUST DANCE. This is their favorite song to dance to. Enjoy!

Wonderful Worms

What fun we have had exploring worms!!!

This book is a "non-fiction" story that gave us so many facts about worms.

When the children WONDERED something about those worms, where did we look? In the book of course!!
Then we wrote out some facts that we learned about.

We learned how worms live and we created a worm aquarium.

These are our worms!!! We have learned how worms live.

Curriculum Connections

• demonstrate understanding and critical awareness of a variety of written materials that are read by and with the EL–K team
• communicate in writing, using strategies that are appropriate for beginners
• demonstrate an understanding of the natural world and the need to care for and respect the environment

Outside sharing

Here is a moment outside of our children playing so cooperatively.
They planned this out and made the rules do it was fun and fair.

We only have one of those big bouncy balls, if you have anything similar you could donate to our outdoor play space, it would be greatly appreciated.

We are looking for things like:
Child size out door chairs
Child size picnic table
Balls
Bubbles
Chalk
Shovels and pails
Trucks and cars
Anything used and outdoor fun would be so appreciated.

Centers

Number ordering and recognition with teamwork. 

Felt board stories 

Frogs on logs, counting, sorting

Recognizing shapes

Counting with Cheerios 

Sorting foods 

Exploring finger painting

Pajama day craziness!!

Group pic!!

The children incorporated their stuffies in their play. 

And use them to create art. 

The day was a fun and exciting success. 

The children enjoyed popcorn and a movie. 

Thank you for sharing your dvd's. 

Pajama Day

As you all saw, there was a note sent home yesterday regarding Pajama day. 

The kids are so excited!!

We will have popcorn and a movie this Friday afternoon. 

Kids can wear their pj's and bring a stuffy. 

I am looking for a DVD of a newer movie. 

Like Inside out, Home, Mars needs moms...etc 

If you have one, can you please send it in with your child or let me know via email. 

Karalong@mytools2go.ca

Thanks. 

Grass Heads

We are ready for some spring time!! The children have noticed some things around us starting to grow, (then it snowed again)

After reading a non fiction story about growing grass, we carried out our own gardening experience.

We followed the directions of the book and started growing some grass seeds. The children wanted to see what would grow faster, the grass seeds or the apple seeds from their apples. They had to take care of the seeds everyday by watering them and making sure they were in the sunshine.

Here are some pictures of our progress.

City

This was an amazing provocation brought in by a student. G wanted to show me pictures of a city, and then wanted to create one. 

We made plans. We researched the Internet. We made lists of city things. We compared cities to towns or county living. 

It became a team effort of cutting and gluing and drawing and deciding who would do what!!!

Amazing!!!

These girls extended the interest of cities and crested another one out of blocks!!

Creations

All these great inventions were inspired by the book we read Rosie Revere the engineer. 

Their creations made from beautiful junk are so fantastic. 

Kites with this tube to hold the string

Shooting game, get it in the bucket 

Popcorn makers

Bubble wrap kite, it's light so it will fly 

Lap tops and cash registers

Centers

During centers this week the children practised their tracing and cutting skills. 

They played a math game, toll the die and put that many cubes into your cup. Then after 3 turns, determine who had the most. The challenge was to now roll the die and take away that many cubes. 

As a team the children created a rainbow with the coloured bears. They used the rainbow poster we made out of magazine cuttings as a resource. 

Magic milk!!

First we poured in the milk. We added a few drops of food colouring to the milk. We dipped toothpicks into dish soap and put the toothpick in the center of a colour drop. Wow!! It spreads! It mixes! It moves!

The children out their sewing techniques to the test with this burlap. Some even attached theirs to a friends or made s bag!

Detroit Opener!

What a fun day!

I think G was the most excited. He loves his sports. 

Today the kids made jerseys, we played a math game called Strike or Hit, and got into the baseball spirit!!

We really wanted to watch the game, but I just couldn't get it on line :(