It's been an exciting last few weeks. We had these in our classroom. We've been counting down our days until 'hatch day' It's time to hatch... We were lucky enough to be at school when our first chick hatched. We got to watch it peck and work it's way out of it's shell. It was a tiring process for our little friend! We all got a chance to hold a little chick. So cute! We were lucky to have a few visitors to our classroom. Our friend, Piper, came to our class and brought her hens, Summer & Basil. She taught us a lot about them and how she looks after them. We got to watch Piper give them treats to eat and she even took one of her hens for a walk around the classroom on the leash. We also got an opportunity to touch Summer. Many of the children enjoyed just sitting and watching the hens during Activity Time!
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Jaimi came from the City of Kamloops and did a presentation on water in our city. We learned about the water cycle, the many different ways that we use water, ways to take care of our water, how water moves through our city, and about our water treatment plant. We really enjoyed seeing it in action in her giant water table! She came back a week later to talk to us about the 3 R's - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We learned about how we should be sorting all our different items. In the classroom we are working hard on following the 3 R's! Our commitments to the earth:As part of our commitment to the earth, we went out and cleaned up part of the neighbourhood around the school.
We read the story Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. The children each made their own coconut tree with the letters of their name climbing up the trunk. They also all decorated their own name letter and we put it on our class coconut tree.
We did a lot of learning during our unit of study on bears. After we looked through many information books on bears, the class created a list of 'wonder questions' - things that the children wanted to know more about. Each student created their own three wonder questions that they wanted to get more information about. Throughout our theme, we recorded answers to these questions when we came across them when we were reading books or looking at videos. The children each had to present their Bear Reports with the answers to their wonder questions to the class. To make it more fun we used a green screen to create the backdrop. The children got to choose their background for their presentation. As a part of our Applied Design, Skills, and Technology curriculum, the children had to build their own bears using a tissue box as their bear body. They had to choose the kind of bear that they wanted to make - black bear, grizzly bear, Spirit bear, or polar bear. Their creative thinking helped them build and complete their bears. They had criteria that they had to follow to ensure that their bear had all the important body parts. Building was fun! We also made sure to do a good clean up job afterwards! They turned out pretty great!! Once our bears were complete, we 'brought them to life' using the app Chatterpix. We recorded the children's voices talking as if they were the bear. They had to give their bear a name, tell what kind of bear they are, and explain three facts that they know about their bear. Parents, I sent you an email with your child's Chatterpix bear. Bear Mural:Each child made a sponge-painted bear for our class mural. Together we brainstormed different things that we would find in the bears' environment. The children all made items to complete the mural.
Math theme: We made shapes using elastics and geoboards, counted objects, made numbers using different items, and played "flip, make it, and build it".
Wednesday, February 23rd was Pink Shirt Day. We talked about what that meant and why we honour that day. We talked about Bully Behaviour and what it could look like, sound like, and feel like. The children made foam pink shirt necklaces as well as kindness crowns to wear on the day. They each wrote an important message on theirs. Together we talked about kindness and what it looks like and feels like. The children each made a kindness heart telling what kindness is for them.
It's hard to believe but we celebrated our 100th day of Kindergarten. Time flies!! We were involved in a variety of activities throughout the day (and also the rest of the week!). We walked through the door 100 days smarter! We started the day by making a banner with 100 bear paws. We found it easiest to count them when we grouped them into groups of ten. Then we made our 100 day crowns: We did a wide variety of activities related to the number 100 - made a 100-loop chain, had fun building with our 100 cups, made 100 Day glasses, weighed our 100 collections, measured things in the classroom that were 100 centimetres, did 100 polka dot painting, made 100 gumballs with bingo daubers, and did shape finding. It was a busy day of counting!!
Playing Pass the Heart. Don't drop it! You're not allowed to use your hands to take the heart and pass it - you can only use the clothes peg. It's good fine motor practice - it can be tricky!! Finding the other half to our "broken hearts": Opening our Valentine cards is always fun! Morning Table Tubs Valentine's theme: Class Compliment CentreWe practiced our printing at our Compliment Centre. The children wrote multiple compliments to their classmates. On Valentine's Day, we gathered together, I read them all out, and we posted them on our 'Kindness' board (sorry I forgot to get a photo!). It was such a bucket-filler hearing such kind words about ourselves!
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AuthorI'm Mrs. MacDonald. Welcome to a window into our kindergarten classroom. My goal of this blog is to give you an opportunity to see some of the things that we are doing at school. Enjoy! Archives
March 2023
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