We enjoyed playing our Autumn Leaves Math Game. The children played together with a partner. When they play games, the children are learning and practicing many skills - both academic and social. They are practicing: how to play by the rules, how to take turns, how to play with good sportsmanship, how to count, how to compare, etc. When we play partner games we always thank our partner when we are all done.
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We had gingerbread men for snack but while they were cooling and we were practicing our fire drill - they ran away!! Those sneaky gingerbread men!! They left us notes all around the school. It was quite an exciting time hunting everywhere for them. While we were searching, we met a lot of people who work at the school as well as many of the bigger children in the other classes. Just when we had given up hope... ...they returned! We had fun decorating them... but the best part was eating them!! Making our own Gingerbread MenDecorating a Gingerbread ManMany children chose to decorate gingerbread men using "loose parts". The idea behind loose parts is that you use different materials to explore, build, create, and design an infinite number of 'masterpieces'. This allows for the students to focus on the Core Competency of Creative Thinking.
We've been reading books about Fall and have been noticing some changes outside. We made some Fall leaves for our class tree. We've been learning about what happens to trees in the Fall. The children had a chance to use some loose parts at our Discovery Table to make their own Fall tree. Our sponge-painted fall trees:
We've had a great start-up to our kindergarten year! We have enjoyed meeting all our new friends and we are getting good at remembering each others' names. We have a fantastic group of friends!! Our Stars! It's a brand new school year! Welcome to our 2022-2023 Kindergarten Crew!!
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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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