The children enjoyed starting their mornings at our four Table Tub stations. The children were practicing a number of skills during this time of the day. They were especially developing their fine motor skills when working with a variety of materials, such as pencils, Q-tips, felt pens, and playdoh.
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I set up a challenge for the students to see if they could build a gate for our five little pumpkins. They had to use some good critical thinking strategies to find a way to balance the pumpkins. Many of the students came up with some good ideas. They planned them, tested their plan, and then often had to refine their thinking to make it work. These kinds of challenges are a part of the Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies component of our curriculum.
Our school took part in Drop Everything And Read (D.E.A.R.) day. We enjoyed our books during Quiet Book Time.
We love our story "Five Little Pumpkins". We have re-told the story with our finger pumpkin mitt and with our flannel board. We've read it as a big book. But the best was when we dramatized it using our stick puppets. We've been talking a lot about 'being brave' - just like our friend Kerry Koala tells us. The children got to practice this by standing up in front of their classmates and saying their lines. A fantastic job by everyone!! It's always a bucket filler to hear your friends clap for you when you finish!
Kerry Koala has been talking to us about feelings and emotions. She came to our class but she was very nervous. We talked about being 'brave' and how that means sometimes we have to do things even if they are a bit scary. The children helped Kerry be brave by telling her some of the things that she needed to do to talk in front of the whole class. They told her to use a big voice, to stand tall, and to look them in the eye. It's important for children to be able to identify and express their emotions in appropriate ways. Kerry Koala used different pictures to talk to the children about their feelings. Then we made Kerry Koala stick puppets - happy, sad, scared, and mad. We used the stick puppets to show how we would feel during different scenarios: you fall down and scrape your knee - how do you feel?; your first day of kindergarten - how do you feel?; Mom and Dad take you for ice cream - how do you feel? etc.
We will be seeing Kerry Koala a number of times throughout the year to teach us about feelings, how to face fears, relax, solve problems, and set goals. After picking our pumpkins at the pumpkin patch and carrying them to the bus, we realized how heavy pumpkins are! We wondered if we put a pumpkin in water, would it sink or would it float? First we made a guess whether we thought our heavy pumpkin would sink or float. Then...we put it to the test. Ask your child what happened. We've been focusing on the changes that are occurring now in the season of Fall. We read the book "Leaf Man" with our Big Buddies. Then we all went outside and did a scavenger hunt to look for some things in nature. It was a beautiful day outside and we had lots of fun being "Nature Hunters" with our Big Buddies! The last part of our outdoor scavenger hunt was that the children had to create their own Leaf Men. Can you spot their Leaf Man creations? 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. We also all made sponge-painted Fall trees.
We've been focusing our alphabet knowledge on the letters in their names. The children got to colour and decorate their names. Our finished products:
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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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