Fall is upon us and we are learning about apples. We have learned were they come from, parts of the apple, we have weighed them, made sequence story crowns, made baskets out of paper, made ladders to pick apples out of toothpicks and experimented in the water to see what floats. It was a busy week! On Friday we'll do our Terry Fox Run and make apple Kandinsky art with our buddies.
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International Dot Day is Sept.15, based on the book TheDot. Below is a link to the story in video. Each year we love to celebrate it with lots of dot activities. Every child made at least one dot out of pastel and paint and we made a beautiful tree. We also did our name in dots, made patterns with dot stickers, used bingo daubers to make pictures at the paint centre, sorted buttons, sorted and made patterns at the light table. Our kissing hand, how we felt on the first day of school. Our school has been learning about empathy, we have watched videos and read stories about it. Ask your child what empathy means, hopefully they can say that it is understanding how others are feeling. Here is a great we read at school if you want to watch it with your child. BuddiesHere is our finished project with our grade 4 buddies and the other kindergarten class. Better Together!
Each morning we start our day with Busy Hands; building manipulatives, puzzles and games. The children can build amazing things. We made our 'Me Bag' for the children to bring home and fill with special items to share with the class on their Citizen of the Day day in September or October. Send the bag in on their special day. The students also practiced their names in dots, made a puzzle with their name and worked on their fine motor skills with chopsticks to sort pom poms, In math, we learned about patterns, lots of patterns: colour patterns, action patterns, sound patterns and so many more. Each child made a pattern on our light table. \Welcome to my blog, I'll update it each week to show you what we've been up to in kindergarten. This week we were So busy! We got to know each other, practice our routines, went to gym, music, the park and the children had a chance to explore the centres in our classroom. Friday the children got to meet their grade 4 buddy from Mrs.Galvin's class. BuddiesKeeping with our Chester theme, the students and their buddy each coloured a part of a large picture, next week the afternoon kindergarten will colour their squares and then we will put them all together. "Better Together" is our school motto. I'll post a pic when it is completed.
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AuthorI am a kindergarten teacher at Janet Johnstone School, Calgary, Alberta. Archives
February 2020
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