Kindergarten Week 4: Signs of Fall

Books We Read

The Great Fuzz Frenzy
O Canada
Franklin's New Friend

Song of the Week
O' Canada (Second Verse - quite a few of the kids actually got it!)

O Canada! Where pines and maples grow.
Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow.
How dear to us thy broad domain,
From East to Western sea.
Thou land of hope for all who toil!
Thou True North, strong and free!

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Weekly Centres

Printing
We continued learning our letters, this week working on the letter E

Math
We sorted teddy bears, sticks and buttons by size, colour and shape.

Art
We worked on the first part of a two-part project, leaf rubbings!  Students rubbed the outline of a leaf into a white piece of paper, which will be painted with watercolours next week!

Science
Students were given magnifying glasses to look at our fall discovery table and see if they could find out what was on the table (answers to be given in week five).  They also used the Fall Finder to discover and draw signs of fall right outside our window.

Free Centre

We returned to the sandbox centre this week, but the challenge was now to add water and see if we could build castles and notice what happens to the sand as it gets wetter and wetter.

Other Things We Did

We sang verse two of O Canada with our Reading Buddies at the tree planting ceremony which was held at Jackman in honour of Jack Layton.

We learned how to take books out of the library and have started taking them home!

We also made our own library cards.

We had our first supply teacher of the year, Ms. Sparling, who will be back for the afternoon of October 1st.