Week 12: Only in the Fall

Books We Read

Leaf Man
Fall, Leaves, Fall
We're Going On A Leaf Hunt

Song of the Week
(From "We're Going On A Leaf Hunt", sung to the tune of "We're Going On A Lion Hunt")
We're going on a leaf hunt,
We're going right away!
Let's find colourful leaves!
It's a WONDERFUL day!

We practiced the chorus several time and went through the other sections of the book as well.

Centres

Writing
This week's letter was the letter "N".  We started at the top for our first line, went to back to the top and went down diagonally, and then went from the bottom to the top to finish.

Pattern Strips
Using pattern squares, we created their own colour patterns using only crayons or coloured pencils - no math manipulatives to use as reference this time!

Art
Using our "Only in the fall..." discussion as a springboard, students drew pictures of something that they could only do during the fall on cardstock.  We'll be using the back next week for something else!

Building Buckets
We kept making patterns with the building buckets and also made some neat creations of our own.

Sand Table
We had the sand table as our free centre this week.

Other Things We Did

We learned the sound of the letter "N" from our Jolly Phonics Songbook.  We also learned that the front of an airplane is called a "nose" by figuring out the riddle "What's flies, not alive and has a nose?" 

We talked about things we could only do in the fall, coming up with ideas like play in the leaves, have Thanksgiving, go to Halloween parties and start kindergarten!

We saw a magic wand, cars from the movie "Cars" and a magical pony carriage during our Show & Share.

We talked about what a conversation with a man made of leaves would sound like.  Could a leaf man speak?

We started learning about growing patterns and talked about what the opposite of growing could be.  More on that next week!

Week 11: Patterns & Imagination

Books We Read
The Tree That Grew To The Moon
The Magic Beads
Tikki-Tikki-Tembo

There was no "Song of the Week" this week, as we did several songs from our Jolly Phonics books.

Jolly Phonics Letters
R
A
T
C

Centres
Writing Centre
We worked on the letter R this week - it's like the letter P, except with an extra line!

Patterning Centre
Students were given feathers, rocks, pom poms and bears and created simple patterns on large pattern strips.  They then used crayons to copy the colours and shapes onto the pattern strip.

Art Centre
We worked on our fine motor skill by trying to learn how to twist pipe cleaners into a peace sign.  This was a tricky one, some got it, some didn't, but everybody got help if they needed it.  We also coloured in some large-scale peace signs.

Block Centre
We used the blocks and lego in the centre to make other repeating patterns based on shape and colour before getting down to the business of building.

House Centre
This was our free play centre for the week.

Other Things We Did
We talked about how we could use our imagination for our Show & Share, using books like The Magic Beads and The Tree That Grew To The Moon  as examples.

We used our message board to explore patterns involving letters, numbers and shapes.

At Show & Share, we got to see Care Bears, Spiderman, a Beauty and the Beast story and a Dragon.

We used our chalkboards to create words with C, A, R and T.

Week 10: Peace Week

Books We Read
Peace Week in Miss Fox's Class
A Poppy is to Remember
The Peace Book
What Does Peace Feel Like?

Song/Poem of the Week
The Poppy Song (sung to the tune of "Frere Jacques", each line echoes)

See the poppies,
Oh so red.
Growing on the hillside,
Beautiful.

We remember
On this day
Soldiers on the hillside
Far away.

Centres
Writing
We worked on the letter "B" this week.  It's just like the letter P, except with an extra "bump" at the bottom.

Math
We talked this week about the idea of patterns.  Students defined it as something that changes, but also stays the same.  Students were asked to make simple patterns based on one colour or shape, using a variety of items.

Art
Using red tissue paper, glue, and a picture of a poppy, we created 3-D poppy art and put it on our wall.  This was really hard to do, but everybody worked hard and got theirs on our wall.

Sense & Sensory
We worked on the idea of making lines and cutting on lines, using a combination of dry erase boards, connect-the-dot sheets and threading shoelaces.

Sand Table
This was our free play centre for the week.

Other Things We Did
We talked about what "peace" means in our class, with each student coming up with their own personal feeling.
We talked about what makes a pattern and used ourselves(!) to make patterns based on boy/girl, clothes and hair colour.
We started our show and tell this week and saw a dinosaur, a seal, a gold Power Ranger and somebody's older sister!
We learned how to follow dots to make connect the dot pictures.

Week 9: Halloween Week!

Due to Mr. McCullough being sick and a computer formatting issue, we were unable to complete this blog entry and, unfortunately, lost the picture that would be attached to this post.  Here's a brief sketch of what we did in our centres and some of the week's big activities.

Centre
Writing
Using the letters we have learned so far, we revisited our portfolio pages.  Students spelled the letters in their name that they learn, traced the ones they did not know, and drew an explained a picture of their choosing for their portfolio.

File Art
Students decorate large envelopes, which will be used to house all of their work for the upcoming school year.

Fall Art
Using two provided lines, students created a brown tree and multicoloured leaves to show what trees look like in the fall.

Block Centre
Students were asked to create "spooky" buildings for Halloween.

House Centre
This was a free play centre this week.

Other Things We Did

We had our Halloween Parade, where we got to walk around the neighbourhood and show off our costumes.
We learned that pumpkins - small ones, medium ones and big ones - ALL float!
We learned that our medium pumpkin had 496 seeds!

Kindy Colour Groups

Hey everybody,

Below are our current colour groups.  These will be the groups we use to organize things like Show & Tell. 

When you see the name of the colour group show up on a monthly calendar, that means your child will be a part of that activity that week.  The groups are blue, yellow, green, orange, pink.

Kalen Nathan Elizabeth Rae

Cameron Jet Ava Alison

Marilisa Daphne Lachlan Judah

Emily Kai Julian Marlee

Kyra Vita Angelo Henry