Week 37: Self-Portraits and Junk Creations

Due to the short week, we're doing more whole-class activities as opposed to individual centres.  The activities we've done this week are;

Todd Parr Portraits
On Monday, we created self-portraits using the Todd Parr rules.  They are;

1) Dots for eyes

2) Lines for smiles and eyebrows.

3) No noses

4) Simple hair

5) Silly looking!

Using a picture of ourselves, we created our Parr-style portrait with crayons on beige construction paper.  Then, on Tuesday, we painted our portraits using food colouring!  The results were quite colourful!

Garden Planting

The Gardening Committee paid a visit to the Kindergarten playground.  We talked some more about what plants need to grow and helped them plant Snapdragons and Lamb's Ear in the garden!  Everybody planted with a partner on a beautiful, sunny day!

We also got to dig through a giant bucket of dirt with helpful insects like pill bugs and worms! 

Junk Creations

After using our recycled material to build, sort, learn about being "green" and to create several class projects, Mr. McCullough gave us a chance to get rid of it all by making ANYTHING we wanted!  There were boats, race cars, monsters, towers, presents, necklaces, mittens - we got SUPER creative!  Thanks to our parent volunteers and to our Reading Buddies for helping out!

Books We Read

What Animals Really Like

Too Much Stuff

Other Things We Did

We talked about the difference between upper-case letters and lower case letters, practed matching them up, and added them to our printing centre!

Our "leftover" butterfly parts from our foam butterfly activity last week have been a big hit!  We've been using them to create things like flowers, fireworks and even The Riddler from Batman!

Show and Share was a hit once again, with the theme seeming to be dolls and lego this week.