Week 3: Sorting Out Heroes!

Books We Read
We Share Everything
A Sick Day For Amos McGee
Enemy Pie
Good Little Wolf

Song of the Week
Where Do We Start Our Letters? (to the tune of "If You're Happy And You Know It!")

Where do you start your letters?  At the top!

Where do you start your letters?  At the top!

If you want to start a letter then you better, better, better,

Remember to start it at the top!

Is this the top, top, top?  No, it’s the bottom!

Is this the top, top, top?  No, it’s the middle!

Is this the top, top, top?  Yes, it’s the top, top, top!

Remember, to start them at the top!

Weekly Centres
The Letter F
We started our first printing practice of the week, using the "Frog Jump" motion of our hand to make the letter "F"!  We also learned that, as the song says, if you want to start a letter, then you better remember to start it at the top!

Sorting
Our sorting centre involved moving magnets, making groups with coloured bears and buttons and figuring out what else in the class we could sort.

Prediction: Sink or Float
We used our Water Table for the first time this year, but before we did, we had to predict if what we were putting in the table was going to sink or float.

Who's My Hero
Everybody coloured in a picture showing who their "hero" was, real or imagined, and we made a list of their "Special Abilities".

Other Activities
Everybody got a giant envelope for their work!  The envelope will hold a bunch of our writing, math and art projects through the year and, at the end of the year, we get to take it home! We decorated the envelope with whatever we wanted, and we'll get to add to it as the year goes along!

Somebody left Mr. McCullough a challenge that said "Sort Me".  So, we figured out that sorting meant putting things that were the same (like the same colour) into groups!  We also tried sorting by a bunch of different attributes.  During the week we sorted things by colour, size, shape, type, and we sorted ourselves by boys and girls!

We talked about what a "hero" is and decided it was somebody who helps people, keeps them safe and healthy and tries to do good things.  Along with the usual superheroes, we figured out that policemen, ambulance drivers, firemen and even PARENTS could be heroes!!!

We also talked about "villains" and "enemies".  We talked about how you can't judge a villain by how they look (Good Little Wolf) and how having "enemies" can sometimes be solved by being nice to them and trying to make friends (Enemy Pie).

Getting ready for the Terry Fox Run next week, we told the story of Terry Fox and talked about what makes him a hero.

Mme. Degroot took us "on the roof" while we were in the library, as we watched an amazing video about the Jackman Green Roof!

We learned a couple of mini-songs from our Jolly Phonics book, focusing on the letter S and the letter A.  We then tried to put the letters S, A and F together to see if we could make words.  We couldn't, so we might need to learn more letters.

On Tuesday, the Jackman Gardening Committee came to the Kindergarten Garden!  We helped them clean up the garden, sweeping wood chips off the concrete, putting pruned leaves and branches in a recyclable bag and shoveling some mulch into the garden!