Week 5: Mixing and Fixing

Books We Read
If You Give A Moose A Muffin
I Love My New Toy
Children Make Terrible Pets

Weekly Centres
Fix The Mix
In our new groups, we had to figure out how Mr. McCullough had sorted some mixed up buckets, and then work together to put the right item in the right bucket.

What Fall Will Look Like
We took old, crumbling leaves we gathered and created fall scenes, using fall crayon and marker colours, glue sticks, and crumbled leaves.

Drama Centre - The School House
Everybody was given a chance to explore our new drama centre, which has been set up like a classroom for older students.

Sand Centre 
This was a free centre this week, where we got to explore and experiment with the different sand toys.

Other Things We Did
We went on a Leaf Hunt on Tuesday, sorting the leaves we found by good leaves (which we will use for an art activity next week) and "crumby leaves".  Those leaves will be used for an activity this week.

The rain on Monday rearranged our plans a bit, so we did our printing as a full class, with everybody working on the letter "D!"

We used our Feel Good Friends to explain what a line looks like, how we're supposed to go to the back and, if somebody accidentally goes in front of us, we politely tell them "the back is over there!"

In If You Give A Moose A Muffin, we looked for clues that told us it was fall (cold air, falling leaves, sweaters) and then acted out the story, trying our best to remember what happens after something else happens first.

To get ready for it in our Centres, we played "Fix the Mix!"  Mr. McCullough accidentally dropped a bunch of our sorting items on the floor and we had to figure out which ones go in which bucket by using the clues we found in each bucket.

Our drama centre is being turned from school to house!  With help from the Jackman Daycare, our centre will change every once in a while so we can have all sorts of different dramatic experiences.