Apples! & Important Reminder: School on Friday Sept 21

Last week we learned how to draw ourselves by singing the Mat Man song. We made sure to remember all of our body parts. We made a self-portrait inspired by Todd Parr, using bright bold colours for our faces. They turned out great!

We continued to work on sorting this week. We learned that we can sort by color, shape, and size. 

We started learning about apples this week. We talked about all the things we know about apples, like how they are red and grow from seeds. We dissected an apple together and looked inside. Some of us guessed that there would be seeds inside! After that we drew a diagram of our apple and labelled all the parts.

During centre time, we worked on our fine motor skills by sorting with tweezers and tongs, and cutting and pasting.

Apple pie sensory bin

We also started learning how to print the numbers 1-4 using Handwriting Without Tears. You can read more about the program here: https://www.lwtears.com/hwt

Important Reminders:

There is school on September 21. There is no PD day as it says on the school calendar and school will continue as normal.

Welcome to Kindergarten!

Welcome to kindergarten! Thank you for all the parents that came out to Meet the Teacher Night! It was a pleasure meeting you all. 

This week's theme was All About Me. We made a book about ourselves, and wrote our name, how old we are, our favourite colour, drew a self-portrait and a picture of our family.

We learned the Mat Man song to help us with our self portraits. Mat Man teaches us body awareness and reminds us to draw all of our body parts. Ask your child to sing the Man Man song to you!

In math, we are learning how to sort. On our first day, we sorted our class by eye colour. Then, we graphed it and counted how many of each colour we had. We counted each column and learned that brown had the "most", and green had the "least".

 We also sorted our shoes! First, we sorted them by colour, and then we sorted all the shoes that had shoelaces from the ones that had Velcro.

We can sort anything! Look at some of the manipulatives we sorted:

Matching the same dinosaurs

Sorting by colour

Soring blocks by colours

Sorting all the pink objects

Stay tuned for more fun things next week! Have a great weekend!

Ms. Chen