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

Delicious Apples

Theme: Apples

We did a taste test between Red Delicious (red) apples and Granny Smith (green) apples and then we voted to see which one was the favourite.

After this we created a poem using our five senses.

We continued to learn about the parts of an apple and completed a colouring activity to show the different parts.

I read the book "A Day at the Apple Orchard" by Megan Faulkner and we discussed the life cycle of an apple.

We made our own apple pies. I got the recipe from The Blond Cook. They were simple and delicious!

Math

We continued to practice counting this week. We played BINGO.

We also continued to build towers that matched the number

Social Studies:
We made thank you cards for the people who help us. 

Reading:

I am using Deanna Jump and Deedee Willis' resource called "Guiding Readers: Read AloudLessons and Activities" as part of my Language Arts program for the year. I am very excited about this resource because you read the same book all week but then look at it in different ways to learn reading concepts. This week I read the story "The Recess Queen" by Alexis O'Neill.

Throughout the week we looked at:

Predicting: what do you think will happen next?

Retelling: Telling what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story. 

Opinions: What was your favourite part of the story?

Animated Literacy:
On Monday we learned about Dr. Ollie Ostrich who cures animals with his magic omelets.

On Wednesday we drew a pop, which is another term for father.

On Friday we learned about Mimi Mermaid who turn monsters into mice with her magic mop.

For more information on this program please visit http://www.animated-literacy.com/Animated_Literacy_Home.html

Finger Gym:
This week for our finger gym activity we moved leaves to a bowl by pinching with our thumb and pointer fingers.

Art:
In art this week we learned about my friend "Larry the Line" and completed line paintings using the many types of lines found in art: horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curvy and angled. I got the idea from Cassie Stephens. These art pieces look fantastic!

French:

This week the children learned "Comment ça va" (how are you?)"ça va très bien." (I am very good)"ça va bien." (I am good)"ça va mal." (I am not good) "Comme ci, comme ça." (So-so)

Don't Forget:

Send a healthy snack with your child. A list has been sent home or you can visit 100 Days of Real Food for some awesome ideas.

Each child needs to have indoor shoes, a backpack and appropriate clothing for the weather.

Feel free to contact me anytime with any questions or concerns. I can be reached at the school, by email or just drop in (I am usually around before school).