Feeding the birds

This week, our junior Kindergarten students got to go out and feed the birds. Our first job was to find a suitable pine cone. Once a string was tied on it, they spread shortening on their cone. 

They then rolled it in bird seed so that it stuck to the shortening.

We then found places to hang the feeders up in order to entice our feathered friends!

Circle Time with Mrs. Farrell-November

Circle Time with Mrs. Farrell-November

November brought a month full of exploring shapes and continuing on name recognition.

The senior kindergartens worked on recognizing all the letters in their first and last names. They practiced finding and writing their full names as well. They also worked on learning 3D shapes in a variety of games and stories. We continue to work on sight words through some fun interactive games.

The junior kindergartens worked on recognizing all the letters in their first names. They learnt a variety of 2D shapes through games, stories and songs. We focused a lot on memory games such as, the treasure box game, what shape is missing. As well as a shape memory card game that they really enjoyed.

Just a few books we read during circle time this month.

We sang, Look who has the shape bag? With a variety of 2D shapes.

The seniors practiced 3D shapes with a dice and juniors practiced 2D shapes with a dice. 

                                       2D shape matching game

This was a popular song for the juniors, Do you know what Shape this is? 

"swat" the sight word game

Practicing writing first and last names

Treasure Box Memory Game!

Bone making

To add to our pet shop theme, students in the blue class made some salt dough “doggie treats”. We measured and mixed the ingredients.

We formed the dough into bone shapes.









And then we baked them.

A couple of days later, we then painted them.

We labelled them, priced them and added it to our pet shop. Those are some expensive dog bones! They insisted on pricing them as $600!

Collections

The Senior Kindergartens got to go out collecting some items from nature. We used our collection boxes (pizza boxes) to collect a specific number of items. We worked on numbers from 10 to 20.

Some collected leaves.

Some collected seed bundles.

Some collected pine cones.

Some made snowballs.

Some collected sticks,

An interesting notion

Adding to our dramatic arts centre

This week, for the blue class, we encouraged them to add some more items to help make the pet store experience more authentic. Some of the students began working on pet food.

We have rabbit food, cat food, fish food and dog food available for a variety of prices!

New dramatic arts centres

Welcome to our new centres. The blue class now has a pet store while the the red class has changed their dramatic arts centre to an ice cream shop.