Monday, 10 April 2017

Where does your fruit come from?!


FRUIT INQUIRY!!


This is how our fruit wall started......
This is how our fruit wall grew........


So you might be wondering why all of a sudden your child has an interest in where their fruit is coming from, or why they are asking you to leave the stickers on their fruit! 
Well it started off with a picture of an apple and banana in the classroom, explaining to the children that on their fruit there is sometimes a sticker and on that sticker we can see where the fruit is coming from! This has been a BIG hit in our classroom! 

It has turned out to be quite a big interest in our classroom and is now bringing up many fantastic questions that we are going to be exploring! 
"How does the fruit get to Canada?"
"What country do we live in?"
"How does the fruit grow?"

Lily is pointing to Guatemala where her banana came from!

We set up a map during nutrition break and when a child brings a sticker we look to see where the fruit has traveled from!


Ayla and Cali super excited to add to our sticker collection!


The Blue Group decided to graph our most popular fruit to see where the banana's were coming from. The majority of our banana's have traveled from Guatemala. Most of the children can now point to where Guatemala is on the world map! 


We brainstormed and discussed how the fruit travels to Canada by boat, plane, etc. We also talked about how different fruit grows in different places.


The Green Group graphed and discussed our second most popular fruit....APPLES! Most of our apples traveled from the United States! Most of the children can now point to where the USA is on the world map!

Ryder enjoying his banana from Guatemala! 

Islay enjoying her apple!

Angela brought in a pineapple labeled to add to our fruit wall!

Hunter enjoying his watermelon!




Sunday, 2 April 2017

Estimating Fun!

Estimate..Estimate..Estimate..


We have been talking about Estimating the last couple of weeks. What does it mean to estimate? We discussed what is a reasonable guess? We looked at different materials and focused on their size, big and small.

Clipboards and materials for the children to ask their friends to estimate!
We got to explore and estimate inside and outside of the classroom. Estimate how many cars are in the school parking lot?

How many pine needles are there on this branch?

Estimating and counting braids!

Estimating how many bricks on the wall?


Xaniel estimate how many rocks are in this cup?

Aden asking Justyce to estimate the amount of cubes in his cup.


Kaelem asking Ms.Kemp to estimate!


Mrs. Klein how many rocks do you think are in this cup?


We also did a group activity at the end of our two weeks and got to estimate some "candy" yummy!






Jaxon correctly guessed how many jelly beans were in the cup! 31:)





Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Welcome Back!


Welcome back! We hope that you all had a great March Break! We were excited to hear the kids tell us stories and draw pictures of what they did over the March Break :)

This week we have been focusing on a variety of fun activities including music, art, emotions and feelings!
Our "Kindergarten Art Gallery"

We have some fantastic Artist's in our class!




We have been talking about some famous artist's and the variety of ways we can paint and create art! 
This is one particular artist we talked about: Peter Longstaff, who uses his feet to create beautiful paintings. The kids were amazed at what he was able to create using only his feet!

So we thought why not let the kids create their own masterpiece painting with their feet!

We had fun getting our feet painted and dancing to music!



We apologize if there was some colorful socks that came home but the kids absolutely LOVED this!

Our feet are ready!!




Corbin might have been a little ticklish!



Ms. Kemp helping clean our feet!!



We got some great dancers!



We listened to a variety of music, slow songs, fast songs, silly songs, etc and let the kids draw how the music made them feel! We discussed different emotions and feelings, we talked about different colors and techniques they could use to express the way they were feeling.
It was really interesting to see how each of them interpreted the music and how it made them feel! 



This music makes me happy :)


This music makes me feel silly!




We have also read some fantastic art stories this week!

 The dot- By Peter H Reynolds
Sky Color- By Peter H Reynolds
Spot the Dots- By Peter H Reynolds
Ten Black Dots- By Donald Crews
Ish-By Peter H Reynolds

Sunday, 5 March 2017

A Message from Mrs. Klein


For the parents who have not met me, let me introduce myself. I am a parent of 4 adult kids and a grandmother to 5 ranging in age from 18 months to 13 years. I have been teaching with the OCDSB for 10 years. I excitedly began as your children's teacher in January and will be with them until the end of June. My colleague Cassie (Ms. Byrne) has done an outstanding job making this an easy transition for your children. I am so enjoying each and everyone of them! If you need to contact me my email is  cheryl.lynne.mccallum@ocdsb.ca

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