Kinder~castle

This afternoon, the junior kindergartens from the red class did some building. In keeping with the castle theme, we built a kinder-snow castle. We had so much fun! 

They worked so hard, cutting, shovelling and lugging the blocks.

Hopefully, it will stay together and many of the kindergarten “kings and queens” will have the opportunity to play in it and improve upon our castle design in the coming weeks.
Shortly after we came inside, a crow came to check out our castle, much to the excitement and joy of our students. While we didn’t capture a picture of King Crow, here is a photo of the rascally squirrels valiantly trying to steal our birdseed!

Happy Valentines Day!

Here are a few pictures from our day. The students had a great time exchanging cards with one another, completing some Valentine’s crafts as well as enjoying some snacks! Thank you all !

Castle-mania

At the request of our students, we have changed our spy centre into a castle!

We have been dressing up as kings, queens, princesses, princes and knights!

We are singing songs and playing games involving some of these characters, be sure to ask your child about the song! 
We have been busy making fire breathing dragons!

We discussed building and how students must decide upon what they are building before getting creative! Every building has a building plan!

We are using sponge blocks to paint castles.

We are listening to stories about dragons.

We are making castles at the light table.

And the playmobil castle set has proven very popular!

Even and odd

We read a story called Missing Mittens.

Farmer Bill had to keep himself as well as some of his animals warm (a cow, 3 hens, 2 horses). Each time he went to outfit them, he was always missing a mitten. It is a great way to show even and odd numbers. 

We then had everyone roll the dice, and decide if it was even or odd.

One student recorded the results of our dice roll using a T chart and tallies.

Students were then encouraged to try their own dice roll and see if their results were similar! It turned into a probability exercise!

City builders

In an effort to engage those students who love to play with cars, we cut numerous cardboard strips and asked them to help us make the road lines.

We then watch their creativity and engineering prowess as they make cities!

In order to add some literacy skills, we added photos to some of the blocks of stores and locations that the students would be familiar with.