Sunday, October 25, 2015

October 19 - 21

Number order ... Lily was asked to have her friends line up in order.  We are also working on number formation.

Some children are finding it challenging when drawing a picture to add the main parts.  Here is Mat Man.  The children were building Mat Man.

Happy 5th Birthday Lily!

Threading letters onto string.  Fine motor and letter recognition together in a fun way.  The children were asked to tell the letters that they put on their string.

Assorted math and literacy activities; Ab patterns, counting apples, and rhyming apples.  Each child had an opportunity to try each activity.


Art Activity - create you own fall tree. Once again having the children use their fine motor muscles as they added tissue paper for leaves onto the tree outline!

Our finished fall tree!

Using our sight words introduced so far, the children chose a word - read it, build it and finally printed the word.

Some learning centre time activities!  I added some stampers in the writing area.  They were a big hit!   The Lego table is also a a sought after centre.  I am always looking for accessories to add to the table.  The steering wheels, chains, and wheels, and boats are used every day the Lego is open.

Choosing facial details for our pumpkins!  A big decision!

Our finished pumpkins!  Thank you to Evan's grandmother for sending the pumpkins into the class!

Sunday, October 18, 2015

October 12 - 16

Sorting and creating AB Patterns using fall shaped and colored pasta!

Measuring how tall our apples are and recording the numbers.

Finding the bottoms of the apples that have the same initial (beginning) sound!

Clipboard cruising ...  recording the color of each leaf!

Leaning centre time activities!

Our field trip to Arlington Orchard

Our first activity was to have snack and then play on the equipment.

A great looking class of Apples!


We really enjoyed the wagon ride.  We sang and some apple songs.  When the tractor drove through the mud the children thought that was really cool!

We all were able to pick a few apples to  take home!


We ate our lunch and then were off to Kool Breeze Farm.   

Ms. Campbell's bunny hutch and chicken pen!

Exploring and playing on the equipment!

Ms. Campbell was our tour guide as we went on our wagon ride.  We seen the maze, corn fields, squash and pumpkins, and lots of rocks some were big and some were small, and mulch.  Special thank you to Ms. Campbell for the tour and to Kool Breeze Farm for giving us all a small pumpkin!

Evan and Sawyer remembered to bring in an apple.  Sawyer found the biggest apple!

Monday, October 12, 2015

October 5 - 9

Our fall display table!

We read Ten Apples on Top and did the following activities!

Choose a number from 1-14 and pretend you can balance that apples up on top of your head.


How many apples are you able to balance on your head?  We invited Ms. Gogan and Mr. MacDonald to try as well!


Tommy Turkey was hidden somewhere in the class all week.  Each day the children searched and always were able to find Tommy!

Happy Thanksgiving!  We are Thankful for ...

Happy 5th Birthday to Logan Bernard!

Many neat creations were build using the Tinker Toys this week.

We have been learning all about patterns.  Each table had lots of colored paper squares on the table.  The children were asked to choose two colors to make their AB pattern picture frame.

Many of the children were able to make an AB Pattern!

Logan practicing his name using the Handwriting without Tears prompts.

Some learning centre time activities!

Our Thanksgiving Turkeys!

Having turns fishing the sight words that were introduced so far.

Deciding on which turkey body, feathers and eyes we wanted for our Thanksgiving Turkeys!

Working on our own fall book!

Hold up a number and place that many worms on the apple.

Without using your hand practice placing apples on and taking them off  the apple trees.  Great fine motor fun!

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