October 24 - 26 It's All About Halloween!

Our finished Pumpkin Men Wall of Art.

Individual pumpkins with their own personalities!

Working with 5 frames.  Roll a number between 1-5, your partner places that many bears on the 5 frame.  Take turns rolling and counting.

Halloween listen and do.  Everyone has their own space, I read the directions 2x and the children do what the directions say.  Most children did very well in following the directions.

Halloween clipboard cruising!

Halloween concentration card game.  Turn over two cards if they are the same have another turn.

Roll and print the number. Which character will race to the top?

Sorting, exploring and making patterns with many Halloween related items.

Time to carve and clean the pumpkin.  The children voted on the shapes to make the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.

Our finished Jack-O-Lantern. We will have a draw and someone will take it home on tomorrow.

Some learning centre time activities.

The writing centre is used every day.  The children know they have to now put on the name of the person they are making a letter for and also add their own name so they know who it is from.  Cassie has a letter already for me!  Thank you Cassie!

October 17 - 21

Use the leaves to continue the AB pattern. 

Turn over a number and find the card with the dots that equal that number.

Beginning sounds try to match up the beginning sound with the at, ag, and an family.

Count the dots in the ten frames.  Cut out the numbers and paste next to the ten frame with that many of dots in the frame.

Pumpkin Man Art . . .  cut out and make your own pumpkin man art.  Art Wall picture will be posted next week!

Some learning centre time activities!

Last week was Library week.  Tammy Norden was in to read to our class.  Thank you, Tammy.  All the school staff sent Mrs. Gorveatte their favorite book titles and the students tried to match the books to the teachers.  Chenoa had the most correct matches in our class.  We were also asked to make up a poster about reading.  Our class used our Fancy Nancy words to decide what reading is …

Creating your very own Pumpkin Man … each is unique with a different personality!

October 11 - 14

Guardian Drug in O’Leary generously donates envelopes to our class.  I thought we should send them a thank you note. The staff was very pleased and the thank you note is now on their staff room wall.  I am always looking for material for the writing table, stickers, envelopes, themed or fancy  stationery, special markers and writing tools any items that will engage the children to want to write. Feel free to send in some items.

This work job “Very Busy Crows” involved number order the children had to figure out the highest number in each row and count on.

Our first attempt at Clipboard Cruising where the children have to find and print words.  They had to find the color words to print next to the colored fall leaves.

Fall Pasta - sorting and making AB Patterns.

After Dark - a concentration game using upper and lowercase letters.  Turn over two cards do they belong together if so you hold on to them.  The children were able to use the word wall to check to see if the letters belonged together.

We made beautiful fall trees and leaves using paint and some shaving cream.  The trees and leaves turned out beautiful.

Wear blue and white in support of the Blue Jays.  We were able to find some blue and white on everyone in the class.  Mrs. Johnston, Mr. Lynch and Patrick were all wearing their Blue Jays baseball caps!

October 3 - 7

We are Thankful . . .  Kindergarten, grades 1,2,and 3 added Thankful feathers to our Thankful Turkey

Susan Harris Senior Library Technician was in to read a couple of stories to the class.

Number Bingo the students enjoyed the number activity!

Count and build A tower.  Numbers 1-6.

Last week our frozen treat day.  Some students did not have money to buy a treat and when I asked if some children would share they did so without hesitation.  This was very nice to see.

Mmmmm, Mmmmm Good!  Turn over a leaf number and add that many worms to the apple.  Help each other count.

Rhyming apples baskets add two apple pictures that rhyme to the picture with the picture on the basket.

Initial sounds can you find the top and bottom of each apple that begins with the same sound?

Writing your name on the whiteboards and each student received a name puzzle where the letters were cut up inside the envelope and the task was to put the letter is the proper sequence of their name.  I was also checking to see who knew the letters in  their name.

A fun fine motor activity.  Using chopsticks who can place four apples on the apple tree first. Lot of laughter with this activity.

How to draw a turkey.  We discussed the directions and then it was time to practice on the whiteboards.  The children did an awesome job of drawing their turkeys!

Tommy Turkey arrived in our classroom.  Each day the children had to find Tommy.  He was really tricky when he hid in the flowers!

Using magnetic letters we were learning about the names and shapes of letters. Then I asked the students to sort the letters any way they wished.  Most sorted by color so I challenged to find sort them by letters and they also were spelling their names.  The children learned that letters are different from each other and that they can notice the parts of the letters.

Our Thanksgiving Turkeys.  The children each created their own turkey.  They each have their own unique personality!

We ended the week by singing a song about fall.  Special thank you to Mrs. Gorveatte’s class by providing a basket of leaves for the students to use.  It was lots of fun singing about how the leaves were falling down.  The children really enjoyed tossing the leaves in the air and seeing them fall down.

September 26 - 30

The students decorate our display table for our Fall Apple Them

• Color the apple tree before using markers to color the apples on the tree

• Connect the numbers from 1-10.  It makes the outline of an apple.Color the apple your favorite color of an apple.

• Label the apple - stem, seeds, core, flesh, and skin.

Color your own Apple tree to read and take home.

• The taste test begins!  Which apple do you like the taste of the best? Red, green, or yellow.

• It looks like the red apple is the one that is liked the best.

Our class predictions!  2/12 seeds floated and 10/12 seeds sank.  The next day all 12 seeds sank to the bottom of the jar.

• Color the apples that have the letters in your name.

• We discovered that if you slice an apple in half from the top to bottom you see a star shape!

• Some learning centre time activities!

Apples up on Top - activities based on the story Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss.

• We all tried to balance apples on our head. Chenoa was able to balance two apples on her head!

• Working on an apple art project.  Rip construction paper into pieces glue it onto a paper plate, add a stem and leaf!

The results displayed on our Wall of Art!

• We took a vote on what we should bake with apples.  Apple pie had the most votes.

• The pie baking begins. First we all wash our hands.  Mrs. Dumville pre-made the tops and bottom crusts at home.  We peeled and diced the apples, added brown sugar, cinnamon, flour, sugar and a little flour. We mixed this up and put our pie crust in the bottom of the pan, added a scoop of filling, a drop of butter and placed the top crust on the pie.  We took a fork and went around the edges.  Mrs.Dumville made our initial on the pie and took them to Mr. Acorn to bake for us.  We got to eat our pie after big recess.  Most students really enjoyed their pie!

• We as a class brainstormed to what sitting on the mat should look and sound like.  Mrs. Dumville took some pictures and now we remember what to do on the mat at circle time.

• Here we are following the directions we decided about how we are supposed to sit on the mat. Mrs. Dickieson, the K-6 Language Arts/Social Studies Innovation Leader with The Department of Education,Early Learning and Culture was into visit the class on Friday and discuss how we did this learning and was it helpful.  She took some pictures and recorded their responses.