Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! ~~~ Week # 1

Reading and working on

concept of spoken word.

Say the word when you point to it.

Finding letter matches.  

Lay the letter on top

of the letter sheet.

Roll the dice color the part

of the coconut tree with

that number on it.

Coconut tree board game.

Using the paint for the

first time. First you paint

the trunk for your tree.  

Then put you name falling

from the tree and finally

dip your hands in paint to

create the top of your tree.

Our Hallway display…

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

look who’s in our kindergarten room!

Puzzle teamwork. After the

puzzle was completed I

showed the children how

to do a teamwork cheer!

Wearing orange for

Reconciliation Day…

Every child Matters!!!

We have been spending time

on noticing print. To create

letters some are made by only

using lines, some use lines

and curves and some are made

up of curves. We took the initial

letter of everyone's name and

worked together to decide which

group each child fitted in.  

Lines and curves had the largest group.

Some learning centre pictures!

We ended the week with

the song Rig A Jig Jig.

Using rhymes in the song.

When I walking down the street,

down the street, down the street.

I happened to see a duck driving

a truck. Aho Aho Aho!

Oh Rig a Jig Jig and away we go,

away we go, away we go.  

Rig a Jig Jig away we go

heigh ho Heigh ho heigh ho!

September 17 - 21 ~~~ The Kissing Hand week # 2

This work job involved reading sentences

from The Kissing hand.  The children

took turns pointing to each word and

reading the sentence.

Measuring the raccoon tails,

using cubes, tiles and little people.

Roll the dice, color the heart

that has the same number as the dice.

Cut and paste. There are numbers 1-5.

Cut out the chesters and glue the

correct amount next to each number.

Zero the Hero visits our class

each time there is a 0 on the calendar.

He brings a couple of songs,

the book Zero the Hero and

some zero shaped candy.  

A fun way to learn about zero!

Sorting … as a group we sorted

some blocks on the mat.  Then,

we discussed how we can sort

many different ways, color, size,

shape, number of button holes, etc.  

Then each child was given a handful

of buttons to sort and described the

sorting rule.

Show and Tell is a great way

to introduce asking questions.  

Jaxon, did a great job of

answering the questions

about his show and tell.

I also use the students for

patterns and sorting.  Here we

have an AB pattern or boy girl boy girl.

Sasha celebrated her 5th birthday!  

Happy birthday Sasha!

We wrapped up our Kissing Hand

Theme with kissing hand cookies.

The children were very generous

with their compliments! :)

I introduced the children to their portfolios.

They will be  deciding what pieces of work

they want to keep.  This theme I asked

them to put one piece of their work in

their portfolio.  Blaiz is deciding what

piece of work he wants to keep.

Some learning centre pictures.

September 10 - 14 ~ Week #1 - The Kissing Hand

We sure are going to have

a ball learning in kindergarten!

All blog forms have been returned.  

So no more faces need to be blanked out.

Here are the first day pictures of

the children I had to blank out last week!

Look at the number on the Chester.

Place that amount of heart erasers

on the sheet.

Sentence strips all about Chester.  

Place a picture card on the strip.

I help read the sentence.  

Does the picture match the sentence?

Alphabet Board Game… one player turns

over a letter and each player finds that

letter on their playing card.

Cover it with a little Chester!

Number Board Game… roll the dice.

Move your marker that many spaces.

Pass the dice to the next player.  

We were practicing forming the letters

Ss and Aa. After the children drew

pictures of themselves and tried to

print their name on the whiteboard.

The learning centre choice board.  

Each day a different color chooses first.  

The children can see how many children

may go to each centre.  If it is full

choose another centre.

Some learning centre fun!

I love seeing the children

engaged and having fun with

their classmates!

International Dot Day class photo.

The children looked awesome.

It was also crazy hair/hat day!

Everyone can be creative.  

Here the children are making dots,

using markers on coffee filters.  

Then they spray it with water,

see how the dots run together

creating a beautiful piece of Art.

The finished hallway display…

I think it looks great!  

Not only fun but here are a couple

of learning outcomes that we

were meeting with The Dot!

September 6 & 7 ~~~ Getting into Routines

First day pictures were taken.  A fine looking group!

After reading The Kissing Hand - we made Chester the Racoon headbands. 
There was a note at the end of the book.  It had a clue of where 
we might find Chester. We followed the clues, which led us on a tour
 of the school and in the end.  Chester thought our class was the best and
 we went back to discover Chester was not there but he left some 
chocolate kisses for everyone.  The class really enjoyed the treat.

Routine is important and each day
 we do work jobs so we got right to 
work this week the work jobs were: 
playdough wonderful for developing fine
 motor muscle control, stringing beads, pattern
 blocks and magnetics.  

We worked on letter recognition by marching around 
the mat with the letters on it when the music stopped
 tell the letter you are standing on.  It was fine to get
 help from your friends or me.

In the afternoon it is learning centre time.
 The children choose which centre they would like to join,
 there are only so many children permitted to go to each centre.
  We do a couple of rotations. I try to give the children 
 45 - 60 minutes of learning centre time each day.
 Here are a few pictures of the children enjoying learning centre time.