October 22 - 26 ~~~ Fall and Halloween

Creating some Halloween Art. 

 Pumpkin people. Each student was

 given green, orange, yellow

 and brown construction paper. 

 I showed how to create accordion

 and rolled arms and legs.

Our finished Art Wall …

 I love the different personalities 

of each pumpkin person.

Beautiful fall leaves

 …. record the color of each leaf.

Lucy Loves Leaves - extend each leaf pattern.

After Dark - place the letter cards

 on the stars.  Take turns turning

 two cards over if they are 

matching upper and lowercase.

 You keep the cards and go again.

Fall Pasta - sort the pasta

 and also create some fall patterns.

Roll and Graph - which Halloween 

character will race to the top?

Fun with Halloween playdough mats,

 add details and create items 

on the Halloween mats.

Marble Art - Place a sheet of black

 construction paper in a box,

  drop some fall colors of paint 

on the paper. Put some marbles 

in the box and shake it to move

 the marbles through the paint.

  When dry add some bats and a moon.

Spectacular Moonlight Skies!

Very Busy Crows - learning to count on.

Word families … place the pictures

 on the mat try to figure out

 the beginning sound for each picture.

Our first real day actually using 

the chrome books.  Thank you to

 our grade 4 book buddies for helping.

Fabulous Friday snack time a 

wonderful time to socialize 

and sit where we want with our friends.

Writer’s Workshop - The children have 

been using the writing table since 

school begin. Today I introduced

 writers workshop.  We discussed always

 start with a capital letter,

 leave a space between each word

 ( introduced the spacers) and when 

finished put your punctuation mark.

  I showed a stem sentence - I like to

 play with _____. The children were

 able to see the spaces and they

 finished the sentence with the name 

of one friend. They drew the picture

 with detail and color. When finished I

 helped them decide if they followed 

the criteria.  They were able to self check 

and check off the boxes if they

 followed the criteria.

Learning centre time!

October 15 - 18 Finishing up Apples

First stop at Kool Breeze

was to enjoy a tasty cone of ice cream!

Lots of gross motor fun

as the children explored all

the displays at Kool Breeze.

Lunch at Kool Breeze and then

off to Arlington Orchard for some

more exercise on the play equipment!

A wonderful looking bunch

of apples from KA!

Some more photos from Arlington

Orchards.  It was definitely a beautiful day!

Our class apple charts!

Before we baked our Apple Crisp.  

The ingredients were on the writing table.  

I asked the children what they thought

we might need to bake our own apple crisp.  

Here is what they came up with for a recipe.

Then we added the steps we followed.

Peeling and cutting up our own apple.

Each child created their own.

We had put all the ingredients for

the crisp part in a large zip lock bag.  

Passed it around to get well mixed.  

I placed it in a bowl with a spoon and

when the children were finished peeling,

cutting up their apple and placing it in

their own pie tin they added a big

spoonful of crisp and it was ready

for the oven.

Now the fun part!  It is cooked

and still warm. Whipped cream

was available and most wanted

some on the top of their apple crisp.

Finally when we were finished eating.

I asked for a thumbs up it they

enjoyed their apple crisp.  Lots of

thumbs up and I heard words like

it was amazing, fabulous, good and

delicious!  The amount of learning that

occurs with one little baking activity.

For example: health ( wash hands before baking,

 fine motor- peeling and cutting, cooperation,

teamwork cleaning up the tables, using our 5 senses,

 literacy creating the recipe, along with

community connections and lots of

physical- gross and fine motor.

Rhyming place the three pictures

on the apple pie that rhymes with

the picture on the pie and then

trace the lines to the apple trees.

More rhyming and saying the letters you recognize.

Numbers- place a number on the

leaf of the apple and place that

number of worms on the apple and

then work on the rhyming match game.

Extend the apple pattern and

then look at the ten frames,

count the apples in the ten frame

find the number, number of seeds

and tally marks that go with each apple.

It was a really cold day.

Quite a few children did

not have mittens.  Special thanks

to our friend Susan who

donated mittens to our class.  

The children are outside nearly

every day.  It is time to be

wearing hats, mittens, boots

and splash pants.  Many of the

children have been coming in

saying they are cold.  

Coats…. Please notice if your child is able

to independently zipper their coat. If

your child is experiencing

difficulty please practice at home.

Thank you!

We watched the Ants of Marching One by One.  

Decided to have a little fun with it and numbers.  

There was not enough room to go side by side to

have everyone march together so we did it like a

train.  Lots of giggles numbers and singing!

Some learning centre pictures.

I introduced the water table and sandbox.

October 9 - 12 ~~~~~ Apples

Beginning sounds cut out the pictures.

Try to place them under the correct

sound of S, L, T or P.

Apple Life cycle crowns

from seed to apple.

First complete an I See Apples book.

Begin your next work job place

the pictures on the sheet with initial sounds.

Match the number apples with the seed apples.

Count the dots in each ten frame.

 Cut out the numbers and glue it

onto the correct ten frame.

Using popsicle sticks, a clothespin

or a spoon pick up one pom pom

at a time to place on your apple tree.

 Fun and great for fine motor!

We read the book Ten Apples Up on Top

By Dr. Seuss and had some fun to see

how many apples we could balance

on top of our heads.

Jaxon celebrated his 5th birthday.

 Happy Birthday Jaxon!

Charlotte also celebrated her 5th birthday.

 Happy Birthday Charlotte!

Thank you for bringing in cupcakes

to share with the class.

Inside Outside Day for Autism.  

If your child forgot they were able to go and change.

Some learning centre time photos!