October 8 - Happy Thanksgiving

Getting ready for The Terry Fox Walk

Matching shapes onto the coconut tree!

S is for stars

Found the letter K on my chicka, chicka letter hunt!

Each letter is unique! 

I wonder . . . Do you think KA will change the name and number?

This castle is fun!   Nice cooperation boys!

Cooperation and fine motor control at it's best!

Sometimes it is nice to snuggle up in a quiet spot with a great book!

We did it all the letters are matched!

Making our thanksgiving turkeys!

Hi, My name is Tom Turkey!

Even turkeys like to be held gently!

Run turkeys run the farmer is coming!

The lego table is used every day.  Beautiful creations while working on fine motor skills.

The marbleworks is great I can put it together any way I wish!

The Terry Fox run continues.

Yes sir what would you like to order?

The animals each have their own bed with  a block pillow in this fantastic building!

The block area is another favorite at learning centre time.

Listening to the Littlest Pumpkin at the listening centre.

Would you like a cookie?

This is the first week for computers.  We love Polygone.

More Chica, Chicka Letters A is for apple, B is for band aid and C is for cotton balls.

Do you like coconuts?

Putting the alphabet in sequence.

September 6- 25th Welcome to Kindergarten B

The Kissing Hand book is read the first day and Chester the Raccoon

 visits the class.

First day photos!

Our Pirate Unit Begins . . .

How many jewels will your pirate ship hold?

Look at the jewels on my pirate ship!  It is not sinking!

Investigating the snails...

Roll the cube color a block  on the recording sheet of the picture on the top of the cube.  I wonder which pirate item will race to the top.

I wonder how many pieces of gold goes on this treasure chest.

Meet Blackbeard, Polly the Parrot and Timmy the Turtle! Blackbeard showed the class something about pirates each day. We then recorded the information on a pirate mind map!

We all made pirates that had our faces on them. Cutting can be difficult.  We will be on our big pirate ship.

The Pirate castle is a hit. Wonderful turn taking!

The boys worked really hard together to build an awesome building!

Two more first day photos!

Find the hidden words in the buried treasure.  Record the words on the sheet.

Following a patterns and putting the strips on the numbers to make a ship picture.

Making our newspaper pirate hats,  First we follow the folding directions, then we help staple and finally we decorate with markers anyway we wish!

I almost have the picture all put  together!

Exploring magnets what will stick ( attract) and what will not stick ( detract) draw three thing for both.

More buried treasure words to find and record!

Our first try at turn and talk.  Great work!  We take turns talking with each other.  A nice way to reinforce turn taking.

Some of our pirate display with the many curriculum outcomes we have touched on  during our pirate unit displayed.

Our big pirate ship.  All aboard mateys!

September 19 - National Pirate Day.  Here we are as pirates in Kindergarten B.

We had to walk the plank ... careful of the sharks! Great large muscle control!

Great pencil grasps.  I ask the children to pinch and flip.

Playdough coconuts- great for developing fine motor control.

Welcome to Kindergarten B

I am excited as we begin a new year in kindergarten.  I look forward to getting to know your children and you as well.  It will be an exciting year in kindergarten with many fun learning opportunities for the children.  I will begin posting pictures of the learning activities that are occurring in the classroom in the near future!