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!

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!

September 28 - October 2 Our final week with Pete the Cat!

Pete the Cat aka Mr. Lynch was to visit the class !  The children were quite excited!

Dancing with Pete the Cat .. one of the favorite Pete books was Rocking in My School Shoes.!

We all chose our favorite Pete book!

In social studies we were discussing different kinds of groups that people belong in and discovered that everyone belongs in groups.

Some tabletop activities... working on fine motor control!

Learning centre time the straws and connectors were a big hit!  Thank you Mrs. Arsenault for lending them to our class.

Pete the cat boardgame.  Turn taking, counting spaces and just having fun!

Pete the cat puzzle was a work job.  The children needed to cooperate and use teamwork to complete the puzzle!

This work job had an assortment of math activities to complete.

This work job also had assorted activities that each child was required to complete.

Some learning centre time fun!

There was so much news we decided that we should do a newspaper page!

Mr. MacDonald came to visit our class on Friday and the children read a couple of books to him.

Mr. MacDonald reading to the class!