October 21 - 25

Happy Birthday Walker!

Roll the dice color the picture... I wonder which Halloween character will race to the top?

Find the Halloween pictures around the room and record on your chart.

Creating our stain glass look pumpkins!

From seed to pumpkin pie ...color the pictures, cut them out and sequence the events.

Straws and connectors .... look at the interesting structure we are making by working together.

A container of beads, pipe cleaners and we each created our own AB pattern bracelets!

Sorting some Halloween items!

Literacy at it's best.  Zoey was enjoying reading this book on her own.

Walker is enjoying all the pictures in the picture dictionary!

Jaiden enjoys creating with the Lego at learning centre time!

October 15 - 16

Working on creating a fire truck!

Making our own Fire Prevention Books!

Friends helping each other with a computer problem.

Ryly turned 5 hip hip hooray!

The finished fire trucks.  Each one is unique!

October 7 - 11

Our Wall of Art proudly displays the students art!  Each turkey is unique!

Working on creating Thanksgiving Turkeys!

Finding the hidden pumpkins!

Illustrating what we are thankful for ...

Math activities - matching, patterns, and number puzzles.

First one student makes an AB pattern and then the other student copies the pattern.  The children did an excellent job!

We were introduced to the dress up clothing in dramatic play ... lots of learning was happening as we cooperated, helped each other with zippers and ties, and decided who was going to wear which items.

Each day Tommy turkey was hidden somewhere in the class and the students had to find him.

Our display table where we decorate with the theme.  The children are encouraged to put something on the table if they wish.  Ben added the small pumpkin gourds and Luke added some acorns.  Thanks boys!

September 30 - October 4

How many cubes tall is your apple?

Label the parts of the apple. Stem, skin, core, flesh, and seeds!

Making our own apple book!

Making  creative apples - using yarn and a pipe cleaner.  Most people decided to made red or green apples.   Three people decided to make yellow apples.

After reading the story Ten Apples Up On Top ... we decided to make a class apple book.  The numbers were placed in a bag and whatever number you drew out was the number of apples on top of your head.  We will all have a turn to take the book home overnight!

Learning centre time fun!  The train track was a big success, the children are now beginning to login and find the programs that are bookmarked on the computers and the lego is used every day!

Extra apple jobs .. count the apples click a clothespin on the number, using tongs, a clothespin or chop sticks place apples on the trees.  Find the apples with the correct number of seeds, tally marks and the number to go on the apple ten frames.

Fun at Arlington Orchard!

The Dennis Farm ... we have never seen so many chickens!

KA and KB got together to make applesauce .. First we washed the apples, then peeled and diced put them in a pot with water and cooked them.  Mashed the apples and added sugar and cinnamon.  Delicious!

Our Hall display!  The curriculum outcomes that we have worked on during our apple theme are listed.We worked on Literacy, Math, Science, Creative, Social Studies and Physical Development.  The best part is that the learning was fun!

Sorting items beginning with the Nn and Pp sounds.

September 23 - 27 - Finishing up Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - creative coconut paintings, look who's in KA and KB, and counting how many letters are in our friends name.

Our science experiment.  Do you like coconut?  The children asked their friends and recorded the findings.

Creating coconut paintings .... the children noticed when the blue and yellow mixed together it made green!

Count the number of coconuts in each box and circle the number.  Is there one, two, three, four or five coconuts in the box?

Pick a letter out of the container.  Find and color it on your coconut tree.

Button sorting ... the children sorted by color, size and shape.  There were buttons everywhere!

The Lego table is quite popular.  The children are using fine motor control and lots of creativity at this table.  We could use some more wheels and axles.

The children enjoyed listening to the story Down The Drain by Robert Munch!

It was a beautiful afternoon for our Terry Fox Walk.  Home and School was ready with water and chocolate milk when we returned to the school.  It was a nice treat!

September 16 - 19

Our Chicka Chicka Boom Tree has many letters on it!

We discovered that Ben has three letters in his name  Luke, Zoey and Ryly have four , Tyson has five, Walker, Jaiden and Miljot all have six and Montana has seven letters in her name.  We also discovered that the names were in an AB pattern.

The science of making bubbles is not as easy as we imagined.  If you do not blow out on the straw the bubble solution does not taste very good.  If you blow really hard you cannot make big bubbles.  By blowing very gently the bubbles got bigger and bigger!

We are making our own chicka chicka boom trees.  We are working on our cutting skills, letter recognition as we put our names on the trees, and appropriate use of glue.  We also are responsible for putting the materials away and cleaning up our work job area.

Roll the dice and color the part of the tree that has the number you rolled on it.  Working on turn taking , fine motor skills and number recognition.

Walk around the classroom and find the letters on the wall.  Circle the letters you find on your clipboard. Fun way to work on letter matching.

Working with the blocks during learning centre time.  Beautiful city boys!

Computers during learning centre time.  Soon we will be able to login in and go to our favorite sites all by ourselves.