Sunday School

Happy Sunday! I apologize for not having a classroom update last week, I was at Spark Sessions in Toronto and I ran out of time. This week's Sunday School will be two weeks in one. We have been hosting parents in our room for student observations, and it has been very busy. We started off last week reading the book "Mix It Up"and students had the chance to experiment with mixing colours at our creative table.

Last week our class got some great new letter construction pieces. This week we have students creating names with these pieces. I was so impressed.

We finally brought out our "Melissa and Doug" work toy. The students love it, this is a great tool for building fine motor strength.

Our students are continuing to build using the inspiration pictures we put up on the shelf below our blocks. These two lovely girls worked together to create this amazing structure.

Have you played Bananagrams? I have had this game sitting in a drawer at home so I decided to bring it in and use it as an invitation to play.

We read the book "I'm Bored" this week, about a little girl who is bored and meets a potato. We then explored what potatoes look like, feel like, and wrote about what we would do with a potato.

 We got some fancy carpet rule soccer balls for our classroom this week.

I hope you all had a great week in your classrooms. Leave a comment and tell me all about what your students did.

Kindergarten Update

We started this week off with lots of new classroom games. I was at Toys 'R' Us shopping for my son and I located some great games for our classroom. Educational games are always hard to find so I was thrilled to see Toys 'R' Us has a large educational section. The game below is a ten frame Math game, we printed out the addition cards and the student really enjoy using the gold and silver coins to create Math equations.

These plastic letter pieces have been the students' favourite new item this week. They following the instructions on the cards to create letters. We have some children that are now making numerals with the pieces.

Our moon sand is still very popular. Students love to help making these crafty items.

The last new purchase was these Math shape puzzles. I wasn't sure if our students would be engaged in these but so far they are very popular in our classroom.

LeeAnn had bee wanting to do a visual clock schedule like this for sometime. The students enjoy looking at the times and trying to compare each time to the actual clock.

In the background of this picture LeeAnn added building photos below our block shelf. This has made a huge difference in our block area. Students are collaborating really well to create a structure based on it's picture.

We created a grocery store this week in our dramatic play centre. I will take a few better pictures to show for next week's post. Our students enjoyed making a grocery list and then have another student be a cashier so they could buy their items.

We spent a lot of time this week reading the book "Beautiful Oops". We found our students needed some reminder on how to respect the paper we have at our art centre. We read this book and each child received a small piece of newsprint paper that they could then tear, crunch, fold, and make a beautiful oops. We then had our students create something our of their paper, they loved this. It was amazing to see how creative our students are.