September 22nd, 2017
Fall is here! It is definitely brisk in the mornings now! Upon request we made the trek out to the Community Centre and surrounding school playgrounds, to play and have a picnic lunch. There's nothing like a brisk Fall picnic lunch in our jackets, splash pants, boots and toques!
This week we reviewed our Bucket Filling concept by writing different ideas about how to be Bucket Fillers on paper buckets for the wall. Now we have made some Preschool Promises about how we will be Bucket Fillers at school. They helped brainstorm the ideas and they signed it with their handprint.
Our All About Me theme began this week. We learned a little about each other and each other’s families. We helped each other figure out our eye colours and recorded the information on a bar graph to figure out which colour had more or less. We talked about each other’s hair; colour and texture. We also made our first self-portraits of the year. We used Mat Man to help us with this. Mat Man, from the Handwriting Without Tears Program, helps us with our body awareness and drawing people in a more detailed way. We had fun singing his song, building him with the same pieces we use to build our letters and even adding crazy hair and earrings to him too!
We read a story called Families, Families, Families by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang. This was great in helping us talk about how many people everyone had in their family, how many siblings, and that there are many types of families; not everyone’s family makeup is the same. We drew our families and started our Family Tree projects this week. We started by gluing family photos onto a transparencies to protect them (sort of like laminating), except they could do it themselves, and then cutting out the coloured paper to cover the back of the photo, and the border to frame the photo. Everyone's cutting on a curve is looking pretty good!
Our letter this week were H and T. To practice building and writing these letters we had one partner built the letter with magnetic letter pieces and the other partner wrote what they saw in a salt tray. We also practiced more name writing this week by making name puzzles and watercolour painting over their name written in wax crayons (we called it Magic Names).
Our movement song this week was Walking Walking by Super Simple Songs.
Some of the nursery rhymes we pulled out to sing this week were, B.I.N.G.O. (what a great song for following the beat and counting!), Hot Cross Buns and The Muffin Man.
Some other activities we did this week include baking (they added a little treat of M&Ms to the tops of their muffins), oil pastel drawings and played in shaving cream, while attempting to draw themselves in it. Their people pictures turned into marshmallow looking people! It is much easier to draw in shaving cream after you've played with it.
Fall is here! It is definitely brisk in the mornings now! Upon request we made the trek out to the Community Centre and surrounding school playgrounds, to play and have a picnic lunch. There's nothing like a brisk Fall picnic lunch in our jackets, splash pants, boots and toques!
This week we reviewed our Bucket Filling concept by writing different ideas about how to be Bucket Fillers on paper buckets for the wall. Now we have made some Preschool Promises about how we will be Bucket Fillers at school. They helped brainstorm the ideas and they signed it with their handprint.
Our All About Me theme began this week. We learned a little about each other and each other’s families. We helped each other figure out our eye colours and recorded the information on a bar graph to figure out which colour had more or less. We talked about each other’s hair; colour and texture. We also made our first self-portraits of the year. We used Mat Man to help us with this. Mat Man, from the Handwriting Without Tears Program, helps us with our body awareness and drawing people in a more detailed way. We had fun singing his song, building him with the same pieces we use to build our letters and even adding crazy hair and earrings to him too!
We read a story called Families, Families, Families by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang. This was great in helping us talk about how many people everyone had in their family, how many siblings, and that there are many types of families; not everyone’s family makeup is the same. We drew our families and started our Family Tree projects this week. We started by gluing family photos onto a transparencies to protect them (sort of like laminating), except they could do it themselves, and then cutting out the coloured paper to cover the back of the photo, and the border to frame the photo. Everyone's cutting on a curve is looking pretty good!
Our letter this week were H and T. To practice building and writing these letters we had one partner built the letter with magnetic letter pieces and the other partner wrote what they saw in a salt tray. We also practiced more name writing this week by making name puzzles and watercolour painting over their name written in wax crayons (we called it Magic Names).
Our movement song this week was Walking Walking by Super Simple Songs.
Some of the nursery rhymes we pulled out to sing this week were, B.I.N.G.O. (what a great song for following the beat and counting!), Hot Cross Buns and The Muffin Man.
Some other activities we did this week include baking (they added a little treat of M&Ms to the tops of their muffins), oil pastel drawings and played in shaving cream, while attempting to draw themselves in it. Their people pictures turned into marshmallow looking people! It is much easier to draw in shaving cream after you've played with it.
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