October 27th, 2017
It’s almost Halloween! Everyone’s been so excited! This week was all about Halloween. We practiced numeracy, worked on motor skills, worked on phonics, made crafts and science experiments, and practiced recalling a story’s sequence of events.
We played a number games where we had to roll the dice, count or read the number and find the matching number on their Halloween number board. We had the chance to use varying types of dice for this game as well; dice up to the number 20, some that showed number representations (dots) and some that only had number words that had to be read.
We practiced number counting and identification by counting the number of pumpkins on the card, finding the matching numbered clothespin and clipping it to the correct number on the card. Some of the kids are onto challenging themselves with trying to read the number words instead of just the number (i.e.: Two instead of 2). This clipping of clothespins in this activity was great motor practice as well. Other activities that made good use of motor skills included lacing yarn through images of Halloween characters, tracing drawn Halloween images with stickers, and using play dough to form numbers and number representations.
We read the story "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat" by Lucille Colandro. This book is part of a series was funny rhyming stories about a lady who swallows the most odd things. We practice recalling the sequence of events that took place in the story by first discussing it and then cut out images of the things she the lady swallowed and put them in the order they happened.
Our letters this week were D and P. We learned that there are some words that start with P but we can't hear the P when we say that word. How odd
We practiced our some Halloween letter sounds by identifying the beginning sounds of Halloween images. The kids had to figure out what letter each Halloween image started with, then matched them to the letter on their Haunted House. I love how they help each other when one doesn't know. So cute!
Making potions! They love it! Baking soda and vinegar experiments are always fun…especially when some food colouring is already in the jars without the kids knowing. It makes it all the more magical when they think it changed the different colours on it’s own. Just don't touch it because you will turn into what the bottle says i.e.: bat wings, frog warts, etc. We also made some puffy paint to make Zombie hands out of. Spooky
The kids took a huge branch onto the playground one day this wee and then tried to get it to go down the slide. This is a great example of learning through play. They worked as a team, twisting and turning the tree branch to get it up to the top and then using varying amounts of weight to push and pull the branch to get it down the slide. There were a few trial and error type moments. The funniest part was watching them pull on the person who was holding onto the branch.
We went on two NoseHill Park adventures this week again. We were in search of a big pile of rocks that I had seen couple of years ago. We tried reading Google maps and talked about what a satellite does and how it can see where we are and where we would like to go. Unfortunately we have not yet found this rock pile. We are hoping to find it before winter comes!
It’s almost Halloween! Everyone’s been so excited! This week was all about Halloween. We practiced numeracy, worked on motor skills, worked on phonics, made crafts and science experiments, and practiced recalling a story’s sequence of events.
We played a number games where we had to roll the dice, count or read the number and find the matching number on their Halloween number board. We had the chance to use varying types of dice for this game as well; dice up to the number 20, some that showed number representations (dots) and some that only had number words that had to be read.
We practiced number counting and identification by counting the number of pumpkins on the card, finding the matching numbered clothespin and clipping it to the correct number on the card. Some of the kids are onto challenging themselves with trying to read the number words instead of just the number (i.e.: Two instead of 2). This clipping of clothespins in this activity was great motor practice as well. Other activities that made good use of motor skills included lacing yarn through images of Halloween characters, tracing drawn Halloween images with stickers, and using play dough to form numbers and number representations.
We read the story "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat" by Lucille Colandro. This book is part of a series was funny rhyming stories about a lady who swallows the most odd things. We practice recalling the sequence of events that took place in the story by first discussing it and then cut out images of the things she the lady swallowed and put them in the order they happened.
Our letters this week were D and P. We learned that there are some words that start with P but we can't hear the P when we say that word. How odd
We practiced our some Halloween letter sounds by identifying the beginning sounds of Halloween images. The kids had to figure out what letter each Halloween image started with, then matched them to the letter on their Haunted House. I love how they help each other when one doesn't know. So cute!
Making potions! They love it! Baking soda and vinegar experiments are always fun…especially when some food colouring is already in the jars without the kids knowing. It makes it all the more magical when they think it changed the different colours on it’s own. Just don't touch it because you will turn into what the bottle says i.e.: bat wings, frog warts, etc. We also made some puffy paint to make Zombie hands out of. Spooky
The kids took a huge branch onto the playground one day this wee and then tried to get it to go down the slide. This is a great example of learning through play. They worked as a team, twisting and turning the tree branch to get it up to the top and then using varying amounts of weight to push and pull the branch to get it down the slide. There were a few trial and error type moments. The funniest part was watching them pull on the person who was holding onto the branch.
We went on two NoseHill Park adventures this week again. We were in search of a big pile of rocks that I had seen couple of years ago. We tried reading Google maps and talked about what a satellite does and how it can see where we are and where we would like to go. Unfortunately we have not yet found this rock pile. We are hoping to find it before winter comes!
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