December 4th, 2015
We are very excited to announce that we had a new friend join Blooming Butterflies this week! We are happy to welcome him to our BB family.
Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies! We continued this week, learning about bunnies and the winter season. We started with bunny footprints last week to asking why bunnies were turning white. This led us to talk about predators and why different animals have the different types of teeth they do. Different types of teeth are good for eating certain types of food. We had an in depth look at our own teeth to see if we have good teeth for eating meat and veggies. Turns out we do!
We now have a life size paper person on our wall that we are continuing to dress for the winter. So far we have mittens and toques. Each article of clothing we are using our tiny fingers to cut, hole punch and thread. Hopefully our paper person will be cozy for the winter weather soon!
Continuing with theme of winter, we used snow and coloured water to do a science experiment. We had to see what would happen to the snow if we keep adding water to it and also what colour would the snow turn if we used red and blue coloured water. We made purple and our snow melted!
Snowmen are always fun to create but we did not have very much snow this week! We used our fingers and paint to create snowmen. These snowmen had to have a certain number of balls to correspond to the number written on their top hats. Some snowmen were much taller than others; some even started to lean.
There were many things we did this week that helped us practice our math skills. We worked as a team to sort snowflakes and then built size patterns with them. We used number mats to identify, write, trace, represent, and count numbers. To help us practice identifying single digit numbers we went on a walk and took turns reading the numbers on the neighbours’ houses. As a regular part of our outdoors routine, everyone has a turn to count how many people we have before we head back to school. Then we compare the number to yesterdays to see if we have more or less people today.
As a part of our morning routine, we have been recording the weather and the temperature and comparing it to the previous day, as well as continuing to practice identifying the letters and letter sounds in the days of the week. We are starting to identify the beginning sound of the day within the Day of the Week song too! We have also been dancing to the Happy Song. We have such a happy bunch in the morning!
Storytime is always a fun, imaginative time. We have been learning what a title is, practicing how to predict what will happen next by looking at a picture and reading the images within the book to create the story. It is really sweet to see them read like this to each other.
A few of the other activities we have done this week include; writing letters in a salt tray and on playdough letter mats, identifying shapes and letters within the shapes words, painting using cardboard stamps, creating cotton ball bunnies and sequencing the letters of the alphabet using letter blocks.
See everyone tomorrow!
Xoxo Miss Audra
We are very excited to announce that we had a new friend join Blooming Butterflies this week! We are happy to welcome him to our BB family.
Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies! We continued this week, learning about bunnies and the winter season. We started with bunny footprints last week to asking why bunnies were turning white. This led us to talk about predators and why different animals have the different types of teeth they do. Different types of teeth are good for eating certain types of food. We had an in depth look at our own teeth to see if we have good teeth for eating meat and veggies. Turns out we do!
We now have a life size paper person on our wall that we are continuing to dress for the winter. So far we have mittens and toques. Each article of clothing we are using our tiny fingers to cut, hole punch and thread. Hopefully our paper person will be cozy for the winter weather soon!
Continuing with theme of winter, we used snow and coloured water to do a science experiment. We had to see what would happen to the snow if we keep adding water to it and also what colour would the snow turn if we used red and blue coloured water. We made purple and our snow melted!
Snowmen are always fun to create but we did not have very much snow this week! We used our fingers and paint to create snowmen. These snowmen had to have a certain number of balls to correspond to the number written on their top hats. Some snowmen were much taller than others; some even started to lean.
There were many things we did this week that helped us practice our math skills. We worked as a team to sort snowflakes and then built size patterns with them. We used number mats to identify, write, trace, represent, and count numbers. To help us practice identifying single digit numbers we went on a walk and took turns reading the numbers on the neighbours’ houses. As a regular part of our outdoors routine, everyone has a turn to count how many people we have before we head back to school. Then we compare the number to yesterdays to see if we have more or less people today.
As a part of our morning routine, we have been recording the weather and the temperature and comparing it to the previous day, as well as continuing to practice identifying the letters and letter sounds in the days of the week. We are starting to identify the beginning sound of the day within the Day of the Week song too! We have also been dancing to the Happy Song. We have such a happy bunch in the morning!
Storytime is always a fun, imaginative time. We have been learning what a title is, practicing how to predict what will happen next by looking at a picture and reading the images within the book to create the story. It is really sweet to see them read like this to each other.
A few of the other activities we have done this week include; writing letters in a salt tray and on playdough letter mats, identifying shapes and letters within the shapes words, painting using cardboard stamps, creating cotton ball bunnies and sequencing the letters of the alphabet using letter blocks.
See everyone tomorrow!
Xoxo Miss Audra
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