Our learning this week was focused around our emotions and how to identify and cope with them. We practiced our Buzzy Bee Breaths to help us cope with feelings of anger and frustration. We have started adding this to our Morning Meetings as a way to calm our bodies as well. Some of our activities were centred around identifying how others are feeling (ie: playing a charades sort of game), matching feelings and drawing feelings. The kids built with different emotions using rocks and categorized photos of children into happy, sad, angry and scared/worried. They also made emotion faces out of play dough. There was some great work on how to roll the play dough long enough without it tearing in the middle.
We read some really good books about emotions. Below are some of the books we read and the activities we did surrounding them.
Glad Monster Sad Monster by Ed Emberley
The kids made their own emotion “monsters” and had the task of cutting out their own head circle. Circles are not the easiest to cut out but they are doing a pretty great job at it!
We learned the story of The Angry Bee.
The kids practiced making colour patterns using coloured strips before they painted their own patterned bee. After painting their bees they added vellum wings.
Ruby Finds A Worry by Tom Percival
The kids drew lines in a circular motion to create our own "worry" from the storybook.
The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
The kids practiced identifying matching colour/emotion monsters, after which they coloured their own.
Pete the Cat and the New Kid by James and Kimberly Dean
We had a good talk about what it feels like to be the “new kid” in any situation and how it feels so nice when even just one person makes an effort to make you feel welcome.
We continued name practice this week. The kids squeezed glue onto their names and covered them with fall smelling spices. They used magnet bars to grab the letters of their names to put on the fridge in the proper sequence. The kids also used patterned circles to either sequence or write the letters of their name, depending on what they were ready for. Working in their journals, they had to find and circle the letters of their names.
Using alphabet cards to build stories. She thought this story she made was pretty funny. The bee turned on the light so he could find acorns. Examples of stories made include: "The whale blew the puck out and it fell in the canoe and the canoe went in the stream to the flag" and "The ant carried an umbrella and ate ice cream in the rain."
The StoryBook Truck dropped by to give us a new box of books for the next few weeks! Even though they are not offering their programming like previous years it is really great that they are driving around books to many people. With these library books comes an even greater sense of responsibility, as we have to take extra good care of these books, so we have been talking about how to store the books in the bucket while still being able to use them. We have been storing books spine up. This has been a good way to learn the names of the parts of books.
The kids were given the task of making a volcano out of play dough. There were a few different ideas on how to build a volcano. Some stuck their finger in the middle of a ball, some made a thick wall then pushed a hole in it and one built walls in a cube type shape. I love the differences!
Out and about with the Bella dog, in the field and where the climbing trees are, building campfires, discovering Fall coloured leaves, playing tag-like games, pretending to be broccoli families and decorating the tree for Christmas using their hats, sweaters and outside toys.
There was plenty of talk this week surrounding the smoke in the air. We learned about the fires that are happening right now in Alberta, how they may have started, why the smoke has come to Calgary, how to read the fires charts on the fire severities, and who/what helps to put them out. We do like to keep up with current events!
We read some really good books about emotions. Below are some of the books we read and the activities we did surrounding them.
Glad Monster Sad Monster by Ed Emberley
The kids made their own emotion “monsters” and had the task of cutting out their own head circle. Circles are not the easiest to cut out but they are doing a pretty great job at it!
We learned the story of The Angry Bee.
The kids practiced making colour patterns using coloured strips before they painted their own patterned bee. After painting their bees they added vellum wings.
Ruby Finds A Worry by Tom Percival
The kids drew lines in a circular motion to create our own "worry" from the storybook.
The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
The kids practiced identifying matching colour/emotion monsters, after which they coloured their own.
Pete the Cat and the New Kid by James and Kimberly Dean
We had a good talk about what it feels like to be the “new kid” in any situation and how it feels so nice when even just one person makes an effort to make you feel welcome.
We continued name practice this week. The kids squeezed glue onto their names and covered them with fall smelling spices. They used magnet bars to grab the letters of their names to put on the fridge in the proper sequence. The kids also used patterned circles to either sequence or write the letters of their name, depending on what they were ready for. Working in their journals, they had to find and circle the letters of their names.
Using alphabet cards to build stories. She thought this story she made was pretty funny. The bee turned on the light so he could find acorns. Examples of stories made include: "The whale blew the puck out and it fell in the canoe and the canoe went in the stream to the flag" and "The ant carried an umbrella and ate ice cream in the rain."
The StoryBook Truck dropped by to give us a new box of books for the next few weeks! Even though they are not offering their programming like previous years it is really great that they are driving around books to many people. With these library books comes an even greater sense of responsibility, as we have to take extra good care of these books, so we have been talking about how to store the books in the bucket while still being able to use them. We have been storing books spine up. This has been a good way to learn the names of the parts of books.
The kids were given the task of making a volcano out of play dough. There were a few different ideas on how to build a volcano. Some stuck their finger in the middle of a ball, some made a thick wall then pushed a hole in it and one built walls in a cube type shape. I love the differences!
Out and about with the Bella dog, in the field and where the climbing trees are, building campfires, discovering Fall coloured leaves, playing tag-like games, pretending to be broccoli families and decorating the tree for Christmas using their hats, sweaters and outside toys.
There was plenty of talk this week surrounding the smoke in the air. We learned about the fires that are happening right now in Alberta, how they may have started, why the smoke has come to Calgary, how to read the fires charts on the fire severities, and who/what helps to put them out. We do like to keep up with current events!
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