October 13th, 2017
This week was all about Fall, or Autumn. We laced laminated paper leaves using yarn, made a tissue paper collage on leaf shapes, created Fall leaf confetti patterns (AB and ABC patterns), and practiced our number identification/counting by reading the number on the board and representing it using Fall confetti leaves. We also made Fall coloured oil pastel mosaic on a leaf shape. First, everyone practiced how to use a ruler to make straight lines, to make the original mosaic design.
Why leaves change colour? There we a lot of curious minds! Through out the week we talked about how the trees green leaves make their food from the sunshine, and when the tree is full of food it doesn’t need the leaves anymore, so the green disappears and the leaves show their beautiful colours before they fall. To gain a better understanding of this we held Fall coloured papers to our bodies, pretending we were leaves, and if it was summer the green paper came and covered our beautiful colours, and if it was Fall the green paper left.
We also learned a little bit about squirrels. What do they do in Fall? We talked about how they collect food and hide it away for later. What good finding skills they have when they finally unbury their ‘treasure’ (food). We made a craft where we used two different colour of brown Cheerios to fill in a line image of a squirrel.
Through out the week we used a set uppercase and lowercase letters on acorn images and a set of numbers ranging from 0 to 20 on leaf images, in a variety of activities. Such activities included sorting across vs leaves images, matching capital and lowercase letters, arranging number in the correct order, and arranging the alphabet in the correct order. Much of this was possible because the majority of the children attending Blooming Butterflies were here last year as well. This offered a great opportunity for the children to help teach and guide each other in completed these tasks. I love to see all the little helpers!
The letter Q and G were our focus letters for this week. We learned how Q usually has a friend that sits right after it in words, so the sound Q makes by itself it different than the sound it makes when it is sitting beside its friend U. We also learned that there are G words that don’t actually sound like G at the beginning…instead they sound like J (ie; giraffe, gym). How silly we thought!
The kids also practiced writing their names using our name boards. They spell, trace, build and write them. Some are working on writing their first name in capitals, some in lowercase and some have even moved onto practicing their last names.
A few of the nursery rhymes we sang and made actions for this past week were Mary Had a Little Lamb, I’m a Little Teapot, and Ten in the Bed. And to follow our Fall theme we moved along with the song Jump Up, Jump In by Simple Songs (YouTube).
We also used play dough and baked this week.
This week was all about Fall, or Autumn. We laced laminated paper leaves using yarn, made a tissue paper collage on leaf shapes, created Fall leaf confetti patterns (AB and ABC patterns), and practiced our number identification/counting by reading the number on the board and representing it using Fall confetti leaves. We also made Fall coloured oil pastel mosaic on a leaf shape. First, everyone practiced how to use a ruler to make straight lines, to make the original mosaic design.
Why leaves change colour? There we a lot of curious minds! Through out the week we talked about how the trees green leaves make their food from the sunshine, and when the tree is full of food it doesn’t need the leaves anymore, so the green disappears and the leaves show their beautiful colours before they fall. To gain a better understanding of this we held Fall coloured papers to our bodies, pretending we were leaves, and if it was summer the green paper came and covered our beautiful colours, and if it was Fall the green paper left.
We also learned a little bit about squirrels. What do they do in Fall? We talked about how they collect food and hide it away for later. What good finding skills they have when they finally unbury their ‘treasure’ (food). We made a craft where we used two different colour of brown Cheerios to fill in a line image of a squirrel.
Through out the week we used a set uppercase and lowercase letters on acorn images and a set of numbers ranging from 0 to 20 on leaf images, in a variety of activities. Such activities included sorting across vs leaves images, matching capital and lowercase letters, arranging number in the correct order, and arranging the alphabet in the correct order. Much of this was possible because the majority of the children attending Blooming Butterflies were here last year as well. This offered a great opportunity for the children to help teach and guide each other in completed these tasks. I love to see all the little helpers!
The letter Q and G were our focus letters for this week. We learned how Q usually has a friend that sits right after it in words, so the sound Q makes by itself it different than the sound it makes when it is sitting beside its friend U. We also learned that there are G words that don’t actually sound like G at the beginning…instead they sound like J (ie; giraffe, gym). How silly we thought!
The kids also practiced writing their names using our name boards. They spell, trace, build and write them. Some are working on writing their first name in capitals, some in lowercase and some have even moved onto practicing their last names.
A few of the nursery rhymes we sang and made actions for this past week were Mary Had a Little Lamb, I’m a Little Teapot, and Ten in the Bed. And to follow our Fall theme we moved along with the song Jump Up, Jump In by Simple Songs (YouTube).
We also used play dough and baked this week.
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