November 4th, 2016
What a fun time Halloween can be! We dressed up for our Halloween celebration and played a few fun games! A couple little ones were turned into mummies (No, not the mommies they first understood mummies to be! Too cute!), we all took many turns climbing through a spider web obstacle course, and searched through pumpkin pulp to find tiny little spiders. These were all great ways to exercise our fine and gross motor skills; unraveling and tucking in toilet paper to wrap our friends, using our coordination and balance to make it through the obstacle course, and using our pincher fingers to pick and pull out tiny spiders from a cauldron of pulp. Our spider search was also a fun way to practice our counting and comparing number amounts.
After our Halloween celebration, I could not believe that it was already November! Where have these past two months gone? These little ones understanding of their own and others feelings have grown tremendously; our empathy for others is beginning to increase. They are often remembering to positively ask for the things they need and desire. And they are being bucket fillers by helping each other out without being asked i.e. picking up each other’s dropping items. What a great two months of growth it has been! I am very impressed.
We took the time this week to talk about Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. By exploring a map, we figured out where India was, and compared it to where in the world we are, and how one could get from here to there. Many wanted to see where their houses were, so it was neat being able to zoom in on the map to find exact addresses. They were quite amazed and a bit puzzled as to why they could not see their house on the scale of the map; this lead to an interesting conversation about how big the world actually is!
To celebrate Diwali, we danced and attempted to sing a couple Diwali songs even though they were not in English of course. What a great chance to talk about the different types of languages there are around the world, specifically in India and in our very homes. We created folded paper candles to represent the Diya (Dee-Ya) used during the festival. Folding paper in and accordion fashion was tricky but everyone caught on! They also did a great job writing Diwali as well! To keep with the idea that candles create light and are often used to celebrate, we sorting candles into colour groups as well as size groups. We also created a fireworks painting using a toilet paper roll as a stamp. Some beautiful artworks were created!
What a week of celebration it has been! We also had a very special 4th birthday! Everyone helped to make cupcakes and icing from scratch. Everyone had paid very careful attention to using exact amounts of ingredients; leveling the measuring cups and making sure that measuring cups were completely full before putting them into the bowl. It was so hard to wait for those cupcakes to be done! Everyone spread their own icing as well.
This week’s letter was O. Did we ever come up with so many letter O words over the past few days! Did you know that O is a vowel and that means it has two sounds? Vowels make words sound nice too and if there are no vowels in a word it sure does sound funny. We wanted to see what words would sound like without these important vowels, so we decided to take the vowels out of our names. Some people hardly had any letters left in their name!
What a fun time Halloween can be! We dressed up for our Halloween celebration and played a few fun games! A couple little ones were turned into mummies (No, not the mommies they first understood mummies to be! Too cute!), we all took many turns climbing through a spider web obstacle course, and searched through pumpkin pulp to find tiny little spiders. These were all great ways to exercise our fine and gross motor skills; unraveling and tucking in toilet paper to wrap our friends, using our coordination and balance to make it through the obstacle course, and using our pincher fingers to pick and pull out tiny spiders from a cauldron of pulp. Our spider search was also a fun way to practice our counting and comparing number amounts.
After our Halloween celebration, I could not believe that it was already November! Where have these past two months gone? These little ones understanding of their own and others feelings have grown tremendously; our empathy for others is beginning to increase. They are often remembering to positively ask for the things they need and desire. And they are being bucket fillers by helping each other out without being asked i.e. picking up each other’s dropping items. What a great two months of growth it has been! I am very impressed.
We took the time this week to talk about Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. By exploring a map, we figured out where India was, and compared it to where in the world we are, and how one could get from here to there. Many wanted to see where their houses were, so it was neat being able to zoom in on the map to find exact addresses. They were quite amazed and a bit puzzled as to why they could not see their house on the scale of the map; this lead to an interesting conversation about how big the world actually is!
To celebrate Diwali, we danced and attempted to sing a couple Diwali songs even though they were not in English of course. What a great chance to talk about the different types of languages there are around the world, specifically in India and in our very homes. We created folded paper candles to represent the Diya (Dee-Ya) used during the festival. Folding paper in and accordion fashion was tricky but everyone caught on! They also did a great job writing Diwali as well! To keep with the idea that candles create light and are often used to celebrate, we sorting candles into colour groups as well as size groups. We also created a fireworks painting using a toilet paper roll as a stamp. Some beautiful artworks were created!
What a week of celebration it has been! We also had a very special 4th birthday! Everyone helped to make cupcakes and icing from scratch. Everyone had paid very careful attention to using exact amounts of ingredients; leveling the measuring cups and making sure that measuring cups were completely full before putting them into the bowl. It was so hard to wait for those cupcakes to be done! Everyone spread their own icing as well.
This week’s letter was O. Did we ever come up with so many letter O words over the past few days! Did you know that O is a vowel and that means it has two sounds? Vowels make words sound nice too and if there are no vowels in a word it sure does sound funny. We wanted to see what words would sound like without these important vowels, so we decided to take the vowels out of our names. Some people hardly had any letters left in their name!
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