March 31st, 2017
Owls Owls Owls
There is so much to learn about owls. Owls have large eyes to see at night time, they are nocturnal, they can turn their heads around without moving their bodies, and we learned the process of how they catch their prey and eat/digest it (owls pellets). Watching the little ones practice following instructions to owl action songs and watching them pretend to be an owl hunting its’ prey was pretty entertaining, especially because they like the part where they pretended to vomit out an owl pellet.
Three owl crafts were created this week. Our first was good practice in tearing craft paper to make the owl’s feathers, and then gluing together paper pupils into cupcake liners for eyes. Our second craft was created by cutting out foam, from which the owl bodies were made. Attaching the pieces and a popsicle stick made an owl puppet. Our third owl craft was made using felt, foam and wood chips (the body).
We adventured out to the community centre and the St.Bede school playground. everyone had a blast playing on such a large playground. We packed a picnic and did some outdoor reading as well.
Now that we have made it through the alphabet and through the numbers 1-10 we are now we are reviewing the letters we began the school year with, at an accelerated pace. As they are more practiced with letters, we are working with two letters per week. The letters this week were L and F. I had some helpers want to write the words for me which was amazing. Their confidence in wanting to try sounding out and write write together is wonderful to see. We practiced writing letters in salt trays and building letters with our letter construction kit.
Often we practice blended letter sounds, mostly as they come about through stories, words of interest (like when figuring out words that start with the letter we are learning, or words they want to write in their journals) and our calendar. Blended letter sounds that we have come across and are starting to remember include; “oo” “th” “ch” and “sh”.
We had a blast exploring weight and balance (also talking about more/less) at the playground on the teeter totter. It is really fun when you use a teeter totter and your friends to figure out how to balance each side and to see what happened when you add or take away people.
We continue to create and practice writing/sounding out words in journals. What a wonderful mess!
Some other activities we did this week include; cookie cutter spring time paint stamping, a baking soda and vinegar science experiment.
Owls Owls Owls
There is so much to learn about owls. Owls have large eyes to see at night time, they are nocturnal, they can turn their heads around without moving their bodies, and we learned the process of how they catch their prey and eat/digest it (owls pellets). Watching the little ones practice following instructions to owl action songs and watching them pretend to be an owl hunting its’ prey was pretty entertaining, especially because they like the part where they pretended to vomit out an owl pellet.
Three owl crafts were created this week. Our first was good practice in tearing craft paper to make the owl’s feathers, and then gluing together paper pupils into cupcake liners for eyes. Our second craft was created by cutting out foam, from which the owl bodies were made. Attaching the pieces and a popsicle stick made an owl puppet. Our third owl craft was made using felt, foam and wood chips (the body).
We adventured out to the community centre and the St.Bede school playground. everyone had a blast playing on such a large playground. We packed a picnic and did some outdoor reading as well.
Now that we have made it through the alphabet and through the numbers 1-10 we are now we are reviewing the letters we began the school year with, at an accelerated pace. As they are more practiced with letters, we are working with two letters per week. The letters this week were L and F. I had some helpers want to write the words for me which was amazing. Their confidence in wanting to try sounding out and write write together is wonderful to see. We practiced writing letters in salt trays and building letters with our letter construction kit.
Often we practice blended letter sounds, mostly as they come about through stories, words of interest (like when figuring out words that start with the letter we are learning, or words they want to write in their journals) and our calendar. Blended letter sounds that we have come across and are starting to remember include; “oo” “th” “ch” and “sh”.
We had a blast exploring weight and balance (also talking about more/less) at the playground on the teeter totter. It is really fun when you use a teeter totter and your friends to figure out how to balance each side and to see what happened when you add or take away people.
We continue to create and practice writing/sounding out words in journals. What a wonderful mess!
Some other activities we did this week include; cookie cutter spring time paint stamping, a baking soda and vinegar science experiment.
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