It’s already the beginning of a new school year. I am excited to share this time together with a full house of little ones!
We started this year by working on our fine motor skills, working with our names, going on NoseHill Park adventures and learning a little bit about the wildlife there, learning about colours and how to make new colours, and learning about emotions.
The kids pulled elastic bands around the bottom of muffin tins to exercising their finger/hand muscles and stretch their hand eye coordination. They also worked together as a team to figure out how to make the elastics stretch over the tin and stay.
Another fine motor practice was using their "clippers" to pick up little cubes to place on corresponding colour owl. The kids are pretty great at identifying their colours by now and so we are beginning to learn about primary colours and how to make new colours.
There was a big focus on the kids’ name this week. We practiced spelling their names, identifying them, counting how many letters were in each name and comparing lengths of names by using words like more, less, long, short, etc. The main, and quickest, way for the kids to identify their names is by knowing the first letter. The two children who have the same beginning letter have been doing a great job remembering what other letters their names include to be able to properly identify their own name. The kids also used bingo dabbers on cardstock and leaves (the kids were pretty excited to be able to collect them) on vellum, to trace the first letter of their names. They also spent a decent amount of time using the leaves during their crafting time.
We were so lucky to see a few deer on our adventures in NoseHill Park! It was a great opportunity to talk about what the deer were doing in the field of grass (eating and how the long grass seemed to act like protection to hide themselves). We also saw a few birds of prey flying overhead, that were much too high to figure out what species they were. We talked about why they seemed to be flying in circles and how they have amazing eyesight from such height.
We started our learning about emotions this week and will continue on the following week. This will give us the ability to put words to how we feel, learn coping strategies and begin to understand and consider others’ feelings in addition to our own. The kids practiced identifying varying emotion by playing an emotion card matching games and playing emotion charades.
We started this year by working on our fine motor skills, working with our names, going on NoseHill Park adventures and learning a little bit about the wildlife there, learning about colours and how to make new colours, and learning about emotions.
The kids pulled elastic bands around the bottom of muffin tins to exercising their finger/hand muscles and stretch their hand eye coordination. They also worked together as a team to figure out how to make the elastics stretch over the tin and stay.
Another fine motor practice was using their "clippers" to pick up little cubes to place on corresponding colour owl. The kids are pretty great at identifying their colours by now and so we are beginning to learn about primary colours and how to make new colours.
There was a big focus on the kids’ name this week. We practiced spelling their names, identifying them, counting how many letters were in each name and comparing lengths of names by using words like more, less, long, short, etc. The main, and quickest, way for the kids to identify their names is by knowing the first letter. The two children who have the same beginning letter have been doing a great job remembering what other letters their names include to be able to properly identify their own name. The kids also used bingo dabbers on cardstock and leaves (the kids were pretty excited to be able to collect them) on vellum, to trace the first letter of their names. They also spent a decent amount of time using the leaves during their crafting time.
We were so lucky to see a few deer on our adventures in NoseHill Park! It was a great opportunity to talk about what the deer were doing in the field of grass (eating and how the long grass seemed to act like protection to hide themselves). We also saw a few birds of prey flying overhead, that were much too high to figure out what species they were. We talked about why they seemed to be flying in circles and how they have amazing eyesight from such height.
We started our learning about emotions this week and will continue on the following week. This will give us the ability to put words to how we feel, learn coping strategies and begin to understand and consider others’ feelings in addition to our own. The kids practiced identifying varying emotion by playing an emotion card matching games and playing emotion charades.
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