September 8th, 2017
A great new school year is starting up! It is going to be a good one; lots of curious little bodies!
Our main focus of the week was emotions. We talked about different types of emotions, how we can feel when certain things happen to us, and how we can deal with more extreme feelings. Everyone practiced identifying and matching emotions in pictures of other children, as well as in their peers,by playing a mirroring game. We used different materials to represent different feelings ie: made pasta faces, built faces using Emotion Rocks, out of foam and pipe cleaners and and made dual-sided Feeling Faces out of yardstick and popsicle sticks (after we had to guess what each others’ feelings).
The StoryBots are a fun way to listen to songs about emotions and how we can deal with the feelings we have. We also danced to how different types of music made us feel.
What do you do when someone is bugging you? We discussed how we feel when someone is bugging us and appropriate ways of handling this when it does happen. With this activity it was nice to see the kids recognize the similarities between this BUG and themselves.
Each day we pick a nursery rhyme from a bunch of popsicle sticks with names of nursery rhymes on them and we sing and do the actions for that song. A couple of the songs we sang this week include Row, Row, Row Your Boat and Hot Cross Bun. We also enjoy our movement songs. This week our song was Open, Shut Them. Their enthusiasm is amazing. They sure do love singing!
We started our letter learning with the Letter L, the sound it makes, words that begin and end with L, writing it and building it with different materials.
They also used oil pastels and watercolour paints to decorate their new portfolio covers.
There is not a week where we do not explore nature in some way. This week we adventured through the non-existent creek and climbed up the hill where we go bum-slidding in the winter. Those plants and that grass sure were tall! We also cannot forget about visiting the tunnel so they can run through and scream at the top of their lungs!
A great new school year is starting up! It is going to be a good one; lots of curious little bodies!
Our main focus of the week was emotions. We talked about different types of emotions, how we can feel when certain things happen to us, and how we can deal with more extreme feelings. Everyone practiced identifying and matching emotions in pictures of other children, as well as in their peers,by playing a mirroring game. We used different materials to represent different feelings ie: made pasta faces, built faces using Emotion Rocks, out of foam and pipe cleaners and and made dual-sided Feeling Faces out of yardstick and popsicle sticks (after we had to guess what each others’ feelings).
The StoryBots are a fun way to listen to songs about emotions and how we can deal with the feelings we have. We also danced to how different types of music made us feel.
What do you do when someone is bugging you? We discussed how we feel when someone is bugging us and appropriate ways of handling this when it does happen. With this activity it was nice to see the kids recognize the similarities between this BUG and themselves.
Each day we pick a nursery rhyme from a bunch of popsicle sticks with names of nursery rhymes on them and we sing and do the actions for that song. A couple of the songs we sang this week include Row, Row, Row Your Boat and Hot Cross Bun. We also enjoy our movement songs. This week our song was Open, Shut Them. Their enthusiasm is amazing. They sure do love singing!
We started our letter learning with the Letter L, the sound it makes, words that begin and end with L, writing it and building it with different materials.
They also used oil pastels and watercolour paints to decorate their new portfolio covers.
There is not a week where we do not explore nature in some way. This week we adventured through the non-existent creek and climbed up the hill where we go bum-slidding in the winter. Those plants and that grass sure were tall! We also cannot forget about visiting the tunnel so they can run through and scream at the top of their lungs!
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