Last Weeks Activities

A catch-up post of last weeks activities.  We were working to complete our November activities and begin working on our Christmas, December ones.

Students had a new addition in the block centre-pictures of iconic Canadian monuments and buildings.  They were encouraged to use any of the building toys to recreate the buildings.  Famous buildings and monuments from the world will be added at later point in the year.

We made letters using wooden shapes.

And patterns with moose, ducks and trees.   In creating our patterns we also learned that we can give our patterns' names (e.g. AB or ABB or ABC patterns)

Catching Up

The next few posts will be catching everyone up on what we have been doing the past two weeks.  Sorry about the delay in getting these entries online. 

For this shared reading poem we read and chanted the poem for several days.

A Turkey is a funny bird.
Watch him wobble, wobble
All he knows is just one word
Gooble, gobble, gobble!


We discussed the difference between letters and words.  One way I help the students to remember the difference, capitalizing on a favourite meal of many kindergarteners....spaghetti and meatballs.  The spaces between letters within a word are "spaghetti" spaces (skinny), a new word starts at a "meatball" space.  We use popsicle sticks with pom poms to help discover which spaces are,in-fact, meatballs. 

During centre time students were invited to use wikki sticks to put circles around letters in the poem. 

When reading with your child at night see if they can locate letters they know and look for "meatball" spaces too!

Sand Trays

Thursday we introduced a new centre.  "Sand trays"  using their fingers or the eraser end of a pencil students could draw pictures or write names (using our name cards) providing a tactile literacy experience for those kinaesthetic learners.