Public Library Visit

We will be walking to Brooksbank Public Library on Friday, October 25th in the morning.  Students will need to be dressed for the weather that morning.  We will bring our morning snack to be enjoyed at the library and return to school for our usual lunch routine.  Should be an exciting morning!  You can prepare your child by visiting Brookbanks between now and then and signing up for a library card!

Fall Walk

Today we toured our school yard in search of signs of fall!

Here's a peek at what made its way into our buckets!

Here's a hint about our next inquiry topic....

Can you guess what we'll be investigating next in Kindergarten???

All of these leaves were collected by our students during morning outdoor time in our playground!  Imagine what we'll find when we explore the big field!

Many curious students!

Pizza Kitchen

Room 104 students expressed an interest in making pizza using sand and sand toys outside.  We transformed our drama centre into a pizza kitchen and incorporate math and literacy into their pretend, imaginative play.

Students took on the role of waitress or waiter and recorded numbers on order slips.

Chefs in the kitchen read the order slips and prepared pizza (white play dough with classroom manipulatives and craft supplies as "toppings").  We also had pre-made pizza (pizza toys)!

The delivery person!

Another chef hard at work.

Customers read the menu before ordering.

We celebrated the end of our "Pizza Kitchen" by making real pizza.  Students followed instructions in pictures and words to assemble their own mini pizza.

Pizza "dough" (english muffin) ready for sauce.

Cheese is next.

Ready for the oven!

Sadly there aren't any photos of us enjoying our pizza because we were all eating!

What happens during "activity" time?

Working at our learning centres is a big part of the Kindergarten day.  1 full hour of student directed choice time is recommended.  This time may be referred to as "choice time", "learning centres", or "activities".  Sometimes the children simply call it "play time"!  Here are some of the activities students may chose to engage in:

Puzzles

iPad games

SmartBoard games

Sorting and fine motor skill development

Reading

"Fishing" for numbers

Matching, sorting and memory game

Take a peek at Writer's Workshop in action!

Here are some photos from our first Writer's Workshop on Wednesday!  It was an amazing start to this program, our students have so many stories to tell!

Another interesting outdoor activity!

We spent some time practicing proper pencil grasp and strengthening our fine motor skills outside today!

Dominoes parking lot

Here is a peek at a math game we're playing to practice numbers!