A Peek at our Day

What a busy time in kindergarten.  We are finishing up with assessments for report cards and getting ready for our portfolio open house.  If our blog posts slow down a bit, don't be alarmed.  We are getting so much done that we have NO TIME to blog!  Here was our day:

Sketching and painting freely are important ways that we express our creativity.  We do this often in kindergarten.  We also like to do DIRECTED DRAWING.  It involves following steps to sketch an object.  It helps us to follow directions, practice our visual discrimination (what is different from one step to the next?), strengthen our fine motor control, and practice our lines and shapes.

We drew and painted our self-portraits for this month. 

We are starting to learn about paper.  Here we are looking at some different types of paper.  Notice kids feeling it, smelling it, and listening to it (corrugated board DOES make noise when you scratch it!).  We learned that most paper comes from trees and we look forward to making our own paper in kindergarten someday soon.

The GIANT Voyageur Post

What a week it's been in kindergarten!  We celebrated the Voyageur culture all week and we had a blast.

Voyageur Songs and Vocabulary

Playing 'Les Voyageurs'

We set up our chairs to make a giant canoe and we paddled down the river.  We sang voyageur songs and paddled until our arms were tired.  Suddenly, we hit some rapids and lost a few little voyageurs who fell overboard!  The next time we came to some rapids, we portaged by carrying our canoe over our heads.  It was a long and hard trek.  Next, we spent a night sleeping under our canoe (tables) for shelter, and we rose to face the river again.  Oh, the life of a voyageur!

Making Bannock

We measured and mixed ingredients, listened to and followed directions, took turns and worked together to make real bannock.  We thought it was very cool that we were eating like real voyageurs.  The kids especially loved kneading  the dough, and eating the bread with raspberry jelly.

Festival du Voyageur
Stations Included: listening to stories, arm and leg wrestling, tug-of-war, a grid trap game, making a felt beard, eating bannock and colouring, and music station (intruments and singing)

Our 100th Day of School

Here are some pictures of us celebrating our 100th day of kindergarten.  It was a day filled with white glue and Fruit Loops.  Here we are in action:

Mixing Up our Trail Mix

Counting Fruit Loops for our Necklaces

Stringing our Necklaces

Reading 100 Books and Snacking on Trail Mix

Bingo Dabbing 100 Dots

Building a Structure with 100 Cups

Decorating our 100 Glasses