News for October 29This week, the students focused on talking about our farm trip and learning about Halloween.
Almost one hundred kindergarten students from our school went to the farm. We saw lots of animals, learned about how pumpkins grow, harvested vegetables directly from the field, walked through a corn maze and had a hayride on a trailer pulled by a tractor. It was a busy day! A video of some photos from our trip can be found at the end of this posting.
The students learned the letter/sound/action for the letter B. They also practised making the letter with wood pieces and using the magnet boards.
The senior kindergarten students began using their printing workbooks this week. The students are required to use the proper pencil grip and writing the letters from the top. We learned a song, "Where do you start your letters? At the top!" to help the children remember.
The students experimented with using different materials to create patterns. Plastic teddy bears and unifix cubes were used to make various repeating patterns.
Two new centres this week were the water table (where children experiment with different containers, scooping and pouring water) and sewing cards (where the students exercise the small muscles in their fingers and pracise eye-hand coordination).
The class practised the poem "5 Little Pumpkins" using the pumpkins puppets they made. A copy of the poem was sent home for your child to read with you.
On Friday, there was a Halloween parade in the morning and the afternoon for the students to not only show off their costumes but also see the costumes of the other students in our school. We had a class party where the children frosted and decorated cupcakes.
The read aloud books for this week are listed at our companion blog at:
http://planet5books.blogspot.com/
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