This morning we started with morning exploration. We had a guest visitor, Mr. G, who did some building with some of us in the block area. Some of us worked on tracing and cutting out big mittens. After, Mr. G taught us a French song, Alouette (larch). He played it on his guitar. He also let us all have a turn strumming, ask questions and he played a few different tunes for us to sing and dance along. This was very exciting. After outdoor play and snack, we came in for Brain Gym and a new activity we will be adding on to this time everyday: Morning Message. Madame had left us a message on the board. We worked together to underline words we knew and then letters too. We worked on reading the message together. We noticed that the spaces let us know when a word is starting or ending. To go along with our snowflake and winter theme, we then watched the video of the song 'do you want to build a snowman' from Frozen in French!!! We paused and talked about vocabulary it was great! A lot of fun to follow a song we already know in French and be able to relate what is going on by hearing words we already understand and use in French. We then when and visited the computer lab with Mme Sunny. We came back for Calendar and some rhymes and letter chants. After lunch and outdoor play, we had a visit from Paul et Suzanne. We then had quiet literacy choice time. The next hour was spent rotation through six different hands on math play stations. We had...
-Rolling a die and having to print the number on a mini whiteboard
-Picking a number card and then creating the ten frame visual of that number using counter objects
-Making numbers and ten frame pieces out of playdough
-Patterning using wooden blocks and mini tree pieces
-Patterning using translucent blocks on the light table
-Using shapes to create designs and patterns on the light table.
I am so impressed with these children, they were engaged and enjoying the stations for an hour! This was fantastic! We did about 10 minutes in each station, and then rotated through all of them working in groups of 3 friends.
We ended the day with the 'Let it go' video in French, 'Liberer' ...very fun once again to hear a well known song, follow along with the video in French!
here is the link to the French frozen songs on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQP9XZc2Y_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QAXFudxqRM
-Rolling a die and having to print the number on a mini whiteboard
-Picking a number card and then creating the ten frame visual of that number using counter objects
-Making numbers and ten frame pieces out of playdough
-Patterning using wooden blocks and mini tree pieces
-Patterning using translucent blocks on the light table
-Using shapes to create designs and patterns on the light table.
I am so impressed with these children, they were engaged and enjoying the stations for an hour! This was fantastic! We did about 10 minutes in each station, and then rotated through all of them working in groups of 3 friends.
We ended the day with the 'Let it go' video in French, 'Liberer' ...very fun once again to hear a well known song, follow along with the video in French!
here is the link to the French frozen songs on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQP9XZc2Y_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QAXFudxqRM