We have been busy learning about patterning with 2 or 3 objects. We have been using art, blocks, math counters, buttons, bells, corks, crystals, gems, paint, anything really to create patterns. We even used the lazy 8 pattern to create beautiful patterns! We are currently working on a snowman art project, and the background is stripes...and you guessed it, it's a pattern of two colours. Playing with patterns is a great way for the children to be excited about math.
We've been busy drawing big, bright and beautiful pictures of where Neige, our elf, is everyday. We are talking about how a picture tells a story. We have also been looking at how a picture is more interesting to a viewer if their are multiple colours used to add details and differentiate between objects. Our goal when drawing the pictures is to label the elf with his name, to use at least 5 colours and to use the whole page.
In the gym we learned a few new cooperative movement games. Most of our gym is done in English because it is along with the other kindergarten classes. We have learned: Pirates, Coral Reef and Clean my house. Pirates is a movement game where we get to act as pirates, running, swimming, searching for treasure, walking the plank, riding the waves and talking to a parrot. Coral Reef is a running game, and then when the sharks come out everyone had to stand in a hula hoop...as the game continues we start to take away hula hoops so the children must work in teams to fit groups in to the hula hoops! Clean my house is a team game, where the children practice their throwing skills. We have talked about throwing posture and technique. We then make two houses and the entire time the children have to clean their house by throwing the balls in to the team's house.
We have also been doing some brainstorming about what we would see if we went outside for a nature walk. Yesterday we talked about what we would touch if we went out for a nature walk. This week we will continue to do the senses and then doing a writing/drawing activity on what we might find. We will work on some labeling with word letter sounds and writing depending on the child. Remember, writing at this age is even just making marks that might resemble writing to a five year old. It is all writing and we must remember to celebrate it!
We've been busy drawing big, bright and beautiful pictures of where Neige, our elf, is everyday. We are talking about how a picture tells a story. We have also been looking at how a picture is more interesting to a viewer if their are multiple colours used to add details and differentiate between objects. Our goal when drawing the pictures is to label the elf with his name, to use at least 5 colours and to use the whole page.
In the gym we learned a few new cooperative movement games. Most of our gym is done in English because it is along with the other kindergarten classes. We have learned: Pirates, Coral Reef and Clean my house. Pirates is a movement game where we get to act as pirates, running, swimming, searching for treasure, walking the plank, riding the waves and talking to a parrot. Coral Reef is a running game, and then when the sharks come out everyone had to stand in a hula hoop...as the game continues we start to take away hula hoops so the children must work in teams to fit groups in to the hula hoops! Clean my house is a team game, where the children practice their throwing skills. We have talked about throwing posture and technique. We then make two houses and the entire time the children have to clean their house by throwing the balls in to the team's house.
We have also been doing some brainstorming about what we would see if we went outside for a nature walk. Yesterday we talked about what we would touch if we went out for a nature walk. This week we will continue to do the senses and then doing a writing/drawing activity on what we might find. We will work on some labeling with word letter sounds and writing depending on the child. Remember, writing at this age is even just making marks that might resemble writing to a five year old. It is all writing and we must remember to celebrate it!