Shapes!!! Jan. 13-16

 

Last week's popcorn word of the week- "like". Everyday the word is used in a shared writing activity. The special me of the day comes up with the sentence.

 

 

 

This week we have started learning all about 2D shapes and 3D figures. We will continue with this over the next several weeks. Naming, sorting, describing and comparing.

 

For guided reading we have started focussing on comprehension skills- retelling the story in sequence and making connections to other books or our own lives. Eg., "this story makes me think of..."  

 

Shape finders- looking for 2D shapes around the classroom.

 

Building with 3D figures- exploring properties. Do they stack? Do they roll?

"The sphere won't stay on the top".

 

"I found a circle".

 

"Mat man is a rectangle"

 

Building castles.

 

This week's popcorn word of the week is "in".

There are many popcorn words in this sentence- "I, like, to, go, in".

That's the thing about popcorn words the POP up all the time!

FYI- Upcoming EDI assessment for SK students

Information for Parents of children in Senior Kindergarten,

 

A letter will be sent home giving you information about the EDI [Early Development Instrument]. This is an assessment that is done every 3 years in Senior Kindergarten classrooms across the province. Your child's teacher will assess how ready your child is to learn at school. A child’s readiness to learn is considered in 5 areas: their physical health, emotional maturity, communication, language and thinking, and their social skills.  The information is used by the Ministry of Education and by Public Health Units to inform programming and strategies to support young children to learn. It is up to you whether or not your child gets assessed. We are asking that you watch for the letter and if, after reading it, you want something explained or you have any questions or concerns, please contact your child’s teacher or any of the contact names on the letter that is coming home in January.  We want you to have all the information you need to make an informed choice about your child's participation.

 

Thanks,

 

-Brenda

 

 

Brenda Blancher

Superintendent of Education

Grand Erie District School Board

519-756-6306 ext. 281153

 

Grand Erie District School Board

Growing Excellence … Inspiring Success

Visit: www.granderie.ca

Welcome Back!!! January 5-9

Working together to build a hot wheels city.

 

Coloring mittens to make them symmetrical (both sides are the same).

 

Random number recognition and counting.

 

Sequencing different sized mittens from small to big.

 

Letter stamps, recognising random letters and their corresponding sounds.

 

Snowflake patterns... red blue red white blue... Wow! Tricky.

 

Symmetrical mittens. 

 

Art lessons! Future teacher in the making.

 

Coloring little books. Beginning readers.

 

Letter stamps.

 

More art lessons...

 

More patterns.

 

Patterning mittens- small big.

 

Recognising numbers from 6-12.

 

Sorting by colour- Which group has the most? Blue

 

Guided reading- discussing punctuation marks, counting words on the page, looking at beginning sounds to identify unknown words with the help of picture cues too. They are doing very well as beginning readers!

Felt letters- lining them up to make sure they are all the right way and not upside down.

 

Finding the letters to spell their names.

A few more...for christmas fun!

 

Count and clip the right number.

 

Measuring the carpet with penguin feet...

Christmas fun!

 

Writing letters to Santa with the help of our reading buddies.

 

Roll and graph Christmas items.

 

Bingo Dabber snowman, add the right number of snowballs for each snowman.

 

Count and ADD snowflakes!

 

Patterning beads to make candy cane ornaments.

 

Christmas play doh mats.

 

Using penguin feet to measure items around the room.

 

Count and match the correct number of marshmallows in each cup of hot chocolate...

 

Decorating Gingerbread cookies this morning, after carolling.

December 1-5

 

Using Hershey kisses to estimate and measure.

 

Sequencing strips of paper (long to short) to make Christmas trees.

 

 

Counting and matching snowflakes to the numbers on the trees.

 

Printing the number 9.

 

Learning about symmetry- when two sides are exactly the same.

 

How high can you go before it falls down?