Piggy Pen

On Friday, we mixed red and yellow to make orange for what will become a bumpy little pumpkin.

 

We also spent time in our Piggy Pen holding and petting two of our class pets.

October Words

Here are our October vocabulary words:

Halloween Songs

We are getting right into the Halloween swing!  We learned about a cool song called 'C'est l'halloween' by Matt Maxwell.  I am posting it here so that you and your child can listen to it together at home.




We also acted out the following song in a dark corner of our classroom.  The kids really enjoyed it.

Nest Assembly

We had our first Nest assembly today.  We get split into mixed-grade level groups so that we can make new friends of all ages.  Then we do cool stuff to get to know one another.  Today, we learned about how to choose appropriate recess games.

Hard Work!

This week, we started our Halloween centres:

Pumpkin floor puzzle

 POKEY PINS!!  
 These are my FAVOURITE way to work on fine-motor skills. The kids use a pushpin to poke holes in a shape (we did a jack-o’-lantern). When they peel off the top paper and hold their image up to the light, they can see the picture that they created with their holes. It is an especially effective way of strengthening the same muscles that they use to hold a pencil

Acrylic beads on mirrors (patterning, fine motor)

Jack-o’-lantern faces on playdough 

Directed drawing
  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. Here are some shots of us drawing in our writing/sketch journals. 

Bus Ridership And More Guinea Pig Fun

We took Violette out of her cage yesterday and pet her.  We can't wait to play with her in the Piggy Pen.

We also had bus ridership.  We learned all about bus rules and practiced our emergency exit through the back door.

We finally got around to celebrating the last of our colour days with this ’ARC-EN-CIEL’ race. We had a rainbow relay race to practice our colours. The kids had to run with a spoon to collect five colours of Skittles and balance them as they ran back as quickly as possible. It was very difficult and very fun. My favourite part was when the kids cheered for each other every time ("Go Xander and Julia! Go Xander and Julia!!"). It warmed my heart.

BONUS PIC: Check out these cuties with their cool creation!