One of our JK’s wanted to conduct a sink or float experiential in one of the many puddles

when we added sand (and drew a large crowd) the boat sant

counting how many times this student and Ms. Caietta could jump around the rope

making music and exploring sound with paintbrushes

one of our JK’s conducting a survery

writing my own recipe for chocolate chip cookies

we were proud of our tractor trailor

taking a closer look at my drawing with a magnifying glass

using tongs to get the pom-poms out of the basket between string

making two different patterns in my necklace

a well thought out highway

practising my name on the easle

giving my baby a bath before bed

hello under there- fun with the parachute

we decided we wanted a microwave in our dramatic centre- we decided to paint it blakc

putting the numbers on our toaster

“I made two kinds of cupcakes, vanilla and chocolate”

ordering some dinner for me and my friends

helping my friend put his astronaut suit on

orbiting the sun in the gym

working on a puzzle

morning routine- class sign in

JK boys signing in

sorting letters by lines and curves

painting planets for our solar system

making our own books about planets

” J, J, Jupiter starts with the same letter as me!”

smelling/looking at the reaction for our rocket experiment

with the magnifying glass we could see the bubbles still fizzing

painting our own rockets

walking in the hall with my jet pack on ( I just shared my book with Mrs. Moore)

learning about balance

making muffins on PJ day

vacuuming our floors

Our muffins are cooled and ready to eat!

writing a list of ingredients for the oatmeal chocolate chip muffins

pouring in the blueberry muffin mix

writing my book

colouring in Jupiter

exploring items at the “Little Eagles” presentation

trying the items out

“We sorted all the colours and put them in circles”
“Blue has the most”

Working on some more paper mache planets; our solar system is almost complete!

Reading my finished book to the class

we wondered what might happen if we put real salt on our icy driveways- so we did a little experiment to find out! Salt melted the ice the fastest.

making tracks in the “snow”

shoveling the “snow” from our driveways

working as a team, deciding what colour to use for our drawing

copying the letter . “p” and it’s picture from our Jolly Phonics poster

adding signs to our train station

cutting out more letters for our letter mural- great fine motor practice!

painting some of the plants and sun we made

My robot is complete!

measuring the legs of my friends robot so that they will be the same size

Front cover of my book is complete

“I’m changing the plans for the spaceship”

“This is where the battery pack goes for my robot.”

I made a plan for my robot,, gathered the materials and now I’m ready to build!

working on the front cover of my book, “Learning About Planets”

adding some matching letters to our letter mural

Early this week we made our own movie theatre

making seats for our theatre out of big blocks

lining up to buy snacks at the movie theatre

we practiced adding and counting when we bought our tickets and paid for our snacks

reading the snack menu while waiting in line

sitting in the seats we made

playing with different ways to illustrate numbers

testing out objects (shapes) in our classroom to determine which rolled the farthest

this 3D shape (cylinder) rolled really far

The children decided to create a skating rink in our classeoom

skating as a group in a circle

after watching some olympic events on the Smart Board some of our students re-enacted some of the moves they saw

Balancing on an edge on, “my snowboard”

Checking out a book about plants and space

getting a really close look with our magnifying glasses

check out the plan we made for our spaceship in the backround

adding extra details to our plan, then we added the same detail to our ship

We decided to call our spaceship “FireFlew”

We decided to add extra detail to the back, so first we created our plan on the easel

Showing our understanding of “respect” – a follow up from our Erroll Lee concert

decorating for our Holiday Concert

“I made Christmas cookies.” How many do you count?

“I cut mine in to equal pieces.”

testing out the ramp we built

writing a note for Santa

roasting marshmallows over the fire

One of our SK students wrote this by themselves 🙂

getting our movie theatre set up

creating our own robots after learning about the letter ‘r’

playing teacher and working on some reading comprehension

exploring the balance of structures…. trying to figure out why this one keeps falling over

sorting the mail at our class post office

writing the number four on the button to our surprise house

very focused when engaging in this fire truck puzzle

writing a list of supplies needed for our “Wolmrt”

exploring some 3D shapes

Shape art- naming the shapes used to create this rocketship

more shape art

exploring balance while building this structure using many different shapes

great fine motor practise cutting out “food for our movie theatre”

“I’m making ice cream, three scoops for the movie”

Watching the first snowfall! Here’s some of the things we said:
“YAY! That means it’s almost Christmas!”
“It’s actually real snow, you know.”

writing my name on the picture I’m drawing

Our Walmart is busy today! Lots of people going home to make a “family dinner”

I created my own candy cane and it’s a pattern… can you name the pattern?

matching the letters in the alphabet

going shopping at Walmart with Mrs. LeBlanc

Look what I made!

Do you know this sight word?

“Look first it’s a capital ‘T'”

“Then I unfold it and it’s a lowercase ‘t'”

“Just going to work, I have to turn on my computer at my desk”

Baking away

Our dentist office is busy today

the dental hygienist is taking a look at my teeth

reading a book in the waiting room

our secretary checking in another patient

Taking a look at my teeth- what did we see?

passing around a toothpaste tube- what did it smell like?

learning some of the ways we take care of our teeth

I used magnetic letters and traced them to create the beginning of the alphabet

I drew a picture of me making a snowman and then made a sentence to explain it.

Following the words with my finger!

Following the words in my book with my finger!

Great reading!

A list of site words I can spell

Charlotte is a dairy farmer who came to visit us and teach us about milk! We are using the Smart Board to attach the milk machine to the utters

Making my own “Very Hungry Caterpillar” after discovering caterpillars outside and reading a book about caterpillars.

“We made the number 1”

Doing some writing so that I can hang my work on our “Share Wall”

Using environmental print to help spell a word for my own book!

“A caterpillar ate this leaf because it has a hole in it.”

Digging for more caterpillars!

Learning how to care for our caterpillars- cleaning out their shelter

All clean!

“I’ve been training to cut circles”

Gluing our menu to our drive thru board for our McDonald’s.

Creating bags with the letter “m” for the ‘grow up meals”

There was a lot of hungry customers!

Getting a closer look

We think we found another!

We had so many caterpillars and wanted to give them more space. We also learned they needed to hang from something to be able to make a cocoon, so we decided to make a bigger shelter for them. We are excited to see what happens!

Our class McDonald’s..look at all that writing/signs!

Our drive thru sign is complete, we are now open!

Relaying the drive thru orders to the cook

Sitting down to enjoy some lunch

Just stopping in for a quick drink

Working together to complete a very difficult puzzle. This has taken almost one whole week, but we are very close to finishing!

I made the letter “I” and a cell phone (look at those numbers!)

“I made a pyramid!”

Almost there

Painting! This was a very busy activity throughout the day

Math: Sorting out colours

Creating a “fall colour” by mixing colours – this was part of our first inquiry

“I want to do my whole hand”

“I’m swishing mine together”

Experimenting with a foam brush

Working together to finish this Disney puzzle

More chalk blocks

Chalk blocks

Admiring our hard work

practicing writing my name with the chalk

Tracing wooden letters- what letter is this?

Tracing letters in my name

The first letter of her name starts with “M”

Making a card for my mom and dad

Working together to build a rock tower outside

“I found a ladybug!”

Looking for caterpillars

“Look what I found!”

Sorting leaves from our leaf hunt. We noticed the leaves changing outside and wanted to investigate more.

More leaf sorting

We made a “rectangular prism”

Testing out the ramp we built

Baking cupcakes

Cutting my playdough in to equal size pieces

We found a caterpillar outside! This prompted us to read a story about the caterpillar we found. Then we wanted to make our own caterpillars

gluing down my caterpillar body

lots of creative processes happening in this photo

Having fun exploring numbers on our cash register!

Lots of creative things happening here!

Making a list so I can make invitations to our dinner party

“hmm, what do we have in the fridge?”

Making the cupcakes for our diner party

“I’m cutting the fruit”

Literacy/Social: “My name starts with this letter!” Do you know what this letter is?

Exploring colour!

Fine motor- cutting lots of little pieces

cutting the wood for our storm shelter

Making a shelter from the storm that was coming outside

Some of our friends really wanted to paint the storm that was expected to fall yesterday! This was the start of the tornado (more pictures of the finished product to come!)

Whose name starts with “k”?

Letters out in nature- there are lots of letters here!

Letters out in nature- what is this letter?

Letters out in nature- what is this letter?

Our SK’s are picking up right where we left off last year- look at that number sentence

Calling someone to come over for dinner

Cooking my food in my the oven, while my friends wait

Social/Emotional: Working together to build a tower and enjoying a good laugh

“Who wants to buy some food?!”

Going shopping so we have food for the restaurant

Checking out some new books

Fine motor/Social- Exploring some of our play dough tools

Fine motor/math/science: stacking and un-stacking my tower of blocks. What shapes can you see?

Math (2D-3D representation)Social:
“I drew my plans for my igloo, now I need someone to help me build it with the big blocks”

Taking a little break to relax and read/look at some books

Dramatic Play- Turning on the oven so I can bake my muffins

Trying out some cookie cutter shapes!

Social: Working together to build our rail road track

The pizza store is still a big hit! We all took turns ordering and being the cashier

Math- creating equal lines and sorting by colour

Literacy: Making a sign for the pizza store that says “Opened/Closed”

Social/Emotional, Literacy/Fine Motor: Hanging up their signs for the “Pizza Pizza” store

Social/Emotional/Dramatic Play/ Numeracy: Some customers ordered pizza and came to pick up their order

conducting a survey using – I made a t chart

using manipulatives to create math sentences

numbers all the way to 11

look at this math sentence!

“I like thunderstorms!” – getting excited because we heard we were going to have a storm today

just fishing on the lake with my buddy

I wanted to add some rain and dark clouds

adding some spring decor to our window while we had a discussion about different shades of the same colour

adding some extra detail

another survey- helping out a friend by writing the question for her survey

Do you like fishing? Yes or No

setting up our campfire and getting out our snacks

calling my friend to see if he wants to go camping

cooking up the fish that everyone caught today

Working together to add details to our “child” outline.

Mixing green and white to make light green (4 green and 6 white)

painting our “adult/grandma” outline

This is our “Teenager”

“Teenagers sometimes paint their fingers”

” I made a calendar all the way to 100!”

using cotton balls for hair

mixing black and white to make grey

adding in some sparkles to make her hair “shine”

lowercase letter Bingo

birthday cupcakes and invitations, look at all that wonderful writing, and use of our word wall words and name cards!

Acting out and signing a song about the life cycle of a chicken in music

surfboarding in the ocean

Oh no! “Beach Closed: Hammer Heads in the water”

Starting our human life cycle project with the baby. Mixing colours too, experimenting with skin tone (addition)

Mixing 6 globs of white with 3 globs of purple made this violet colour for the baby’s clothes

Painting away, taking turns and providing nice compliments while working together to finish this part of the project

putting our human life cycle in order: baby, child, teenager, adult

next comes the child

lots of creativity happening at this table

stamping numbers in to playdough

would you like to try my cupcakes?

this toy is 4 Lego pieces long

The remote control for our house

a lap top for our house too

“I love you, mom”

I made a plus sign, just like Gus!

sensory fun

working on drawing bubble letters

more bubble letter names

making a sign for Easter

Happy Easter, everyone!

I made a pattern with the bean bags, red, green, red, green.
How else could we describe that pattern?

a big game of hop-scotch

practicing my name with chalk

just having some dinner with my friends

two friends worked together to make this Easter basket

this is my Easter egg hunt map

Easter materials to explore and create with

Easter fun

decorating my egg

concentrating and adding lots of detail

decorating our Easter bags

dying our eggs

“ta-da!”

going fishing in the lake

building our house- can you see our porch?

this is our door to our house

I made my own t chart to do a survey- do you like monkeys?

Some of our Jk’s during guided reading!

more JK reading!

doing some math outside playing hop-scotch

writing lots of numbers

Social Skills: Working together, turn taking and sharing ideas when decorating our “Fred C. Cook Theatre” sign.

sign for our popcorn snack

more signs, discussing what to add on

“coming soon…Frozen”

making a sign for tickets so we know where to buy them

Literacy and math opportunity- “juice for $1.00”

busy making money

teamwork creating our snack sign

a sign for the hall to let everyone know where the movie took place

putting up my “Frozen” poster

I put a lot of detail in my poster

my sign to announce what movie was showing in the theatre

our “coming soon” feature wall complete with movie posters

our movie theatre entrance

first we need to buy our tickets

this is our snack stand

buying our snack and adding our total ($4.00 for cookies + $1.00 for juice= $5.00)

pick up your snack at the snack stand

enjoying the show

Hard at work painting our Lego fire truck

We are very proud of all the great printing/writing happening in our class!

Writing about my fish

More sticky dot writing

alphabet bingo -“Who has the letter ‘y?”

Trying out the skates I made! Check out my orange laces.

making a menu for our restaurant

we serve lollipops at our restaurant

Finished product- one of the pigs from our Jillian Jiggs book!

I made a new name tag for my cubby

I wrote the whole alphabet on the computer!

constructing our house out of boxes

having fun exploring with paint

adding curtains to our house

the base for my house is a cube

creating a “monster”

Adding food for to my “dog house”

lots of printing happening in our room

building our math trains

measuring

We are learning “math rules”. Which one doesn’t belong and why?

learning two sentence, sticky dot writing

deciding which shade of blue to use to make my sky with the help of paint chips

recreating the palm trees I saw in Florida

Enjoying our new listening centre

sharing the books

reading along

Outdoor leaning

Hop on the bus

catching bean bags

working together

I made the C.N. Tower

making dinosaur fossils

making `alphabet pies`

slow and steady on our bridge

making monster masks like `Jillian Jiggs`

Wearing pink to support Anti-Bullying Day!

This is the book that the ‘Power to Change Committee’ read to our class

Looking at my friend and talking about how we are different

Our follow up activity: Drawing pictures of ourselves with the mirrors to see how we are different/the same

Writing names on the whiteboard

Practicing writing numbers while keeping score of our hockey game

One of the other classes is learning about space, we thought it looked neat so we wanted to investigate more with the help of our Smart Board

Wow! Chris Hadfield is floating in space! We thought this was really neat.
Do you remember why we float in space but not on earth?

Learning to count, take turns and self-regulate with a board game

What kind of pattern is this?

More patterns!

Practising my fine motor skills

This is where our inquiries come from….looks like some new ideas are forming! Stay tuned!

Our city started with some parking spots

Making a sign to sell my Christmas trees

All done and ready to sell!

Our city is growing!

Making signs for our parking garage

Two new houses were built in our city today

Look at all the detail that’s gone in to making our city

playing math games on the computers in the library

using magnetic letters to spell my name

painting with foam rollers

painting with our cars

stamping with sponges to make bricks and create the start of our ‘Wonder Wall’

mural painting with different tools

we’re going fishing

waiting for someone to come buy a pet

Working hard on my book cover

Writing grandma a note

Making our own books

The illustrators working hard

Numbers, numbers everywhere! What numbers do you see?

Letter stamping

More straw connector creations! This time it’s the letter ‘p’. What sound does the letter ‘p’ make?

2D and 3D shape necklace…which shapes can you see?

Now that we’ve transferred the water I can add my fish

Experimenting with shapes and colours at the easel

Shapes from straw connectors…can you name this shape?

Some of the children used this book from our reading area and started baking

Transferring water in between two bowls…lots of math language happening here!

Playing with the smart board.

3 different size “gummy cars”; small, medium and large

I spy 2 shapes, do you know what they are called?

Using the calendar to help write the date on my invitation for our class chocolate party

We are learning to recycle. What bin does an apple go in?

We had a visitor…he felt fuzzy

Using different shapes to make a picture. What kinds of shapes do you see?

More shapes on the geoboard

Filling out my patient form so I can see the doctor

We had fun decorating our dramatic area for the holidays

Making a bag of ‘dog food’ to sell at our pet shop

Writing on white boards

The letter ‘t’ makes this sound…

Can you spot the pattern?