Welcome to a new week in Kindergarten! Today was our 10th day of school. We started off the day, as usual, with our gym class. We're still working on different ways to move by varying our bodies, effort, speed, and space that we're moving within. We returned to our classroom for our morning calendar meeting. I introduced some changes to our daily schedule. To incorporate a longer, uninterrupted free play time during our day we're now that time after lunch recess. Since I told them that the change meant that they get to play longer, I think they were all okay with it. :)
So, with that change, after snack we went right into math. I showed them some photos of themselves creating patterns that I printed during the weekend. They're now posted on our math bulletin board. Then, we did a game of "Is it a pattern?", working with different colour patterns that I created. Then, students had a choice of using snap cubes or bears to create a pattern and then represent/re-create it on paper.
When we were finished, most of the students wanted to keep making different types of patterns.
After recess we finished up our math work and then went into Science. Today was all about the sense of smell! I filled 8 small containers with cotton balls that all had a different smell added to them. Students were to use their sense of smell to try and guess what the item was! I had oranges, strawberries, lemon, coffee, peppermint, onion, banana, and vanilla. Someone had pickles in their lunch kit today~ pickle juice would have been a good one too!
I didn't get any photos of this activity in actions, but the above photo is what the containers looked like. Old film containers with holes poked into the lids would work really well for this activity.
Afterwards, students had to think of their favourite smell and represent it in their 5 senses booklet. Those who were feeling ready to give it a try also completed the sentence "I smell with my nose" by printing the words "smell" and "nose", which were modelled on the SmartBoard.
After lunch we had our free choice time. The two biggest hits were the farm toys and playdough.
Check out the road that was made for the farmers!
Today was the first time that they realized that we have playdough in our classroom.
They were very excited!
After last recess, our entire school joined together in the gym for a Raider of the Month Assembly. The grade 5/6 classroom shared some videos about self esteem and some words that that they chose to complete the sentence "I am..." Then they handed out their words to someone in the crowd who they felt also exuded those qualities. We were treated to some SRC fundraising and sports news, October birthdays were celebrated, and then the Raider of the Month presentations were completed. One student is chosen from each grade grouping (elementary, middle years, highschool) who stands out through their efforts, whether it is through academics, extra curr, and/or putting our school core values into action. Oh yes, and a new addition to our birthday celebrations is that each student gets to choose a book as a gift!
Our day was rounded off with some singing and dancing before it was time to stack chairs and pack up. We anticipated the assembly being a bit longer, so we actually had our talking circle in between our math and science classes. We focused more on sharing the best part of our weekend.
They day seemed to fly by! I am sure Wednesday will be here before we know it. :)
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