Volleyball

We have been learning some of the different skills that we would use to play a game of volleyball.  We focused on setting and bumping.  The triangle protects our face.  We also talked about how to stand properly.  To end it off we had a game of volleyball using balloons as they are much easier for us to get over the net.

Apple Boats and More

One of the things that the children wanted to figure out is can you make an apple boat.  We started by figuring out if apples float.  Which they do.  Then we put in the apple and tried to put one bear on top.  It did not stay it rolled into the water.  Then one of the students said that maybe it was because it was not flat.  So we cut of the top.

 Then we moved on to the tasting of things we can make with apples.  The morning class was sure you could make applesauce and apple chips (we did not have time for the chips) and the afternoon worked on apple pie and gluten free apple crisp.  We used an apple peeler, corer, slicer to make this work fly by.

Then on to the best part.  The tasting.  Each student was allowed to have two spoons full of something they wanted to try.  There was not very many children that did not like what they tried.  Baking and cooking was the highlight of the week.

Beginning Letter Sounds

Letter and letter sounds are very important when are first starting out for reading and writing.  We have been playing games and singing songs to try and help us learn the different letters that each sound makes.

The first letter in mirror is . . . . m and it say mmmm!

The first letter in jewels is . . . . j

Number Work

We have been working hard to write our numerals (1 to 10) with different count the room activities.  Now we are working on matching the numerals with their quantity.  Some of us do it quickly and some of us try to do it in unique ways.

Apples, apples, apples

We talked about some of our assumptions about apples and we found out some of them were correct and some of them were not.  Apples do float.  They come in many different colours and we can eat them.  Today we found out the apple cycle from seed to apple.  It takes three to five years to get an apple from an apple tree.  An apple seed from one apple grows a different apple.  They start out as tiny things called fruitlets.

Apple Schema

We have started to learn about apples.  We started in both classes by creating a poster of a large apple.  We then put all the things we think we know on our apple schema paper.

That happened yesterday.  I noticed that some of the children believed that apples would sink and others believed they would float.  We started by placing our name in one of the columns.  Then on to our first experiment.  

 








When we did this experiment we tried it with three different types of apples.  (Granny Smith, Golden Delicious and MacIntosh).  Each child was able to choose one apple and place it in the water.  Wow!  Look all of the apples no matter what colour floated.


Then we looked at the different characteristics of each apple.  What makes each of them special and unique.

Then on to experiment number two.  The taste test and graphing the apples we liked the best.

Cobb's Corn Maze

This full day adventure was enjoyed by all of the children.  In the morning we started out with some programming.  We were able to some Gem Stone Mining.  With this activity the children used a tray to wash away the sand and there were some rocks that they were able to take home.

We heard about the three pot belly pigs.  The two male ones need to go on a diet (they said it not me).  They were Babe, Kevin Bacon and Wilbur (I think!)

Then we were able to pick out our very own mini pumpkin and go on a tractor/train ride.

After all of our work was done we ate lunch.  Then it was time to experience the many other things that there were to do: bouncy castles, big slides, rope maze, bean bag toss, etc.  The children were worn out by the time we had to leave to go back to school on the bus.

Number Hunting

We are working on recogniszing the numbers one to ten and counting one to one.  I had the children try and walk around the room and circle the correct number of items on the paper.  It is like an activity called write the room only this time we were circling the numbers.  The morning class chose to work by themselves and the afternoon class worked in partners.

Field Trip to Bowness Park

We had a great day at Bowness Park on Monday.  We had a lot of activities to do while we were there. 

Activity One:  Look around the environment and find signs of the season changing.  We then used a colour card to match different things they found in the environment.

Activity Two:  We explored trying to be creative to make pictures out of found things.  We used a black laminated piece of paper and then gathered rocks, leaves and other things.  Here are some of the pictures the children made.

Activity Three:  We also laid down on the ground and closed our eyes.  Then we listened to the different sounds.  Some of us heard the leaves moving on the trees, cars, children, airplanes and the different vehicles.

Activity Four:  Tracing your friend and then trying to do hopscotch in different ways.

Activity Five: Using a frame the children were asked to try and draw what they can see in the environment.

Activity Six:  Gather different items form the environment for us to bring back and explore.  We also found things that matched different words like soft, hard, cold etc.

More with 'T'

When working with the letter 't' I asked the children to come up to the board where I had written some letters and circle the 't'.  Some were uppercase and others were lowercase.  They did a really great job.  After practicing the 't' sound one more time we created word list.  We often hear the 't' at the end of words that became a little tricky but we all worked hard.

Sorry some of the drawings are not the best.

The letter 'T'

This week we focused on the letter 'T'.  We sang a song to remind us of the sounds that the letter t makes.  We then created turkeys using multiple steps.  It was a little tricky but we all did our very best.

Can you find your child's turkey?  Ask them for help.  We then went on to talk about things that we may be thankful for because of Thanksgiving.  Some of the children sat and thought for a very long time.  Some of the answers were:  my family, love, lots of food, my big bed, trees to make oxygen for us to breath.