Orange Shirt Day

We will be observing Orange Shirt day tomorrow.  We will talk about everything in a very kid friendly way.  Every Child Matters!

Harvest

We were very lucky this week in that we went out to the school garden and helped to harvest some of the vegetables.  Before going to the garden I asked the children what they thought the word harvest meant.  Some of the children answered, "Pulling things from the ground." or "Taking the food from farmers for the animals."  others were a little more confused and gave answers like "Puppies" or "Eating cookies."  We talked about all the different things that you can harvest and that the word harvest starts with the letter 'H'.  We went on to learn the letter sound for 'H' and created our very first journal entry that was . . . a hippo.

The different leaves from the vegetables.

Look at the big onion.

Wow!  Look at those carrots!

I got a beet.

After these fun activities we used carrot tops and some sand to create both an uppercase and lowercase 'H'.  We also created lists as a class of words that start with the letter 'H'.

Lines, lines, lines

 We have talked about different types of lines and named them all.

 Then we practiced them using markers.

Then we used paint and made a large group painting.

Busy Start to the Year

Here in Kindergarten we have been very busy.  We have been working on learning the classroom rules, where everything is and the names of some of the new people in our class.  Some of the children are becoming amazing at figuring out when snack is as they look at the daily schedule.  We have learnt about different lines that we use when trying to print and some of them have been a little tricky.  We have also been cutting and glueing and exploring the classroom.