Tuneful Tuesday!

No guitar today - we all had a chance to play instruments!

Ask your child to sing our new song. It is called "I like to play the sticks."

We tried something new to solve our 'corner' issue with making shapes with string.

We tried working together with multiple strings.

Not only are we learning about shapes, but we are also learning about teamwork! and co-operative learning!

We will keep working on how we can work with others to accomplish a job together.

We read another version of Rapunzel today.

We talked about how some things are the same as yesterday's story and some things are different.

We are starting to understand that people can have different versions of the same story. This can apply to real life too. You can have different perspectives on the same story.

We are taking turns building Rapunzel's tower.

Happy Monday! Our fairy tale for this week is Rapunzel.

Ask your child what they remember about the story.

Hint: "Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your hair."

Our sound of the week is /h/

In honour of /h/ week we learned hw to do a Butterfly Hug for Mindful Monday

This calming exercise uses the technique of cross-body tapping or bilateral stimulation which can help to restore calm. Perhaps try this at home too. It is always best to practice calming techniques when we are NOT escalated and that way we are well practiced and able to employ the techniques if we do become escalated.

Our math focus is 2-dimentional shapes.

We explored making shapes with string.

Shapes like triangles and rectangles have corners. We noticed that it was difficult to make corners with one piece of string. We will try to solve this problem tomorrow.

This morning I was over the moon! Usually I read the morning message first and then we take a closer look at the letters and words together. After that we all read it together.

This morning the kiddos were able to work together to decode the whole morning message right from the start! Amazing!

The we did some acting. We picked a character from the Three Little Pigs and pretended we were that character. Our classmates guessed who we were.

 We have been playing the "Snowman" game. (some of you may know it as Hangman) 

This is a fun game you can play at home!

We are finding all of the /s/ words in this picture.

How many /s/ words can you find with your child?

Today we started some learning around mapping. This type of mapping is a good early coding skill.

We used the storyline of The Three Little Pigs and used directional arrows to create the map of the story

We read another version of The Three Little Pigs.

This one has a different ending! The wolf decided he didn't like playing out the traditional ending of the story and suggested they all become friends!

We are using play-doh for fine motor skills and  to practice letter formation.
 

 Tuneful Tuesday!

We have been working on the word concept of rhyme for the last little while now. One of the songs we use to support this is "Down by the Bay."

Perhaps you can sing this song at home too and practice rhyming!

Three Little Pigs Week Continues!

Today we read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs as told by A. Wolf.

According to this story - we got it all wrong yesterday! The wolf just needed a cup of sugar and had a bad case of the sneezes! He's not the bad guy everyone makes him out to be!

We started learning about hearing all sides of the story before we know what really happened.

We are thinking about what we would make a house out of if we could.

"I would make my house out of flowers and hearts."

We are drawing snowmen for /s/ week

Welcome back! I trust everyone had a chance to rest and rejuvenate over the break.

Our sound of the week is /s/

In honour of our sound of the week for Mindful Monday we learned how to do a snowball breath.

We are starting a new learning inquiry based on fairy tales. We will be learning about what a fairy tale is and we will also use fairy tales to learn that there are many sides or perspectives to a story. This is true in stories and in real life. It is good to consider all sides or perspectives and learn that different people see things in different ways and that is ok. Each week we will learn through a different tale.

This week we start with the Three Little Pigs.

We read the traditional story of the Three Little Pigs. Through the week we will read different versions of the classic story.

Perhaps ask your child what materials the pigs made houses from and was that a wise choice?

Also - who is the "bad guy" in this story?