Hearts!

This week we have been focusing on kindness and friendship .
We are having fun being Kindness Ninjas!

We are also learning how to draw and cut out hearts.
Drawing a heart is SO MUCH harder than drawing a circle.  But, practice makes it easier!

We also did a matching activity with hearts.

Some of us found it "too easy" and some of us found it "too hard". For some it was "just right" .
 "Hey, Ms. Brown! We are just like the Three Bears! "

 We also stamped a lot of love on some cards to hang.

 

Happy Lunar New Year!

It is the Year of the Pig!
Happy New Year to all of our families who celebrate!

We used regular tempera paint for our pig bodies, and then used India  ink for the details. We looked at photos and illustrations of pigs for inspiration.
Overheard:  "Hey! Pigs have two big holes for their piggy noses!"

Showing numbers to 10

We have learned to count objects to ten, and are learning how to show numbers up to ten on a 10 Frame.

Shapes

We have been learning to recognize, name and create some basic shapes. We have started with circle, square, triangle and rectangle.

We read two books where shapes were the main characters.
Circle, and Square.

The students said that cutting out a circle would be so easy! It was harder than they thought it would be :)

We will learn about some other shapes shortly -- the pattern block shapes (hexagon, rhombus, trapezoid). But we aren't expected to know the names of those ones.... yet.....

Germs

Germs make us sick!

We've had so many in our class away sick lately. Ms. Emerson and I have both been sick too :(

We had a demonstration of how germs spread. We all put some hand cream onto our hands, I sneezed "germs" (glitter) into my hand, and high -fived a student.  Then they touched a friend, and before we knew it everyone had "germs" (glitter) on their hands!

 

 

 We then washed our hands, and realized that, to get the "germs" (glitter) off, we had to use soap, warm water and rub our hands together a lot!

Five Little Monkeys

We have been exploring numbers 0-5.

We practice filling five frames every day when our helper puts their name in the five frame, or beyond!

 

We read Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, and had the opportunity to explore counting the 

 Monkeys again in our Math Center.

Along A Long Road

We read Along a Long Road by Frank Vita, and learned that a road might go on and on and on....  it will go many places

We created some long roads. We had a choice to use crayons, markers, paint, or oil pastel.

Where will your road take you? 

We are continuing our exploration of roads. Here, HK made a road out of our colourful magnet shapes. We didn't have a car small enough to drive on it. Maybe we can draw one? Or draw a bike? Or a person. You don't have to drive on a road. You can walk along one too!