Saturday 7 March 2020

Classroom garden

Even though there is snow outside, our plants are doing well and we've added a couple of florals. In honour of St.Patrick's Day on March 17th, I bought a shamrock plant for the classroom. The tiny, white flowers are so cheerful. Also, I see that our daffodil is beginning to bloom.

Bring on Spring!!



Making Pretzels

On Friday, we made pretzels in kindergarten. We learned that the pretzel shape was invented by a monk during Lent in the early 600's. He made the pretzel shape out of scraps of bread dough in order to teach the children how to fold their arms across their chest during prayer. Isn't that interesting?

The children rolled out their dough, so they could make the pretzel shape.


Spinning the dough helped to make it a thinner piece, which was easier to shape into a pretzel. 

Here are the pretzels, ready to go into the oven.


Thank you, Jingke, for all of your hard work!
One little friend even made the pretzel shape out of play dough!

Thursday 5 March 2020

Marble rolling art

This week, we had fun painting with marbles. We dipped each marble in paint, then tilted the shoebox to make the marble roll and paint a unique piece of art. 

Check it out!









Sunday 1 March 2020

More math fun!

The children put their "math muscles" to work this week, sorting different ways to show the numbers from one to ten. They're so smart!



Monday 24 February 2020

We love working on our math zones

The kindergartens were having a fabulous time exploring their thinking during "math zones."

Check out the pictures!






The memory game is one of the children's favourite activities.



So much planning goes into the "marble run" activity. I love to see them collaborating.




Tuesday 18 February 2020

New tools from Teacher's Convention

Last week at the Teacher's Convention, I found some exciting, new tools to use in our classroom.
Today we used both the alphabet dice and the 12-sided number dice in our literacy and math centres. 
We also worked on some new number puzzles.
Check out the pictures!









Wednesday 12 February 2020

Decorating Valentine cookies!

Today we are celebrating Valentine's Day. While we were doing our Valentine math zones, one of the zones was cookie decorating!  We sure did have a "sweet" time!

Check out the pictures. Mrs. Yanke and Mrs. Ashworth even dropped in for a cookie.





















Classroom garden

Even though there is snow outside, our plants are doing well and we've added a couple of florals. In honour of St.Patrick's Day on M...