April

25 - 29 avril

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Spring vocabulary: soleil (sun), fleur (flower), abeille (bumblebee), nuage (cloud)

*Stretching out words: count the syllables and stretch the syllables

*Letter Yy and Vv review:

Letter Yy pronounced /ee grehk/ - sounds like EE then gr-ek Action: swing your arm like you're playing with a yo-yo.

Letter Vv: pronounced /veh/ - sounds similar to vay Action: pretend your holding a steering wheel and drive your car while saying the letter sound

*Composing and decomposing: composing and decomposing the number 5 (JK's), composing and decomposing the number 10 (SK's),

*Literacy: SK's - sound blending, stretching out words JK's - letter/sound recognition, identifying beginning and ending sounds of a word

Learning through play this week:

ART: spring puppets
MATH: composing and decomposing numbers - ice cream pompoms and spaceship blocks
MATH: match the number of animals to the tally marks, then create the number using magnetic numbers
LITERACY: write the room Spring Vocabulary
STEM: how tall can you build a structure to get the rabbits off the ground
SENSORY: make a garden
DRAMATIC PLAY: grocery store

Grocery Store

STEM

Build a tower to keep the rabbits off the ground

Composing and decomposing

Spring Puppets

Making a garden

Write the room

Spring Vocabulary

Library Day

Bibliothèque

LIBRARY DAY! We had our very first visit to the library this week with our librarian, Mme Larocque. She read our Dragonflies a story and then they selected a book to take home until our next library day, Tuesday, May 10th.

We will be visiting the library every two weeks where our Dragonflies will be get to select and check out one library book.

Please ensure all Knoxdale library books are returned the Monday before the following library day so your child can check out a new book.

19 - 22 avril

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Jour de la terre: Earth Day

*Stretching out words: count the syllables and stretch the syllables

*Letter Yy: pronounced /ee grehk/ - sounds like EE then gr-ek Action: swing your arm like you're playing with a yo-yo.

*Number recognition: what comes before (avant), what comes after (après)

*Composing and Decomposing the number 5

*Literacy: SK's - sound blending, stretching out words JK's - letter/sound recognition, identifying beginning and ending sounds of a word

Learning through play this week:

ART: paper plate flowers
MATH: before and after, before and after using 100's chart
MATH: match the number of animals to the tally marks, then create the number using magnetic numbers
LITERACY: letter Yy practice, spring vocabulary
LITERACY: letter matching Uppercase to Lowercase
SMALL WORLD: princess play in the castles, STEM build a structure to support your person

Composing and Decomposing the number 5

Sunflower Inquiry

Life cycle

Jour de la Terre

J'aime la nature!

Closing our eyes and listening to nature

what do you hear

what do you see

11 - 14 avril

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Printemps: spring vocabulary

*Celebrations: Easter & Ramadan

*Stretching out words: count the syllables and stretch the syllables

*Letter Vv: pronounced /veh/ - sounds similar to vay Action: pretend your holding a steering wheel and drive your car while saying the letter sound

*Number recognition: what comes before (avant), what comes after (après)

*Literacy: SK's - sound blending, stretching out words JK's - letter/sound recognition, identifying beginning and ending sounds of a word

Learning through play this week:

ART: puffy paint bunnies
ART: shaving cream eggs
MATH: our sensory bin is full of Easter delight and eggs to match! Match the number on the top half to the dots on the bottom half!
MATH: count the room- count the number of farm animals and write the number
LITERACY: writing stories using spring vocabulary
SMALL WORLD: spring peeps, different levels, act out how spring grows and what the animals are doing!
DRAMATIC PLAY: spring has sprung!

Math and Literacy

Puffy Paint Bunnies

Using a mixture of liquid glue, shaving cream and food colouring we created puffy bunnies!

Small World

Shaving cream egg art!

Spring has sprung!

La lettre Vv

Pronounced /veh/ - sounds similar to vay

Action: pretend your holding a steering wheel and drive your car while saying the letter sound

CLICK HERE for the letter V SONG

Avant (before) Après (after)

Using a numberline

our Dragonflies are working on identifying numbers that come before and after.

JK's are working with numbers 0-10

Sk's are working with numbers 0-20

Explorer le sens de l'écoute !

Exploring the sense of hearing!

The Letter Listening Game has been a popular one in the Dragonfly classroom! Someone sits in the center of our circle and pulls a letter from a basket. They have to say the letter name and then close their eyes. Then another student from the circle would have to say that letters sound and the student in the center would point to where they hear the letter sound coming from.

Great detective work Dragonflies!

Another fun activity was Egg Shaker exploration!

Using their sense of hearing, our Dragonflies had to match the eggs together, then we made predictions of what we thought might be inside each egg to create the sound it makes.

Don't let the water bottle spill!

Using their sense of hearing, our Dragonflies had to listen to the water filling in the bottle and say when to stop so it doesn't overflow!

4 - 8 avril

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Printemps: spring

*Paques: Easter

*Stretching out words: count the syllables and stretch the syllables

*Letter Ww: pronounced /doobluh veh/ - sounds similar to double vay Action: make the letter V with either hand and then glue them together to make a W

*Surveys and Bar Graphing: ask a question, pick two things to compare, survey your peers and find out which has the most (le plus) and which has the least (le moins)

*Literacy: SK's - sound blending and stretching out words JK's - letter/sound recognition and copying

Learning through play this week:

ART and STEM: can you make a boat that floats
MATH: our sensory bin is full of Easter delight and eggs to match! Match the number on the top half to the dots on the bottom half!
Exploring the Senses: find the two sounds that match (egg shakers) HEARING
EASTER vocabulary: story writing with vocabulary prompts
LITERACY: match the lowercase letter in the egg to the uppercase letter on the page
LITERACY & MATH: which animal or food do you prefer? (surveys and bar graphing)