November

29 november - 3 decembre

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*les vêtements d'hiver (the names of our winter clothing in French)

*learning hibernation and extending our learning about bears "les ours"

*teamwork and collaboration

*letter C (hard sound)

* 2D shapes

*Hanukkah

Learning through play this week:

ART: make your own menorah AND painting dreidel
MATH - dreidel: bar graph activity and tally mark activity
STEM Challenge: build a home for the animals (building and small world play)
SMALL WORLD: sensory bin hibernation and winter animals
winter creation with 2D blocks
LITERACY: Ours Brun write the room
DRAMATIC PLAY - construction zone

Letter Cc poem (hard)

Action for the letter Cc: open and close your fingers and thumb like your playing the castanets.

CLICK HERE for the letter Cc song

Hibernation and Winter animals

Ours Brun: write the room

Shape patterns

CLICK HERE for a youtube Read Aloud

The Dragonfly class has been busy reading and learning about the book “Ours brun, dis-moi ce que tu vois?” by Bill Martin. They have been practicing their colours and learning all the French words for the animals in the book. They have also been practicing the sentence starter “Je vois”. Our favourite animal was “la grenouille verte” so we decided to draw it!

2D shapes - Les Formes

Celebrating Hanukkah

Fine Motor Activity

Playing Dreidel and graphing dreidel symbols

Making Menorah's

Dreidel Art

22 - 26 novembre

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*les vêtements d'hiver (the names of our winter clothing in French)

*learning about 'les ours' (bears)

*teamwork and collaboration

*letter review S, A, T, P, I, N

* patterning: extending patterns, figuring out what is missing in the middle of a pattern, drawing our own patterns

*action and sound patterns

Learning through play this week:

collaborative colouring
letter swat! roll the dice and say the letter name or sound, then swat!
STEM Challenge: build a home for the animals (building and small world play)
shape patterning
action patterning
magnatile creations
art: make a bear
dramatic play: construction zone

Designing our very own

pattern tshirts!

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Les vêtements d'hiver

We have a new song to help us learn the vocabulary for winter clothing and to remember the order to get dressed. Always start with snow-pants and put your mittens on last!

Sing along with us as we learn the names of our winter clothing (vocab and song to the left)

Make a bear!

Strengthening fine motor skills through tracing, cutting and drawing!

Collaborative Colouring

Creating with magnatile

STEM Challenge

Can you create a structure for the animals?

Letter Swat!

Roll the dice, say the letter name and/or sound, then swat the letter!

15 - 19 novembre

Letter Nn poem

Action for the letter Nn: shake your finger up and down

CLICK HERE for the letter Nn song

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*Reviewing colours and going on a colour hunt

* teamwork and collaboration

*the letter Nn: learn our new song and action! (we also reviewed S, A, T, P, I)

* patterning: extending patterns, figuring out what is missing in the middle of a pattern, drawing our own patterns

*action patterns

Learning through play this week:

still art with real tulip flowers
collaborative construction with roads, cars and small world people
patterning: bingo dabbers, plastic bears, and unifix cubes
dramatic play: construction zone
creating letters: find the plastic pieces and construct the lowercase (miniscule) and uppercase (majuscule) letters

Colour Hunt

As we have been reviewing les couleurs this week we have been hunting around our classroom and our school with our I SPY STICKS! We practice saying the name of the colour en français and then we hunt for them by tapping objects that we see and practicing the colour name as we tap. Then, we switch with a friend! We even had a colour dance party on Wednesday!

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The tune to the song is "Head and Shoulders". We also added a new verse to our song!

8 - 11 novembre

Our "BIG IDEAS" this week in French class:

*C'est l'automne (vocabulaire)

* reviewing les couleurs

* le jour du souvenir - Remembrance Day (key words: la paix - peace, coquelicot - poppy)

* teamwork and collaboration

* fine motor skill development - close-pins, links and scissors!

* patterning: extending patterns, figuring out what is missing in the middle of a pattern, drawing our own patterns

Learning through play this week:

collaborative drawing
collaborative construction with lincoln logs
patterning: close pins and plastic links (fine motor strength)
Sensory bin: building fine motor through cutting - cutting out scholastics books and putting them in 'mailboxes'
Loose parts: can you make a poppy
matching uppercase and lowercase letters
small world: farm play with little people and farm animals

Collaboration

When we talk about peace, we love to talk about teamwork and how we can share, be kind, and work well in a team. This week we are working in teams throughout our play times: using big paper to create team murals at the art centre and with our toys: animal figurines, lincoln logs and small world play.

Patterning

We are working on extending and creating different types of patterns.

Jour de Souvenir

Key words: la paix (peace), coquelicot (poppy)

We have been focusing on peace and creating poppies with loose parts during play times this week

Building our fine motor skills through play!

We loved playing with tweezers last week so we are continuing the fun this week! Fine motor practice helps us strengthen the muscles in our hand which is a great way to build our skills as writers. This week we are moving pompoms using tweezers (and also sorting and practicing our colours!) and cutting out pictures in recycled book flyers.

What is peace?

Discussion and brainstorming

Peace is ...

1 - 5 novembre

La lettre Pp (pronounced: pay)

CLICK HERE for the letter Pp song

Our 'big ideas' this week in french class:

*les couleurs!

* vocabulaire: l'automne et l'halloween, citrouilles (pumpkin)

*lettre Pp: we act out the rain falling by moving our hands and fingers down from the sky, pluie to remember the letter sound and name

* patterns: what is a pattern (something that repeats) can you make an AB and an ABB pattern. Can you find a pattern around you or when you are out and about?

Learning through play this week:

number sense: spider web math and number tracing
literacy: finger writing Halloween vocabulary on paint bags (sealed)
small world: castle play with horses and other small world people
fine motor: building fine motor and grip strength by "hammering" in golf tees using a small wooden toy hammer into a pumpkin and twisting to pull them out
patterning: continuing and creating spooky patterns
dramatic play: Tim Hortons!
art: making pumpkins using construction paper (cutting and gluing), pastel ghosts