We had so many polka-dotted cuties at school today!!
We
started by reading The Dot and recognizing how one little mark can turn
into amazing things. We celebrated by using many kinds of mediums to
create beautiful art.
Dot-to-dot and painting with water colours
Magic dot - use crayons to turn a small mark into your favourite thing!
Q-Tip dot painting with liquid paint
Bingo daubers dotted onto our names
Markers of filters sprayed with water to create a colourful dot
Eating a donut dot (Timbits!) and playing with marbles
We did something WILD today. We threw things at our SmartBoard!! The
kids loved playing this vocabulary-practice game that involved
throwing plastic balls at our white board. If they hit their target, a colourful
SPLAT disappeared and they would have to name the vocabulary in French. This is one of many games we'll play to practice the new words that we learn each month.
William was our 'BALL BOY'
I have included the video of our new sentences and vocabulary below. Feel free to listen to them and have
your child repeat after me to practice their French. All videos that I
post will also be 'stored' in one place. If you click on the 'Songs and
Videos' tag on the left side of the blog, you will find a page that holds all of the
tools that we are using to learn French in the classroom.
We also did some name art with markers. Look at these little cuties writing their names. They are such hard little workers!
We also prepared for our Dot Day tomorrow by watching the following video. Tomorrow we will read it in French and do all sorts of fun activities to celebrate the powerful message.
Today we started our Star Behaviour program in kindergarten. It is a
system that serves as a reminder for students to follow all of the
(strange and new) rules that come along with starting school. It is simple and effective. It has built-in consequences and incentives
and it's my favourite way to manage twenty energetic 4- and 5-year olds
who are getting used to raising their hands, changing into indoor
shoes, and asking to use the bathroom. I use a punch
card as a way to communicate with parents about how their child's days
are going, and as a way to reward students who make an effort to follow
classroom expectations. After seven days on the star, your child will
get to pick a ticket which will give them a prize like staying in at
recess with a friend, eating their snack at the teacher's desk, or
wearing a costume to school. Track your child's school behaviour by asking them, "Did you stay on the star today?"
We did some tearing and gluing today to decorate our names. They look awesome! Tearing paper is a really good way for little writers to strengthen the muscles in their hands.
We also worked in our number books. We are learning to write our
numbers so that we can start playing the games in our math centres.
