Halloween Songs

We are getting right into the Halloween swing!  Yesterday we learned about a cool song called 'C'est l'halloween' by Matt Maxwell.  I am posting it here so that you and your child can listen to it together at home.




We also acted out the following song in a dark corner of our classroom.  The kids really enjoyed it.

C'est l'Halloween! (Peek at our Week)

Halloween has arrived on our kindergarten classroom.  Decorations, spooky sounds and Halloween activities are so much fun in kindergarten!  Here are a few of the cool things we've been working on:

Math: Ordering pumpkins by size

Sketching and painting freely are important ways that we express our creativity.  We do this often in kindergarten.  We also like to do DIRECTED DRAWING.  It involves following steps to sketch an object.  It helps us to follow directions, practice our visual discrimination (what is different from one step to the next?), strengthen our fine motor control, and practice our lines and shapes. Here are some shots of us drawing in our writing/sketch journals.

We started our Halloween centres:

Pumpkin floor puzzle

POKEY PINS!!These are my FAVOURITE way to work on fine-motor skills.  The kids use a pushpin to poke holes in a shape (we did a jack-o'-lantern).  When they peel off the top paper and hold their image up to the light, they can see the picture that they created with their holes.  It is an especially effective way of strengthening the same muscles that they use to hold a pencil

Directed drawing

Jack-o'-lantern faces on playdough

Acrylic beads on mirrors (patterning, fine motor)

We also mixed red and yellow to make orange for what will become bumpy little pumpkins

Last Week and New Vocab

Here is our second set of vocabulary for October:

Last week was short and busy. We worked hard on several projects and made sure to have lots of fun, too.

We made self-portrait posters for our wall

We love mingling with our new friends in Mme Anna's class during Kindergarten Mix-Up

Self-Portraits

Today we worked on our September self-portraits.  It's neat to see how the kids' drawings of themselves change from month to month.

 

Peackeepers and Bulbs

Madame Rachelle came into kindergarten to tell us about Bannatyne's new Peacekeepers program.  Grade 4 students will be patrolling at recess to help students solve minor problems.

Here are our October vocabulary words:

We listened to a story about a pumpkin seed  before heading out and planting tulip and crocus bulbs in our Bannatyne garden.  We talked about how important it is for the bulbs to freeze before the spring.