Library Reminder!

Our class has library on Monday, November 3rd.  

Printing Practice

Students need many opportunities to engage in print. Writing in cards, printing letters using a dry erase marker, printing with chalk or simply signing one's name on artwork strengthen a students ability to print and offering a variety of opportunities to practice makes it fun. As students practice they develop confidence in their abilities and are more willing to challenge themselves to print not only their name but then move on to printing words and small sentences.

Magnetic Letters

 Providing a variety of hands on activities for our Kinders to play with letters helps foster letter recognition and as we encourage students to manipulate and combine letters to make their name or small words it challenges them. The following pictures demonstrate how students are using magnetic letters on a baking sheet as they spell their names. 

French Picture Books

Our Kindergarten program has our students exposed to literacy in both English and French. It is important to hear a language because strengthening oral language has a positive impact on reading and writing skills. 

Games with Rules

Playing games with rules is a fun way to practice skills such as turn taking and following instructions.  In the following pictures, friends are playing Snakes and Ladders which is an opportunity to strengthen one's number recognition and practice counting to 100.   

Puzzles, Puzzles, Everywhere!

Our students enjoy working on various puzzles which helps strengthen fine motor skills and one's hand/eye coordination. Also, as students work together they are using expressive language and problem solving skills to complete their puzzle. Proud Kinders!

Importance of Pretend Play

The following pictures show our students participating in pretend play. Pretend play is not only fun and can foster friendships with peers but there is a lot of learning that takes place as a result. Students are able to act out scenarios which promotes a positive emotional affect, mathematical concepts can be practiced and language skills are practiced as students plan and execute their play.

"Play nourishes every aspect of children's development - it forms the foundation of intellectual, social, physical, and emotional skills necessary for success in school and in life. Play paves the way for learning." (Canadian Council on Learning as found in the Full-Day Early Learning Kindergarten Program. Pg.13).

Light Table Activities

Our students enjoy using the light table to explore a variety of things. It is fun to see the colours light up as our Kinders manipulate shapes or sort acorns and leaves according to colours. We try to change the things we place on our table to include numbers, letters, X-Ray and other resources to engage our students to explore in a fun way! 

Proud Pumpkins

Our Kindergartens our proud of our hall bulletin board that we try to incorporate them into. They love seeing pictures of themselves! We have been reading the Five Little Pumpkins poem with them. Our bulletin board had to be adapted from Five Little Pumpkins to 28!!!

French Vocabulary

Our students are building on their knowledge of French words. Mrs. Lepage is incorporating learning new French vocabulary in a variety of fun ways; through the use of the Smart Board, by singing songs or, as the following pictures show,by creating a scavenger hunt where students find the French word (with picture) and students print the word on their clipboard. It is officially business if the students have their own clipboard!!