Who's Been Sitting in MY Chair!
1/25/2019
This has been a popular phrase this week as the children have had a second week to use the Three Bears Cottage in role play. They have also been very successful using their Talk for Writing actions, as they are now very familiar with this process. When we began creating the text map for this story I found the children now need very little guidance and will next time I'm sure be writing these independently. A new chair for poor baby bear.
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Bear Buddies
1/18/2019
We had some new visitors in our class this week. As we begin our new topic of toys, bears have started to become part of our daily routine. The children were first invited to bring in a special bear from home. We looked closely at these toys, talking about the shapes they could see and the colors on their bear. The children then collected the resources they would need to draw and paint a portrait of their bear. They are now becoming independent enough to access the paints, choose the ones they need and mix the correct colors. Our language skills have been boosted by the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We all now know the traditional tale and the cottage became part of our role play centre this week. Talk for writing actions will help us to retell the story next week and some of us have already thought about a new character instead of Goldilocks. Talking about ToysShowing growing speaking and listening skills, the children have enjoyed meeting with each other and showing their favorite toys, asking and answering questions . Robots have seemed to be popular so I'm sure we will be furthering our study to investigate them further. Maths in motionThrough listening to number stories, the class were very enthusiastic about exploring adding and taking away word problems. Maths was a clear focus for them this week as they independently chose to set up repeating patterns with the bear counters and also enjoyed inventing an addition target game with toy paper airplanes they had made.
We began our welcome back with a photo booth for the children to pose with some fun New Year hats and headbands. These photos then became part of a New Year momento poster. We talked about how we change from year to year as we get older. We discussed if the things we like and how we look will still be the same in a few years. The children decided the best way to document this would be to record it in the a poster. There were many giggles as the children felt the cold gooey paint between their toes... and even more as they had to get their feet washed after. I think the ticklish squeals and giggles could be heard all the way down the hallway.
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Melissa SmithMs. Smith has a degree in Early Childhood Education and has taught kindergarten for many years. Alaska has been home to Ms. Smith for 28 years, and she can't imagine living anywhere else! She has four children, a dog and two cats. She loves reading, camping, gardening, and genealogy! Archives
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