More Fun on the Farm!

It was another week on the Farm in Pre-K! Check out all the Fun we had as we developed pre-literacy skills, built our fine and gross motor skills, and learned more about life on the farm.

The Farmer in the Dell

This was a fun song to sing and move to with our friends!

Butter Making

Pre-K's enjoyed making their own butter this week. Each student had their own little container of cream to shake. We took a walk around the whole school shaking and shaking our cream. We noticed part way through our walk we could no longer hear the liquid in the container. It had changed into whip-cream! We kept walking and by the time we got back to our class it had changed again into butter! Students ate their butter on crackers as a special snack.

Muddy Pig Painting

 

After reading Robert Munsch's very funny story, Pigs, we made chocolate pudding to paint on pigs. What messy fun!

Hopping Corn Science

We learned that farmers grow different things on the farm. Some farmers grow corn! Pre-K students participated in a couple fun corn activities. In this science experiment, students mixed water and baking soda, added a handful of popcorn, and then poured in a half cup of vinegar. It was so exciting to see the popcorn seeds dancing around in the jar!

Lego stamping Corn

We also painted a cute corn craft using lego as a stamper. Pre-K students worked on important fine-motor skills while stamping, writing their names, cutting, and gluing.

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Happy Mother's Day!

Pre-K students very proudly worked on making a very special gift for their Moms this week. It's still top secret in case they want to surprise Mom with it on Sunday. We hope you know just how very special you are and feel very loved this weekend and always. ❤

Upcoming!

Next week we will put the farm away and bring out the bugs!

May 17: PD Day, No School

May 20: Victoria Day, No School

June 5-6 Early Dismissal Days

June 13: Zoo Field Trip

June 20: Centennial Park Field Trip, Last Day of Pre-K

Fun on the Farm

We began our Farm-themed week with a Pancake breakfast (part of our school Education week activities). Pre-K also participated in the whole school collaborative art project. Each student brightly coloured a section of a flower and they are now part of a mural displayed in the gym.

Farm Fun included singing Old Macdonald's farm and Fiddle-i-Fee, doing On the Farm Yoga, and playing Farmer tag in the gym.

Children benefit from the repetitive singing of favourite songs. It helps develop those oh so important literacy skills, such as auditory discrimination, phonological awareness, vocabulary development, and auditory memory. Students loved taking turns picking a farm animal out of the bag to find out what animal was on Old MacDonald's farm!

Pre-K students participated in Hats on for Mental Health. We loved seeing all the different kinds of hats!

We will continue with more fun on the farm next week! Dress as a farmer next Wednesday and Thursday. See more pics of this week here: April 29-May 2 pictures


Upcoming!

May 8: Scholastic Book order Due
May 8th and 9th: Farmer Dress up Day
May 20: Victoria Day, No School
June 5 and 6th: Early Dismissal
June 13: Zoo Fieldtrip
June 20: Last Day of Pre-K, Spray Park trip (all students)

Happy Earth Week!

This week was all about celebrating our Earth. We read The Earth Book which was full of ideas for how we can care for our Earth. The Pre-K's shared their own ideas for how they could care for our world while we crafted an Earth using coffee filters, markers, and water spray. They had wonderful ideas for caring for the Earth! Our world is in good hands.  We also did our part to help keep our Earth clean by participating in a school yard clean up. See pics of our Earth art and more here:

Caring for the Earth 

 

Garbage Pick up 

Earth Painting

New Light Lab!

Our new light lab was a huge hit his week.

A Special Visitor

Our morning class had a special visit from a friendly RCMP this week.

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Coming Up

• May 1st - Hats on for Mental Health.
• Wear a hat to show your support for mental health awareness.
• May 1st and 2nd - Early Dismissal Days
• May 20th - Victoria Day, no school
• June 13th - Zoo Field Trip

Happy Easter!

Our week has been jam packed with Easter fun! Thank you to all of the parents who sent snacks for our Easter parties. The students love having special party food together!

Welcome

Our afternoon class is thrilled to welcome another educational assistant. Please join me in welcoming Mrs. Tracy O'Neill to our team! 

Easter Party

We were so busy on our party day. We started our day with an egg hunt. 

We explored with scientific concepts when we popped Easter eggs open using Alka Seltzer tablets and water.

We got messy dying eggs. Some of us even enjoyed an egg or two at snack time. Delicious!

We were so surprised when the Easter Bunny came for a visit! Thank you for stopping by Easter Bunny, that was exciting.

Easter Baking

The students had fun measuring, pouring, and mixing to create some special Easter cookies this week.

Painting With Eggs

We strengthened our fine motor skills by using plastic Easter eggs as our paintbrush this week.

What a fun week! We hope everyone has a Happy Easter and enjoys the long weekend. 

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Coming Up

• April 19th - Good Friday, no school
• April 22nd - Midterm Break, no school
• May 1st and 2nd - Early Dismissal Days
• May 20th - Victoria Day, no school

Bunnies, Bunnies, Bunnies!

We began our Easter themed week with a bounce; singing and dancing to the Disco Bunny Bounce, playing Bunny Tag in the gym and acting out All the Sleeping Bunnies song.

What's in the EGG?

We used our bunny ears to play a listening game this week. Our game was so fun we forgot to snap any pictures! The students took turns shaking plastic Easter eggs while everyone listened and tried to guess what was inside. The students loved this simple game. You could easily play it at home too!

Spring Place mats!

Food Exploration

This week we played the food game. We explored with some new foods while we made fruit kabobs. We used cantaloupe, canary melon, starfruit, kiwi, and mangoes. Touching, smelling, and exploring new foods is a wonderful experience for picky eaters. Even if they don't taste the food, this is a good place to start.

Pre-Printing song

We sang a fun little song to reinforce starting at the top when you print your letters. The song is called "Where Do You Start Your Letters?" You can find it on YouTube and sing it at home too! Printing letters from the top down is the correct technique and a habit that we are trying to instill in all of our students.

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Coming Up

Next week we will begin our Easter theme. Important upcoming dates:

• April 18th - Easter Party, all students welcome to attend
• April 19th - Good Friday, no school
• April 22nd - Midterm Break, no school
• May 1st and 2nd - Early Dismissal Days

Spring has Sprung!

It looks like spring has finally sprung in Devon. We celebrated spring last week by painting spring flowers, creating rain clouds in a jar, and singing a cute little spring song. The song we sang is called "Spring is Here" you can sing it at home too!

Painting Flowers

Thank you Mrs. Waters' kindergarten class for letting us borrow your paint shirts this week. We had fun strengthening our hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills while we painted, cut, and glued together our flowers.

Rain Cloud in a Jar

We explored scientific concepts by making rain clouds in a jar. You can make rain clouds at home too. Our students loved this project, lots of them even asked to take the clouds home! Making a rain cloud is simple:

1. Fill a clear jar 3/4 of the way with water
2. Add a 1-2 inch layer of shave cream
3. Use eye droppers to drop colored water onto the shaving cream
4. Watch your cloud to see when it starts raining!

Animal Breathing

We introduced our students to a new calming technique this week, animal breathing. Animal breathing involves laying on your back with a stuffed animal on your tummy while breathing in and out slowly. If you breath deep enough you can see your animal going up and down with your tummy.

Mindful Coloring

We participated in mindful coloring on Thursday. The students enjoyed quietly coloring while listening to relaxing music. 

A Very Hungry Caterpillar

We read and sequenced "A Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle using felt boards and pictures this week. We followed the caterpillars journey as he ate through various foods, built a cocoon around himself, and eventually emerged as a beautiful butterfly.

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Coming Up

Next week we will begin our Easter theme. Important upcoming dates:

• April 18th - Easter Party, all students welcome to attend
• April 19th - Good Friday, no school
• April 22nd - Midterm Break, no school