World of Wonder In Kindergarten
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- World Of Wonder in Kindergarten
- Sharing our classroom, wonder and inquiry throughout the day. I hope this blog will give a little peek into our classroom and what we are discovering and wondering about in Kindergarten. Please check back regularly for posts, pictures and class information.
Friday, 23 May 2014
Our Trip To High Park
Unfortunately the weather was unpredictable today, so therefore we have decided to cancel our trip to High Park Children's Garden. Hopefully we can arrange another dater to go. We will keep you posted.
Thank you,
The Kindergarten Team
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Monday, 19 May 2014
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Mrs. Lau and Mrs. Andrade's Kindergarten Wormery
Dear Parents,
We are very interested in worms. We have seen some worms outside on our track after it has rained. We would like to learn more about worms. We have decided to have a WORMERY!!! (A Wromery is another word for worm farm.)
For Our Wormery, we need:
-A clear plastic box with holes in the lid
-A tray for under the box
-Newspaper
-Coffee Grinds
-Egg Shells
-Worms
-Soil
-A sign
If you have any of these items at home and would like to donate them to our class, please send them in with your child tomorrow.
Thank you,
The Kindergarten Class
We are very interested in worms. We have seen some worms outside on our track after it has rained. We would like to learn more about worms. We have decided to have a WORMERY!!! (A Wromery is another word for worm farm.)
For Our Wormery, we need:
-A clear plastic box with holes in the lid
-A tray for under the box
-Newspaper
-Coffee Grinds
-Egg Shells
-Worms
-Soil
-A sign
If you have any of these items at home and would like to donate them to our class, please send them in with your child tomorrow.
Thank you,
The Kindergarten Class
Monday, 21 April 2014
Thursday, 27 March 2014
The Importance of Oral Communication in Kindergarten
Dear Parents,
Thank you,
Please take a moment and look over the importance of oral
communication in the early years as outlined in the Kindergarten program.
Follow the link to find some communication tips and examples to use with your
children.
Building on Oral Language
Although children develop skills in reading, writing, and
oral language (listening and speaking) from an early age, oral language must be the
foundation of literacy development in the Full-Day Early Learning–Kindergarten
program. Through experience with oral language, children develop the ability
to identify and manipulate phonemes (phonemic awareness), build vocabulary, develop
awareness of meaning (semantic knowledge), and develop awareness of language
structure (syntactic knowledge), and thus develop the foundations for reading and
writing. Proficiencyin oral language is critical to the success of literacy
development. The EL–K team can guide oral language development by listening attentively
to and observing children’s responses and interactions, by providing models
of richer responses to guide children’s thinking, and by introducing new
vocabulary. Although oral language is the focus of early language learning, reading
and writing need to be taught and developed at the same time, so that children can
make connections between what they hear, say, read, and write. Listening,
speaking, reading, and writing are all interrelated, and development in one area
supports development
in all the others.
(Full Day Early Learning Kindergarten Program 2010-2011 pg.
68)
Link
Message In a Backpack: Listen, Talk, Answer - Support Your Child's Learning
Mrs. Lau and Mrs. Andrade
Monday, 24 March 2014
Mrs. Lau and Mrs. Andrade's Class
We Are Artists
Mixing
Colours Experiment
In October, we read a
story called
Little Blue and Little
Yellow by Leo Lionni.
During
the story, we asked the children to predict what would happen when Little Blue
and Little Yellow hugged.
These
are some of the predictions:
“They
will be happy.” ~ Edoardo
“They
will turn green.” ~ Christian
“They
will mush together.” ~ Tony
When
you mix blue and yellow together, you make green!
We
decided to try and create other colours by mixing paint together. We also used
the overhead projector and coloured paddles to help us decide which colour to
try next.
We
found that:
blue and red make purple
white
and red make pink
yellow
and red make orange
On
Monday March 17th, we read a story called Sky Colour by Peter H. Reynolds.
We asked the children:
What colour is the sky?
This is what they said.
While reading this story,
it reminded us of the colour mixing and the book we read in October. We
revisited our documentation to remind us how to mix colours.
We then asked the
children: What colours mixed together make blue?
The children came up with
some predictions and we tested our theories over the next two days. We
discovered that white makes a colour lighter and black makes a colour darker. We
used the paint we made to make some interesting paintings.
Natalia – My Daddy’s work
truck.
Noah – I was mixing the
colours.
Veronica – I made the sun. I made a rainbow. It’s raining.
Deana – I made a truck. It
can drive when my Dad sits. It can drive when you put your seatbelt on.
On Wednesday, we decided
to look on the internet to see if we could find the answer to our question.
This is what we learned.
It’s easy to mix paints to
make new colours. You can use the primary colours (red, blue and yellow) plus
black and white to get all the colours of the rainbow.
Red, yellow and blue are
primary colours. Primary colours are the most basic colours. You can’t make
them by mixing other colours.
Hhhhmmmmmm!!!
So, we can’t make the
colour blue!
You can’t make red, blue
or yellow, but you could use those colours to make other colours.
Red, blue and yellow paint
were put out at the art studio and the children created some paintings.
Alicia – It’s oysters that
live in the water and eat soap. I used yellow, blue and red to make it. To make
purple, I used red and blue. For green, blue and yellow. Red and yellow to get
orange. Red and yellow made brown.
Natalia – I made a little girl. I used red, blue and yellow. When I mixed the red and blue and it made purple. I used blue and yellow and red to make a different colour.
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